RANDOM EYES
"I've Been Mocked Enough"
and, "The Teenage Bingo Brigade"
Watch I've Been Mocked Enough online!
(18 megs)
or watch it here
RANDOM EYES
"I've Been Mocked Enough"
and, "The Teenage Bingo Brigade"
Watch I've Been Mocked Enough online!
(18 megs)
or watch it here
Digital8 video, 7 min., 2002.
"I've Been Mocked Enough"
starring
Colin Brown as Tex Reeves
Volcano Todd as the Man With No Name
Nighttrain as ten thousand fire-breathing dragons
Daniel Arbuckle, Art Balteria, Steve Martin, Harry Pottash, and John McCulloch as Tex's gang
Paul Zirkle, Garrett Gilchrist, Michelle Brochman and Mariana McConnell as the innocent people of Yukonville
Narrated by Garrett Gilchrist
"Blue Sea Eagle" cgi created by Jason Porath
written by Jonason Ho
directed by Garrett Gilchrist
Watch I've Been Mocked Enough online!
(18 megs)
or watch it here
Volcano Todd's Nightrain bio page
Read the script!
"The Teenage Bingo Brigade"
Written by Garrett Gilchrist
Directed by Warren Blyth
With Garrett Gilchrist as "Vivian"
Read the script!
Photographs on this page by Mariana McConnell and Garrett Gilchrist.
Bravado Entertainment, based in Oregon, managed to create 60 episodes of a series, "Delusions of Grandeur," for college station KBVR-tv. Garrett met Bravado frontman Alan Winston at the Camp Rewind festival in 2001, and though shy Alan didn't say a word to anyone for the first half of the week, Garrett was eventually won over by Alan's good nature, good movies (like The End part 2), and Star Wars references. Garrett enlisted Alan (and girlfriend Erin Arbogast) to appear in his Camp Rewind movie, "Ghost Busted," spoofing their roles as lovers in Jason Santo's "Transients," which was also shot at Camp Rewind (and featured Garrett) and premiered only a few minutes before their scene was shot.
From these auspicious beginnings, it was only a matter of time before some Orange Cow stuff began to seep in at Bravado. Alan ran many of Garrett's movies, including Excaliburger, The Phantom Movie and Ghostbusted, on KBVR-tv. It was only a matter of time before Garrett took part in one of Bravado's "Gauntlet" projects.
The "Gauntlet" projects, spearheaded mainly by Bravado friend Warren Blyth, who runs his own company, Funeral Home Entertainment, are collaborative video projects in which various friends of Bravado write their own short scripts based on certain guidelines, and then usually the scripts are given to other people to direct. Garrett was a fan of the most recent Gauntlet, "Gauntlet 216," which resulted in an interestingly David Lynch-like movie when all the parts were put together.
The first Gauntlet Garrett was involved in was actually the "Rewind Gauntlet," in which various amateur moviemakers at rewindvideo.com were asked to create short advertisements for their production companies. Garrett created three shorts, "Jar Jar," "Catchphrase," and "Urban Spaceman," for that Gauntlet. ("Catchphrase" featured Mariana McConnell.) You can watch these online via the links above. They were edited with the help of Damien LeVeck of Incendiary Productions (Volcano Todd's roommate at the time - Cano would star in "Mocked Enough").
Garrett himself asked to direct a script written by Bravo friend Jonason Ho, entitled "I've Been Mocked Enough," a strange tale of a western-style battle between superpowered men. He picked "Beautiful Zelda" alums Volcano Todd and Colin Brown to play the lead roles, and lots of other faces recognizable from Garrett's student films made small appearances (including "Mort's" Daniel Arbuckle, going above and beyond the call of duty). Volcano Todd's pet dinosaur, Nighttrain, also stars in the movie. The silly, basically silent short contains impressive special effects, including the "Blue Sea Eagle" designed by SCFX president (USC's official special effects society) and special effects master Jason Porath. True to Gauntlet form, little effort was put into shooting the film. It was a fun, very small, shoot, shot handheld and fast on two separate days. (Because I needed to go back and get more actors in it than Colin and Cano.) I wanted to shoot it in one day, Gauntlet style ... in the end that's pretty close to what happened.
After "I've Been Mocked Enough" was completed, Warren Blyth himself was in the neighborhood, and dropped by Garrett and Mariana's apartment in L.A. Warren and Garrett finally got to meet, and Warren informed Garrett that his shoot of Garrett's script "The Teenage Bingo Brigade" hadn't quite gotten off the ground yet. Warren had had trouble finding someone to play Vivian, the narrator-ish part Garrett had himself not-so-secretly wanted to play. So, while Warren was around, Garrett convinced him to shoot some footage with Garrett playing Vivian. Although not all of Vivian's part was shot -- a "children's story" interlude in which Vivian was supposed to be swearing uncontrollably required other actors, and was not shot - it would be shot with other actors. But Garrett did get to narrate his own script for "Bingo Brigade," rolling around on the grass on the USC campus as the sun went down, with very bad sound ...
