Hi all,
my name is André, I'm 23 years old and I live in Hamburg, Germany. I am a filmmaker now for about three years and did a one year internship doing sfx-make-up effects before I started making movies myself. I work as a media designer for a major TV-Station (camera, editing, sound recording etc.), and use all the free time I have to work as a crewmember for movie productions, or make movies myself.
As a director I did some short movies in the past, one 60min documentary on american football, and very recently a commercial for german cinemas (1st time 35mm).
If you need to know anymore go ahead and ask.
For some weeks now I am in pre-production of a new project, and I would like to link up with some international filmmakers to help me with that.
It is going to be a horror movie of approximately 70mins, filmed with four gl-2 (mini-DV) cams in northern Germany and especially Hamburg.
Since I am still working on the concept, I can only give some Ideas of the story here: The story is about a group of people, who finds videos on the internet, that show people die -all in the same mysterious way (not sure which way, yet), but without any premonitions - caught on cam by some person who was filming something completely else, e.g. mum, and daughter in the foreground playing, dad filming them - in the background: some person walking along the sidewalk collapses and is dead. They will find more videos of that kind and will find that there is one thing, that links all those clips together: there is a creature like shadow hushing through the frame right before the person dies (or even better: one same person is in the shot, every time anyone dies like this).
Those people would not look up such videos, if they were not obsessed with those x-filish, occult things, so they grab their cameras and try to find out, what this phenomenon is...
The movie will look like it was completely shot by these amateurs as a documentary to prove the existence of the paranormal. By adding ghosts and monters to it via 3D-animation and compositing effects I want to try to make those creatures more believable, than in a high polished shot. It is supposed to be like the bigfoot video: "Yeah, it could be a guy in a fur suit, but maybe it is big-foot.".
The movie has no budget, but many people liked the concept, so I could get a professional crew (even a 3d-animator) to work on this one just for the fun of it.
The favor I would like to ask is:
Is there any filmmaker who lives in a metropolitan area like New York or Chicago, who would like to get involved in this project?
I would like you to grab a (non-professional) camera and some actors/friends/family members and film a clip of about 30 seconds, capture it as uncompressed DV and transfer it to me via internet (approx. 250mb).
Before you do, please write me an e-mail, so we can talk about what the clip has to be like (what the fx-guys need etc.)
Your help would be very welcome. I am also looking for filmmakers in other countries like: Canada (the snowy part
), Japan, Australia, etc., so if you know anyone... please help me out.
I am very much looking forward to this international project and hope we can make the best out of it.
Also I am glad to have found this board, because I was looking for something like this for some time now.
Please excuse my grammar and spelling errors. I am no native english speaker and I am too lazy to look all those words up.
Thank you very much,
André
my name is André, I'm 23 years old and I live in Hamburg, Germany. I am a filmmaker now for about three years and did a one year internship doing sfx-make-up effects before I started making movies myself. I work as a media designer for a major TV-Station (camera, editing, sound recording etc.), and use all the free time I have to work as a crewmember for movie productions, or make movies myself.
As a director I did some short movies in the past, one 60min documentary on american football, and very recently a commercial for german cinemas (1st time 35mm).
If you need to know anymore go ahead and ask.
For some weeks now I am in pre-production of a new project, and I would like to link up with some international filmmakers to help me with that.
It is going to be a horror movie of approximately 70mins, filmed with four gl-2 (mini-DV) cams in northern Germany and especially Hamburg.
Since I am still working on the concept, I can only give some Ideas of the story here: The story is about a group of people, who finds videos on the internet, that show people die -all in the same mysterious way (not sure which way, yet), but without any premonitions - caught on cam by some person who was filming something completely else, e.g. mum, and daughter in the foreground playing, dad filming them - in the background: some person walking along the sidewalk collapses and is dead. They will find more videos of that kind and will find that there is one thing, that links all those clips together: there is a creature like shadow hushing through the frame right before the person dies (or even better: one same person is in the shot, every time anyone dies like this).
Those people would not look up such videos, if they were not obsessed with those x-filish, occult things, so they grab their cameras and try to find out, what this phenomenon is...
The movie will look like it was completely shot by these amateurs as a documentary to prove the existence of the paranormal. By adding ghosts and monters to it via 3D-animation and compositing effects I want to try to make those creatures more believable, than in a high polished shot. It is supposed to be like the bigfoot video: "Yeah, it could be a guy in a fur suit, but maybe it is big-foot.".
The movie has no budget, but many people liked the concept, so I could get a professional crew (even a 3d-animator) to work on this one just for the fun of it.
The favor I would like to ask is:
Is there any filmmaker who lives in a metropolitan area like New York or Chicago, who would like to get involved in this project?
I would like you to grab a (non-professional) camera and some actors/friends/family members and film a clip of about 30 seconds, capture it as uncompressed DV and transfer it to me via internet (approx. 250mb).
Before you do, please write me an e-mail, so we can talk about what the clip has to be like (what the fx-guys need etc.)
Your help would be very welcome. I am also looking for filmmakers in other countries like: Canada (the snowy part
), Japan, Australia, etc., so if you know anyone... please help me out.I am very much looking forward to this international project and hope we can make the best out of it.
Also I am glad to have found this board, because I was looking for something like this for some time now.
Please excuse my grammar and spelling errors. I am no native english speaker and I am too lazy to look all those words up.
Thank you very much,
André
