The Blue Line

Here's the final screenplay I produced for my screenwriting class.  

The Blue Line

Thesis screenplay coming soon. 

The Crush

So work for my cinema production class is officially over.  Our team of nine students produced a short film called The Crush over the course of the semester.  We rotated crew positions so everyone could try everything from directing to lighting, camera operating to editing.  

I threw together a DVD jacket design with production stills and promotional shots I took as well as menus for the DVD:

DVD Jacket Design

DVD Home Menu (click on John's nose for an easter egg)

Chapter Selection

Chapter Selection Take 2

Special Features

We included two alternate endings for the film, one of which runs at the end of the credits of the original cut.  To watch the film, click here.

Dans la Tete

Brandon just showed me this.

I like it.

go watch it.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e3_1228084617

Studio 319

2008 Matt Cianfrani

Guess which one is me.

I Want To...

B;ah

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Done by Calley Levine

Starring...

Check out Ci's spot. Yours truly is featured in a piece of work. My modeling career is off the ground now.

Ci's spot.

Archaeology

I dug this one up from 3 years ago.

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Out of Control

I have officially lost control of my life. My senior thesis film has taken over.

I spent the majority of the weekend preparing for this coming weekend's auditions for my film. I answered emails for at least twelve hours (probably more) from people requesting appointments to read, asking for more information about the film, trying to get me to join their projects, etc. It was a royal headache.

Then I made the promise that I'd have sides (script excerpts to prepare for auditions) ready by Saturday Night/Sunday morning. I needed to have one ready for each of my five characters. I halfway wrote one Saturday night, then woke up Sunday morning to a slew of new emails. I answered those as new ones continued to flow in, attempted to fill in audition timeslots and organize headshots and resumes. 2pm rolled around, and I had no sides ready.

It's now a quarter after eleven, Sunday night. I have caught up on emails, sent out sides to all that need them, and played one round of Call of Duty on my new Xbox (more on the lack of control in the whole debacle of getting that later).

It's slightly terrifying how Karma works across the fiction-reality boundary line. For writing a film that deals with a girl who loses all control of her life while a series of bad things happens to her, I'm getting punished in the real world by losing all control of my own life.

Now it's time to start the homework for my other four classes.

Senior Panel Project

Painted on part of the walkway outside Addams Hall:

Today's Diet

Diet for October 6th, 2008:

4 Strawberry Pop-Tarts
2 16 oz Rockstar Energy Drinks (120 g sugar, 320 mg caffeine)
10 Wheat Thins (estimated)
1/2 Individual-Sized Bag Herr's Blue Potato Chips


Hello diabetes, hello ruptured coronary artery.

Wow

"Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of life necessarily require suicide?"

Now there's something to write an essay about.

I'm glad the answer he came up with was "No."

Shifty

More of the same. I did something and it's somewhere. It's nothing new, but now the Potato Pirates website is at potatopirates.com. There's buried treasure somewhere on the homepage. See if you can find it.

Endo Summer Update

Some things have changed since June.

mattemrick.com has not. The CreateDesignDestroy site mentioned before is no longer at the sas.upenn.edu address and has been combined with mattemrick.com.

The Potato Pirates webpage has also moved. The address, until issues surrounding the name 'potatopirates.com' have been resolved, is now potatopirates.mattemrick.com.

My senior thesis seminar has officially started in earnest and as part of it, continual updates of my senior thesis blog, And Hunt Soy, are necessary.

I'm planning on getting back in the swing of things with watching good movies. The MIWWAP blog should experience some updates too.



The artwork for the Potato Pirates self-titled first album is just about done. I really enjoyed working with Sterb on getting that done. The album itself should be completed and printed by the end of the month.

I'm thinking of starting a new segment called "Places I've Napped." For some reason naps have become (if not always have been) an important and much enjoyed part of my life. I have started napping anywhere and everywhere, and a record of the places I nap might be interested. Stay tuned on that one...

I think that's about it. Happy September.

Hello Internets

I did it! It exists! It....is not all the way finished.

But here it is:

mattemrick.com

I also got a new computer. It's sexy.

Potat-ey Purat-ies

Finished building the skeleton for the Potato Pirates webpage. Check it out:

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~emrici/potatopirates/index.html

I've said it before...

Image Courtesy of isenseven

And I'll probably say it again, but these guys embody what I want to end up doing. Their videos are top notch and have some quality I can't put my finger on, but they make me feel inspired leave me awe-stricken.

Click here to see the video.

Wow

Remember Legends of the Hidden Temple back in the day? There was a reason the host always looked like he wanted to off himself. His true calling was not to host a children's game show, but to make movies about heroin-addicted cops that need to find out who kidnapped their girlfriends from meth-fueled porno shoots.

amazing.

Quote from the trailer: "I need to find my girlfriend, or she may be dead."



check it.

Create | Design | Destroy

I have a new website that I'm working on. There's nothing really there yet, but if you have nothing better to do you can click on the above image to go check it out.

Killing Time

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Made to kill some time near the end of 2007.

Behind the Scenes

I'm learning all the behind the scenes action that's going on with the internet. It's probably just basic stuff to any web developer, but I think it's some pretty cool stuff. After tons of searching around, I found out how to upload files to my space on Penn's server. They sure make a simple thing hard enough to navigate. Anyway, until I figure out how to best utilize the resource, it's serving as an album for some of the other light graffiti stuff I did over Spring Break. Click on the image below to go there.[edit: Due to limited server space and attempts to design a worthwhile site, this link is to a page that no longer exists]

Platypus

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Shot with Neal Campbell during Spring Break in the freezing cold at 2 in the morning.

Just now edited cuz I have all kinds of free time now.

It's Summertime

May 26, 2006

School's done now. No more mandatory work for another four months. That means no more work at all for the next four months. See ya later, suckers.

Oh, the sweet taste of an existence devoid of ambition.

The Jalapeno Contest

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It's finally done!

Jalapeno Contest Stills

Now it just has to be edited. Dammit. There goes the next three weeks of my life.

Friday

January 17, 2006

Today is Friday. Well, actually it's Saturday. Long story short, it's almost summertime.

Today's Link

August 8, 2006, Philadelphia

Stumbleupon is the latest addition to the list of things destroying my life. It gave me this link:

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html

Pretty sweet. Check it out.

"Like the work of an old man, three days before his death, following a particularly debilitating stroke."

The Identity Problem
Charcoal on Paper

Un Rapporto Semplice

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Been a While

Frame 4 of the animation I never finished.
Green By: Ack
Blue By: Camp-bell
More Coming this Summer

Books

I'm starting a new book. It has made me realize all those I never got around to finishing. I am currently reading:

On The Road- Kerouac
Closing Time- Joseph Heller
Something Happened- Joseph Heller (it's been more than a year since I've opened that one. Maybe it doesn't count anymore)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Apathy and Other Small Victories- Paul Neilan
Flash Fiction Forward - James Thomas and Robert Shapard
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art- Scott McCloud

I guess that may not seem like a long list of books, but in my opinion, it's a quite a lot to be reading concurrently

Uno Pezzo di Posta Electronica

Congratulations!

Your film "Legend of Rock" has been selected as one of the finalists for the 2008 College House Film Festival and will be screened at the Bridge.

The screening is being held on Thursday, April 3rd from 7pm-9pm. It is free and open to the public so feel free to invite friends and family.

A reception will be held immediately after the screening at the Metropolitan Bakery across the street from the Bridge and the winning films will be announced.

See you at the Bridge!

-X

Linky Time

I started a new page, but it's kinda boring. It's just a list of movies I watch as I watch them. If i get around to it or have time I might write a little something about them too. Here's the link.

In other news, the Library of Congress has a flickr account now. There's lots of cool pictures up there, some from the 1910s and others from the 30s and 40s. Go check it out by clicking the image below.

Today is Saturday

So today I decided to cover a shift for someone at work rather than go eat Chinese for Easter. Why is easter about twelve weeks earlier than normal this year? Makes no sense. Also, i decided to learn about CSS today. made work go by real quick, and I can please you all with this email that looks like a mistake but is actually my crowning achievement in learning how to work with CSS. Awesome. Hope you all have a great day.

I hope you all enjoy this post.

Potato Pirates

Click on image for slideshow.

Some Indecipherable Code No. 01

SSFGPG No. 1

LPWH30SS No. 2

LPWH30SS No. 1

3o second shutter while walking down Locust toward 44th.

So Close...

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What Every Parent Wants to See

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Blue no. 2

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Legend of Rock

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Note: The colors got muted in the compression. Wish I could find a way to make visible the true vibrancy of the colors. Ah well.

Just a Thought

I have a feeling that most of my sound use is not very...legal. Sorry everyone. At least I'm not making money off it. FAIR USE!

DVD Menus

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Animated menus for my Fall '07 DVD

Credits

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Credit reel for Spring 2007 DVD. Compression makes the smooth jerky.

Whirlwind

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Experimental Project from Spring 2007

Pressure

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Completed in Spring 2007, this was a collaborative project with RJ Ferguson and Garrett Carey.