The date was February 17th and my sister Kelly and I were bored out of our minds in a small hotel in Amherst, Nova Scotia. We produced the video Hotel: Dead Mystery (found exclusively on the Shmah Films facebook group page). The video has suspense, mystery, dames and gumshoes. I suggest checking it out.
On Monday Jamie Leclaire and I went to see Ottawa native Lee Demarbre's "The Dead Sleep Easy" (www.thedeadsleepeasy.com). Very cool and stylish movie that to me resembled Robert Rodriguez stuff but with Demarbre's own stylistic tweaks. I'm not sure when its out on DVD or anything but I suggest if you have the chance to watch it (especially if you're from the Ottawa-area) to go give it a shot.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Funeral Bouquets for Me
Hello!
Before I get to the meat of this post I'd like to comment on how relatively boring the Oscar's last night were. I mean Jon Stewart was pretty funny but he didn't really do any special segments aside from the Oscar tribute to binoculars and Oscar tribute to bad dreams...and then there was the pregnant thing...but these pale in comparison to some of the past comedy acts (this of last year's "A Comedian at the Oscars". Aside from that there just wasn't anything really interesting going on. Last year also had that cool presentation of Spielberg/Coppola/Lucas to Martin Scorcese. Either way, I made 25 cents betting on winners against Andrew. I just thought of something. Wouldn't it be sweet to have Conan O'Brien host the Oscar's? He probably did...or probably will some day. I also laughed when they undermined dozens of artists and film pioneers who passed away in the "dead" segment by over dramatizing Heath Ledger's clip at the end...who...like come on...hasn't really made anything THAT good.
I was just posting to promote a little short film by a friend of mine Evan Woods. The link is...here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxpawmJ_1p8. Its called Funeral Bouquets for Me. It has no affiliation with Shmah Films but I thought the movie was cool. He uses old archived footage with footage that he shot and made this concise and cool movie.
OVER AND OUT
Before I get to the meat of this post I'd like to comment on how relatively boring the Oscar's last night were. I mean Jon Stewart was pretty funny but he didn't really do any special segments aside from the Oscar tribute to binoculars and Oscar tribute to bad dreams...and then there was the pregnant thing...but these pale in comparison to some of the past comedy acts (this of last year's "A Comedian at the Oscars". Aside from that there just wasn't anything really interesting going on. Last year also had that cool presentation of Spielberg/Coppola/Lucas to Martin Scorcese. Either way, I made 25 cents betting on winners against Andrew. I just thought of something. Wouldn't it be sweet to have Conan O'Brien host the Oscar's? He probably did...or probably will some day. I also laughed when they undermined dozens of artists and film pioneers who passed away in the "dead" segment by over dramatizing Heath Ledger's clip at the end...who...like come on...hasn't really made anything THAT good.
I was just posting to promote a little short film by a friend of mine Evan Woods. The link is...here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxpawmJ_1p8. Its called Funeral Bouquets for Me. It has no affiliation with Shmah Films but I thought the movie was cool. He uses old archived footage with footage that he shot and made this concise and cool movie.
OVER AND OUT
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Shmahg: a really stupid name that mixes Shmah and blog to form a new word
Hello,
So here's a place where informal posting can finally be made about the Shmah Films and other pseudo-related activities and messages. It'll probably mostly be me (Adam Slight) however in the interests of variety I'll try to get some other people to fill in some stuff here.
I'll be really pumping up the web content in the next while so look out for some cool stuff coming up. For instance check out this blog often not only for information on upcoming projects but also entertaining interviews, rants, lists and articles that we'll be writing for you guys.
One up-coming project in particular that I'm very excited about is a sci-fi film that I co-wrote with Ryan Bradley. The film is about time travel and will be in post-production for the next little while. We shot it Wednesday, Feb. 21st and it was an extremely exhausting experience with many technical foul-ups. However despite the cold weather and problems the footage turned out extremely well. Points of interest about this film include the fact that (for probably the first time that I can think of) the film is not predominently geared towards comedy. Furthermore the film combines many familiar Shmah Films actors with several new faces. And for the first time ever we have a composer on-board for original film score.
Anyways, I don't want this blog to be another way to whore content out to you guys (but it helps!) Keep looking back and I gaurantee there will be some entertaining stuff on here.
So here's a place where informal posting can finally be made about the Shmah Films and other pseudo-related activities and messages. It'll probably mostly be me (Adam Slight) however in the interests of variety I'll try to get some other people to fill in some stuff here.
I'll be really pumping up the web content in the next while so look out for some cool stuff coming up. For instance check out this blog often not only for information on upcoming projects but also entertaining interviews, rants, lists and articles that we'll be writing for you guys.
One up-coming project in particular that I'm very excited about is a sci-fi film that I co-wrote with Ryan Bradley. The film is about time travel and will be in post-production for the next little while. We shot it Wednesday, Feb. 21st and it was an extremely exhausting experience with many technical foul-ups. However despite the cold weather and problems the footage turned out extremely well. Points of interest about this film include the fact that (for probably the first time that I can think of) the film is not predominently geared towards comedy. Furthermore the film combines many familiar Shmah Films actors with several new faces. And for the first time ever we have a composer on-board for original film score.
Anyways, I don't want this blog to be another way to whore content out to you guys (but it helps!) Keep looking back and I gaurantee there will be some entertaining stuff on here.
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