Top Gun Swede – 5 Minute Short Film
April 22nd, 2008 by Clint Posted in film | No Comments »
A short December post by Mike Curtis of the formerly Bay Area HD For Indies said I was going to have a long January. The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin announced they were hosting a short film competition at www.filmmakingfrenzy.com. Like the characters in Michel Gondry’s new movie Be Kind Rewind, we were to make a low-budget 5-minute re-creation of a popular film.
We set our sights on Top Gun, filming over three weekends. Jets and missiles (mini model rockets) were filmed in the park over one weekend, acting scenes over the next weekend, and pilots in the cockpit with voice-overs on the third. Post-production took every free hour I had for weeks, and an exceptionally patient Marisa to put up with the house in “project mode” the whole time.
Competition Description:
Fighter pilots don’t need a back story… at least not much of a story. We’d rather watch the dogfights.
Thanks to the cast, and congratulations on the final product. This was even more fun than I expected, and the results are better than I’d hoped for.
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