There came a point recently where I decided that I'd had enough of writing so much. Don't get me wrong, I love writing. But lately I've been having trouble bringing myself to write things - my column, Ucol assignments, AWC strips, and of course, the various movie projects I'm working on. So I decided to take action. "Lights, Camera, Action!" that is.

My video camera has not been used as much as I'd like it to be since I got it, and sometimes it's hard to keep everyone including myself enthusiastic about projects during the slow periods. I figured, why not just get out there, grab a few friends and get to filming? Just for the sheer fun of it, no worries about money, sets, lighting, costumes, actors in their proper roles... just seeing how the whole process feels, shooting a few scenes. So I called around, and found myself with a team of Jarrod and Jessie of ICE Team fame, and Gary, crazy nut from my course.

Jarrod wasn't confident with acting, so he shyed away behind the camera, which was fine. Jessie and Gary both have years of acting experience, and I can remember the lines I wrote (plus I didn't do too badly as Tom Wesselmann not so long ago), so we played out a scene from early on in Everyone Stupid Dies where Dr. Amanda Reucser (Jessie, in her proper role) is introduced to Murphy (who's ideally supposed to be a large black man, played here by Gary) by the clueless heroine Hilton Patrick (Morgs, not wearing a dress). It's a funny scene on paper, and I think we still managed to make it funny the way we did it, with a little 'repediting' and such. It's available for download in three sizes, all of which are subtitled as there were some sound issues. The sound is there though, you'll just need to crank your speakers up.

I hope you enjoy watching these clips as much as we did making them.

        -- Morgs.

Disclaimer: The following clips are not representative of any final ICE product. This was all in the name of $0 budget fun.

HeadQuarters Scene

Tiny (320x240, 5 MB)

Small (640x480, 10 MB)

Big (720x480, 20 MB)

Random bits

Local nut terrorises shoppers and staff (5 MB)

"That's my car!" (3 MB)

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