Safehouse
Channel: Dulvlu Spa
Date: 2017-06-03

3 criminals execute "plan B" after a bank heist goes wrong: Hide. Now, they need to execute the traitor before they're caught.

Generally, it's Reservoir Dogs meets Hateful 8.

Complications pile up as one robber lags behind, another one makes private phone calls, and the last one reveals herself to be a little off the rocker. The choices decline from refined plans of espionage and rendezvous, to crude actions of kill or be killed, all in a matter of minutes as it becomes more obvious that there is foul play feeding into a hot pursuit from an all too knowledgeable police force. Meanwhile at the top, it seems that the criminal's boss had already washed his hands clean of them. Down at the bottom - well, you'll just have to see how low the bottom gets.

Made for Wildcat Films in February (winter quarter) 2017

Overall, this was a good short film that could've been great. However I still continued my upwards trend of films that are better than what came before (especially on a technical level... just look at those drone shots!). Our DP used a DJI Ronin for a majority of the shots in the film, which can almost never hurts. This DP - Drew Lichty - was also a sort of "shadow" director that had contributed as much to the film as I had.

This is a short film directed by me (as usual) for CWU (Central Washington University's) Wildcat Productions; part of the Film Production Progtam. But (not as usual) the writer and cinematographers are someone else. All you really need to know is that I made this for an upper-level college class, and I was put in a group with no one I've worked with before or even knew the NAMES of beforehand. 

In some ways, this was the most professional experience I had. Getting to work with skilled strangers is par the course when 
 you ACTUALLY are doing something for a living. But the shock of working "outside my element" - coupled with the fact I was working on a feature film during this short's pre-production - caused everything to be a bit... messy. Everyone involved was really good at their respective positions, but there were a few snags that I mainly put on myself for not going 100% on this. See the 8th Marriage Counseling Podcast for more scary stories to tell in the dark. 

This is also one of my first shorts in a long time to have an original soundtrack. From now on, expect my short films to have OST's made specifically for the film... Because Cameron Schmidt did such a kickass job.

Music (Chronological Order)
Das Kino!
Polytonality is a Four Letter Word
Yellow Submarine

[P.S. Find the composer's music at...]
https://soundcloud.com/cameraman101

Shot on the Black Magic Cinema Camera. Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CC

This isn't copyrighted.