Warhorse Filmmaker

JOIN US FOR THE WARHORSE FILM FESTIVAL! JUNE 14TH @7:00PM

JOIN US FOR THE FIRST EVER WARHORSE FILM FESTIVAL
TICKETS ARE $5 IN ADVANCE // $8 AT THE DOOR

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The Warhorse Filmmakers are part of a one-time film class at Owen High School working to learn leadership and empowerment through filmmaking. Using outside the box tactics like ropes courses and uniformed crew drills students were taught to be accountable for their actions, work together and use film to be a part of their community.

On June 14th the Warhorse Filmmakers will be screening their short films from throughout the semester (ranging from narrative films about issues in their lives to documentaries about school events and even a special video they made for their moms). Already covered by WLOS, Citizen Times and a new marketing campaign from Google, the Warhorses are excited to share their hard work and success.

As part of the class, students worked alongside their teacher, New York filmmaker Andrew Wonder (http://andrewwonder.com/) to make a feature film. “KING” is a modern retelling of the classic “Of Mice and Men” set in Owen High School and dealing with issues that affect the community of Black Mountain, including keeping homeless students in school. This is a special rough cut screening where the community will be able to give feedback before the the film is submitted to film festivals.

The film was shot over two weeks (including a 2 day blitz where the students shot 30 pages a day) and features actors and crew members from Owen, other Buncombe County Schools, and all over the community.

Hosted by the Asheville Fine Arts Theatre, the program will be in two parts starting at 7pm. Part 1 will feature the Warhorse shorts followed by a Q&A with the students. After a short intermission, Part 2 features a rough cut of “KING” followed by a feedback session with the filmmakers and actors.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the students accomplishments this semester. If you’d like to learn more about the program please check out our class website: http://warhorsefilmmaker.com/

Tickets will be $5.00 in advance and $8.00 at the door. There will also be a donation bucket at the screening to help us raise the $500 we need to finish buying the students equipment to allow the program to continue next year.

Pre-sale tickets can be purchased by contacting us at warhorsefilmmaker@gmail.com

For more information visit http://warhorsefilmmaker.com/

Daddy Daughter Dance

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Prom, some of the best memories of my life.

Prom: A time for dirty dancing, suits as hot as hell fire, glitter, high testosterone/estrogen, high heals and parties.
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First of, props to my little brother Connor. He took most of these pictures you will see through out this blog. His week prior was spent learning how to use the camera and he did an excellent job.
Anyhow, the first thing I did after getting home from school was get dressed into my tux. Quinn and I both had to pose for pictures with our mom and we couldn’t help but mess around. It was a lot of fun aside from suits on a humid 80 degree day is like being roasted on a fire.

After taking some pictures with the family I went off to pick up my gorgeous prom date in my car. Reason why I’m showing you my car is cause I spent 3 hours or so cleaning and polishing it. My freaking dog got inside it and made it muddy >:O.

Cute couple right?
The whole taking pictures with my prom dates parents there was a little awkward. Mainly cause I had to get pictures very quickly and they weren’t saying much. Over all I was just awestruck on how good my date looked. Oh and those boutonnieres are evil! No one can put them on easily.

Ah dinner was so good. We ate so much pizza, and I gotta say it was one of the best pizza’s I’ve ever had.
Thank you to my waitress for being so patient with us being so loud and goofy. A big thanks for the directions there! You saved my butt and also my friends.

Ok, props to Jeff. He got the only kiss that was exchanged at prom.

Alright so leme sum up prom haha. Basically it was just grinding for a long long time. Which was funny for me cause I don’t grind at all. I’m a slow dance kinda guy but when my date wanted to dance it surly wasn’t slow dancing. Afterwards they announced the prom king and queen which I was really glad my friend Elly won queen cause she’s such a sweet girl :)
After the whole king and queen thing I left with kelsey to go see a movie with my friend Derek and his date. Sadly the movies were closed so we chose to finish off the night with fancy McDonalds.

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Regional FFA Rally

The regional FFA rally at Haywood Community Collage which was quite interesting. It was very informational getting to see all the many types of tools there are how many different types of plants there are which are both very interesting topics

Getting to meet many different people that are so talented in agricultural things. I liked being there to see all the many different things that are there that people can compete in.

Those people are so talented and being able to see them so there talents was so cool and being able to film it was so awesome.

getting to show my talent why other people got to show theres  was quite fun. those people was so talented they knew so much things that though never existed

Blitz Day One

Today was so awesome I got to get out of class tohelp with the movie and act in a big fight scene which was so much fun. But the waiting for when to shoot the scene was so long we had to wait for three hours to shoot the fight scene it was long but fun.

 I liked getting to be able to just hang out with the other actors and get to know more about what kind of different acting things they do and   learn more about them as a person.

This was the first ever time I‘ve ever acted in a real movie I thought I did pretty well on it and also it was kind a last minute thing for me. Also I’ve never been in a fight before which kind a made me more eager to do it.

 The most I got out of today was that no matter how much times you think you’ve messed up keep on doing it. Because for my first time ever acting in a real movie I did pretty badly. Things such as getting out of character which made Andrew so mad at me because I was supposed to be in character until a certain part and I messed up one time on that.

So just getting to know what I’m supposed to do will help me out in the long run when I ever act in a movie again. But it all comes down to having fun and while having fun making a movie.

After school today day i wanted to go to bed because i had to get up at 5:30 in the morning to help shoot the movie but couldn’t because i had other things to do that stoped me from going to bed which completly sucked.

today was fun but also a learning experience for me. I learned many diffrent things that andrew tought me, like stay in charecter no matter if you think that the camera is not around stay in charecter until the director says cut

Personal Update!

I’ve been doing a whole lot lately.

It’s been hard to juggle all of the film-class work with my other classes. But, I have straight A’s right now, which is always good. I really don’t want anything to do with Algebra 2.

Life is pretty good. I’m excited to start my own short movie. Hopefully I’ll be able to start that this week. I’m really excited, I’m proud of the movie idea that I have.

On Friday I had the opportunity to participate in Owen High’s Relay for Life. Relay for Life is an annual fundraiser with the purpose of raising money to find a cure for cancer. It was a lot of fun. It started at 6:00 P.M. and ended at 6:00 A.M. It was also very cold. I did a whole lot of walking.

(Please Note, that is not a real baby. That’s one of those robo-imposter babies that they make you take care of in Family Consumer Science, class.)

I was really happy to be a part of it, my Mum had Breast Cancer and Melanoma. All my work at the event was pretty much out of dedication to her. She’s the toughest lady I know.

(Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.)

I’m really excited for summer, I can’t believe there’s only one month left in school. I’m not looking forward to taking my finals at all. Oh well.

As excited as I am for summer, I’m really going to miss this class. It’s gone by so fast! But…we aren’t done working yet.

Personal Update!

I’ve been doing a whole lot lately.

It’s been hard to juggle all of the film-class work with my other classes. But, I have straight A’s right now, which is always good. I really don’t want anything to do with Algebra 2.

Life is pretty good. I’m excited to start my own short movie. Hopefully I’ll be able to start that this week. I’m really excited, I’m proud of the movie idea that I have.

On Friday I had the opportunity to participate in Owen High’s Relay for Life. Relay for Life is an annual fundraiser with the purpose of raising money to find a cure for cancer. It was a lot of fun. It started at 6:00 P.M. and ended at 6:00 A.M. It was also very cold. I did a whole lot of walking.

(Please Note, that is not a real baby. That’s one of those robo-imposter babies that they make you take care of in Family Consumer Science, class.)

I was really happy to be a part of it, my Mum had Breast Cancer and Melanoma. All my work at the event was pretty much out of dedication to her. She’s the toughest lady I know.

(Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.)

I’m really excited for summer, I can’t believe there’s only one month left in school. I’m not looking forward to taking my finals at all. Oh well.

As excited as I am for summer, I’m really going to miss this class. It’s gone by so fast! But…we aren’t done working yet.

The New Kid, day 1

Today we started filming on my (Max’s) movie, temporarily titled “the new kid,” completely on our own without the help of Andrew or Jeff.

We started off early in the morning, and the team didn’t really know how to work together. We encountered a lot of problems, and ended up having to re shoot the first scene. But after school everything really came together, and we got through a whole scene. Everyone is settling into their roles quite nicely, but we still have a lot to go.

Also, directing is weird.

It’s like nothing else I’ve experienced before, and it’s nice. I don’t need to answer to anyone really, and I am in command. On the other hand, I’m bombarded with so many questions, ideas, and requests for instruction. If the Assistant Director doesn’t do his or her job, I am overwhelmed and it gets very frustrating.

But I’ll get used to it eventually, I guess.

My Film

So this week has just mainly been focused on getting my movie ready for class. I had it mind for months, here it is..

(this is a very ruff scetch of what I have planned out so be nice)

Opening Scene

A white sink bole with blood drops falling onto it, boy shown above with a razor and bloody cut marks. He looks depressed, disturbed and tired. He runs the water over his cuts and when he looks back down a black text appears on his arm that says “cutter”. He scratches at it and then pulls his hoodie sleeve over it and heads off to school.

1. XCU on the sink
2. SCU on cuts
3. POV on his cuts
4. CU on David
5. MS Leaving
^—(Just shots I plan on using in my film)

David walks through the halls to his class alone, the word “alone” appears on his palm right before he enters the gym.

1. WS David walking down
2. MS Walking down

David is lifting weights with his hoody to cover his arm, obviously over heating. He is benching and can bench much and the kid next to him(preferably the same size or smaller lifts a considerable amount more than him). He gets up to go was off.

1. WS on him benching
2. MS with him struggling
3. MS on the kid benching more than him
4. WS of him going away

In the locker room he takes his hoody off and he sees “WEAK” written across his chest. He slams his hands down on the sink and goes to the locker punching it cutting his knuckle.
David hears a kid laugh and he turns and the kid shoves him into the locker. David swings at him and the kid punches him the head yelling “fag”. David fall unconscious.

1. WS of him entering
2. MS of him taking his shirt off and seeing his marks.
3. MS of him getting changed
4. CU of him hitting the locker.
5. CU of him punching the locker then him hitting the locker.
6. WS of him swinging and getting knocked out.

David wakes up with the lunch bell ringing, he heads to lunch.
1. XCU of bruised eye opening
2. MS struggling getting up
3. WS shot of him leaving

David goes to lunch and sees no one to sit with, so he sits by him self. “Outcast” appears across his forehead.

1. WS of him eating
2. CU of the mark

At math he gets his test back with an F, the word failure appears on his cheek. He flips his test over and sees the girl next to him laughing at him(she has an “A”). He glares at her and she looks laughs saying “what are you looking at retard”. David just puts his head down seeing “retard” was written on his hand and feeling a bottle of pills in his pocket.

1. WS of the class
2. CU on the F paper being placed down and him flipping over
3. OTS of him asking what are you looking at
4. MS Her calling him retard
5. CU of him putting his head down
6. XCU of him feeling the pills/razor

In the back a girl sees him with similar marks on him.

1. WD

After school David is feeling his black eye and touching his wrist. He yells fuck this to him self and pulls out his pill bottle and takes a hand full.
At that moment the girl who looked at him earlier and walks around the corner and sees him and walks to him. She sits down.

1. WD of him touching his wrist and black eye.
2. CU of him touching his wrist and eye
3. MS of him yelling fuck this
4. WS of girl coming around the corner.
5. MS of her sitting down

David ignores her presence but glances at the marks on her.

1. Two shot of him ignoring her
2. CU of her marks

The girl takes her hand and covers his hand, he moved his hand back trying to cover up the pills. She takes her other hand covering his cheek and the mark that says “fag” on his cheek.
He smiles for the first time when he looks up at her and she takes his hand off his cheek and “fag” is gone.

1. Two shot of them sitting
2. XCU of him moving his hand back
3. Two shot of her putting her hand on his cheek
4. CU of her hand moving away
5. CU of him smiling

A car pulls up and she goes to it. he looks down at his hand with the pills and drops them slowly. He gets up and walks away.

1. Two shot of them
2. WD of a car pulling up and her getting up
3. WS of him dropping the pills
4. XCU of the pills dropping
5. MS of him getting up
6. WS of him leaving

At home a white sink has 3 red drops fall. It pans up and its from tooth paste. David is brushing his teeth and combing his hair with a smile. He looks and “failure” is gone.

1. XCU of the drops
2. CU of him brushing his teeth
3. XCU of his failure mark gone.

So yeah thats basically it. Thats a taste of what I came up with. I think Ill end up filming this with in 2 weeks or so.

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Preparing Our Shorts!

And by preparing our shorts, I want to make clear that I’m talking about a movie-short.

Today we did a lot of organizing, and readying for Max’s short.

Today, I worked mostly on cleaning up our sound booth. We operate in the sound booth every day, and it’s grown pretty messy over the course of time that we’ve been working. Most of the other class spent time with Max scheduling for his anticipated Cult Movie! I think I’m acting in it, we’re working that out.

I’ve been super busy lately, especially with the amount of gigs we’ve been doing for the class.

FFA Regional Meet.

Sweeney Todd musical.

Etc.

I’ve also been put in charge of editing the FFA meet, footage. Dang it.

Editing takes forever.

And it’s super monotonous.

But I’m on it. No worries.