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Short Film – “Something Special”
Here is a short film I made for the Downtown Film Festival in Maryville, TN, last Fall. It stars two teenagers named Brenna Bentley and Peyton Brackett. It’s about a high school boyfriend and girlfriend who want to take their relationship “to the next level.” It was great fun writing and directing this film, and I could not have asked for a better couple of young actors.
Short Film – “The Next”
Here is a film a buddy of mine and I worked on recently to enter into the Knoxville Horror Film Festival that went on October 22-23 at Relix Theater in Knoxville. We were pleasantly surprised even to hear that our film was accepted into the festival in the first place. Imagine our surprise when we found out it won The Audience Favorite Award for “Best Local Film.” Kevin Antoine and I came up with the story and I shot and edited it.
Classic Hollywood in Still
Last night, I made a visit to the Knoxville Museum of Art to A. Check out the Alive After Five for the first time in a long time (Jenna and the Joneses … Good show) and B. to see their new exhibit, “Made in Hollywood: Images from the Jon Kobal Foundation.” Still photographs from Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s are displayed. Some are classic portraits where the stars would go to the studio and sit for a session and others are on-the-set images taken while the movies were being filmed. Silent film stars Gloria Swanson, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin, on up to The Marx Brothers, James Cagney, Audrey Hepburn, Rock Hudson, and on and on.
Several different photographers are featured, and the point of the show is not so much, “Check out the Hollywood stars!” but more, “Here is some amazing work by some of the best photographers in their day, many of whom were responsible for launching and/or saving the careers of many of their subjects.”
It’s interesting how the quality on some of these is sort of … lacking. A handful were simply blurry/out of focus, which is particularly odd for them being still images of a still subject. But those were in the 20s when photos didn’t necessarily have to be good, they just had to be photos.
There were more than a few, however, that were just stunning. In some ways, I don’t think some of these techniques can be duplicted today. Or, if they could, likely wouldn’t because many photographers just won’t take the time to make the effort, nor (more importantly) will clients pay for the extra effort.
The exhibit has definitely inspired me to take some time to make some images like some of the ones I saw. I have a model or two that I just may have to get into the studio and make some Hollywood magic happen.
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