Welcome to my life. Nothing is ever simple. And I wouldn’t have it any other way really.
I am doing a class called creative concept development. The aim of this eleven week class is to allow us the freedom to develop an idea that is separate from our current work. An idea that will inform our future work practice beyond what we are doing now.
I have decided to make a short film.
Initially I wanted to make a fishing film where “The Spouse” or David caught a trout. I wanted to have this film showcase the gorgeous natural beauty of Tasmania, the excitement and thrill of catching a fish and the release of the lucky fish back into the lake.
I wanted to send this film to my friends in Massachusetts as well as share it here, with you on my blog.
But…
I just couldn’t get rid of the idea that it was a little bit boring, that it was just a bit too safe. I justified it to myself by saying that it would teach me the skills that I needed to make the dragon egg film in february, learn to walk Kimmy and all that.
Whilst inside my head mutant zombie fish were lurking. Killer fish banging on my mind saying, “Let us out! Let us out!”
So on the drive home I let the killer zombie, mutant fish out to play.
“The Spouse” thinks I am mad but that is nothing new and after his sixth beer last night he agreed to star in my film and be killed by a mutant fish. YAY.
So the idea is this, a man is fishing in a beautiful seaside location when he catches a large fish, he lands the fish and as he bends down to pick the fish up it suddenly transforms into a mutant killer and goes for his throat. He tries to fight the fish off but to no avail and and he dies a gory death.
Problems kept on popping up but they were easily solved. I thought of making the killer fish out of papier-mache but Veronica thought the water might wreck the fish. I also needed an oil rig, a couple of explosions, some oily water, a soundtrack and I probably will need a bex and a good lie down.
Last night I bought four blow up dolphins, a giant sea horse and an octopus from ebay, I can make the oil rig out of lego, I am sure I can find an explosion online, though I wish I had some crackers. David has said he will compose the music for the film. If I need some scorched earth a neighbour down the road has been burning off and I will ask them if I can film their front yard.
This is going to be so much fun. What do you think? Do you want to watch my film as well? Do you have any suggestions?
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Ah, so *that’s* what you wanted the blow up fish for! I was wondering. Yes, of course I’ll watch your film. Are you kidding.
Ah, so *that’s* what you wanted the blow up fish for! I was wondering. Yes, of course I’ll watch your film. Are you kidding?!
Sounds hilarious! Please tweet or blog the process as you go and I can’t wait to see the end result.
Hi Kim. That sounds great. You are story-boarding I see. Go for it. Just one thing… on a first video… low tech is best tech.
Your PMT. (Project Management Team).
Ha!
G
Good job I’d finished my coffee before reading that young Kim or my laptop would have been a bit damp!
Genius stuff, of course we want to see the end result! ‘Mythbusters’ which is shown on SBS have some great explosions if you can get anything from the SBS site.
Your always welcome to come visit, and you won’t even need props. We have the scorched Earth, blowing up oil rigs, and likely related mutant fish.
We didn’t even have them made in China .. for once. 😉
Can’t wait to see it!
I was a little confounded when I read you wished you had some crackers, because I straight away thought of cracker biscuits, (with cheese), but then I realised you meant fireworks. Could you perhaps use a few sparklers? Fizz without the bang.
Mutant killer fish……..I’d like to see this movie.
I can’t wait to see it. I think the Spouse is being very heroic!
It sounds a bit like a film I saw years back called “brain damage” which goes a bit like this:
(careful, it’s gory)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJh1O0Q8NLU
Killer blow up fish? Hell yeah, count me in! BG Xx
I can’t wait to see it – it will prolly make me cry…jk…. *snort laff*
Haha – so funny. I’m already a fan of this film! Anything with a blow-up dolphin and a lego oil-rig has my attention!
This gets better and better…I can’t wait to see it!
This is blockbuster stuff! When is opening night? Could be a great fundraiser for your recently mentioned causes….
Keep ’em coming!
Glad you let the mutants out to play !
Yay! Sounds like a fun way to practice with the camera 🙂
There’s an Australian zombie film called “Undead” with at least one scene you should watch: man in boat is attacked by recently caught fish. The rest of the film is fun too.
I couldn’t find a clip of the whole scene, but here’s a little piece of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BzvOxO0Ko