Hollywood in Viersen, or something close to it...
You won't believe how much fun it is to create a film and to fill it up with nice special effects. The films you see here are all projects for school, but they rock!
Waterking - Rule the water!
This was the beginning: Jani and I made a small clip for our German-class in grade ten. We should create a commercial for a fictional product, but nobody expected this: Bad blue box (but still surprising), nice 3D-effects, bad sound. Consequence: A great mark.
Antigone
Basic German course, grade eleven: Reading the play "Antigone" by Sophokles *boooooring*. Shouldn't be too easy to get a satisfying mark here. But then there was the solution: Projects in small groups: Rewrite a chapter, enact a part or create a small movie! What a decision...
So we collected scenes from some movies, cut them together, recorded the poem of our part, added an impressive peace of music and finnished it with some exaggerated credit. Consequence: A great mark.
"Immanentisierung des Eschaton"
And once again: Basic course music, grade twelve, subject: Soundtracks of movies. Create a movie or substitude the audio of an existing one! *smile* The same procedure as every year... Create a film and get the best grades - it already worked twice. But this time there was more competition and it had to be bigger. So Alexander, Markus, Jani as cameraman and I became a bit megalomaniac:
After a filming a whole day long, there were several weeks of postprocessing the material, leading to a movie with amazing special effects, nice sound and still bad yet a bit better blue box. Extensively rendered 3D-scenes, people being beamed up, spaceships landing in real-world landscapes, actors playing tetris on a huge virtual screen, the music was mostly written by ourselves, there is a lightsaber fight almost as beautiful as the original ones, the credits were even further exaggerated and everything ended in the complete destruction of the earth, which is shown in a matrix-alike bullet-time-effect. (This also the reason for the title "Immanentisierung des Eschaton" which is a strange description for the end of the world.
Then the day of the premiere arrived: Everybody was impressed just by the view of the dvd-cover. Then the day of marking followed: "You missed the subject." ...Eh?... ...Hmm?... Grmpf? What? Own music? Matching the film? Hey? What could we have done better? After some discussion we finally became the upgrade of our marks (these projects were not evaluated directly).
Two years later Markus had the ultimate idea of sending our creation to "taff", a magazine on the German tv-station "Pro 7". They were doing a contest of home-made Star Wars-movies. This way we even were on television. Okay - Alexander and Markus were on television and my name, because over the whole movie I have a bucket over my head ebodying the evil Darth Eimer (something like "Darth Bucket"). Unfortunately, we didn't even place within the top three, but still I can tell that I've been on television... At least somehow...