agent triple-x movie

[catdat]

This should probably go in the off-topic category but it's so good I had to stick it here. An amature canadian production from Ottawa called "Agent triple-X" in four parts:

http://media.digivisuals.com/film/agentxxx/part1-eng.mov

http://media.digivisuals.com/film/agentxxx/part2-eng.mov

http://media.digivisuals.com/film/agentxxx/part3-eng.mov

http://media.digivisuals.com/film/agentxxx/part4-eng.mov

This was a high school film project

[tuckerhat]

someones got too much money... well done though

[catdat]

"This was a joint project from two art high schools in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Since one of the schools was English and the other French, we had to shoot two versions of the film. The actors are bilingual. Everyone in the cast and crew was under 19 years of age. It was our first film project. The film was made just for fun. We got together at my friend's cottage and started shooting the first part. It then got so popular at our high schools that we made... well 3 more parts. It also ended up playing in other high schools in the city."--Arev Manoukian

and


Each part took about 4 days to shoot but they were done far apart. We shot almost everything using a one chip Sony digital 8 camera. Later we got a Canon GL1. We used Adobe premiere for editing, After Effects for compositing and 3d MAX for 3D animation. My friend did all the effects on his home computer. We were all learning while we were doing it. Our budget was non existent. The most expensive part was about 80$ of gas for the boat chase scene. Scuba gear rental we got almost for free. We were so cheap that we had to wait for a guy that looked like Bond to jump the budjee and give him our costume. Cast and crew brought their own food... The crazy things we did since we were newbie filmmakers and thought everything was possible. Some things I will never do again:
The shot looking down on the city, zooming into the Mini cooper car was actually shot from the Parliament tower of Canada. (Canada's White House) Only in Canada can you do such things! We dressed the camera man as a tourist and his earphones were plugged to a radio so we could communicate! Sitting backwards on a ski doo, one hand holding the driver, the other, the camera and going 60 mph in one lane trails. Or Mr. Bond doing the same holding on the front part of the ski doo with his feet on each ski. Bad guy running after the Mini cooper dressed in tactical gear on the main street. Yes people called the cops but we were already shooting at the next location when they arrived. Getting severely bruised with the wire harness for the fight scenes, since the harness was made at home with some rope. The "bullet time" took one day of testing and one day to shoot. Everyone in the team has gone their own way, pursuing things not necessarily in film. I am getting into commercial and music video directing. My latest work can be seen at www.digivisuals.com/reel "--Arev Manoukian

No money :)

[anonymous individual]

woot The movie was great. I want to see another one. ;)