Monte Patterson invited me on set for another one of his films Half Full for the Ohio University School of Film. Two years after being apart of his team on Caught (which is featured at the bottom of the page) I was excited to get the chance to work with Monte again and make some more movie magic. These are some pictures of the last day of filming in the Summer of 2011.
Preparing for the first shot of the final day.
The director Monte Patterson rehearsing with the talent.
First shot of the day. Very intense scene where the mother's lover is killed by the father of our main character.
This scene takes place when our main character's mother is murder by the his enraged father.
The dolly tracks are level and the script supervisor is preparing the marks for our main character.
The camera department is set and ready for Monte to call action.
This impenetrable unite moves as one as our main character Davene approaches the carnage of his father actions.
Shot Location: Mckee's Junkyard - New Marshfield, Ohio
Yeah, we got a gun pulled on us by one of the owners luckily our local actor dropped a name and got us out of a jam. Big thanks Cullen!
This is some fun I got to have in my week long steadicam class during summer intercession. We had to complete an obstacle course and invent our own shots for the final. I had some of my good buddies make their acting debuts while I danced with the steadicam.
MEIDA 203 JOKE #4 by Anonymous Author (Scroll down for my response)
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them is hurt. After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says,
"Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days."
The man replied,
"I agree with you completely. This must be a sign from God!”
The woman continued,
"And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune."
Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it, drinks half the bottle, and extends it back to the woman. Politely, the woman refuses to accept the bottle. The man asks,
"Aren't you having any?"
The woman replies,
"No. I think I'll just wait for the police...”.
The videos share the same storyline concept with the underlying theme of deception. The storylines are contrasting adaptations of the original joke. They share the same affinity within the video styles and editing techniques used to display both jokes. They also share a similar tension and release method of story telling, by having the jokes follow along a short story that ends with the deceptive punch line of the original joke.
For the first video “The Crash” we tried to follow the story in our own unique way. We have our first establishing shot revealing the space of the back-road that you see the first car traveling down. The car is following the bottom third horizontal line. The movement of the car focuses the attention of your eyes from left to right. For our second establishing shot of the second car we have it following the same lower third while traveling on the same horizontal line. However, this time the car is traveling from right to left in hopes that you would get a sense the cars were about to eventually meet in a tragic crash. The audio track played over the piece gives visualrhythm to the action presented on the screen. In hopes to expresses a sense of rhythmic editing qualities. It works in both the static frames and movement from shot to shot with quos from the song as well as the action.
Our second video “Deception” opens with three different establishing shots. This moves you through three different spaces that place us on the couch with our two characters. For this story I tried to move us within the 180-degree rule places on a vertical line that the couch sits on. The movement is created from matching the action of the characters. For example when Ben grabs Mike’s phone the next frame cuts to Ben finishing the action of handing the phone over to Mike. Also the audio track was voice over we recorded while watching the video before exporting it. We did not want the dialogue to match up perfectly because of one of the video requirements being “No synchronized sound”.
