Alright,
So I've made a few little videos in the past right?
WRONG... it turns out I've helped make A LOT of films.
Brainstorming with nick Pascoal, my long time friend and film collegue, and I decided that we ought to start something new. Nick united our group of film making friends under one organization, Basement Prime Studios. Theres nothing official in document, but a name in itself can inspire and rally support. BPS was made to represent our beginnings, the basement. When it came to the videos we made at his house, that was literal. So, we came up with an idea to have new teams of people to make films with when we went off to places and schools to make films, yet we still are interconnected.
Thats where Millyard Collaborative Studios comes along, yet again a name. I'm going to produce films under the name Ambient Smoke Team, a member of the Millyard Collaborative Studios. It keeps us connected to our centralized location, Manchester ergo Millyard, yet allaws us the freedom of newness.
Now you may ask "why go through all this complexity?" If you keep people organized, connected, and give them a sense of a greater cause, then they are more willing and excited about the work. It says, "Hi! I mean something! I want to go into film festivals!" instead of "Hi' I'm making an amateur youtube film!"
SO I made a website and showcased all of our (Sam and Nick) work made under Basement Prime Studios as a "legacy collection", telling people that though good, we are going to do better. Man, there i so many things here. It really inspires me and its so much nicer to have a website than to have just a CD-ROM filled with oddly labeled videos. These are films.
I can't wait to watch these old videos with Zach. He helped me out with those videos I made more than I thought or gave him credit for.
The Site
The Legacy Collection
My Early Stuff
My Later Stuff
30 November 2007
13 November 2007
Cellulose is (nearly) forever
So I finally got to look at all my miniDV tapes today. I hooked up my camera to my computer, and I'm going to make sure this camera lasts forever. But I popped the tapes in one by one and looked through them all.
The first tape was labeled "maskers '06". My goodness. Maskers room cleaning, the clips of newspaper on the door, the Anne Frank rehearsals, the goofing off with Graham Grinell and Sam Chamberlain, it was all amazing. I think I really miss the board.
My goodness those were good times.
The next tape I looked through was my Young Artist's and Film Maker's Camp. I captured my roommates Ian and Levi on tape. They were great photographers. Ian was a tall lanky kid, but real down to Earth. This kid went everywhere around the world and had AMAZING pictures to prove it. I still have a folder filled with just his photos. Levi... Levi was that cool guy with long hair who listened to Bob Dylan for a while. Levi always had the artsy chicks swooning around him. Neat guys. Then I saw the shot of the mirror and saw that fedora and matrix shirt. I wore that hat everywhere, because it was the easiest way for people to pick me out as an individual within the one week I was there.
The last tape is my favorite. "Movies '06". It had all the creative film stuff I did since 2006. It had my urban french grafitti film, clips from when Nick and I helped Jayme out with his Civilization class project, clips from the scene of "Theta" I finished, and, most recently, two scenes from "Rose Colored Bleu". Rose Colored Bleu was a film too big for me to have made at that time. The first scene was when I had Aaron Gaylord and Brian Neveaux play the characters. It was rewritten a thousand times since then. The other scene was with me and Emelia from this summer. I was a terrible writer and only an okay writer. The best bits were when we kept the camera rolling for fun. Geez those were good times. This past summer was the best time of my life, and that tape reminded me just HOW good it was.
The first tape was labeled "maskers '06". My goodness. Maskers room cleaning, the clips of newspaper on the door, the Anne Frank rehearsals, the goofing off with Graham Grinell and Sam Chamberlain, it was all amazing. I think I really miss the board.
My goodness those were good times.
The next tape I looked through was my Young Artist's and Film Maker's Camp. I captured my roommates Ian and Levi on tape. They were great photographers. Ian was a tall lanky kid, but real down to Earth. This kid went everywhere around the world and had AMAZING pictures to prove it. I still have a folder filled with just his photos. Levi... Levi was that cool guy with long hair who listened to Bob Dylan for a while. Levi always had the artsy chicks swooning around him. Neat guys. Then I saw the shot of the mirror and saw that fedora and matrix shirt. I wore that hat everywhere, because it was the easiest way for people to pick me out as an individual within the one week I was there.
The last tape is my favorite. "Movies '06". It had all the creative film stuff I did since 2006. It had my urban french grafitti film, clips from when Nick and I helped Jayme out with his Civilization class project, clips from the scene of "Theta" I finished, and, most recently, two scenes from "Rose Colored Bleu". Rose Colored Bleu was a film too big for me to have made at that time. The first scene was when I had Aaron Gaylord and Brian Neveaux play the characters. It was rewritten a thousand times since then. The other scene was with me and Emelia from this summer. I was a terrible writer and only an okay writer. The best bits were when we kept the camera rolling for fun. Geez those were good times. This past summer was the best time of my life, and that tape reminded me just HOW good it was.
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