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CAST:
Man – PAUL LLOYD
CREW:
Music by PAUL TERRY
Heavy Furniture Lifting SCOTT CHARNICK
Written by TERRY WILLIAMS
Directed by PAUL WILLIAMS
Format: DV
Duration: 6 minutes |
A
nice quiet night in turns to horror as the house will
not let the man leave. |
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24
HOUR FILM SCHOOL |
At
the end of 2003 EHP set itself a challenge - to write
and film a short in a day. Now we know this isn't an original
idea, there are many one day and weekend short film competitions,
but we thought this was a good way of flexing our filmmaking
muscles. Also an excuse to use the then newly purchased
Canon XM2 digital camera!
We kept it simple, only one actor and one location.
Laurence of Arabia was not shot in a day so we knew
we had to keep it small. The location was my home and
the actor was long time EHP victim, sorry collaborator,
Paul Lloyd.
The team gathered in the morning and over a java PT and
I bashed out the basic outline of the story - crafting
something we like to call 'spacial horror'. Fear not based
on a big salivating monster or an axe welding psycho,
but on the space around you. We picked the most frighting
space to turn against you - you're very own home. In some
ways this was a simplification of an idea explored in
the brilliant novel House of Leaves, where a
door appears in a wall that leads to a seemingly infinite
space.
The script laid out we shoot the story in order and followed
a man returning home one cold winter night, having a simple
dinner then falling asleep in front of the television.
He awakes hours later and gets ready to turn in for the
night and that's when the house turns against him. We
used camera tricks and invisible cuts to create the illusion
that the man was running into the kitchen and ending up
in the bathroom. We wanted his house to become a maze
of endless doors and combinations. No matter what you
do, or what door you go through, you will always end up
back in the house.
Sleep well.
PW
11/08/05 |
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