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it’s 3am i must be emo

I can not stop listening to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s first album. Its just such a wonderfully odd sound.

I have a better idea of what i want to do for the modest mouse contest. I thank everyone for their input, it really did help me to form a concept. Basically the band will be in a white studio with cameras all around. Behind them is a large screen on which a grainy film plays. The shots of the band are either straight on with the screen behind them or a profile with the studio camera moving around them. The video on the screen is a first person view of a guy who walks into a party. He grabs a beer and talks to a few people before noticing a girl across the room. She heads out of the main room and out through a hall. He follows but when he gets to where she should be, she is no where to be found. He spins around and there she is walking by another group of people. He follows but is stopped by some friends who want to talk to him. He talks for a second but pulls him self away after a minute or so. He once again sees the girl and gives chase, this goes on for a while, the girl always walking at a slow pace and always eluding the guy. At the end he will probably catch up with her or something cliche like that.
Its a framework but i think it’l develop well. The big problem is the whole party thing, i could get extras pretty easily. but i do not want to deal with the logistics of that. I could do it with 10 people pretty easily, but 20 would look better. I also need a location, my apartment just isn’t big enough.
my sources for inspiration for the chase thing are an Elton John video and a prodigy’s smack my bitch up, which i wont link because its no where close to work safe.

i have been very unmotivated lately, i’ve been a big piece of crap for the last month to put it bluntly. my class schedule was mixed up a bit so that i have very long days on mondays and tuesday, about 15 hours of work/school. i just feel like i need a vacation, i mean i was doing so well there for a while. i was anxious to work on projects, my assignments were getting done and i was proud of them. but lately i cant even muster the motivation to edit a commercial i shot last week.

i did however have some fun playing around in ae today. i got this awesome idea for a little animation, im not real sure what im going to use it for but its turning out well. that i should be able to post this weekend. the aforementioned commercial hopefully in a few days, i’ll get the editing done tomorrow but it’l need music.

the modest mouse thing is a whole different animal though. the deadline is close, may 22. they didn’t leave very long for people to produce a video. i really doubt they will have many entries, not to mention the footage requires some hefty software just to view. i basically have another week to shoot the chase thing and my clean plates for the band.
i really want to do it, i really think my resume needs it but i just don’t think i can make it happen. i need a vacation, i am feeling so ragged and climbing the everest of this project is just too much at the moment.

all in all life is going well though, i am moving out of my apartment next week, the company i rent from is making me move… its a long story but they are breaking up the family and making me and my roommates move in with other people.
so i’ll be going to another unit in my complex. an easy move but i am not renewing my lease and will only be in the new unit a month.

i wrote a little script for my screenwriting class the other day, i like it a lot, here is a pdf. its sketchy, and probably has like 100 grammatical mistakes, it is just a rough draft

peace in the north east
david hildreth

ps my page is now the #1 return when you google my name

insert creativity here

so modest mouse (an ok band) and Apple are having this contest. they have provided people with footage of the band playing a song off their new album in front of a green screen and whoever can make the best music video out of it wins the internets…. and some other stuff. there are a lot of things like this these days, itsyourshowtv, current.tv, colbert’s green screen challenge… but this one just hit me the right way. i am excited about participating, or at least giving it a shot. the footage they have is great, its high quality and well shot. i have a few ideas but one isn’t very good and the other is more than i could probably do.

so i implore you all to help me out a bit. i want some ideas… they don’t have to be much. just concepts or maybe an environment that one could take place in.

leave a comment or shoot me an email if something comes to mind (if you’re reading this on facebook you have to follow the links to the original post on my site to comment)

david