It’s been a while since I’ve posted any­thing in the movies sec­tion, which is actu­ally kind of embar­rass­ing con­sid­er­ing that I want to be a film major in col­lege. How­ever, I do have an expla­na­tion, as invalid as it may be.  Late last Sum­mer we began pro­duc­tion on a film called ” Nefar­i­ous Intent”, the script was writ­ten by Thomas, and he and I co-directed it.  Due to the sheer scale of the script, hav­ing issues get­ting peo­ple to show up, and other unsightly pro­duc­tion prob­lems, we never fin­ished pro­duc­ing that film. The school year came around and all of our free time was soon sapped by school, plays, and other extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties.

With a bad taste in my mouth from not being able to com­plete “Nefar­i­ous Intent” and with my Chap­man appli­ca­tion loom­ing over my shoul­der, I didn’t come up with any new movies ideas for quite a while. I wrote a few scripts here and there, but they were more so for prac­tice as opposed to being films that I wanted to pro­duce. Now that my Chap­man appli­ca­tion video is com­plete, and that we have a plethora of free time due to Christ­mas break, it’s time to get back into the swing of things and start mak­ing movies again. Our first project being a film titled “Chris You Got it Going On”.

“Chris You Got it Going On” is a sequel to “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room”. It tells the story of how Mike, Thomas, and James must get Chris a girl­friend in order to pay­off Chris’ mount­ing Doc­tor Pep­per debts. Along the way the guys join a fight club, beat up whores, and engage in a high speed pur­suit, just to name a few of the shenani­gans that they get involved with.  The script is still being writ­ten but I plan to have it done by Fri­day of this week. Hope­fully, we can begin shoot­ing shortly after Christ­mas. As it stands right now, the script is a lot dif­fer­ent from that of “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room”.

Whereas “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room” sim­ply con­tained a whole lot of swear­ing and racist jokes, “Chris You Got it Going On”  has much smarter humor and a more endur­ing plot-line. Instead of using the mock­u­men­tary style for­mat of “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room”, I plan to use a more cin­e­matic approach to “Chris You Got it Going On”. While the mock­u­men­tary style of “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room” was funny, and cer­tainly eas­ier to shoot with, it ulti­mately detracted from the story because it lim­ited the way that I could present the plot­line. By using a more cin­e­matic approach this time around, I’ll be able to imple­ment more style into the story, and will hope­fully be able draw more atten­tion to the char­ac­ters and plot­line, as opposed to the crazy sit­u­a­tions that the char­ac­ters find them­selves in. The approach will be dif­fer­ent, and cer­tainly more sophis­ti­cated, but if done prop­erly it will present a film that has more style, matu­rity, and humor than “Most Beau­ti­ful Girl in the Room”.

All things con­sid­ered, “Chris You Got it Going On” will be a huge chal­lenge for me as a direc­tor. My last four films (Mes­sage In a Bot­tle, Stalker, Stalker 2, and my Chap­man Appli­ca­tion) were all exper­i­men­tal. I’m hop­ing to cul­ti­vate the var­i­ous tech­niques that I devel­oped while mak­ing those films, and put them into a well made nar­ra­tive. Look for “Chris You Got it Going On”  to be released some­time shortly after Christ­mas Break.