Yes! After a winter of discontent and silence MovieGuild.org is back! — not saying we’ll be here long, but we recently had a blast filming Shopping Market Smackdown. It was unplanned, we were shopping for food, and inspiration struck. We finished shopping, chose Isle 18 (canned goods) and in a matter of roughly 15 minutes we had the principle photography done (fancy way of saying filmed it).
Yes oh yes, enjoy the splender of our labors now in Shopping Market Smackdown.
Credits
Guy#1 – Stephen Moon
Guy#2 – Richie Miles
Girl – Angela Jensen
Song – Sia – Breathe Me
Its a little slow around here lately. Not much has been happening in the guild. Sorry. My computer’s video editing ability kinda took a dive so thats why the latest video hasn’t been edited/posted. Just kinda throwin this out here so we all know we aren’t dead, just hibernating a little bit.
Hey, just wanted to pop in and say hi. We haven’t been totally dead, yes a little less active, but we have still met a few times that we have failed to document.
I’m going to go ahead and point the blame finger at everyone else, simply because its easier. (*whisper* you guys have log-in accounts, use them. )
Anyway, there was an impromptu video that was filmed on the spot a few nights back. If my computer would stop crashing i’d edit that and get it up. We’ll see.
Boat Race is the result of MovieGuild.org. Our objective is to create movies for the purpose of developing our film making skills. Obviously we have lots of room to grow.
This film was conceived and shot on the same day, surprisingly, it took us 8 hours (i think).
Credits
Guy In Blanket: Richie Miles
Jeremiah: Stephen Moon
Director: Mat Black
Cinematographer: Jennifer Pan
Crew: Jacob Black and Victoria Black
Soundtrack: The Stranglers – Golden Brown
Boat Race from Movie Guild on Vimeo.
fyi, its kinda smallish on here, you may want to just click HERE and see the full size version.
Hey everyone, so as you know we are planning on watching Iron Man this Saturday. The plan is not set in stone until we hear back from Mat (who is going to talk to Michael about the brake’s thing Richie is involved in this Saturday).
Tentavily we will be watching Iron Man at 1:50pm at Cinemark Mesa 16
DLP showtimes: 1:50
Other Showtimes: 11:30am, 1:05
Why 1:50? Because DLP is sexy. If it doesn’t work we can go to any of those other times listed.
UPDATE: Alright everyone, meet up at my house at 12:00pm Saturday! Be there or I’ll slit your babies throat! (as for those of you who don’t have babies, i’ll wait until you do, then slit their throats!)
Update: Yeay everyone showed up, i dont have to kill any babies (i was not looking forward to that).
Here is the pic from the meet. Others were taken, but Jen will have to get those over to me before I can post them.
Get ready for this weekend. We’ll be editing Boat Race (remember? The film we shot two weeks ago). It is tentatively planned for Sunday the 3rd of May.
I’ll be sure to txt everyone once we have a solid time.
Movie Guild Meetup #11 rocked, of course. We have Mat Black back from his little fling in Tennessee. He is damaged goods, but recovering steadily.
Also this is the first meetup with the new Movieguild member Jennifer Pan. She was on set rockin the hardcore equipment. We had a slate! Okay, I’ll give you a moment to let that settle in…
*a period of time passes*
Yeah, so we had a slate.
We watched Machined, a low budget horror film. It was not a good movie, but we watched it for a purpose. The purpose being next weeks movie, Machined Reborn (I’d link you to the movie, but its not out yet. And i cant find the website for it). I don’t think everyone understands what I’m trying to do, but I wanted to see the contrasting difference between someones first effort (Machined) and one of their later films (Machined Reborn). I think we will all be pleasantly surprised with the quality differences.
After the movie, we then sat around and tried to write miniature stories to film. It was a lot harder than I’d anticipated. Luckily Mat had this one covered. He wrote up a short series of events, and we used that as our groundwork for the days shoot.
I wont spoil it by saying what happens, but it will most likely confuse you.
I think we all learned the importance of a good catering service on set. Unfortunately we don’t have a budget or anything, so we cant actually provide food for ourselves.
The editing wont happen for a while, thats just how the schedule worked out. Busy week for everyone, or at least, a few of us.
You guys think of anything else we should do differently next time? (comment)
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Sorry, i was doing some upgrades to the site and one of them hosed the site… wtf?
Looks like its theme related. Somehow this theme we’ve been using is not compatible with … a plugin i’m using? It doesn’t make any sense, because i deactivated all the plugins, and it still didn’t fix the issue.
I’m a little confused.
*Update: Fixed it, new theme. Oddly enough i like this new theme alot more…
That means you totally remove any structure that was present previously, and you start out fresh and new, and in a new direction.
An example of this would be Batman Begins (2006); a great movie in my opinion. And because it was so successful, we will also be doing this for the movie guild.
Due to my schedule being very very very busy we will not be having “weekly” meetings, but instead we will have one whenever we are able to get it together.
“Outsiders” (ie non-core members) are welcomed at any time of course, but due to past disappointment in member enthusiasm we have stripped the movie guild of “members” and we are now just sticking with “core-group”.
No hard feelings, just tough love; i have not the energy to drive uninspired people at this point, bring inspiration and you are so in.
Also we have a new unit for the core-group, welcome Jennifer Pan (see below post). She shows all the right signs for the type of person we want in the Movie Guild (someone who is interested in movies and is inspired from within to pursue said efforts), so welcome her with much love.
stephen
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