Standard action, corrupt
sheriff, drug deals
gone bad,
film from Roger Corman. Like
many of New Horizon
films, we cut it short for
domestic - too short for
Foreign and TV distribution. After not finding enough
"lifts" to
lengthen the film, the
post supervisor told
me to cut a "film school
dream sequence". I used
footage
from wherever I could find it, often from other films. Went on
to do a few more for other "short movies".
Content: Action/Violence
Quality--VHS Tape
Trailers
and Promos
These
are several promos and trailers I cut. The promos were for various
film markets like AFM, MIFED, CANNE, BAFTA, etc. My promo and
trailer jobs
were word of mouth. I produced them. I worked with director/producers
/distributor. Editing, cutting sound, music, design credits, write
copy,
recording voiceover/ as well as dealing with labs. optical houses,
telecine, etc.
PROMO
(Long Form)
YEAR OF THE GUN -- J.
Frankenheimer film -- J&M
Ent
Shot in
Italy, story centers on kidnapping ala the Red Brigade in the '70's.
Decent promo 15 minute promo that I got to work with John Frankenheimer
on.
(Warning-I haven't found the
copy with music and voice-over)
starring
Andrew McCarthy Sharon Stone
Quality--VHS Worktape
IRON MAZE
--
J&M Entertainment
Rashoman-like story centered
in a rundown mid-western steel town. I cut this
18 minute 'Mini movie" from a very rough 3 hour cut. J&M needed a
long
promo to show a decent amount of the movie for buyers at BAFTA in
London.
I had 2 weeks to assemble something that made sense and was
dynamic. Since
this was only "in house" and no score was available I put in music,
added sound efx and mixed it hours before I was
on a plane to London. Well
shot with a lot of great images.
starring
Bridget Fonda - Jeff Fahey
Selected scenes.
Quality--3/4' Copy
BETRAYAL OF THE DOVE
--
J&M Entertainment
10 minute promo of a murder
mystery with a decent cast.
Made from rough cut.Unfortunately the film was of
uneven quality. Added Mx, Fx's,Mx, mixed, etc.
Selected scenes:
TRAILERS
FINAL
MISSION
Viet-Nam vet turned cop, has past
revisit him,
Variation of the usual. I also Post-Supervised this film.
WELCOME TO CLUB DEAD
Haunted house film on Caribbean
Island
All the
trailers I've cut I never thought about keeping them. Final Mission
I found by accident in my garage. I have a couple on 35mm.
I have the word out and hope to put a couple more on the
website.
* Some films
I couldn't find a reasonable copy. One, The Devastators, I could
only find the dream sequence
I cut on a tape of
added scenes for a
longer TV/Foreign cut. Most of these we're low
budget action films with
names like
Cocaine Wars, Mission Terminate,
Kill Crazy and quite often the distributors
changed the names. It
was
always fun calling
Film House in
Toronto wanting to order footage and
guessing which name the film
started as.
Crossfire started out
as
N.A.M
- Not Another Mistake. I know because I also wrote
the script.
