This is my all-time favorite of the movies I made in High School. Not only does it have most of my friends from High School starring in it, it is also the biggest in scope, broadest in comedy, best shot and edited (still, not great), and has two...
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March 1, 2010 Joseph DeGolyer
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You may be sensing a pattern here. For a long time the only orchestral soundtrack I had was Jurassic Park, and naturally that music ended up in most of these High School Home Movies. This short also marks the beginning of some obsessions of mine. Black and White...
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February 1, 2010 Joseph DeGolyer
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I’m trying to start this blog cataloging all my various creative endeavors in somewhat of a chronological order, and sometimes I come across projects I completely forgot about. I’ve made music videos before, but for the sake of not embarrassing my dear friend Doug Jenkins too much, I...
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January 1, 2010 Joseph DeGolyer
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If you have the stomach for it, here’s a terrible-yet-well-loved High School Home Movie of mine where I was trying to apply the three act structure I’d learned about in English class to another movie my friends and I were making up and filming as we went along…
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March 1, 2009 Joseph DeGolyer
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Behold our collection of marvelous actors starring in the most daring, most epic, High School Home Movie since the debut of “Once you go fat, you never go back”. There have been a total of 4 projects from my high-school days that stick with me as the absolute...
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February 1, 2009 Joseph DeGolyer
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Alas, Tie-Man. After my friends and I created this short, we had actual intentions of making a full-length movie (or at least a longer short), using these characters. In fact, I wrote a script for it, and my friend Andrew wrote two sequels! We can talk about that...
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May 25, 2008 Joseph DeGolyer
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I don’t remember what movie I was watching, but there was a flying skull in it. Thanks to the decorations left over during Halloween, I had a skull. Thanks to a couple of motorcycles that had to be strapped down in my father’s truck, I had a bungee...
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April 1, 2008 Joseph DeGolyer
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When I was a kid (elementary school era), the most marvelous Lego set of all time was released to children with rich parents. This Lego set was called “Lego Studios”, and it was beautiful. It had two sky-scrapers, an awesome back-drop, a dinosaur, a film crew, and the...
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March 1, 2008 Joseph DeGolyer
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This is a non-short. One day my friends and I were hanging out. I brought my parent’s digital camera over and our plan was to shoot a movie. As it was, until much, much later my movies were always made up on the spot. And on this particular...
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February 1, 2008 Joseph DeGolyer
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Welcome to my ninth-grade introduction to the “video” mode of my parent’s consumer-grade digital camera. Ever since I was ten years old, when I saw the behind-the-scenes featurette for Jurassic Park on the special edition VHS, I wanted to become Steven Spielberg. I wanted to make movies. My...
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January 1, 2008 Joseph DeGolyer
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