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[darkacademy]

Tales From the Backwoods

Tales from the Backwoods is inspired by serial thrillers like Twilight Zone/Hitchcock Presents but gives it a redneck twist. Oodles of great footage from the series in their kickstarter video.  Check it out!

[darkacademy]

10 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn from the Big Lebowski

If you are a screenwriter, these are excellent tips that analyze screenwriting tricks used by the Coen Bros for The Big Lebowski. 

[darkacademy]

If you've seen The Raid, then you will probably love this claymation parody.  If you haven't- this three minute movie pretty much sums it up. Watch!

[ianbrooks]

Movie Minimalism by Vincent Vermeij

Prints available at society6. Some more minimalist movie interpretations from Vincent, who melts some classic films down to just their core, garnished with some of the more memorable quotes.

[darkacademy]

A 2 minute experimental film I did for my final project this semester in film school. Please enjoy.

Shot on a Canon 7D,

[darkacademy]

"... but what do I know... I'm just a college professor."

this is the line my favorite filmstudies professor ends a semester worth of lectures with.

[darkacademy]

This short film is a trippy dark comedy by Victor Tadashi, and my favorite among a number of shorts made by undergraduate students featured at the Visions Film Festival.

[darkacademy]

Studied Indian filmmaking in my World Film studies class today. This clip, coming from the movie Chandramukhi, is representative of how over the top their action sequences can get. Very funny and clever stuff here.

[darkacademy]

This is a poster I illustrated/designed for ActionFest (the film festival with a body count!). They will be handprinted at my letterpress studio, Blue Barnhouse.  The images on this poster were taken from stills of legendary stuntman Mickey Gilbert (Ben Hur, Wild Bunch) who will be receiving a life time achievement award at this years event. This poster was all drawn using a Cintiq Wacom tablet.  

Below are the stills I worked from.  The first one was a taken from a very long pan down a steep cliff, I stacked 5 stills to get all of the action in one image.  The second is taken from fall guy. Any guess on the third still? The last is Mickey doing a bronco ride.

[darkacademy]

Hitchcock on Happiness.

[privatefilesofscottm]

“Earth,” Barney said, “I’ve had.”

[darkacademy]

[darkacademy]

Zombie vs. Shark! This was clip was shown in my Horror class today and introduced as the greatest monster fight of all time. It comes from Lucio Fulci's Italian horror film Zombi 2 (1979) 

I have no clue how this could have been pulled off. I can't see how this could have been safe filmmaking.

[thedailywhat]

[awlmusic]

Niggas in Paris Jay Z & Kanye West (via thedailywhat)

[vicemag]

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Can’t believe they shot this whole video using the “Mirror” effect in Photo Booth, but at least they didn’t choose “Twirl” or the rollercoaster back drop.

[privatefilesofscottm]

A video with a warning for epileptics! Turn down the lights.

[darkacademy]

That shit cray.

[darkacademy]

Nazis from the moon?! This is going to be terrible and I'm going to pay to see it.

[philipbloom]

This is amazing! Crowd sourced remake of Star Wars EPISODE IV #fb

[philnoto]

Beware Darth Rage! - My homage to the great old Marvel Star Wars comics. I love early non-canon SW so much :)