Change Short Film Review~
Now seeing how it was supposed to be one minute long I wrote one page of script, but my partner and I couldn't help but make it 6 minutes longer and drag it out was much as possible, so we did. Although the film stood out in our class it wasn't good. It was just long and had a Splintercell/V for Vendetta soundtrack in black and white. We did it during the night and some of the scenes with light were absolutely terrible. So lets get cracking.
Original Story: Several kids want to steal piggybanks because people usually have piggybanks filled with loose change in their house doing nothing but sitting there, so the mint has to make more cash and making more money essentially causes inflation; so they will take the piggybanks and send the change back into circulation. Well there's a problem with that; they only stole one piggybank and stealing one piggybank will do veritably nothing to the economy, I was just obviously fascinated by heist films because it's usually ingenious but "Change" is about as ingenious as a parachute that opens up on impact. Really, it's just plain robbery and it's just break in and steal shit. Oh how on earth did I ever think this was a good story? It's like my Spider-Man 3 experience, I thought it was the best thing ever when I first saw it, and fuck me; I got the damn thing on DVD. I should use it now as a target on my toilet seat to see if I can get my piss through the hole of the DVD. Anyways the story was pure garbage and I just can't stand looking back at it in retrospect, it makes me want to peel the skin off my arms and shove it up my ass.
New Story: If anything, I tried to revise it. But again the way I did it was like one step forward and two steps back, more like one step to the side and another step back into a ditch of golden fire-breathing panthers. It had terrible one minute segment of my brother and I talking shit about some random "Boss" who wants a piggy bank for no reason other than to have it. It's like a boy wanting a roll of toilet paper in Disney World for no other reason but to have it. The new color I added to it was also terrible and took away the artsyness of the film, but anyways that's later. But all in all, it was all boring dragging through muddy waters, and only if things can't get worse they do because you figure out that I'm dragging you through a sewer. The way I explain this is because the beginning the segment with the firearms is completely unnecessary to the story. We have several guns being showcased for no reason at all and on top of that it takes longer than anyone wants.
Performance: Well Jedhi, my partner was the main character if you can call him a main character; all he did was order people around in a ninja suit. Oh what's with that? Why hadn't I spotted that part before? These guys are ninjas in America, how much more fucked up is that? And ninjas with white tennis shoes! What on earth was I thinking allowing some of the actors have white shoes on in a clandestine film at night? Anyways I was proud that Jedhi was able to get things together, but all in all the body movements of Jedhi was slow. If you're robbing a house you're supposed to be thinking fast at situations like these and apparently giving character by slow mystical movements was more important than realism. Like I said the film dragged on for seven boring minutes, and thanks to the new video thats up on youtube, its there for eight! The supporting actors did as I told them to, and they didn't look half bad, but I couldn't tell Jedhi what to do seeing how he's also directing.
Production: We were here and there, breaking into other's property at night gave us an experience and even several good shots but the lighting for the first several shots that ended up on the final product was really eye-straining and about as fun as having my eyes set up for a dart board.
Name: Rockstone is saying the same thing twice; Wood-tree, flower-plant, window-glass, the list goes on. Initially Rockstone Productions was a sort of humorous name because Jedhi's cousins used the phrase to express anger. What a way huh? Anyways in the end for a production company name it looks more epic than its supposed to. "Change" the name of the movie is supposed to have two meanings that no one really knows. "Loose change" that people have around in their house and "Change the way the economy is running." Of course since no one got it, the name could have been something like "Ninjas stealing stuff" and it would have made more sense. But since there's no turning back from the name I sulk in disgrace thinking how I could have made things better but its again like watching your dog getting road killed, there's nothing you can do about it but say "That is such a terrible name, it's like referring to Obama.." Still the name is about as good as a bucket of ticks.
Post: Well essentially Change is a retarded baby, the only thing I do to hide my baby's retiredness is to piss color correction all over it. It hides my terrible cinematography and shows a little of variety in colors than that of real life. But otherwise the cuts in the film were at the wrong times, like I wish I had more takes, I wish I had more shoot days, and I wish I wasn't so sloppy, but I was more sloppy on the project than I was on my ice cream when I was 2 years old.
More on my films later.
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