“A casual relationship with reality”
A couple of years ago, my friends Noka and Jason set out to do a very ambitious thing: A Star Wars fan film. Lots of people make fan films, but to be totally honest most of them blow. Now, even though they're my friends, and I worked on it (got Director of Photography credit!), there's no reason to presume that I'm biased when I say this one doesn't blow. Just the opposite in fact. Actually, the opposite of "blow" is "suck", so, not the opposite. At least not the denotative opposite. Connotative opposite, that's what I mean.
An insatiable desire for precision frequently paints me into linguistic corners.
Anyways, After three hard weekends of filming (and if you've ever done any film work, you know that even simple things — that don't involve special effects, stunts, acting and sound — are considerably harder than they appear) and an incredibly long time in the editing/special effects bays, the movie is finally done.
Actually, it was done quite a while ago, but now it's up on IFILM, and thus available for you to see. But you can watch it right here! Don't worry if you don't get the in-jokes, this started as a semi-work related project. Plus, in-jokes, like monkeys, are always funny.
So fire up some popcorn and sit back for some lightsaber-y goodness. If you feel so inclined, feel free to notice the surprisingly good choreography, the excellent direction, and the very detailed effects work.
Enjoy!
Incidentally, please let me know if you have any problems viewing this clip. I'm trying a different method of embedding and I want to see how it performs under various browsers, platforms, etc. If you do have trouble, you can see it on IFILM here.
posted by Mark Kawakami at June 26, 2006, 10:06 PM // permalink // (193) Comments