Matt Sconce
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Hello Red Users.
I have been gone for a while getting some rolling income coming in with some illusions I created, but now that I have, I have jumped headfirst into Stricken the Feature Film. I just wrapped production and am moving into Post production. The movie was shot on a Panasonic HVX-200 with brevis adapter and the effects shots were shot in 4k on the Red One Digital cinema camera.
You can see a bit about me here:
www.matthewsconce.com
And the Stricken IMDBpro page here:
http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1375754/
Let me tell the story of how Stricken came to be for those of you that do not know. Some of you will care about this, and some will not. If you don't just jump ahead, because this is a long story.
Back in the twilight of my beginnings, I entered hero-fest on dvxuser. I submitted a film (my first) called "Nine to Five Ninja". I used the input I got from that to attempt my first serious film for Horror fest called "Stricken". I shot it on the DVX with an M2 adapter and learned a ton through the process.
The movie ended up being too long, so I entered it as exhibition and learned a ton and made a bunch of friends there in the process.
I then entered Stricken into the Action on Film Festival in Long beach and was nominated for Best horror film of the year and best sound design. It won for best sound design, and so I started writing a feature script. Over the next year, I finalized the script and attached actors to the project seeking a funding of at first 50,000, but later 5 million with Hyperactive Studios. Many funding deals seemed about to happen and then they would fall through. Very disappointing times. In these times, I filmed my last short "PUSH" for Twilight Fest.
I submitted Stricken the Feature Script to Action on Film Festival which had now moved to Pasadena and it won Best Adapted Screenplay, encouraging me to keep trying.
I then traveled to Sacramento and pitched the project to Nehst (a producer) and was torn to shreds. I then curled up into a ball and stopped pursuing the film.
It has been almost 12 months since that time, and I finally became fed up with the waiting, it has been 3 1/2 years now since I have started trying to make Stricken the Feature. I feel like I could either wait all my life, or get off my butt and make it. I have chosen the latter, and just wrapped Production on the Feature Film www.strickenthefeature.com
I believe in the project and trust in the skills I have acquired in my 3 1/2 years of trying time and again to make a movie I could be proud of. My reel is filled with those first attempts, and while I am proud of it, there were always things I wished I could do better and learned from. http://www.vimeo.com/1272507 I was directing too big and began an intensive study into directing, reading "Directing Actors" by Judith Weston, and moving away from Result oriented directing into existing in the moment.
My family and I funded the film out of pocket for a low price and have attained a look that feels much more expensive than what we actually spent. People worked with passion and intensity long long hours, but we did it. I have a visual effect artist attached who worked on Star Wars Episode 2 and a sound guy attached from Drag me to Hell. David Fine http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0006718/ was great and helped us make it through as well as delivering some great acting to the character of the alcoholic detective pursuing the supernatural killer. The lead, Stephanie French is a new face to Feature Films and did a fantastic job.
Justin, Nicole and Ian McAleece of Blare Media helped us out by bringing the Red One to an intensive 24hour Green screen and effects shot.
We just puchased a Dual I7 setup with 24 gigs of ram to cut and do effects on. We are working out of CS4 on a PC platform.
We began shooting in April and just wrapped. I wanted to keep you guys in the loop as this Horror movie progresses into a release next year.
Here are some screen grabs from the film. You can see more at the site.
And one BTS scene of the Hanging wall we built in action:
- Matt Sconce (Director/Writer of Stricken and future Red One owner)
I have been gone for a while getting some rolling income coming in with some illusions I created, but now that I have, I have jumped headfirst into Stricken the Feature Film. I just wrapped production and am moving into Post production. The movie was shot on a Panasonic HVX-200 with brevis adapter and the effects shots were shot in 4k on the Red One Digital cinema camera.
You can see a bit about me here:
www.matthewsconce.com
And the Stricken IMDBpro page here:
http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1375754/
Let me tell the story of how Stricken came to be for those of you that do not know. Some of you will care about this, and some will not. If you don't just jump ahead, because this is a long story.
Back in the twilight of my beginnings, I entered hero-fest on dvxuser. I submitted a film (my first) called "Nine to Five Ninja". I used the input I got from that to attempt my first serious film for Horror fest called "Stricken". I shot it on the DVX with an M2 adapter and learned a ton through the process.
The movie ended up being too long, so I entered it as exhibition and learned a ton and made a bunch of friends there in the process.
I then entered Stricken into the Action on Film Festival in Long beach and was nominated for Best horror film of the year and best sound design. It won for best sound design, and so I started writing a feature script. Over the next year, I finalized the script and attached actors to the project seeking a funding of at first 50,000, but later 5 million with Hyperactive Studios. Many funding deals seemed about to happen and then they would fall through. Very disappointing times. In these times, I filmed my last short "PUSH" for Twilight Fest.
I submitted Stricken the Feature Script to Action on Film Festival which had now moved to Pasadena and it won Best Adapted Screenplay, encouraging me to keep trying.
I then traveled to Sacramento and pitched the project to Nehst (a producer) and was torn to shreds. I then curled up into a ball and stopped pursuing the film.
It has been almost 12 months since that time, and I finally became fed up with the waiting, it has been 3 1/2 years now since I have started trying to make Stricken the Feature. I feel like I could either wait all my life, or get off my butt and make it. I have chosen the latter, and just wrapped Production on the Feature Film www.strickenthefeature.com
I believe in the project and trust in the skills I have acquired in my 3 1/2 years of trying time and again to make a movie I could be proud of. My reel is filled with those first attempts, and while I am proud of it, there were always things I wished I could do better and learned from. http://www.vimeo.com/1272507 I was directing too big and began an intensive study into directing, reading "Directing Actors" by Judith Weston, and moving away from Result oriented directing into existing in the moment.
My family and I funded the film out of pocket for a low price and have attained a look that feels much more expensive than what we actually spent. People worked with passion and intensity long long hours, but we did it. I have a visual effect artist attached who worked on Star Wars Episode 2 and a sound guy attached from Drag me to Hell. David Fine http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0006718/ was great and helped us make it through as well as delivering some great acting to the character of the alcoholic detective pursuing the supernatural killer. The lead, Stephanie French is a new face to Feature Films and did a fantastic job.
Justin, Nicole and Ian McAleece of Blare Media helped us out by bringing the Red One to an intensive 24hour Green screen and effects shot.
We just puchased a Dual I7 setup with 24 gigs of ram to cut and do effects on. We are working out of CS4 on a PC platform.
We began shooting in April and just wrapped. I wanted to keep you guys in the loop as this Horror movie progresses into a release next year.
Here are some screen grabs from the film. You can see more at the site.
And one BTS scene of the Hanging wall we built in action:
- Matt Sconce (Director/Writer of Stricken and future Red One owner)
Everyone is quite excited! -Matt Sconce (Writer/Director)
