Chelvendra Sathieaanandha
Some raw frames from the short I directed a few days ago.
Shot on the 18th-21st of June 2009 using the Sony EX-1.
This scene is going to be damn different in the actual short.
Also on YouTube because Vimeo seems to stall on certain computers.
A scene from All The Real Girls by David Gordon Green. Tried to direct it differently.
Also on YouTube because Vimeo seems to stall on certain computers.
for some reason this isn’t the newest cut. there’s an extra piece of music that needs to be cut, and there’s a missing shot between the last and second last scene. i don’t have access to the original files right now. bah.
My most recent exercise. Rough Cut. Seven hour shoot, six hour edit. The music will be adjusted soon.
Let’s call it an experiment…
This is an assigned exercise at Columbia University. It had to have two people at a table and it had to be silent. Person A is doing something. Person B enters and also does something, which escalates by either repelling or attracting person A. Person A exits.
The video is by Konstantinos Antonopoulos
I’m not sure if anyone’s been watching On The Lot but it’s a show on Fox, created by Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett. I’ve heard about it a number of times, but I only happened to catch it earlier this week. For those who don’t know, it’s sort of like an American Idol for filmmakers with a prize of a one-million dollar development deal at dreamworks. So as expected, many people apply and only a handful are selected. Each week a group of contestants are given a theme for a short, and once made, viewers vote on their favorite films. The contestant with the least votes is sent home.
Anyway, when I saw the show earlier this week there were quick highlights of the previous week and the judges comments, which I find hilarious. One judge, Gary Marshall, loves quoting other people in his appraisals of short films. Carrie Fisher is equally amusing. You probably need to watch just one episode and you’ll enjoy the somewhat non-constructive feedback.
I’m not sure if this is a regular thing on the show, but there was a guest judge on this episode who was one Luke Greenfield. He’s quite a young filmmaker, just over thirty years of age. I looked him up on IMDB just because I was bored, and I wanted to know who he was. His notable directing achievements are basically The Animal with Rob Schneider and The Girl Next Door with Elisha Cuthbert. Both films had their amusing moments, but neither was really that good in my opinion (but who the hell am I?) and his comments on the show which could be summarised as “totally unexpected is good” were a bit strange. I was just wondering why he was on a show as someone with authority where they are trying to find a good new filmmaker. I was reading his bio, and I read that Adam Sandler searched out Luke Greenfield to direct the Animal after seeing his short film The Right Hook which was made a good six years after he left the USC under-graduate film school. I checked out the film on YouTube, and it was quite decent – written and directed by Luke Greenfield, check it out here.
If you’re willing to respond to this blog-post and are short on time, perhaps reading the last two paragraphs of this post is enough because I’m really interested in what people think.
Chinatown is a really good film. The characters and the strange character relations are somewhat unique. Another particularly interesting element of the film is its structure, and it is discussed in Alternative Scriptwriting at some length. I’m probably inadvertantly spoiling the film for you in the rest of this post, so if you plan to see the movie (which you should) perhaps skip over this of this paragraph. The structure of Chinatown isn’t particularly noticeable,, seemingly framed almost standardly in the three acts, but then the last act of the film illustrates otherwise, revealing to the audience something classically unexpected. (more…)
