Sunday, November 11, 2012

Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice plus a hoops mixtape

I'm fairly satisfied with our trailer, "Multiple Choice". It details the concept of a society in which one test decides your place in the community, and if you fail, then you're sent away for a lifetime of labor. A family comprised of two brothers is split up after the elder one fails the test, and in his combination of rage and sadness, the younger brother decides to fail on purpose to break his brother out, and presumably start a rebellion.

I love some of our shots, but more than anything, we stumbled upon them. We were walking to one our group member's houses, when we noticed a pile of dirt with a gray wall behind it. A collective lightbulb flashed above our heads, and we got into costume and shot our labor scene there. Next, we needed a spot for Jesse's rousing speech, and wandered around the house for a while. Eventually, we found a small room with old looking walls, and after putting a camera on it, it looked perfect. Those are my favorite shots in the film, and they came about completely on accident.

There are, unfortunately, some slightly sketchy things about our trailer The video quality is sort of poor, because we used a flip camera, but one could argue that the low quality was in the name of creating a dismal image of the society. And in hindsight, we could have furthered the concept a little more. But I think our music saves it. The song, Prophecy by Mr. Morse, is savage. If I were grading our film, I would bump it a solid five points for the music alone. It was interesting that were able to find such a quality piece of music using vocals that was CC approved. Anyhoo, you will find our trailer below.



P.S. I swear I will get back to writing about sports next week. Unfortunately, nothing very writeable has happened in the sporting world over the past two weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this hoops mixtape.

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