Everything Louder Than Everything Else: February 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

On the Weekend

We did some filming with Derek who play Lars VanDieman. He was great and I look forward to editing the clips together.

In the meantime check out some stuff we filmed earlier in the production.

Mona and I put these two together tonight. Hope you enjoy them.

ELTEE teaser no. 2 from Obsolete Films on Vimeo.

ELTEE teaser no. 3 from Obsolete Films on Vimeo.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Hot plate is in the can

Finished filming all the hotplate stuff today. Randall somehow became a member of the band. photos to come later.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Live @ The Hive / jan 29.2009

terry . rob . steve

it was an amazing shoot with REAL LIVE MUSICIANS playing ACTUAL INSTRUMENTS. thanks to steve and dan for spending an evening at the hive. and a special thanks to terry for bringing his sexy hvx200 to the set as the wild third camera.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Back to filming

First off I want to vent about the blogwriter app for the iphone. I spent 10 minutes writing a post and then the phone rang and it was erased. Don't you think that would be job one in making that app? I think that is the last time I use it. The other problem is you can't upload photos natively from it. Other apps like facebook and myspace have no problem with it.

Technology, you suck.! Get your shit together and get back to me!

Hard to believe the last time we filmed something was December 7th. I could blame it on my new job, personal shit and my new apartment but the thing is procrastination played a big part.

Well, live at the Hive/Pop Filter happened and it was a very good thing. We got great footage from three bands: Vincat, Library and Make Love. Shot some scenes with Randall and Kalen interacting with the bands as well as a scene with Randall and Keith (a prince album co-stars).

Two night later we filmed Vincat live at performance works (thanks to Terry Stewart for second camera) which may or may not be in the film.

Looks like we have about 6-8 more days of shooting. Then the editing and post will probably take us into late spring. Expect to see a finished film in the early summer.

Statement of Intent

The birth of The Hive Creative Labs
12 years ago I had an idea: A recording studio that would cater to the amazing underground bands in Vancouver. These were bands that couldn’t afford to record in the big studios so I decided to put my money down and be a conduit for their strange sounds. I started The Hive with an initial investment of $10 000 and along with Colin Stewart and Jim Routhier we began to record the bands that the mainstream didn’t give a shit about.

In 2008 the Hive is an institution. The proof is the name recognition of these bands: Black Mountain, Destroyer, No Kids, P:ano , Cave Singers, Ten Kens, Beans, Ashley Park.

People now give a shit.

Beyond the Music
Then, I wanted to do the same thing for film in Vancouver.
Together with Mona Mok, our feature documentary Ladyhawk: Let Me Be Fictional, has proven that an 82 minute documentary about an upcoming indie-rock band with the slightest of premises can be compelling.

We learned a lot about the non-fiction genre on this project and are excited to enter the dramatic fictional narrative realm.

Into the Fiction
Starting this October, Obsolete Films is going to be embarking on a fictional feature length film shoot. “Everything Louder Than Everything Else” will be a no-budget semi-scripted drama/comedy. Mona and I will be filming on location at the Hive creative labs recording studio without any other crew except ourselves. The film will follow the lives of the people who work at an indie-rock studio and the bands that come in to record their albums.

We feel this subculture has been under represented on the screen and that our access to this world means we’ll present a truthful and entertaining movie about indie-rock in 2008. This movie is going to be the summation of everything we’ve learned, loved and loathed about the music world.
Filmed in the same way the music is recorded (seat-of-the-pants, taking chances, performance above perfection) we feel we’ll get the visual equivalent of the music that is being produced at studios like this all over the world.

One Method, Two Mediums
In the past we have seen a division between indie-rock and indie-film. We want to merge the two because we feel the two are of equal importance as art forms. Why is it so hard to translate our love for the same moral truths from one medium to another? So often I see filmmaker who champion lo-fi music pioneers like Pavement and Sebadoh so easily succumb to making a film that fits in seamlessly with all the other Cineplex crap.

We have access to both worlds.

Our artistic goal is two-fold.

This will not be a consolation prize with a great sound track.
Because this is a self-financed project, we are going to have creative control over our vision and this film will come to the screen unhampered by compromises like so many Canadian films.

We think that is a step in the right direction.

Rob and Mona
Obsolete Films

Everything Louder Than Everything Else