"Death at a Funeral" Trailer Mashup

My man Alex agreed with me that it’s pretty ridiculous to remake a movie only three years after the original, especially when you’re remaking it in the same language as the original.

Not only is the story exactly the same, but the trailers even have the same structure.

In this video, he mashed up the trailers for both versions of “Death at a Funeral” to highlight the similarities.

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5 February 2010, 13:43

Standup Comedy for February 2010

In which I mostly make fun of modern movies, TV and music.

I have got to slow down. And what’s with the hand going in the pocket?

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4 February 2010, 07:58

The Meaning of Life

This week’s entry in the 2010 goal of “publish at least one entertaining thing a week”. A sort of joke-y video about what would happen when the universe’s purpose is completed.

I had written the first few pages of a screenplay back in High School with this same premise, but back then it was going to be a talk-y melodramatic bore.

The technical challenges I set for myself this time were to match up some combination of long shot, medium shot and close-up. I think it came out okay. I’m pretty happy with the way the close-up goes back to the medium shot at the end. Also interesting from a production standpoint: the one line of dialogue came from a different shot, and I used a lot of “room tone” that I first practiced with for the Star Wars clip.

Thanks to my awesome friends at work for their support and patience!

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30 January 2010, 08:58

Star Wars Scene 222

As part of the “Star Wars Uncut“ project, we re-created 15 seconds of Episode IV: A New Hope. The whole movie was split into 15-second chunks and is being re-created by fans all around the world.

I like to try to re-learn something about filmmaking with each new video, and this clip was the first time in years I got to make use of a boom mic, thanks to my friend Alex (who also played Admiral Motti and was primarily responsible for editing). This is also the first time we planned ahead and used “room tone” to even out the audio (I dare say we did a better job than George in that respect, at least in this scene).

Princess Leia was played awesomely by Whitney Barham. Darth Vader With a Cyberman Head was played by Matt Midboe, with his excellent creepy hand-drag.

Julie Hwang wrangled the whole thing together as the Director and Director of Photography, and I couldn’t be happier with how it came out.

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11 January 2010, 08:59

My first open mic standup comedy

If you have the bandwidth, the audio is much better if you view it on YouTube and click the HQ button.

My improv teacher just started hosting an open mic night on a monthly basis. I went to the first one in December and calculated a decision to give it a try, myself.

I’d been collecting some of my favorite Twitter updates (of mine, of course) for the past few months. I grouped some of them by topic and then created some segues, turning it into about 7 minutes of material.

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7 January 2010, 16:07