Dr. Fantastic, M.D.

The thoughts, ramblings, philosophies, writings, ideas, presumptions, concoctions, conjurations, conjugations and congregations of one Joel Petrie.

What's new?

...not these videos!

Oh well, it has been a while since I've posted!

A little nostalgic look at my history: Back in the days of 'Saturday Shorts' we would go out every weekend and produce a short film from conception to final cut in 24 hours... Even if it didn't get finished, it had to be posted on the website (which is now owned and operated by some Germans)

Well, needless to say not everything turned out great... but the whole purpose of the exercise was to learn something new about our craft, whether it was to try a new camera trick - ala : Test Story 2 (named such because it wasn't a short film but a test video)
where my good friend Warren Miles throws an empty soda can at... himself.



Or, whether we had a new technique of storytelling we wanted to try out - ala: Breather (Bryan Young's gritty look into one man's psyche where he recorded the entirety of the man's monologue on a hand held tape recorder, and plugged it into the film)



Sometime, we didn't finish... no matter how much we, and our viewers wanted it to be completed - ala: Fight Scene (My attempt to see if I could shoot a Kung Fu fight with people who've never done stage combat or Kung Fu for that matter... I was also playing with shooting static, not hand held, and there is one part where I play with forced perspective)



Anyway, I'd have to Say Saturday Shorts was one of the MAJOR player in the assembling of my skill sets... and it was an obvious inspiration for my 11in9 project.

I miss it, I wish we weren't all too busy to do it anymore...

Thanks for watching!

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