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2005
.Death
One day Jesse, Ethan, Kenny, and I Wrote something because we got bored,
so I wrote a Scream meets Michael Myers type of movie, with instant messaging. Which later I realized was a rip off of
Cry_Wolf, but I didn't know it at the time. The screenplay was only about 5 pages long and was just a piece of crap,
but then I wrote the sequel to .death, .Die, Which I think is just as bad as the 1st one, except longer. The movie also
took us FOREVER to do, because Kenny kept making jokes. Like, there's a scene where the main character Tom (played by Jesse),
finds his best friend Jeremy's (played by Ethan) dead body. He yells out "Jeremy!" and then Kenny said,"Yes?" which ruined
the shot, but we all had a good laugh.
- Colby
2005
Escape From Killer Nun Island
Well, this was the sequel to THE MANNEQUIN, only instead of being
good because it's bad, it was bad because it's bad. I think it was because I actually tried to put 'deep' characters and a
story in it, and I tried to do it without a script, which was a disaster, because sometimes I stumbled when trying
to think something up for them to say. It was about a new citizen moving into the town of Toymonton with the other toys. They
hold a huge ass ceremony for him, and it turns out to be a really cute stuffed rabbit, which is the least of their expectations.
Oh yeah, and the movie starts off with a toy Trunks that I have getting killed by the 'mysterious' monster, which was exactly
the same as the first one, which was what I had planned. When he is killed, the other toys hear his scream, and one by one,
they go to investigate until there are only a few of them left. So, the new citizen and a black bear Beanie Baby (that
I think was named Danny) go to investigate. They exit Toymonton (my room) and head down through the enchanted moor (my hallway)
into the Killer Island (my bathroom). They split up (bad idea), and the Beanie Baby finds out that the killer is a giant nun.
But before he can tell anyone, he is killed to death (lol) by the nun. The nun sees the stuffed rabbit, and chases after him,
but the rabbit runs up into the trees (the drawers in my bathroom) across a bottomless pit (my sink) and onto the toilet.
The nun begins to follow him, but she isn't very nimble, and so doing falls into the toilet. Having vanquished the nun, he
returns to the city of Toymonton, where he is crowned as a hero. Then everyone forgets about it (because toys have short attention
spans) and go about their business. I know this movie was bad-bad because I didn't have a whole lot of fun while making it.
I'm thinking of doing a third one and making it a hell of a lot better. If I do, I'll post it here.
- Jesse
2005
Psychopath
These kids came over to my house because they were brought there by their parents. My dad was rehearsing with his band so
they all stayed in my room. There were two girls and three guys, two of which I'm now good friends with, Levi and his brother
Dexter. I decided to show them all the films I had made (this was before my computer crashed and I lost everything). They
were very impressed, and the two girls begged to be in a movie. So, we made yet another improvised film about this psycho
killer (played by my 8 year old niece, Mackenzie). Someone gets killed, and I and the girl are very confused about who did
it. A policeman gets killed, and we hide the body. Then we find Mackenzie, who kills us... WITH HER MIND! The girl that acted
in it really hammed it up, she told us she was in drama class. Originally her friend was supposed to be playing my part, but
she had stage fright and couldn't do it. It was pretty fun, but not that memorable.
- Jesse
2005 - 2006
Space Thieves Episodes 1 - 5
Remember Dexter and Levi? Well, that night at that get together, I saw them playing by themselves. I asked them what they
were doing, and they said they were playing Space Thieves. Space Thieves was like this universe that they made up, full of
rich characters and settings. That night they explained the entire thing to me, and I was fascinated. I told them that if
they wanted to make a movie of it, we could. They agreed, and over the next year we made different adventures revolving around
their characters. Unfortunately, a lot of the movies were "cursed", because every time we made one, it would end up getting
deleted. They are really crappy, since I don't have the budget to pull off magnificent special effects needed for a sci-fi
epic, but the important thing was that we had fun. Now Levi's moved on and he's planning to make a live-action version of
Red Vs. Blue with me. I'll keep you guys posted.
- Jesse
2006
Without Reference
Over the summer, my friend Ethan and I went to a summer camp program called idTech. I took Filmmaking, he took Video Game
Creation. There I met Ray and Robbie, two film making partners that I'm now good friends with. There was also our counselor,
another kid, and a little girl taking the course. We all banded together to make a movie about a group of people banding together
to make a movie. Sort of based on our actual conversations about the movie. We went through all the cliches, spaghetti westerns,
cheesy sci fi movies, even silent films. It made a very interesting amalgamation of ideas. I learned a lot about editing during
that course, and I think this is my best film yet. This one you can actually view on YouTube in two parts. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdQCCO_aBD4&mode=related&search=
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlqq6q8fi64
This is on Robbie's account, be sure to check him out!
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