Above are some photographs from Ryan Garretson's film shoot. Ryan took Media Practice: Film Form in SP09. He plans to shoot two or three shorts prior to Production Studio in FA10.
"The title of this film (shot on HD) is Maximum Stache: To Protect and Serve and it was more or less inspired by two very talented actor friends of mine who I noticed could grow good facial hair. I guess it was also partly inspired by Magnum P.I., although the end result of this project will likely bare little resemblance to Magnum, with the exception of the mustaches. More or less, the skeletal plot of this film is built upon the premise of two plain clothes police detectives sitting in a car, waiting for a nameless, faceless criminal to make his move, and having screwbally, pseudo-gritty conversations along the way.
The inane nature of the setup notwithstanding, this project has allowed me to experiment with a variety of filmmaking techniques, such as one-shot cutaway scenes expanding on a narrative world, occasional in-camera editing, dream sequences facilitating a carte blanche approach to sound design and post-production, and the utilization of the point of view of a one-eyed cat. My crew consisted of four fellow graduate New School students, three of whom are also in the Film Form sequence, a few friends, and my girlfriend. We shot roughly 40 setups divided by two cameras over the course of one long day spent on the street outside a renovated industrial building in Bushwick. We learned a lot that day - a lot about filmmaking, a lot about ourselves, and, especially, a lot about mustaches."
The inane nature of the setup notwithstanding, this project has allowed me to experiment with a variety of filmmaking techniques, such as one-shot cutaway scenes expanding on a narrative world, occasional in-camera editing, dream sequences facilitating a carte blanche approach to sound design and post-production, and the utilization of the point of view of a one-eyed cat. My crew consisted of four fellow graduate New School students, three of whom are also in the Film Form sequence, a few friends, and my girlfriend. We shot roughly 40 setups divided by two cameras over the course of one long day spent on the street outside a renovated industrial building in Bushwick. We learned a lot that day - a lot about filmmaking, a lot about ourselves, and, especially, a lot about mustaches."
Ryan Garretson
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