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Lost Soul

Monday, Apr 25, 2011 10:59PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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soooo...

Here's a short and rather random teaser of the latest short I've been working on.

http://www.youtube.com/user/jorishorror#p/a/u/0/S0i1L3Sbx1s

This is just the raw footage with no more colour correction then upping the blacks for eerie and dramatic effect. The sole reason for this teaser to exist is the fact there were a lot of people most impatient to see some footage which resulted in this impromptu sequence.

Maybe it's got to do with the music as well, but I get giddy every time I see it, knowing this is visually the least challenging / Interesting scene. Prepare for some unadulterated awesome soon!

In the mean time, I'll give you some pics made by our reeled in volunteer Joris Van Hespen. And nice they are.

Our first night was, as they ever are, the hardest one. Troubles with the sound equipment, with the smoke machine and so on but after a two hours delay we finally were ready to shoot our first shot:

It's a horror movie with a whiff of mystery added to perfect the mix

And I have to say, I really like how the images turned out

Smoke just adds a whole new level of Doom and creepy... For this story, it was exactly what we needed.

Of course, getting the smoke (from one machine) to cover a very large area consisted of our SFX guy running around the pond and me following behind with the lasto lite (and I know this sort of use isn't in the manual) to divide it a bit. You have to admit, I do look awesome, don't I :D

Make-up effects! A spray of blood coming right up!

Next night and next location: a lovely little shed. It looked almost romantic... despite the horrors... Did you know Belgian body-bags are white?

Our poor lady.

Top shot. And yes, it was nearly as awkward as it looks. Also... rickety table...

Our Awesome camera man Stijn!

Day three: Opening scene. The Tunnel.
We've had to reshoot that entire day as we lost the footage due to techical problems. So these are merely a memory.

The Director!!! Meet the wonderful Joris!

On his director's chair...

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Akira Koieyama
posted on Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011 6:35PM [Report]

Wow! I want to see it ! Good Luck!

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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…...
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I always feel strange having to introduce myself, as I would presume I’m a bit biased, but for you I’ll make an honest attempt at objectivity…

Marie Olaerts (being ‘me’ in the third person) grew up in a small village in a small country with a great liking for action movies, SF and thriller/ suspense, dreaming of how it would be like to be on a set, not visiting, but actually doing something useful. And so, that dream in the back of her mind she ended up at the Rits, a Belgian school for film making, where she graduated in 2007 as a professional bachelor (option camera/ cinematography) with the short film ‘the blessing of Henry Mullin’ as cinematographer.

Ever since then she is working on different sets in different functions, but her true passion lies with cinematography. There is still so much to learn and try, enough to fill a lifetime she is happy to discover, and her vision altered by a film-focussed life and the things she saw; she loves the light that seems just a bit off to add to the scene.

Meeting new people and education opened her horizon to a much greater rage of films, especially the Asian cinema, of which ‘Hero’ is her favourite. Though she hasn’t had the chance to see as much films as she’d like, she’s striving to correct that in the near future.

Movies she holds in high regard are: Hero, Alien, The Crow, Darkness (for the mood of the film), Musa, The game, The usual suspects, Bin Jip, Old Boy …
The documentaries ‘Long Gone’ (http://www.longgonefilm.com/) and ‘Peuple Migrateur’ opened her eyes to the fact that this genre too can be beautiful to make and film-like to watch and Monty Python was like rediscovering the comedy genre all over again.
Nothing beats ‘The Holy Grail’.

Always having lived in the middle of nowhere; contact with nature is a necessity more then anything else and when she’s not on set she likes to roam forests, meet with friends and go to class (she’s been following Aikido since November 2007 and this has become a bit of a passion). Other then that, she likes to make photographs, read, draw and write.

… There’s not much more to say really. Hello world, this is me ;)

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Light is only meaningful in relation to darkness and it is the infinite play of these two opposites, where and how they meet and their relation to a certain moment in time that I seek, not to perfect, but to rediscover...
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