watch Star Drunk

[chris_rw]

UPDATE: And here is the final film. I hope you all enjoy the madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPrtQ9AdoM0

We're in production on a new short film, in between work on features. I had a minor viralness with a video a few months back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNA7sy5M5s). That concept was to have a machine (an AI chatbot) write a movie for me and I'd shoot whatever it came up with. We took a similar approach for our new short, Star Drunk. In this one, a bunch of writer friends got drunk and wrote a script. Whatever we wrote that night, we were going to go shoot. We ended up writing a drunken Star Trek'esque story.

To make things more oddball, we asked the actors and actresses, who are all good friends, to be drunk on set.

We shot most of the film over the weekend (we have one more piece to get; our lead passed out). It was a weird and frantic night, but we got some fantastic bits and pieces! We shot everything on bluescreen and I've been going in and adding in the 3D environment around them. Here's a few images from the piece so far.

 

[ChimpPhobiaFilms]

actors and actresses, who are all good friends, to be drunk on set.

No safety risks on set at all

I wanna see how this turned out...

 

[chris_rw]

No safety risks on set at all

We had a huge amount of babysitters on set!

 

[wheatgrinder]

fantastically sick and wrong idea. Call me next time you need a baby sitter for something like that.. Im particularly good at holding hair while women barf..

 

[chris_rw]

Haha, will do! I'm not sure we'll jump into another of these soon though, it was pretty damn chaotic, crazy and a lot of work to get what we needed. That being said, the raw performances are some of the funniest things I've seen. I think it's going to be a blast.

 

[chris_rw]

Here's a work in progress clip from the short (it's still missing a lot of sound work, some visual cleaning, etc). And for anyone new coming into this post, so you're not completely confused by what you see here, we got all of our cast drunk for filming. A bit of an oddball experiment in comedy filmmaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRNuPRbzxV4

 

[gorillaonabike]

Here's a work in progress clip from the short (it's still missing a lot of sound work, some visual cleaning, etc). And for anyone new coming into this post, so you're not completely confused by what you see here, we got all of our cast drunk for filming. A bit of an oddball experiment in comedy filmmaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRNuPRbzxV4

Very funny!

 

[ChimpPhobiaFilms]

Here's a work in progress clip from the short (it's still missing a lot of sound work, some visual cleaning, etc). And for anyone new coming into this post, so you're not completely confused by what you see here, we got all of our cast drunk for filming. A bit of an oddball experiment in comedy filmmaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRNuPRbzxV4

Wow. You weren't joking when you said they were drunk

 

[ZolaScope]

An intriguing experiment. But from the results so far, one that never needs to be repeated

 

[chris_rw]

We're in the final bit of post on the short. I've put together almost 100 visual effect shots (including 10 fully CG shots) in just three or so weeks. Excited to show everyone the short; it's a lot of fun!

 

[Zensteve]

Will definitely watch it when it's ready

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[chris_rw]

And here is the final film. I hope you all enjoy the madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPrtQ9AdoM0

 

[Yodaman]

This is hilarious!

I love the lead, he does a great job acting while drunk! This has become one of my favorite things ever!

 

[ChimpPhobiaFilms]

This needs to be done again!

 

[chris_rw]

This needs to be done again!

Says the guy who wasn't on set!

It was definitely a lot of work getting the footage we needed from our cast!

 

[ChimpPhobiaFilms]

Says the guy who wasn't on set!

It was definitely a lot of work getting the footage we needed from our cast!

I bet it was loads of fun to work with stumbling, crying, laughing drunks who didn't know where the hell they were at

 

[chris_rw]

I bet it was loads of fun to work with stumbling, crying, laughing drunks who didn't know where the hell they were at

It was a hell of a weird night. Definitely a lot of fun, although it started to get out of hand by the end of the night!

Looks like we may be going viral with it. We're currently #7 on Reddit and it's popping up on all kinds of websites all over, like this: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/star-drunk-youtube-star-wars-battlestar-galactica/

 

[chris_rw]

CNET and Huffpost articles on the short:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105...story-for-sci-fi-geeks/?refresh=1377623561925

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/star-drunk-film_n_3823403.html

 

[ChimpPhobiaFilms]

It was a hell of a weird night. Definitely a lot of fun, although it started to get out of hand by the end of the night!

Looks like we may be going viral with it. We're currently #7 on Reddit and it's popping up on all kinds of websites all over, like this: http://www.dailydot.com/lol/star-drunk-youtube-star-wars-battlestar-galactica/

CNET and Huffpost articles on the short:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105...story-for-sci-fi-geeks/?refresh=1377623561925

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/star-drunk-film_n_3823403.html

Congrats!

 

[Zensteve]

I love this short! It's hilarious, fantastic & terribad at the same time!