Goodbye To Muffy
Released online for the first time, Goodbye To Muffy is an original family-comedy short film produced by Alexander Films.
What are Mom and Dad to do when the newest member of their family ends up on the road? Pictures anyone? Mixing pets, kids, parents, and humor, Goodbye To Muffy reaches into every family’s hard choices for nuggets of tenderness and laughter.
The cast and crew gave their time to see this project come to life because they believed in the script and it’s potential to reach a large audience hungry for family programming. While other ‘family’ comedies often rely on a lot of sexual innuendo and word play to draw low brow chuckles, Goodbye To Muffy looks at family comedy from the root – family. You don’t have a go very far to find something amusing; often it simply takes twisting a “based on actual events” story to bring out the outrageous comedy.
Goodbye To Muffy was filmed over 4 days in November 2009, with a cast of 8 and crew of 16. Our location was the West Manor, located in Forest, Virginia. We used an HVX200 with a Letus35 Ex depth of field adapter and Pentax K-mount lenses. Audio was captured using a field mixer and piped into the camera. We used a 3-ton lighting and grip package. Cat prop designed by Toby Sells, of Toby Sells Creature Makeup Effects Shop. Total budget was around$5400.
Goodbye To Muffy Trailer
Goodbye to Muffy is a short film I wrote and produced in the fall of 2009. We shot it on the HVX200 with a Letus35 Extreme using Pentax lenses. Audio was captured with a field mixer and run back into the camera. We used my full lighting and grip truck for the shoot, which covered four days. See the website for fun tidbits and other info – goodbyetomuffy.com
Reminds Me of You
This is the first video I shot with my DVX100 back in the spring of 2005. Shot it in 24p with the pull-down (banding is visible). I think Jessi is a great, vibrant actress and I wanted to do something with her. This short came about, then we needed a male actor. Evan was roped into the project at the last hour. He did a fantastic job.
The original song is a beauty by a couple friends. Thanks for the loan, fellows.
Evan contacted me recently about the video, asking me if it was online. It was on Youtube years back, but apparently it quit playing there, so I’m uploading it here. I mean, why not, it’s a great beginning to everything I’ll go forward to accomplish.
Panasonic DVX-100 on sticks, AT 835b to the camera, and Lowel DV Creator kit. Edited on Premiere Pro 1.5 (I think).