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.

ESCAPE FROM THE GIANT (2006)

This is one of my very first movies. A true Small Studios classic from the way back when - I used to just improvise movies on the fly in the backyard. Now for the first time witness it online! and see how crappy things were....and still kinda are.

Transported to another land these strange action figures from a variety of shows must try to escape a giant looming presence of a killer foot!

I'm not dead.....CROWDFUNDER WORKED

First off, I apologize about the lack of updates, it's truly slipped my mind.

Anyways the crowdfunder I mentioned last month has been successful funded. (special thanks to loving girlfriend who donated the only money left in her bank account: £1.22 bless you) and last Friday we went to the Quantock Lodge, where we will be filming the two short films for a recce or a location scout. A good time was had, I only hope we can sort through the pre-production work in order to have a successful shoot. - my own personal concerns about the lodge aside.

Despite this, I have also been working on the previously blogged about script for Jordan's superhero movie - now titled 'The Partisan'. The whole story has grown so fast, I am rather surprised because of this I may do some secondary drafts just to make sure it is a finished story to its best level. Not sure when we'll begin shooting The Partisan yet. 'Dora' will be eating a lot of time in the coming weeks. That and possibly my college photography project - which I may be able to budge an obscenely short film thats cinematography-wise very experimental for me. Oddly fitting that this comes to me the day my main lecturer gives me the casual task of writing a 90 second short film. Maybe I can combine the two. Who knows?

THE REVIVAL OF DRACULA

It's Finally Here! My first (arguable) worthwhile film...




For more BEHIND THE SCENES videos check out the following videos:

REVIVAL OF DRACULA - Filming Completed! and Update

Something incredible has happened. Filming for The Revival of Dracula is now complete. From October through to now in February I have been working on a short film homage to the 1930s-1950s B-Movie horror films of yesteryear.

This is incredible to me as it's the first short film I've created since my revitalization of The Small Studios - my 'production company'. All I need do, is edit it and it will be close to seeing YouTube. But in addition to that I have also discovered a Bristol based free-for-all film festival, essentially. As such, I am considering bringing Revival of Dracula to the May showings of Bluescreen. A link can be found here ---> Bluescreen.

 I would have taken it to March showings, however during that time I will be away with the College filming scenes for our Techleap Duology. I am happy to report me and my colleague Chris have almost finalized the script for the short film 'Dora', the film I will be working on. So with my Dracula movie almost done, I may be able to see two short films I've wrote appear on the big screen, as well as attend a screening for one.

Finally, before my Dracula movie I began development work on a superhero film with my friend Jordan or JJ. This would be his first film directed but I'm sure I annoyed him as during the writing of his movie I decided to create the Dracula film underestimating how long it would take. However as I'm in post-production, I will get back to writing his film now.

So, exciting start to the year 2015.

Remember to pledge money please to my college's crowdfunder - it will help make 'Dora' look as good as it can, and you can even be rewarded.

- Moskow J. Stiles