tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4563097260622436202024-03-05T09:18:22.601+01:00What's Going On, Malachi?Malachi likes making movies, and he'll probably like you, tooMalachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-44806864279968202762016-03-26T17:31:00.000+01:002016-03-26T17:31:01.036+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You’re not the only one. ITCHY FEET readers have long been clamoring for full frontal nudity in their favorite comic about travel and language learning, and I have been listening! </div>
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Ever wonder why the little Itchy Feet guy and many other characters don’t wear clothes, yet they also aren’t naked? This is supposed to be a comic about real life situations! How can I expect you to take it seriously if I don’t respect the full range of human anatomy?</div>
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ITCHY FEET: X-RATED features all your favorite comics, completely re-drawn from scratch to take all aspects of the beautiful, natural human form into account. It's artsy, it's bawdy, and yes, it's very erotic.</div>
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In the middle of June I moved to Berlin.<br />
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Two weeks ago I signed up to boom operate a little web series called "Blink." Things were going fine - I was really more interested in meeting film people than boom operating.<br />
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Four days ago, the original director dropped out ("creative differences"), and the AD called me at 2am to ask if I wanted to direct the remaining episodes, as well as re-shoot some that the crew and actors were unhappy with.<br />
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"Blink" is about a Canadian fellow living in Berlin who discovers he can teleport, and his various misadventures. Every episode runs just a few minutes long, and is currently in post-production.</div>
</div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-90913780883433159312012-06-06T19:43:00.001+02:002012-06-07T16:10:32.617+02:00Velo'v'n It<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Our 30-second spot for Lyon's Velo'v public bike system is finally finished and up on the <a href="http://mmrempen.com/filmmaking.html">filmmaking</a> page! 'Course you can just watch it up there.</span><br />
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</div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-67446499800623201462012-05-08T15:50:00.000+02:002012-05-08T15:50:18.564+02:00Ink + Water vs. the art world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our pseudo-music video visual experiment <i>Ink + Water</i> will be showcased on May 19th at the Carney Logan Burke architect office in Jackson Hole, Wyoming as part of an exhibition that meditates on the meaning of art and the importance of perspective in its consumption.</div>
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This showcase gallery is curated by Stella Cabot-Wilson.</div>
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Our 2011 music video / experimental short, <i><a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/ink.html">Ink & Water</a></i>, played recently at a meetup of composers in New York City. Our own <a href="http://brianandrewsmusic.com/">Brian Andrews</a>, composer of that and many other short films and commercials, was there to present the film and field questions.</div>
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In other interesting news, our Coca-Cola spot "Spontaneous Travel" is up on <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/filmmaking.html">my Filmmaking page</a>, along with a redesign of that page in general.<br />
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The spot was shot in Paris and Lyon, France, with <a href="http://www.jhoumua.com/">Jenny Hou</a> producing, <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/">Boa Simon</a> photographing, <a href="https://vimeo.com/billypeake">Billy Peake</a> editing, and of course <a href="http://www.brianandrewsmusic.com/">Brian Andrews</a> composing. </div>
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We're all really happy with how it turned out - especially considering that, well, it was made up as we went along! Dirty secret.</div>
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Back in December I showed <i><a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/contentment.html">Contentment</a></i> at the <a href="http://www.festcourt-villeurbanne.com/">Villeurbanne Short Film Festival</a> in Lyon, France. Buzzing around the festival with a camera and microphone, like a couple of MTV imps, were Ricky Gambas and Marcus Crumble of <a href="http://www.remplir-des-sacs.com/">Remplir des Sacs</a> (means "fill those bags" in French. I'm probably missing an innuendo).<br />
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<i>Alors</i>, their comic stylings and video interviews are finally here!<br />
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Thanks to a partnership with <a href="http://www.seeflik.com/" target="_blank">SeeFlik</a>, an online contest in which <i><a href="http://mmrempen.com/films/lanina.html">La Nina del Desierto</a></i> placed in the top 20 judges' picks, our little short film will be available for free on <a href="http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/movies/La-Ni%C3%B1a-del-Desierto/219386/2203558222/La-Nina-Del-Desierto/videos?cmpid=syn_rss">Comcast's video-on-demand service</a>!<br />
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Comcast has been good to us - in August of 2010 they broadcast <a href="http://mmrempen.com/films/aff1.html">our ad spots for the Albuquerque Film Festival</a> throughout the southwest. I was in a local restaurant with DP <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/">Boa Simon</a> and producer <a href="http://www.jhoumua.com/">Jenny Hou</a> when we saw the ad play on a TV on the wall - we were giddy, like hearing your band's song on the radio for the first time!</div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-40938308067210155242012-01-25T22:06:00.001+01:002012-01-25T22:18:43.078+01:00Overseas CollaborationI'm currently in Europe, and most of my film contacts are back Stateside in Los Angeles. And we're also wrapping up production on two commercials which were shot here in Europe, and are being edited, scored, and colored Stateside.<br />
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And the whole time, as the director, I'm working all but side-by-side with the producer, the talent, the colorist, and the editor, even if they're many time zones away.<br />
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Here's an example. Just this evening we had to re-record the voiceover for a spot we shot in Paris. The original VO was lost on a wiped card. If this were footage, it would have been a disaster. And since the talent flew back stateside with the producer and DP late last year, it could easily have been a disaster five years ago.<br />
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But not today! We set up a miniature recording studio in the actress' kitchen, and over Skype, I coached her as she recorded the lines.<br />
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Not a beat was missed. Once it was recorded, it was sent to me to QC, and then sent straight to the editor. I might as well have been in the same room.<br />
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Directors and producers of the new generation would do well to consider the potential of our newfound instant connectivity. It's not as necessary as it once was to actually physically move to LA in order to get projects done. Collaboration can now instantly cover thousands of miles, and the previous hubs of production could well disappear.<br />
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The future of production is coming! Or it might be here. Grab it!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-33517949321692878762011-12-21T21:22:00.000+01:002011-12-21T21:22:39.694+01:00"Ink & Water" : finally complete<div style="text-align: center;">
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After over a year and a half, our sort-of-a-music-video is finally complete! <i>Ink & Water</i> was made with no CG, just water, ink, and some creative lighting. Shot by <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/" target="_blank">Boa Simon</a> on 35mm and on the RED, the project was edited by <a href="http://www.nateorloff.com/" target="_blank">Nate Orloff</a> to music by <a href="http://www.brianandrewsmusic.com/" target="_blank">Brian Andrews</a>, who wrote the score after being inspired by the footage we'd shot.<br />
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Turn up that bass and enjoy!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-68520236221829761182011-12-02T12:20:00.001+01:002011-12-02T12:29:57.409+01:00Le Zola and "Contentment"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last weekend I had the privilege to join a number of other international filmmakers at the <a href="http://www.festcourt-villeurbanne.com/" target="_blank">Villeurbanne Short Film Festival</a>, in Lyon, France.<br />
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There were long shorts, short shorts, and <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/contentment.html" target="_blank"><i>Contentment</i></a> played for the first time in front of an audience on the big screen. It looked great, and though it didn't win any prizes, the audience cheered me when I went up afterword for the interview, and told them how we made the film using equipment borrowed from a commercial we were shooting at the time. I have the feeling the audience was made up of mostly the rebel generation of filmmakers. <br />
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<a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/contentment.html" target="_blank"><i>Contentment</i> </a>has been selected for the <a href="http://www.festcourt-villeurbanne.com/" target="_blank">32nd Villeurbanne Short Film Festival</a>! Villeurbanne is a suburb, part of the greater Lyon metropolitan area, so I'm excited to attend and check out the scene. I love film festivals.<br />
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The only (hilarious?) caveat is the more I correspond with the festival folk, the more they keep mentioning that I was selected for the "First Short Film" section. I have a sneaking suspicion this means the first short film you ever made. Well, it's not exactly the <i>first</i> I've ever made...more like the 25th. I wonder how that confusion happened. Hopefully I won't be publicly assaulted on the subject.<br />
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I also have to do subtitles in French. Now <i>Contentment </i>can be as pretentious as possible! What's more pretentious than French subtitles, amirite?<br />
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Huzzah to movies!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-64143641208979383582011-11-07T23:19:00.000+01:002011-11-07T23:34:44.913+01:00Boa and Jenny Do France - and 3 new projectsGlory upon glories, my great friends and cinema collaborators Boa Simon and Jenny Hou actually flew from LA to Lyon, France, where I'm currently living, to stay with me for two full goddamn weeks.<br />
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Well, we didn't waste the opportunity - we made it a working vacation!
And out of it we got three pieces. All of these were shot with the three of us as cast and crew, on the Rebel T2i with a set of lenses, a tripod, and a handmade shoulder mount.<br />
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The first two are spec ads. One is for Velo'v, a bike service in Lyon where you can pick up a bicycle, ride around, and drop it off in another part of the city. All automated, very convenient. My storyboards looked something like this:<br />
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The idea is that it stays at the POV of the biker, changing backgrounds as he travels throughout his day. Boa, genius that he is, built a rig out of a steadicam vest:<br />
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Using this clever thing, we got exactly the angle I drew in the board. Then we rode all around Lyon, filming in various picturesque locations with Jenny:<br />
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Passers-by were surprisingly unimpressed.<br />
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The cool part about this spot is it required very little, and I think the effect will be visually very interesting. It looks like we got a bicycle handle rig, when all we needed was me riding like a fool and a 12mm lens.<br />
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After Lyon, we took a five-day trip to Paris, up north. There we stayed with a friend of mine, and filmed a spec spot for Coke - a kind of spontaneous travelogue. We tried to capture little moments and hints of narrative as we simultaneously toured the city's sights.<br />
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We found this one conceptually very difficult to shoot. There are plenty of commercials out there that are abstract and "moody" rather than narrative (see <a href="http://mmrempen-news.blogspot.com/2011/10/keeping-busy-in-france.html">previous post</a>), but to actually execute it, when you're trained to shoot for narrative content, is tricky. We tried to grab small glances, smiles, gestures, and light, and we're hoping the free form can be crafted into something emotional. <br />
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The end result is that we have a ton of footage - which I'm handing off to <a href="http://vimeo.com/billypeake">Billy Peake</a>, an editor and Chapman alum, who will make signal of the noise.<br />
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Our final project is - yes, you guessed it - the 5th episode of our famous and influential web show, <a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/"><i>Danger! Relax, Please!</i></a> : "Baguette Brawl." It's French themed. In a way.<br />
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This one was actually the most challenging to shoot. It was rainy and cloudy, so we fought that, and also in the winter it doesn't stay light for very long during the day. The final challenge was the brain - it smelled awful. I still can't get brainstink out of my kitchen.<br />
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But my philosophy with DRP has always been to try to get the most out of the least - find interesting locations, props, and costumes, and make it just pop like a cartoon. <br />
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<a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/">Watch "Baguette Brawl" right this minute!</a> The other two, the ads, are forthcoming...<br />
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I updated the <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/drawing.html">Drawings</a> page to include <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/storyboards/storyboards.html">storyboards</a> from a few films I've done, <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/animations.html">animations</a> that I did (stop-motion and hand-drawn, crude but entertaining as hell) when I was 12 or so, and <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/illustrations/index.html">illustrations</a> for an upcoming children's book series.<br />
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Next next week, my good friend and talented cinematographer <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/">Boa Simon</a> and his producer girlfriend Jenny Hou are flying out to France to visit me. We're going to take the opportunity to film some stuff!<br />
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First up we have a commercial spot for Lyon's <span class="st">"<a href="http://www.velov.grandlyon.com/?L=1">Vélo'V</a>" bicycle system, a sort of pick-it-up and drop-it-off-somewhere-else deal. Pretty neat, and I came up with a first-person POV ad we'll do that's simple and effective.</span><br />
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<span class="st"><br />Next we're going to travel to Paris and do something atmospheric, ambient, and freeform, in some sense like the recent Levi's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63BwVm_ojw">"Go Forth" ad campaign</a>. We'll take advantage of Paris' lesser-known avenues and nooks, and capture something visually exciting and emotional.</span><br />
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<span class="st">And finally, I know nobody asked for it, but you know you want it - another episode of <a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/"><i>Danger! Relax, Please!</i></a> will be coming soon. How can I resist? </span>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-52918887200989657032011-09-02T16:59:00.000+02:002011-09-02T16:59:21.662+02:00Working with my hands; getting plagiarized by BBC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The picture above is a drawing I did of the good ship the <i>Merry Mariner</i>, an adventuring vessel that I invented for a kid's book I'm writing. A windmill-powered boat? Can't buy that model in the store, gotta do it myself! </div>
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There you go, a scale model of the <i>Merry Mariner</i>, done from scratch. I can't tell you how much I'd love to make a stop-motion film with a model like this. But of course, it'd be 100 times bigger, and the sides would come off, and you'd see all the rooms and stuff inside...awesome.</div>
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In other news, a friend of mine sent me <a href="http://www.bbcknowledge.com/italy/wonder/">this link</a>. To the left you'll eventually find a video ... a video which is eerily similar to <a href="http://mmrempen.com/films/aff1.html">my spot series</a> for the Albuquerque Film Festival. </div>
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Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-26823582434691482332011-06-12T23:28:00.000+02:002011-06-12T23:28:58.377+02:00New 'doThe site's got a new color scheme and new layout. Rough edges are still being smoothed - feel free to let me know if something looks crappy, or broken, or doesn't work.<br />
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Or just keep it to yourself. No one likes a complainer.<br />
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As is probably most unwise when trying to write, I'm reading a book on writing, called "Rules of Thumb," in which a bunch of writers give writing tips. Most are crap, but there are definite gems every now and again. One of them notes that a graduate research project revealed that 100% of writers of all varieties procrastinate. This must mean that procrastination is part of the writing process.<br />
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Which is great news, since that's what I'm doing right now.<br />
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I've also discovered a new medium of writing (aside from screenwriting) that is incredibly rewarding: children's fiction. Why that, of all things?<br />
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Here are the constant limitations that I find myself consciously or unconsciously imposing on myself during the normal screenwriting process:<br />
<ul><li>Restrict the story and setting to feasibility on a low (or low-ish) budget</li>
<li>Avoid stereotype or cliche characters; make sure each one has a compelling arc and a complex multi-layered personality</li>
<li>Generally follow a three-act structure as a basic skeleton</li>
<li>Remember that adults want to see adult things like violence, sex, and profanity; at the very least explore the depths of emotional turmoil and the human experience</li>
<li>Deliver something new and fresh, but package it in a way that's familiar and accessible</li>
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<ul><li> None; as long as your inner 8-year-old isn't bored, do whatever the hell you want</li>
</ul>My kid's book is about a family that lives in a windmill-powered ship. They travel to strange lands having odd adventures. That's it.<br />
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It's incredibly therapeutic. Whenever I'm tired of chiseling away at dark, emotional stories of philosophy, death, redemption, and conflict, which take place in accessible locations, and feature characters with pages of background and soul-searching needs and desires, I write a little light-hearted tale about an awesome ancient city under a desert populated by mummies.<br />
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Let me tell you, after over ten years of writing stories which I knew I could go outside with a camera and make the next day, it's lovely to reach way back into my imagination and see what was locked in the "never gonna be possible" box (of course, it would be a dream to one day make these stories as a stop-motion animated film or TV show...).<br />
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'Cause I'm feeling charitable, here's a rough cross-section I did of the <i>Merry Mariner</i>, the adventuring ship.<br />
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</div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-11887623292308647502011-03-23T17:49:00.000+01:002011-03-23T17:49:38.931+01:00Of Second and Third DraftsI'm discovering that I write in two-draft cycles. The first draft is a messy splatter of ideas, roughly kept in line by spotty and sometimes vague ideas of plot and character. Draft two is the clean-up. Characters and dialogue are straightened out and correctly tuned, scenes are combed straight of excessive description and other unnecessary frills, and themes, motifs, and plant / payoff elements are identified and strengthened.<br />
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This all sounds very orderly, but draft two is still, generally, a mess. It also at this point has existed entirely inside my own skull, and desperately needs outside opinion. So I send it to my closest and most trusted confidants, for what will hopefully be a vigorous and merciless review.<br />
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Then I wait, because they've got more urgent things to do than read my scattered, bloated script. I pace the room purposefully and drink a fair amount of wine (I'm in France, dammit, leave me alone), generally feeling lousy about my abilities.<br />
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I've now received their stern but fair input, and am working on draft three, feeling reinvigorated. It can be fixed! It can and must be made better! In order to allow myself to get back into the swing of things, however, I need another messy draft. While this one won't be as messy as draft one, draft three will still require a draft four clean-up. My writing cap and my proofreading cap rest on very different pegs - it's impossible, for me, to do both at the same time.<br />
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This "free" draft gives me a lot of room to screw up, which is what writing is all about - screwing up over and over again, less and less as you go on, until at the end there's something that is, ideally, in its Least Screwed Up state. Like radiation, of course, it never goes away completely. You just chip and carve at it until you can say, "well, that'll have to do for now."<br />
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Most writers have to leave it at that. Luckily, I'm also a filmmaker, so the tinkering's just begun. The Least Screwed Up script is just the beginning. Then begins the process of Least Screwing Up the casting, design, rehearsals, production, and editing.<br />
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Anyway, enough procrastinating. Back to <strike>screwing up</strike> writing.Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-71581493680719782712011-02-21T10:15:00.000+01:002011-02-21T10:15:52.802+01:00Of Features and Web ComicsTen (10) days after landing in Lyon, France, I have conceived of, outlined, plotted, written, deconstructed, re-outlined, rebuilt, and re-written a feature film script. It's on draft 2 and going out for external review (aka, my friends will tell me what sucks). After that and a third draft, it'll be out to ex-professors and other more practiced eyes.<br />
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This wouldn't be notable (I've got a shelf of failed first runs at feature scripts) except for a few things. First, I'm excited about it from beginning to end. Most script ideas rely on a single spark of inspiration which guides you through the tedious (to me) process of writing a 90+ page screenplay. With this one, I want to dive right in to doing more and more drafts as often as possible. It's almost obsession - and I think that's a good thing. I haven't felt the same tug since <i><a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/lanina.html">La Nina del Desierto</a>.</i><br />
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Second, it's designed to be made on a shoestring if necessary. All the parts were written specifically thinking about actors I know that I've already worked with before. Most of the locations are places I already have access to or feel confident stealing (shooting at without a permit). Assuming all the ducks lined up, I could get this baby started in less than a month, if that's what it came down to.<br />
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And that leads directly to the third reason why it's notable, which is that because I potentially have nothing to risk, I've written it for no one else except myself. I never allowed the external world to sit on my shoulder and say, "does this have enough drama? Is it funny enough? Is it interesting enough?" If something wasn't funny or interesting to me, it was taken out of the script early on. As such, it's a pretty niche film, but god damn if it won't be fun to make.<br />
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In other news, I'm still updating my weekly web comic about living in Lyon, <a href="http://lespleenenfrance.blogspot.com/"><i>Le Spleen en France</i></a>. It's silly.<br />
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Finally, I'm working on redesigning my website. While I like the current style, I feel that it doesn't properly organize my work in an accessible way. It also fails to showcase other things I do, such as cartoons and web design, which are worth putting up (gotta make money somehow).<br />
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I've come up with this, and I'm pretty happy with it.<br />
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Now to actually make it functional...Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-8886677173397699932011-01-30T23:12:00.000+01:002011-01-30T23:28:32.695+01:00And you thought you'd had enough<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloKv7t1RhZOutQsElTTBURxNufV_yOlIhifSkfflSM5cYuqbBqAComwM1hYOhl8okJDKqM6hoySzsR4HJHgGmPkPfJVWxDcRNw1UqBfsETY3p5dMIHt_Svueo8GZ7rTOV24Om9jfRxoI/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568108205615284866" border="0" /></a><br />Well, more absurdity is here. Episode 4 of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com">Danger! Relax, Please!</a> </span>has arrived. Dare I say, this is the best one yet.<br /><br />Fortunately for you and the rest of the internet, this will be the last episode for some time to come...I'm leaving on February 1st to France for six months. There I will be writing, reading, and also drawing a weekly comic for a web publication of which I am a part - <a href="http://www.publicorgan.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Public Organ</span></a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.publicorgan.com"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a5xYUhIfcIJMhcKl_3NSIS19vW0j5QRGjE8pBWepE1cp5YjS5ic1Ujza0qo5p21wNADpdYPgSA8NNRN9gpL6jXdW0BIFznYNHwMWgKFKBDD5CJMEUy-w1xD-O4SqKPuOA7GtmUhq4n0/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568108011293245570" border="0" /></a><br />Au revoir!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-74628921311952935222011-01-20T01:30:00.000+01:002011-01-20T01:32:53.003+01:00You're in Danger of not Relaxing again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBDr9tMfABqk7KG3yDiBbukd9XedXEe20nNw3vH92pM_nLWCGdkl5j8JTG-2dApy_9cAreUxRJ4uMSestPrSHDW8qZMTyvWAz1Z-f8_Mcznm-fyjjqVe-Q4QA_K9XCp6saawlD8UFuKE/s1600/family_portrait_sm.png" border="0" /></a></div><br />It's a big, angry family! Episode 3 of <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/">Danger! Relax, Please!</a>, </span>my so-called "web series" (called so by me, reluctantly, at a loss for an appropriate term for web shorts celebrating narrative anarchy) is now <a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/">online</a>! This one features Cornelius the muppet, Angry J's twin brother. WARNING: not for anyone who hates or likes postal humor.<br /><br />Episode 4 is forthcoming, much sooner than you might think...<br /><br />In other news, I'm going to be moving to France for six months, starting in February. While this will put a halt to any actual productions I'm currently working on, it will allow me to set aside distractions (see above) and begin writing in earnest. This page will become more about the process of writing for the duration of the spring, until I'm back Stateside, at which time I will begin work on my first feature film.<br /><br />Happy 2011!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-60935812664249450512010-12-17T21:31:00.000+01:002011-01-28T19:05:10.215+01:00"Contentment" Titling<a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/films/contentment.html"><i>Contentment</i></a> was recently invited by the <a href="http://dallasfilm.org/press/1041">Dallas International Film Festival</a>, and it got me thinking - I should probably finish it. It currently has no credits, and that's kind of important.<br />
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I had an idea to do the credits handwritten, since the shooting and editing style was so loose and fluid. It would match better than some computer font. After searching around among my friends and colleagues, testing their handwriting, I discovered my good friend <a href="http://thecityoflightsfilm.blogspot.com/2009/02/director.html">Candace Lewis</a>' handwriting, which is quite nice.<br />
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So Candace helped me write out the credits, and now I'm working on photoshopping it into workable titles.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">[EDIT] It's done! <a href="http://mmrempen.com/films/contentment.html">Check it out. </a></div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-75301357316877808682010-12-15T20:08:00.000+01:002010-12-15T20:08:02.279+01:00Relax Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8UdD7ApCTI1xmuCw7qwgSa6p_eJpm_Jbzdv6ISaNn-vOsZYDWFAhZ06f_Cz87XwiNxefz9rFVpeTUu3p7grInvu6LfdUrYPLWWlJm9Gf-sbgVj12eiWeUn6FDqHODpbVPiCSSq0JsSM/s1600/CIMG4820.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN8UdD7ApCTI1xmuCw7qwgSa6p_eJpm_Jbzdv6ISaNn-vOsZYDWFAhZ06f_Cz87XwiNxefz9rFVpeTUu3p7grInvu6LfdUrYPLWWlJm9Gf-sbgVj12eiWeUn6FDqHODpbVPiCSSq0JsSM/s320/CIMG4820.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
Shooting Episode 3 of <a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/"><i>Danger! Relax, Please!</i></a> now. Yes, that's <a href="http://www.danielmclellaneditor.com/Main/Home.html">Dan McLellan</a> in a sharp tie and 'stache, and yes, that's a "tripod" behind him.<br />
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Unfortunately, <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/">Boa Simon</a> and <a href="http://www.jhoumua.com/">Jenny Hou</a>, the DP and star of our show, are leaving for the holidays, and we only filmed half of Episode 3, so we're not going to have the new episode done before 2011. I guess that's what happens when you don't pay anyone.Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-91626500521784124712010-12-11T20:25:00.000+01:002010-12-11T20:25:46.174+01:00Second Unit PsychedeliaA few weeks ago I was asked by a director friend of mine, Jay K Raja, to direct second unit on his short film <em>The Drop</em>. I'd never done second unit before, which on larger productions generally consists of shooting establishing shots of buildings or closeups of signs and such. When he explained what we were going to do, I couldn't wait to start.<br />
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Essentially, Jay handed myself and cinematographer <a href="http://www.boasimon.com/">Boa Simon</a> a fish tank, some neon blinking lights, a number of inks, and both a 35mm and a RED camera - and said, "it's a trip-out scene." <br />
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So for four days, Boa and I played with ink, water, and light. You've probably seen footage of ink hitting water and making interesting shapes. Well, they wanted something a little more ... psychedelic. And after four days with a fish tank and inks, you start to get creative. I'm fairly certain you've never seen this kind of footage. <br />
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Below is a small sample of what we shot (password is "drop in"):<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm really happy with what we got. Some of it just looks too weird - like computer graphics. Trust me when I say it's nothing but light, ink, and water. Pretty great for a second unit shoot!</div>Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-21771648874021933842010-12-07T02:42:00.000+01:002010-12-07T02:42:52.468+01:00Wyoming? Wy not? part deuxJust returned from a very snowy Wyoming, and a five-day trip that was fun, relaxing, and hopefully, informative and interesting. A few photos from my talk with the Jackson Hole Community School follow:<br />
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It was a great time!Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456309726062243620.post-91011832244271487432010-11-26T19:52:00.000+01:002010-11-26T19:52:26.437+01:00Wyoming? Wy not?In a few days I'll be flying out to speak with a community high school in Jackson, Wyoming. A local there saw my film <a href="http://www.mmrempen.com/lanina"><i>La Nina del Desierto</i></a> at the Reno Film Festival, where it won the Best Short Film award. She invited me to come speak to the students there.<br />
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And of course the Jackson blogosphere is already overloading with excitement and anticipation:<br />
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Well, I don't know about overloading, but I'll at least receive a cup of hot chocolate on my way in. And while I'd hate to saturate Jackson with too much Los Angeles irony, I hope they're aware that the photo and title "filmmaker extraordinaire" are tongue-in-cheek. I don't want them thinking some ego with legs and a cigar is going to walk in and yap about his important opinions and timeless oeuvre.<br />
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That costs extra.<br />
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If you haven't already seen it, you should head over to <i><a href="http://dangerrelaxplease.blogspot.com/">Danger! Relax, Please!</a> </i>and watch episode 2. And turn up your speakers, this isn't some artsy photogenic exploration of an old gravedigger's soul set to lonely acoustic guitar. This is <i>entertainment</i>, dammit.Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.com