Saturday, November 3, 2007

Calvin Island

Last year I made a movie called 'Isolation' which was a story about a girl who wakes up in a deserted house, in an almost deserted town, and encounters almost no-one till she encounters two people and then some zombies. As plots go it was fairly simple but the movie turned out pretty well and I was, and still am, fairly happy with it.

This year I decided to do something I bit more complex and wrote something called 'Calvin Island' which was a convoluted script that came to 34 pages, had about 13 characters, had more sub plots than you can really keep track of, and a body count of pretty much everyone involved in the movie. Needless to say I realised it was too complicated, something I should have worked out earlier. I attempted to shoot it anyway, and have since shot bits that were in the original script, realised it was too long, then tried to join other bits to make it simpler. Whether it works or not is something I'll leave to the viewer but it is a project that took far longer to make than it really should have since it'll probably end up at about 10 minutes, the same length as Isolation.


The number of characters has been drastically reduced, now their are about five with a couple small roles thrown in when I need be. For anyone interested the movie is about a young man by the name of Johnny, who goes to 'Calvin Island' to search for his brother. For your viewing enjoyment I've thrown in four screenshots from the movie. Will they be at all color corrected or fixed or changed or deleted anytime before the movie is finished? Only time will tell.



2 comments:

Dan McCallum said...

Looks like you've dabbled with the two extreme ends of the spectrum - one really simple movie, one really complicated. If all goes well your next one should find a balance in the middle.

The screenshots are looking cool however, and it should shape up to be a decent effort. How far off do you think it is at the moment?

Alisdair said...

Seeing as the screenings on 20th November at about 8.30pm, I think the answer to that question is probably 20th November at about 6.30pm :).