Monday, January 21, 2008

Lord of the Rings: Sweded!



Part 1: The Fellowship begins with the discovery of the ring of power. Grand treks and shocking betrayals await our party. Wise counsel is given and at long last, the gates to khazad-dum! But are these gates unguarded?




Part 2: Our intrepid heroes fight their way through the mines of Moria, encountering various creatures along the way. Sacrifices are made and choices choosed...along the road to Gondor.



This is great stuff! Check out the title scene. I think it used a cutout board backlighted in red with smoke effects. Also don't miss the horse chase scene and the monster that rivals the Cloverfield one. The video was uploaded by TheRegent76. The video is also at danielloyd.com. Directed by Daniel Loyd.

Update: I sent a message to the creator of this flick, Daniel Loyd, and asked for additional info and here's his reply:

I'm the director and the writers are Michael Leffler and Michael Shaw, both writer actors for G4TV. We're all based in Los Angeles and we're inspired to do the spoof by the film 'bekind rewind', coming out soon. We tried to make it as good as we could, while working within the limitations of 'what we could make, or find, or cheaply purchase around town'. We tried to get back into the mindset of friends doing this for fun back in school. We spent 3 weeks in preproduction, making costumes and props, scouting locations and finalizing the script. (our script, and planning used the open-source program Celtx, and our project with all the detail is featured on pc.celtx.com). We shot it over a saturday and sunday last december. First shooting in Bronson Canyon, LA. Then moving to a canyon in the Pacific Palisades because we we're kicked out of Bronson! (permits...). Sunday we shot all interiors and Elrond's council at my friend Wendy's house (she was VERY nice to let us take over). Post production was on Final Cut Pro, and took the next three days. Since we posted it on youtube/myspace and facebook, it's done very well and we're incredibly happy with everyone's response!

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