Glad to be done with this, finally. Though this is the last of the student films I’m posting, it was actually the first one I ever made. Another student had just spent a ton of money to make a full-color, sound synched film called No Girls Allowed, which was to be entered in the Suffolk County film festival. But when it was shown to the kids at school, it was booed off the screen. I hated the movie and thought the catcalls were justified. However, the rest of the film club (New Campus Newsreel) rushed to defend No Girls because of its technical polish. So I dared the club to finance a project of mine: The Tickets. I promised that the audience at school would love it, and that it would be a piece of technical garbage. They accepted the dare.
I shot the thing on Super 8, everything overexposed, with no regard for continuity or coverage, and never venturing beyond a second take. I even processed the film myself! The audience loved it, proving me right. Twenty-three years later, however, I kind of wish I’d paid a little more attention to technical polish.
i remember one of these had a great original score done on a harpsichord. the original klunky sparse motif still rattles around my head. thanks for posting these!
Yeah. The Tickets had a great jazz harpsichord score taped directly onto the film stock. However, it didn’t adjust to the digital age very well, so I had to dump it. I find Scarlatti to be relatively effective.