One Shot Evaluation

Well here i am and its time to talk about the one shot, i think, i have all the projects confused at this stage in the semester. but i am pretty sure i should talk about the one shot. where do i begin...how about the beginning? The day of the shoot was supposed to be easy, we had already discussed what we were going to do the week before, we chose a concept and characters that would fit in well for a black and white shot. Stephen was going to dress up as a mime (clown was the first idea but it would have been financially draining, a mime's costume was more cost efficient and also fit well in the whole "silent" feel to the film) A mime would look well and give the black and white double stamped for costume and prop (newspaper) i knew black and white would read particularly well for well...black and white film stock. i even dressed in mostly black and white. if i would reflect on one thing it would be how the mime should not have had a newspaper but should have "mimed" it...it would have been more funny. We always had silent film as an inspiration and especially for a sound project, we knew nobody would have thought to use our idea. Now once it was filmed the problem arosepiece. that it didnt develop and we had to reshoot...twice. so we did our spot 3 times and the last version was the best one so we were glad to have done it all those times since the last time was the best looking. The hardest part was still ahead, what sound do you use for a silent film? we hadnt thought about that. So the noodles started to work and boil and through some very loose connections of stale stereotypes we came up with the main dialogue. now i mentioned this in class but i'll demonstrate the mad process:

what do you associate Mimes with = The French
What do the French associate well with = Jerry Lewis (at least they used to)

So i plugged in Jerry Lewis into archive.org and Voila! the best outtake i have ever heard ...especially from Martin and Lewis. Music was meant to go away from the obvious (like circus music) and go into a darker feel (jungle music) this really took the audience off guard in the screening and really created what i felt to be a pretty unique piece.