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| Vincent Price, a major influence growing up. |
Good afternoon folks.
I'll just get straight to the point. This weekend I had time to do some pre-production on "Ghost Story". I know exactly how I want to shoot it, the mood and tone I will set and finally that I will present it in black and white. It's a thought I had from the start, even before I began writing. My goal was always to create a throwback horror flick, my inspirations being such films as Psycho, Poltergeist, Halloween (1978), and House on Haunted Hill (1959). Those films created fear simply with the music and lighting used. They didn't rely on gore and blood to scare the audience. They created real fear with scenarios that could happen to any of us. We related to the characters, we felt for them. It wasn't just some big breasted bimbo or pretty face running for their life only to be met by a horrific, bloody demise.
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| Oh look perti people who are about to die. |
I'm glad I decided to shoot in the summer, that choice has given me plenty of time to mold my story exactly the way I want it to be. The end product is going to be that much more satisfying. I still have lots of stuff to do, such as lighting tests, storyboards and the most important aspect, a complete walk through of my set. I've yet to even see the location, something I've been putting off far to long.
Oh and did I mention I play a major part in this flick? Yup. I've been growing my hair out because of it. Mind you one thing that crossed my mind this weekend was if the long hair was even relevant to the character. I never saw him with long hair, besides the character wears a hat so does the hair even matter? Does it? I shall post photos tonight and you be the judge, plus that Cali sunshine is kicking in and I don't know how long I can last. Anyways --- It's funny though and I always say this, I'm not an actor, never ever considered myself one, but so many people have told me I'm a natural. I can see it yes, as a kid I always reenacted my favorite flicks, my imagination was all over the place. I always created different scenarios in my head and played them out. So yeah I see why it's so easy for me, I'm an artist, but still I'm not an actor. I could never see myself doing it for a living, more power to the folks who do and many many props to you, it's a tough gig for sure. If anything I'm an actor's director, yup that's what I am.
I'm also going to attempt to raise some funds for this project. I was able to do it with Eventuality so I'm sure I can with this. Sometime this week I will be setting up a fundraiser over at kapipal with a video entry. Look out for that soon.
In between that I will be filming my first collaborative effort with fellow artist Brian "Cuojoe" Tolbert of DAGDAFILM. We have our cast set, now all we need is to set the date. More info to come.
This weekend I also had time to sort of figure out my plan for the rest of the year. I'll be busy up until mid July or so. After that I actually want to begin production on one other short project. I'm hoping to actually shoot it before the end of the summer. It's already written, it's a great story, great characters and very simple to shoot. I have plenty of other scripts written out, but like Ghost Story they will take some planning. Who knows though, maybe by some freak occurrence I will be able to leave my job and do this full time. Maybe some generous millionaire out there will fund my projects or maybe a great aunt I don't know about will pass and I'll inherit her loads of cash. A guy can dream right?
Lastly while I plan out my website I figure I'll use this as my unofficial site. I'm going to start posting some of my work on here and other cool stuff. Stay tuned for that. Until next time, Peace.
Chris Jensen-Soto
Writer/Director/Artist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3786598/
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