Dead Lift

Dead Lift is the ending sequence cut out of Balls of Ice. check it out here. 1'48" long.

Circling the Crease

Two new cuts of my old flick "Slapshot". One is called Circling the Crease and it can be viewed here. The other one is called "Shot to the 5 Hole" and it can be viewed here.

These two movies are 1 minute and 30 seconds, respectively. By request from Lee, I am taking the Less than a Minute Challenge. My goal is to do more with sound, or lack of it, as well as incorporating text. I'm finding it hard to use text beyond the title, but for now, it works. I want to make better titles, maybe animate them some how. I also am exploring more techniques which will hopefully lead to a more symbolic, surreal, or hyper real feel to the videos. More on that later. (hint: it involves Mattes) I may also switch from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere.

Searching for a topic for my last paper. I'm not sure I can outdo my last one, which clocked in at 3000 words. I would like to just expand on it, maybe look at some different artists, and relate it to the same kind of stuff. who knows.

By the way, I had "Balls of Ice" accepted into the Anchorage International Film Festival in the "Snowdance" category.

That's all I have for now,

Mike Out

Limited Ice Time

So my mentor has me making 30 sec. movies. I'm having a lot of fun trying to cut my long pieces down that short. so far I have two, Icing the Puck, the 1 minute version and Limited Ice Time, clocking in at 30 secs. click the links to see the movies.

Icing the Puck

here is the rough cut. I guess I'm calling it "Icing the Puck" or maybe "Neutral Zone". something like that. I know it needs work. I'm going to be cutting it down to 30 sec or a minute. but need to get inspiration on that one. Need a new way to cut. a new visual structure. Maybe it won't involve licking the ice.