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How to Make a Movie
By: Carter Phillips
Great prestige is given to cinema. Frequently considered the hardest profession to get into, multimillion dollar industries have you in they’re scheme. They want you to climb a collapsed ladder and spend all your money hopelessly waiting to be discovered.
Stanley Kubrick is a filmmaker. I am a filmmaker. You can be too. Wealth and class do not matter
If you want to be a filmmaker start by getting a camera and shooting. I don’t care what you shoot, just shoot something. It is my recommendation that you begin with documentary, as not to worry about working with (most likely non-professional) actors and the mind games that goes along with it.
I’ve already suggested what could make a great movie. Now I will suggest HOW to make a movie and how to do it with little to no money.
On May 11th, 2022, I publicly released my movie They Came from the Attic, to almost entirely positive feedback.
Making the movie was one of the hardest challenges of my life, the most challenging being my current project The Lost Memories of Slumber but I am not discouraged.
I am proud, not because I think that the movie is great, but because it is significantly better than what I and everyone else was expecting.
Me and my friends made a nearly feature length movie at the age of 15 and 16.
I am not completely apposed to film school, but I’ve seen a lot of student films and thought, “It didn’t do them any good.”
This is to explain that it’s hard to teach art, because its rules are invented within you.
Don’t seek approval from other people for you will never be satisfied. Take criticism but don’t let it discourage you. Let it help you get better.
I’ll mention practical mistakes that can be avoided as well as general advice I want to give.
The type of camera you use doesn’t have to be expensive, as long as it is not getting in the way of your camerawork. If the quality is low, then have the films tone become a good fit for it.
Black and white is a good place to start. It looks nice, feels dreamy, and is easier to shoot well.
It took me until my fourth film project to begin working with full color. If you do make films in color, I’d suggest that you make an emphasis on them. Make them look pleasing, not dull. If it feels right, use gels over your lights.
It is a myth that you need massive and expensive lighting equipment to make good cinematography. A great cinematographer can paint a shot with bare necessities. If you have no lights to use, shoot near a window just be weary of continuity.
I’ve shot many scenes without having to use more than a lamp, two flashlights, ceiling lights and a strong but small LED light.
I’d recommend using a trick by Akira Kurosawa which was invented in his production: Rashomon. A mirror can amplify and reposition light.
Repositioning your light source is where the fun begins. Changing the angles of where your light(s) are coming from can make a more pleasing image, but more importantly, can change the tone of the shot.
Keep in mind that setting up lighting cannot take hours per shot. I take about an hour to shoot each scene, two occasionally for location shooting. Pillow, effect shots and most inserts can be shot afterwards.
Depending on the mood you want, no artificial lighting is needed for exteriors.
Shooting at night outside is difficult for a beginner, I’d suggest shooting day for night or shooting in the evening because to shoot something, you need a light source.
If you do a day for night shot, make sure shadows aren’t distracting.
Do as little effects in post as possible but remember to color grade your film. I color grade each shot, sometimes each take individually to ensure that it looks as good as possible.
It is a myth that you need a budget to make a good movie. You need very little to make a good film.
Write scripts that don’t require money. Make a movie about the world your given before you make one about a world you’ve created.
If you can’t afford a tripod then balance your camera on books, chairs and stools. One shot in They Came from the Attic used a tripod.
Under almost all circumstances, you need nice microphones.
Rely on yourself. If you ask your friends if they want to be in your movie they will probably say yes. If you want, they’re help, they will abandon you. In middle school I could never get passed pre-production because none of my friends were reliable.
Just before writing this article, I had to talk to a crew member because he was unable to shoot one second unit shot for the movie. He had been procrastinating for weeks and finally told me that he didn’t have time to get it done and that he misunderstood what I wanted.
Regardless of if he was lying, I made sure he knew I was disappointed, but I didn’t get mad, even though I wanted to. Loosing your temper is a reckless way to direct. I now know what jobs I can give him that I can expect him to achieve. I if got mad, he would have viewed me as an angry boss, not a friend.
In moviemaking, it is my belief that a director should see all cast and crew as equal. He should take all of their good ideas and all of his good ideas and filter them together into one vision.
That does not mean he should rely on them. Pouting about not getting all the help you want is childish. A new director should be happy to get any help. His early films are most likely trash anyways, just as my current films often leave me unsatisfied.
If you watch a rough cut of your film and hate it, then learn from your mistakes. Ask people what you did wrong. You don’t need advice from critics, you can also get it from regular people, for it is them who you are making it for.
It is a lie that you are making a film for yourself. Everybody wants recognition. You are making a film for the world, to be eternal through you.
Don’t try to please everybody. We are too diverse a people for that. Pick a demographic and start shooting. If the film has a heart, you are in the right direction.
There will never be enough words to teach filmmaking. You can always learn more. There is always a new level of greatness a film can ascend to.
Two Rappers’ Rise and One’s fall
By Logan Jacobs
Chance The Rapper was a name that used to rule the world of Hip Hop, after the release of Coloring Book, Acid Rap, and 10 Day Chance felt like an artist that could never fail.
Six years later Redveil is making a name for himself long after Chance’s era.
Chance The Rapper or Chancelor Bennett started his early career with his first mixtape, 10 Day when he was only 18 years old.
10 years later Redveil or Marcus Morton released his third album Learn 2 Swim at 18 years old.
Both young artists soon found success through their breakout hit, but will Redveil make the same mistakes Chance did or will he continue his success?
Chance in 2011 got caught on campus with marijuana and was suspended for 10 days, inspiring his mixtape 10 Day. Eight months after that incident Chance would release his first mixtape.
Chance was an artist whose fame blew up and with that came people’s expectations. During the 2012 tour Chance would be working on his new mixtape, Acid Rap.
This new work would delve into Chance and his relationship with drugs and smoking. Chance would meet the expectations put on him and even surpass them, Acid Rap really showed Chance’s talent for making music.
With his talent Chance would continue to rise in the Hip Hop scene.
Chance’s last mixtape would come out to critical acclaim and became the first project ever to chart solely because of streams.
In May of 2016 after almost three years of radio silence about his next project Chance would release Coloring Book.
Once again It felt like Chance had surpassed his previous work and with it Chance took his spot on top of the music world. Over the next three years Chance would tour two times all while working on The Big Day.
Despite how much time he put in, his first studio album would not turn out the way fans or Chance wanted. At nowhere near the quality of his past works, fans were left wondering what could have led to such a failure.
About a year after The Big Day was released, the public would find out the reasons behind the subpar album. During the recording sessions Chance reportedly had “Procrastination and lackadaisical effort.”
Chance’s future is now full of uncertainty, with no clue on when or if he will release another mixtape or album.
Redveil was just 12 when he got into making music, but it wouldn’t be until 16 that he would release his first album, Bittersweet City.
His first album wouldn’t give him immediate success but instead lay the groundwork for his future projects. Just under a year later Marcus would drop his second album Niagara, Marcus’ breakout hit would not come until about a year and a half later.
Learn 2 Swim would come out to almost instant success because of the lead single, pg baby.
After blowing up the expectations on Marcus increased ten-fold. For right now we have no clue if Marcus will keep up the trend of improving with every work, or if he will stumble like Chance.
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Games Delve Into Halloween Horror
By Logan Jacobs
As the month of October is in full swing and Halloween is fast approaching, gamers may be looking for new or different scares. However, fear often takes a back seat in this style of play and tension takes over. And that tension is delivered in different and sometimes unusual ways. Multiplayer, Psychological, and Traditional are a nice triad of horror.
Multiplayer Horror: Phasmophobia is a fun 1 to 4 player ghost-hunting game in which players find pieces of evidence to determine what type of ghost is pursuing them.
As the ghost initiates what is called a “hunt” all players who are in the house at the time get locked in with the ghost until the conflict is resolved.
Players have tools to assist them such as the walkie talkie. During the hunt the walkie talkie also shuts off so players’ voices can only be heard by those nearby.
Death is always a risk. The ghost’s primary purposee is to track down players and kill them with a touch.
However, there ways to avoid these disturbing deaths. Different items like smudge sticks or a crucifix can ward off ghosts, buying the players more time.
Players can buy these items using a shop system offering many different items such as a head-mounted camera so teammates can see a first-person perspective from the van or candles that maintain player sanity in dark rooms.
However not all items can be bought in the shop like cursed possessions. These cursed possessions range from a ghost summoning circle to tarot cards that may save players from death.
Overall, this game is an engaging first-person paranormal investigation with mortal consequences yet a fun team-based action.
Phycological Horror: Yume Nikki is a true cult classic. Released in 2004, Yume Nikki explores dreams and nightmares.
While this game is far more psychological than horror, there are still horrific elements which have inspired other great horror games such as Omori, and the Lisa franchise.
As young shut-in Madotsuki, players go around dreams, collecting effects, doing events, and diving deeper into said dreams. Effects are the closest things you get to a progress system in Yume Nikki. Not all effects are useful, but some are extremely useful such as the bike making you go faster or the lamp lighting up dark worlds.
Although the effects can be described as a “progress system” gathering all 24 effects should not be the goal when playing Yume Nikki. Looking at Yume Nikki through that lens may lead to overlooking impacting events and areas such as going to Mars or meeting Uboa. These events and areas make up such a huge part of Yume Nikki and can be witnessed only after doing very specific steps that would have been missed by just chasing after effects.
Traditional Horror: Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion, has the player exploring a haunted mansion. In the mansion players will find different specimen, these specimens all have unique abilities each having their own way of trying to kill the player.
Unique abilities can range from having a puddle of goo to slow the player down, to forcing the player to constantly look at the specimen as they venture through the different rooms of the mansion.
After venturing through the mansion’s 1000 rooms players will face off against a final boss and depending on their score will either get a good or bad ending. Players will also face a sad truth of the mansion that had been hinted at all throughout the game.
Even after beating the story mode Spooky’s continues, by beating the paid hd version players will unlock an endless mode and two new dlcs.
Karamari Hospital and Dollhouse are both vastly different from the past formula of Spooky’s, instead of mixing in random specimen encounters and scripted encounters the two dlcs choose to go down the route of just having scripted encounters. This style of just having scripted encounters makes the story shine, letting the player explore a large dark abandoned hospital, discovering the past secrets left behind by GL Labs.
In Spooky’s Dollhouse the player explores a large mansion with many dark secrets left behind, eventually coming to a climax the player sees Spooky’s final moments. The endless mode opts to ditch the lore aspects and instead just focuses on scaring the player, the player can be chased by any monster across both dlcs and the main game, even adding more specimen exclusive to endless mode.
Phasmophobia, Yume Nikki, and Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion are three games I will never forget playing and games that I would recommend to anyone who’s looking for a good scare this Halloween.
Hallyu: The K-pop “Korean Wave” Crashes Through the States
By Ashleigh Varing
“Until the spring day comes again, until the flowers bloom again, please stay, please stay there a little longer.” If you recognize this, you know where I’m coming from: K-pop. Specifically, BTS.
Within the last few years, K-pop has surged in popularity in the states. But why? What makes it so appealing to such a specific niche of our country? There are a few different answers to this question.
K-pop is made up of many different genres. Although pop is prolific within the industry, many other types of music are present. Ballads, rap, hip-hop, rock, and almost any other genre you could think of can be found, meaning it can be enjoyed by just about anyone.
Their choreographies are just as versatile as the music. Several dance trends have stemmed from K-pop songs, which range from ‘Super Tuna’ by Jin to ‘Pink Venom’ by BLACKPINK. Most dances that go viral are much simpler than choreography you might find in an average song, though; many are fairly complex, such as ‘IDOL’ by BTS.
Additionally, music videos within K-pop are high-budget, with striking visuals and overarching stories that draw the viewer in. A good example of this would be BTS’ HYYH (Hwa Yang Yeon Hwa) concept, which has been ongoing since 2015.
Plus, most K-pop stars train for years in order to debut, working on a multitude of talents necessary to become an idol. For example, BTS’ Jungkook trained for roughly 2 years, despite already being quite experienced.
K-pop idols also create genuine bonds with their fans. They write special songs, livestream regularly, film variety shows, and communicate with fans on social media platforms. Most groups are genuinely appreciative of their support.
Book Recommendations For October
By Dairell Alvarico
October has just arrived; you know what that means, right? Soon you are going to notice the spooky and scary skeletons chilling on your neighbor’s yard, or see costumes get sold out at your local Target, only to later be worn by children asking for candy on your doorstep. It is not every day you catch sight of these things, so how about joining in on the fun? This month is the time where everyone around you will dress their worst to be the best.
Unless you are not much of an outdoor person. But even that cannot stop you from doing something exciting for your Halloween night. To each their own, and you my friend, are just getting started.
So how about getting cozy on your couch, bed, or whatever you can rest yourself on, and grab a book fitting for the eerie, sinister, spine-chilling time of the year?
Are you ready to read a simple yet interesting story about a kid being forced to go to a haunted boarding school? How about the aesthetics of academia in a historic location like Salisbury, England, but add paranormal activities? This book has both.
Jon Whitcroft is just a generic kid with stepfather issues, which led him to be sent to a boarding school in Salisbury, England to improve his “behavior,” but fate has not been so kind to him, and his school year could not be any more opposite of ordinary when he suddenly sees ghosts.
This story is enough to give you the jitters, but not the creeps. It does make you feel the suspense of what the characters will do next and sometimes the paranoia of what is at the end of the hallway, yet it contains lighthearted moments that will give you a break from all that action.
The book has the concept of a simple ghost story, but it is creative and distinct way of turning the plot into something unique is what makes it interesting.
The descriptions of what a character feels are not the usual generic narrations of their inner thoughts, and you can see the struggles and loneliness of John Whitcroft, who did not have time to process the sudden change in his life.
This book is perfect for a casual story by the fireplace on a chilly night in October.
—Emily Burnham, The Bangor Daily News
Sherlock Holmes, but with a twist. This story was written by horror icon Stephen King. It has mature aspects to it and delves deeper into the process of catching an indescribable crime case and the struggles of finding the perpetrator, supernatural or not.
Ralph Anderson is a detective in Flint City and has not experienced any serious crime until the day the murder of a little boy has shaken the neighborhood.
After tedious interviews with witnesses and gathering of evidence, it all pointed fingers to Terry Maitland, a man who coached Ralph’s own son in baseball. But with further digging, the authentication of proof started to get foggy, and Ralph is starting to doubt they got the right guy, so he goes on a personal detective spree to find answers for himself.
This book had me on my nerves for the right reasons. The frustration of Ralph is so suffocating, you can feel it from time to time. The character’s actions become questionable, and you would have to think if what they are doing is right or not.
The Outsider is a story where you do not want your favorite character to walk anywhere with a stranger, much more alone. Compelling and spine chilling, it will make you check your window at night.
This novel can potentially keep you on your toes due to the odd way everything transpires in the heart of the crime. The stories do not match, a simple clue can make the whole investigation go for an unexpected turn, even the consequences of one’s actions can ruin a person’s life. That is why you should tread carefully, for not everything is what it seems to be when you dive deep into the story.
Peter Pan may not be the inspiring and vibrant childhood influence you perceive he is. Sometimes there is genuine curiosity when it comes to the perspectives of villains in a fairy tale.
Lots of narratives are bent and smoothened into a biased outcome in favor of the “hero.” There are always two parts to a story, and Christina Henry did a splendid job of creating lore for the infamous Captain Hook.
Before everything went to the dumps, the pirate captain was known as James who was just another Lost Boy that Peter took an interest in, but the latter considered and acknowledged James more than the other boys for reasons that he did not specifically reveal.
It was known that he was the first one to be swept away by Peter to Neverland, and that he became second in command for their group, but Peter was good at hiding his deepest, darkest secrets.
James was starting to think that his own misfortunes and trauma are tied to it, but he knew that it was impossible for confrontation, since Peter has not a drop of patience for it.
The idea of putting a group of young boys, still on the stage of growth and development to fend for themselves in an unknown island is a recipe for disaster, but with the carefree yet twisted mind of Peter Pan, he made everything a fun little playground for him.
Lost Boy is the type of story that takes you back to the nostalgic tale of Peter Pan. The only difference is that you start to doubt that any of his actions are with good faith.
Like Lightening in a Bottle
By Carter M. Phillips
“You’re funny. You don’t talk like a kid. You sound like a man who’s run out of his days, who understands everything,” Spoke Odile into a portrait of existence.
Right now, this script is just a blank canvas, waiting to be caught between light and movement.
A voice will call out, the aperture will shrink and white will evaporate into a rainbow spectrum of shades.
I typed rapidly but with thought.
That was Odile, an intelligent girl who’s stuck between tragedies, and however hard she tries, is unable to prevent the next.
Odile doesn’t exist. I made her up.
She’s just a concept. But through cinema, her illusion will become complete.
As I write this screenplay, I constantly wonder what the right step is. No matter how much technique and experience is applied, a film is nothing without its audience.
I constantly wonder what makes a good movie.
Having seen many of the great acclaimed movies from new Hollywood, classic Hollywood, and international cinema, I should understand what makes a great film, but that’s not the case. Capturing true greatness is elusive like lightning in a bottle.
“Find a role that nobody wants to do and do it better than anybody else,” The great silent actor Lon Chaney had said to William Henry Pratt; stage name: Boris Karloff.
He was talking about acting, but it’s advice that works for any field of art.
Greatness lies in innovation and individuality.
All of the great directors I have mentioned have distinctive styles.
Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento have similar styles; however, they are different.
Citizen Kane is a film that was on a different spectrum than any other being made in 1941 because it didn’t adhere to the rules of the game.
That movie also has a heart.
Its emotional complexity changes each time you enter a new stage of life, making it fresh in an everlasting way.
“We believe lie more than truth,” Romero says as I type his dialogue, fooling myself into thinking I’m an intellectual.
It really doesn’t matter though; the words serve no meaning.
They flavor a film but what matters is the visuals. A story should be told by them.
The point of cinema is that you see it, so although sound design is important, it should not overshadow what appears on the screen.
Greatness lies in the world of a film, which would bind life with wisdom and feeling.
In the way that Bob Dylan spells out a human soul with structured rhymes and that John Steinbeck wrote little American stories with thought on print, a great filmmaker must learn to do with visuals.
“There’s a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you,” Martin Scorsese said that.
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then cinema must be worth a million,” I said that.
From Back to the Future to Blade Runner, all films about people are in some way about the human condition. It is considerably harder to make a great film with dull characters. Even in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film known for hypnotic visuals and lacking character development, Hal-1,000 is a notably interesting character which questions the conscience experience and ethics.
Very few films rely on blank characters, who’s function is not for the audience to relate to them.
The gangster film is worthwhile for understanding how to make an audience root for a character.
Take either the 1932 or 1983 versions of Scarface and consider why people root for these characters even after they do terrible things.
Firstly, they are living life on the ritz, they have what we want.
More importantly, they came from a damned world, and so violence feels justified, especially when it comes from a double-crossing bad guy or unnamed gunman.
When a gangster feels remorse, it gives us more reason to like them.
Scarface is a character with a moral code throughout most of both films which gives him humanity.
There comes a point in both films when greed overtakes Scarface and he no longer earns sympathy however, like in Vertigo, the first two Godfather films and Citizen Kane, he is still interesting and so the audience remains captivated by the film.
When writing characters, I always put a little bit of myself in them because if part of them is genuine then they will feel believable.
Drama has to do with conflict and conflict is spurred by two things: Emotion and intelligence.
A screenwriter or director shouldn’t underestimate the intelligence of the people watching they’re film.
The average person of both professions has average intelligence, and they are making the movie for somebody with average intelligence, so why then would they treat they’re audience as if they have a below average IQ?
Making characters do unrealistic decisions or having pathetic ‘movie magic’ moments that make no sense feels lazy.
Everything in a film should have a reason for being there, make sense thematically and serve the narrative.
A good way to better understand good choices from wrong is to watch more movies. Watch highly acclaimed movies (look through the Criterion Collections catalogue of films to start). Explore new areas of cinema. Be open to anything. You can learn from bad movies, so that you don’t make the same mistake as the filmmakers before you. Think, “Why didn’t I like this and why did I like this?”
Because everything is influenced by something else, if we go all the way back to the origin of story, we’d find that fiction was inspired by probability and dreams.
The state of the world, the past, the people a person knows, what somebody studies, and the books a person reads can influence a film.
Remember that everything serves the story. All things need to have a purpose for being there
How can one encapsulate a feeling that remains with oneself after experiencing a masterpiece? That is the challenge I have given myself.
To show beauty and people, your perspective, your thoughts and opinions, your hopes and dreams.
Regardless of what you make, create something your proud of, which you want to be part of.
Make it uniquely your own. That is where you will create something memorable.
Even if your movie is lost in the backroads of time and space, damned to the obscure, it will always be there, like words of a poet.
Sheyenne Students Bond through Horror
Eighth Wonder Productions is not a company whose logo will host any of this summer’s latest blockbusters.
We are not part of the film industry. We represent a band of outsiders. The presence of our logo at the start of a film stamps it as unique and memorable.
The closest upcoming project from Eighth Wonder is They Came from the Attic: The Revised Cut, which is scheduled to be released on 5/15/2021.
We hope that it will get accepted into a few film festivals but the plan is to post it at least on the Eighth Wonder YouTube Channel on release date.
They Came from the Attic is a no budget short film, created by me and my friends, here in North Dakota.
It all started in July of 2021.
I had to abandon a previous horror short film and, in loneliness, and boredom, got the idea to make a strange little movie about creatures living in the attic.
“We had thought that the house we bought was just like any other. Then the owners warned us never to keep the attic open after dusk.”
“We thought they were just joking, playing some kind of trick. We soon found out why they told us not to and strictly adhered to the rule.”
“Eventually I needed something from the attic.”
“Evening was still approaching but the sun was still high. Not that I would have known. The clouds covered everything except the ground,” I said in the opening monologue of the film.
Although it began as a lone passion project, it would not remain that way. Finished on the eve of a major surgery, the production was picked back up in December for a revised cut.
This time there would be a crew and there would be a full cast.
Ideas that were thought out but not given freedom would be exposed correctly, as to convey necessary plot and nuance.
Joining the production were Gavin and Aiden Villareal, formerly of Sheyenne before an abrupt move to Wahpeton as well as Tuker Heil and Larry Napoleon.
Midway into march, as shooting was nearing its end, we gathered at Heil’s house to do some promotional videos. These interviews were never released to the public -even edited- until now.
When asked about the short film Heil said, “I helped position some of the camera features,” later mentioning his work with the special effects and lighting.
When asked about working with his friend Larry Napoleon who appeared in the film, he added, “[We were] working great with Larry. He helped feature in one of the key scenes -death scenes.”
Meanwhile Gavin mentioned, “I found out sometime about -almost six months ago. I remember uh, the director sending me a script. I remember him sending me that and he’s like, ‘Hey, want an opportunity? Want to do this?’ I had a good time filming it. It’s definitely not something I regret doing.”
“Before I started making films, I made photographs, so I was a photographer, like an amateur one, I wasn’t professional but, I thought if I’m going to make movies, because that’s always been my goal, I should start by taking photographs and I can first perfect the craft of composition before I get moving into movement,”
Replying to a question about the inspiration of the film, I continued,
“So, I was looking at these old photos of my attic … I was looking at them and I remember I added in one and I wrote, ‘It was from the attic that they came’ … I had it so that each word was on a step of the ladder and uh, I remember … when I added that … I had this vague idea of this story.”
“It just kind of came to me. When I get movie ideas, sometimes they all come to me at once. [Or] I just get this prompt that I can go off of.”
Part of the appeal of this production is that it combines all the different annals of horror cinema, and places them into a domestic setting.
Because two of the cast and crew members live out of town, the shooting was often done on sporadic dates, weeks apart from one other.
This led to two things.
Firstly, an ungodly amount of time to re-edit, possibly reshoot and re-plan.
I’d show scenes from the film to people, usually fellow crew members, to recognize reactions.
What got laughs, or signs of boredom would be re-edited and at times reshot until perfection.
This kind of sudden shooting also leads to an uncanny avenue of cinema because I, the main character ages and matures as the film goes on.
The performance gets better with each scene.
As the world becomes unbelievable, the character only gets more grounded.
The façade of hidden emotions is breaking and by the climax, it is entirely undone.
Both the character and I, the kid behind it, are different people by the final scene.
Its true that I’d been wanting to experiment with something like this long before They Came.
Originally, I had the highly ambitious idea to shoot a film in the span of an actor’s entire lifetime, in which a character is able to see and communicate with himself at different stages of his life in a dreamlike limbo.
Although far from a movie about shapeshifters in the attic, the war between past and present as well as reality and fiction is still there.
This time death is brought into the mix. The themes of this film and other finished screenplays seem to have only gotten more relevant to the cast and crew as time goes by.
What’s next after They Came from the Attic?
Over the summer we will shoot the highly ambitious anthology horror film: The Memories Lost to Slumber, also known as Nightmares After Sunset. The estimated runtime is 40 to 60 minutes.
There is also talk of a sequel to They Came from the Attic called They Came from the Basement, and possibly even a final third film: They Came from the Countryside.
As mentioned earlier, there are plans for it to be available through Amazon Prime and YouTube.
Again, the cast and crew plan to submit it to multiple film festivals, but it will seep into the deep abyss of obscurity unless YOU watch it and share it with others.
To view videos relating to Eighth Wonder productions click on these links.
Eighth Wonder Productions Official: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZeLOEZVX4YSa-nfcMSuLQ
Scenes from They Came from the Attic
Bathroom Massacre I:
Bathroom Massacre II (EPILSPY TRIGGER): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQKRqNDVzu8
Chimes in the Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3t95AxnYOY
Other promotional material for They Came from the Attic
The trailer for They Came from the Attic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJW0y_h85k
Cast and Crew Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-DhBA2_3TI
Archival Material from Eighth Wonder Productions
Dread in the Night (a short film 1 minute and 15 seconds long, made previous to They Came from the Attic): https://youtu.be/TB5LL4WT8tk
Kendrick Lamar
By Logan Jacobs
Kendrick Lamar, one of the biggest names in music history and an amazing artist who made a name for himself by working hard and making beautiful music.
He started off at a young age releasing small mixtapes which garnered notoriety on the west coast. Under the name “KDot” he would sign to TDE or Top Dawg Entertainment, and slowly release more mixtapes and singles, even receiving a cosign from Lil Wayne.
While releasing two more mixtapes Kendrick would change his stage name to his birth name, finally going by Kendrick Lamar, he announced his first independent album under the name “Section.80”.
Section.80 would soon put Kendrick’s name even further on the map including features from artists such as GLC and SchoolBoy Q.
The album’s first single “HiiiPoWeR” released a few days after the announcement of said album. Section.80 would be released on July 2nd to high praise, with many people around the world coming to the realization that Kendrick is or will soon become the king of the west coast.
Kendrick’s first studio album “Good Kid M.A.A.D. City” was announced in March of 2012, the lead single, “Drank” releasing July 31st.
MAAD City would be an album that told a tale of Kendricks life and was very popular because of it, singing about his life in Compton. MAAD City would start a trend of greatness for Kendrick with his two following studio albums being some of the greatest of all time.
Kendrick Lamar would go on to make To Pimp a Butterfly and Untitled, Unmastered, with TPaB being seen as Kendrick’s masterpiece and one of the best albums of all time.
Untitled Unmastered would include cut songs from TPaB, having them all be untitled and unmastered. TPaB and UU would instantly become classics in Kendricks’s discography.
DAMN, Kendrick Lamar’s latest album* would shock the world with a tale of Duckworth, Kendrick’s father. This album would become one of his most popular albums with Humble, the lead single of the album reaching over one billion streams.
The end of this era of Kendrick would be with the soundtrack for Black Panther, as Kendrick would soon go into hiatus.
Kendrick Lamar would break this hiatus not with a new album but instead by working with his younger cousin, Baby Keem. Both would work on The Melodic Blue, Baby Keems first studio album even signing him to his new record label PGLang. oklama.com would on April 18th announce a new album, Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers, to come out May 13th.
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