30.Nov.2010 Movie for November 2010…
30.Sep.2010 Movie for September 2010…
This one… is a little weird. And it requires an explanation.
This little ditty was inspired by a news article a friend of mine pointed me to online. (click here if you’d like to read it) It’s about movie trailers that function as standalone works of art, some examples being the trailer for Dr. Strangelove, or more recently, The Social Network.
I wasn’t going to have time to shoot anything this month, so when this article came across my desk, it gave me an idea. Presented here is my own (artsy fartsy) version of a trailer for the old Bela Lugosi film “White Zombie“, a movie which exists in the public domain. My thanks to archive.org for providing the source footage (and being such a damn good website to boot).
See you in October. I’ve got quite the treat planned for Halloween!
-Tucker
24.Sep.2010 As we continue to clean out the closet…
Only this time, without that ending s.
It’s time for an amendment to the A Movie A Month rules, effective immediately, and with the support of J.J. Gordon (who I’m hoping has quite the doozy planned for Septembers challenge). And so, here is the change.
Rule #7 will be deleted. Completely. That rule being, “Principal photography and all post production must happen within the month of the posting. I am allowing myself to do any pre-production ahead of time, meaning I can write and plan a movie in February, and then shoot and edit it in March for my March posting.”
Going forward, I am allowing myself to claim a movie that I’ve worked on over a few months to count for a particular month. As long as the project was started in the year 2010, then I am good. Anything before that, or anything that doesn’t belong to me, cannot be used. This change is happening for two reasons: it will improve the quality of the films posted, and will give me the flexibility needed to schedule these productions around my already busy personal and professional life. This rule will stay in effect into 2011, and will probably be permanent.
Have I angered you with my rule change? If so I apologize. May I beg your forgiveness by posting another movie from the archive that hasn’t yet seen the light of day? Well then… let’s open some windows.
Introducing…
This film was made as part of the 2009 48 Hour Film Project International Shootout. The version posted here is the cleaned up, director’s cut of the film and not the version sent into competition. Unfortunately we didn’t win any prizes, but I truly think this is one of our most accomplished 48 four films our collective has made. The springboard for the film was the end of the world.