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Graduation countdown: 37 days
37 days.
Freshman year I was in a Film class where the professor sat us down and told us to make movies, then graded us on what we did wrong. Hmmph. Not bitter or anything. Anyway, my Honors buddy Denny and I made several crappy little films in that class that I have on video and will occasionally show to people if I really like them.
There was the one where the plot was "Sometimes I want to go to sleep but there's always a party on my hall." It included me wearing bunny ears, some footage from Monty Python and the Holy Grail cut in, and a cardboard cut-out of Austin Powers. Yikes. You can see the cameraman in one shot and we switched actresses for one of the parts halfway through filming.
There was the music video where I didn't realize we were allowed to cut the song, so I had way more song than I had footage. It involved using and reusing clips of me spinning around in circles and at one point repeating all of the previous footage. Bad. I can't listen to Semisonic's "Closing Time" without thinking of that video.
There was Denny's video where Larry refused to play himself so we had Carl play him. I remember the talented camerawoman getting a shot of "Larry" with a big Republican Party sign behind his head. Very Larry. Denny doesn't act "asleep" very well.
There was my final project where I decided to make a movie sort of like Sliding Doors, but set in Albion. It might have worked out quite well, except we discovered at the editing stage, when it was too late to refilm, that we had serious sound problems with the dialogue in a few scenes. So did we cut them out? Did we rerecord the sound? No! We made it into a silent film, with little title-cards between shots. WHAT????? There are very clever little in-jokes in the music selection, but no one ever pays attention to the music anyway.
I put Ed Wood to shame.
srah - Thursday, 28 March 2002 - 11:29 AM
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