Movie Diaries...two.

The Grand Vision

The movie has a simple premise: Cops meets X-Files meets Blair Witch meets Night of the Living Dead meets Aliens meets Uma meets Tarentino. It's to be filmed like a documentary, we're told, in the first person, so that the audience believes that they are watching reality. The actors are not to be told what's going on until just before their scenes are shot, so that everything is "spontaneous". No script, just a situation and an outline of the salient points that have to be introduced.

Sorry, love. Slipped up there. Did I say "simple?"

( The first meeting... )

Movie Diaries...two.

The Grand Vision

The movie has a simple premise: Cops meets X-Files meets Blair Witch meets Night of the Living Dead meets Aliens meets Uma meets Tarentino. It's to be filmed like a documentary, we're told, in the first person, so that the audience believes that they are watching reality. The actors are not to be told what's going on until just before their scenes are shot, so that everything is "spontaneous". No script, just a situation and an outline of the salient points that have to be introduced.

Sorry, love. Slipped up there. Did I say "simple?"

( The first meeting... )

Star Wars: Revelations

http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations

A Star Wars fan film - well worth the download of you can spare the bandwidth. We've reached a point where technology has caught up with desire: gone are the days of double exposures, backwinding Super8 film hoping wind to the correct spot, gone are optical printers with their high-contrast re-photographed graininess. Nope, all you need is the right computer, the right software, and a second mortgage.

Amazing film. I'll review in a week or so, when I stop being impressed and distracted by the visuals. I'll start, though, this way: the technical people did a phenomenal job.