This week's POW is brought to you by aspiring filmmaker Vu Nguyen and his Bluelight Pictures crew in Sachse, Texas. This suspenseful short horror story entitled 'Going Home' is about Sam Bakers and an incident he encountered on his way home from work one night. As he sets out on a journey to get some answers, he finds he gets more than he bargained for.
Along with this captivating story, Vu's project also includes extensive breakdown of the script, and an impressive storyboard to help previsualize and plan the production. Also of interest is the crew catalog which provides profiles of the talented team doing all the hard work, plus the inclusion of a link to the 'Going Home' blog which diarizes the details of the film's production process.
Recently Vu was kind enough to take the time to tell us a bit more about himself, and what inspired the idea for creating 'Going Home'...
About myself: I am an aspiring filmmaker located in Dallas, Texas. As many others, I have a day job but it can't stop me from doing what I love the most! My motto is very simple, "Doing it is the only way of learning it."... so I've been trying to do all I can and learn it a long the way... I've been making short films on and off and Going.Home is gonna be my 4th short films. My goal is to get myself making films full time!
About Going.Home: The idea of going home inspired from various sources, including movies that I have seen, as well as old stories that I was told in my childhood. I started the project by just writting down ideas and slowly developed it into a story. Then many many re-reading sessions... I just kept on re-reading it and put it away for a while when I ran into an idea roadblock... then came back to it and re-read some more...
About Celtx: This is also a first project I use Celtx for. All projects before I mainly use an old version of Final Draft and while it's a great software for scripting... I found Celtx is much more in advance and helps me a lot in the preproduction process. I ran into Celtx as I was wandering in the hv20.com forums. Someone posted a link there and I thought let me give it a try and thank god that I did. Celtx by far is the best scripting and preproduction software for me ;-)
Thanks again. It's a real honor to be selected!
BlueLight Pictures is operated and maintained by a local group of filmmakers with a passion for the movie industry. All of its workers are committed in developing the best products as possible. If you would like to be part of the aspiring team behind BlueLight Pictures, feel free to contact them here.
All the best, Guys!
Sheila and The C-Team
I bet they make it real big soon. I looked at their site and caught some bloopers of Going Home. I'd like to catch a clip, but they look like they have it together and are capable of some good film.
Posted by: Jessica Brylan | December 09, 2008 at 07:52 AM