INVASION IN THE BACKYARD - a tale of woe, misery and 48 hr short films

This was originally my entry for the 48 hour sci-fi London short film competition however, This became a disaster!

They claimed they would send me my brief at 11:00am and they sent me one line: The line I appear to be saying in the thumbnail picture above. Also my improvisation for story didnt serve me as well as I was hoping thus I feel like I could've been capable of something funnier than this. We began the shoot and I was plagued by a lack of motivation as well as increasing disinterest in my actress and girlfriend.

Thoroughly disenchanting.

To top it all off, I began editing and I was hit the realisation they had sent me even more details. I'm unsure when it was they sent me these belated demands. However there was no one I could meet them therefore my film no longer reached my specified needs.

On the bright side however, this was the first time I completed a short film using Premiere Pro editing software on my own Macbook and for which I feel it boosts the quality of the film slightly, despite an exporting glitch causing my film to render at a lower quality.

Oh well, through this I've developed a bitter distaste for these types of competitions and I'm mildly reluctant to try them again but at least I made a short goofy video.

FAILED FMP PITCH - PARANOIA CONTAGION (Sci-Fi Horror)

So here's a way to start the new year! This was the failed FMP pitch from November, i've uploaded it here for prosperity's sake. I would've had cut and tightened it up a bit however every time I've tried to export it it takes at least 5 hrs. So here is it in its entirety.

As said, it wasn't chosen but instead, we'll be doing 2 short films set in the same sci-fi universe and thankfully one of those is Tom's idea (which was a development from the idea i co-created). So we'll see how that grows and changes. New years are always an exciting time, I'll hopefully be able to crack on and get back to The Revival of Dracula when the weather gets a little better.

'Enter The Pitch' Contest Entry

For college we each had to develop a pitch for an individual bible themed movie. (maybe I should upload the script on here at some point)

I chose the story of Moses as did the rest of my crew in this pitch. We were then grouped together to weld our ideas together into something fresh and new in the hopes of winning the competition and enough money to turn this into a high budget short film.

The film would have been set in some sort of special rehab hospital where patients (analogous to the Israelites) go about their existence guided by the 'Moses' character. (In this case, a therapist)
However one day their treatment begins to falter as one patient begins to realize the drugs the therapist has been reluctantly giving him (on orders by an unseen authority - a God figure) are causing him to discover that the patients are being manipulated into believing they have a better future coming - when in actuality they have been sent here because they are incurable.

So, we produced this short pitch, where I voiced the therapist and Tom sent it off but.....

Oh well, still though, way better time than anything we did last year. :')

Project Exodus - Film Pitch

Part of a College Project to create a pitch for a movie based off themes of the Bible.

An Eternity (48 Hr. Sci-Fi London Youtube Storytelling Challenge 2014)

My entry into the 48 hr. competition...which I wrote all in one day as I played a drinking game with some peepz on the Saturday. :P

Title: AN ETERNITY

Line: "As a system, the Hénon map is interesting. Unlike the logistic map, it defies a simple description."