Ugh, I'm lousy at updating this lately! I blame Indoor Golf, actually. If you're going "huh??" then that's ok. If not, then you probably know me too well and rarely go "huh" to anything I say. Indoor Golf is the name of the student film I started working on this term. It's essentially done now, but for nearly 3 weeks, it sucked the life out of me. Ok, so it was pretty fun and i can't complain!
The story is pretty campy as you can imagine...the students watched "Dodge Ball" right before filming it if that gives you any indication. Basic plot? Ok, whole plot..it's only 10 min. long. Film starts with critical Indoor Golf tournament, complete with announcer and tribute to deceased "legendary" indoor golfer. Main jerk golfer has sweet caddy who gives him bad advice on a particularly questionable shot. As the announcer says "Darryl is going with the couch straddle. He's really using the whole course". (yes, I can quote my movie all the way through...I worked on the dialogue for this project) Shot goes horribly wrong and "costs him the tournament". Sweet caddy is blamed and fired, and protests "But we've been together since the Countertop Classic of oh-3!" Que obligatory bar scene (which takes place in the furnace room) and "wise old caddy" convinces dejected sweet caddy to turn pro. There's some training in the kitchen (flipping pancakes to fine tune that indoor golfer wrist), an exclusive invitation to the Invitation-Only Vindex Tournament...and an uncomfortable reunion between former-caddy-turned-pro, and former-star-turned-jerk. Don't forget the montage of 18-holes...shots both good and bad...and a miraculous pull from behind as the need pro channels the deceased "legendary" indoor golfer...and wins it all! Ta-da!!!
What I like about the movie is that it was REALLY rough, but with the announcer format, and lots of backs facing the screen for shots...there was a ton of opportunity to "improve" the film through sound. We added a lot of dialogue (the couch straddle line was one instance" and sound effects to really make it funny and over the top! Of course, my team and on were literally rolling on the floor laughing at our clever sound ideas (Steve fell off his chair when I used Darryl's angry dialogue takes to give a much-needed hissy fit to the character once he lost the Vindex; and I applauded Steve's well-timed fart sound to a crazy memory-scene...though it must be said I don't like fart humor...but, I appreciate the timing of his add). However, the director killed most of our best stuff. Oh well, that's show business! I'll at least be keeping MY version of the film anyway1 And the director still loved our work...he just though the tone should be "serious" to build the humor...nah...it really needed the over-the-top stuff, but oh well. I did get to leave Darryl saying "now that just sucks" right as the VFS and Sound Design logo shows on screen at the end. Yay!!! Hooray for creative license!
In the cheesy spirit of the film, it is my hope that you all see "Indoor Golf" someday...if for no other reason than to see one of my first credits...that I'm proud of, but will probably be embarrassed by in the in the future!
(oh, and thanks to those not mentioning that I never posted any halloween sounds. it's still on my to do list...I'm just...a slacker)
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