Everything Louder Than Everything Else

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Magic finds a way

I know I said I cancelled todays shoot but I'm happy to be called a liar. Dan Moxon's band small fame played at the sweatshop tonight and we managed to film it as well as get in a great scene with Keith and Randall.

And I thought the weekend was gonna be a bust.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

This man

Anyone mad enough to attach a g n r pin to his face deserves to be in ELTEE.

Welcome Chris Harris, the latest edition to the cast of Everything Louder Than Everything Else.

Cancelled this weekend

Due to people not wanting to be a part of the magic we cancelled our shoot this weekend.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Took the weekend off

I just started a new full-time job and Mona is feeling sick so we decided it was OK to take this weekend off. We'll be back at it next weekend though. I'm hoping we'll be filming two scenes with just as many bands.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

TranceLucent Tendencies

We had our first electronic duo come and lay down a crazy track today. There was champagne and random lyrics a-plenty. The mixing session (sometime in December) should be just as fun. Paul and Bianca were great and I can't wait to work with them again.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

randall

anytime randall (played by steve) is on set, everyone knows to expect random hilarity.

steve is so committed to the part he wears a different awesome sweater for each shoot.

steve is comic genius.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Footage piling up

We've now got a ton of footage to wade through. I image We're about a 1/4 of the way done on this film. We just have to see where these scenes take us and then go from there. I feel we are building something yet I don't know the final outcome. Using your camera as a pen is scary but ultimately a very rewarding endeavor.

Also, this was Jono's last day of shooting. He's going to Korea to teach kids. We'll miss him.

Next day of shooting is the 15th.

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