private i

[Mithrandir]

About a month ago my friend Eric and I made a short film.

It was called "Private I" (a pun on the term "private eye").

We shot it in one day, and he spent about a month using the spare few minutes he had in his video production class to edit it.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4dC2qBPN0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSk0WqrXJGo

(youtube made me cut the file in half)

[margot]

Funny and Autumn is so gorgeous.

[Samurai Drifter]

"I will contact you... if and when that situation arises... LIKE SMOKE FROM A DYING FLAME!"

"We'll see about that... when the cock crows... and the moon rises!" *wild scream*

"He can see!"

"How?"

"Through his sunglasses!"

"I can summon evil ice to attack you!"

:laugh:

[stranger]

that was one of the best movies i've seen in a long long time, probably ever

good job mith

[amy]

...first of all that is a pretty sweet underlining HTML thing you worked out there

and it is so weird to think I have known you (person in movie) for like two years on the internet, I would never talk to someone like you in real life.

i loved seeing California, I've never been there, there are really a lot of mountains and trees. (it is like I imagined from reading books by richard brautigan who writes about california)

[darkon]

The shaky camera at the start almost made me puke. But nothing you can really do about that.

I like having "Vonnegut" under your search terms. As for the movie -- I decided if we knew each other in real life we would be best friends. Like this movie is a direct representation of my mind.

BUT I'M NOT SPANISH!!! (That whole scene was the best part of the whole thing)

[Galkar]

That private eye is a WONDERFUL actor.

[Mithrandir]

Hmmm... more people need to watch my movie.

C'mon.

I play a private detective who accuses people of being Spanish.

There's also a lot of magic.

[darkon]

The accusations of being Spanish are the best part.

[Battle_Pope]

The accusations of being Spanish are the best part.

having seen it now, I will agree.

Also, dramatic camera angles were slim to nill.

[Mithrandir]

It's kind of hard to do dramatic camera angles when there are a total of two people working on the film.

[Battle_Pope]

oh, lame.

[amy]

oh yeah, about the actual movie, I liked the scene with the interrogation of the strange indian guy and the sand dollars xD

[R.T.]

any movie with references to both the Sandman and to a JFK gaffe gets a thumbs up in my book

[Silver Cyclone]

"How can he see?"

"THROUGH HIS SUNGLASSES!" *shocked face*

"But he ahs been spending quite some time in....HIS COUNTRY ESTATE!"

"Where is that?"

"IN THE COUNTRY!"

I couldn't stop laughing. Or when you kept hitting his hand. This was really pure brilliance.

[Mithrandir]

I'm glad someone else enjoyed the hand-hitting.

I think that was, perhaps, my favorite subtlty.

[Silver Cyclone]

I loved it as I do it way too often for a slight giggle.

Did you write any of that script because it certainly didn't seem that way.

[Mithrandir]

Nope, the entire thing was improvised.

We had a vague idea for a plot and briefly discussed what was going to happen in each scene.

[Silver Cyclone]

I thought so. You could tell from the laughter and the cross over dialogue but that made the movie.

[Mithrandir]

Yeah, that was basically what we were shooting for.

[Silver Cyclone]

I don't know how you managed to contain your laughter.

[Mithrandir]

I've taken a lot of improv classes and not laughing is like on of the first rules of improv.

[darkon]

One reason I've never been able to get on stage is because I laugh so much.

[amy]

Last year in the improv show Julia and I got up randomly and ran across the stage screaming xD (it was an informal black box type stage). We were going to do it this year but she was busy. I wouldn't want to have to stop laughing, that's so boring >>;