Jawa Ex Machina
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Hey guys.
My name is Filip, I'm working on a 7D feature film called MARIANNE, which will shoot this year. Here's a little information about it to kick things off.
"MARIANNE is a psychological horror film about a broken family in the small isolated town of Östersund, located up in the Swedish northlands. Among the pine woods, the lakes, the snowy mountains and the midnight summer sun, the story takes place on the fuzzy border where fantasy and reality meet.
45 year old Krister's wife Eva has just passed away in a car accident, and now he's alone with the 18 year old daughter Sandra who hates his guts, and a 6 months old daughter who he doesn't really know how to take care of .
At night he's haunted by bad nightmares about what happened the night Eva died, and guilt for the pain he's caused Sandra over the years as an absent father. He experiences visits in his sleep from a woman dressed in green, looking for revenge. Someone who comes to him via his dreams. Someone he knows already is dead.
Sandra's boyfriend, who's interested in old Swedish folklore, soon realizes Krister is haunted by a Mare – a female creature of the night or a woman possessed. He tries to guide Krister by helping him get rid of her, while Krister tries to regain his family and reestablish some sort of order in his life. But having a bad reputation in a small town makes it hard to regain the trust of someone you've let down so many times before.
Krister finds himself in a jungle of guilt and anxiety, superstition and nightmares, mental and physical illness, and has to find the best way out.
Is the Mare real, or only in his mind?"
Current poster design used for the pilot we shot last summer:
http://twitpic.com/vmziy
The logo has changed since this pic, and there will be other changes made in the poster as well.
Some screenshots from the pilot:
http://twitpic.com/vn0tz
http://twitpic.com/vn1c7
http://twitpic.com/vn1o6
http://twitpic.com/vn1wv
http://twitpic.com/vn28j
This is a microbudget production. We shoot with a small tight crew with the 7D with these lenses:
EF 50mm f/1.2L II
EF 85mm f/1.2L II
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
We do it all practical. It's all makeup, lighting, camera and storytelling.
No CGI.
The movie takes place in Sweden, so the characters all speak Swedish with the local accent.
The pilot was shot during the course of one week last spring on ultramicro budget with the GH1 and the kit lens.
We don't have a website up yet, I moved up to location a week ago, and as soon as the adsl is set up I can get an ftp running.
In the meantime, keep a lookout @JavaExMachina on twitter for updates.
You'll also find my personal profile there: @TheNorthlander in case you have questions.
I'll most likely ask around for questions about the camera etc here since I'm a camera noob (I studied screenwriting at film school). Luckily though, I'm working with good people who will hold the camera for me.
Be sure also to spread the word to your friends. We could use all the attention we can get.
/Filip
My name is Filip, I'm working on a 7D feature film called MARIANNE, which will shoot this year. Here's a little information about it to kick things off.
"MARIANNE is a psychological horror film about a broken family in the small isolated town of Östersund, located up in the Swedish northlands. Among the pine woods, the lakes, the snowy mountains and the midnight summer sun, the story takes place on the fuzzy border where fantasy and reality meet.
45 year old Krister's wife Eva has just passed away in a car accident, and now he's alone with the 18 year old daughter Sandra who hates his guts, and a 6 months old daughter who he doesn't really know how to take care of .
At night he's haunted by bad nightmares about what happened the night Eva died, and guilt for the pain he's caused Sandra over the years as an absent father. He experiences visits in his sleep from a woman dressed in green, looking for revenge. Someone who comes to him via his dreams. Someone he knows already is dead.
Sandra's boyfriend, who's interested in old Swedish folklore, soon realizes Krister is haunted by a Mare – a female creature of the night or a woman possessed. He tries to guide Krister by helping him get rid of her, while Krister tries to regain his family and reestablish some sort of order in his life. But having a bad reputation in a small town makes it hard to regain the trust of someone you've let down so many times before.
Krister finds himself in a jungle of guilt and anxiety, superstition and nightmares, mental and physical illness, and has to find the best way out.
Is the Mare real, or only in his mind?"
Current poster design used for the pilot we shot last summer:
The logo has changed since this pic, and there will be other changes made in the poster as well.
Some screenshots from the pilot:
http://twitpic.com/vn0tz
http://twitpic.com/vn1c7
http://twitpic.com/vn1o6
http://twitpic.com/vn1wv
http://twitpic.com/vn28j
This is a microbudget production. We shoot with a small tight crew with the 7D with these lenses:
EF 50mm f/1.2L II
EF 85mm f/1.2L II
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
We do it all practical. It's all makeup, lighting, camera and storytelling.
No CGI.
The movie takes place in Sweden, so the characters all speak Swedish with the local accent.
The pilot was shot during the course of one week last spring on ultramicro budget with the GH1 and the kit lens.
We don't have a website up yet, I moved up to location a week ago, and as soon as the adsl is set up I can get an ftp running.
In the meantime, keep a lookout @JavaExMachina on twitter for updates.
You'll also find my personal profile there: @TheNorthlander in case you have questions.
I'll most likely ask around for questions about the camera etc here since I'm a camera noob (I studied screenwriting at film school). Luckily though, I'm working with good people who will hold the camera for me.
Be sure also to spread the word to your friends. We could use all the attention we can get.
/Filip
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