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The Stunt People Know Videogames – “Home Quest”
Far back toward the left end of the Stunt People timeline is a movie called Home Quest. Being fans of the adventure game – the kind of game where you click every pixel on the screen out of fear you’ll forget an important item like a stick which you need to throw in the river…
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I punched someone’s beard off
Brad Wagner (sound man for Rise And Fail) grows his beard really long every year and then makes a Youtube video of him shaving it off. Here’s another one. This year he had me punch and kick his beard into oblivion. Then I wore it. I’ll post the video when it’s up.
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Overhead Shots
Overhead shots are used sparingly during story sequences, usually as POV or establishing shots, but they’re all over the place in fight scenes. They’re used for effect rather than complimenting a narrative, sometimes just because the second unit was excited that they could get the camera up that high. You can argue that an overhead…
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Bangkok Adrenaline
I watched this after it was shoved in my face as an “example” of good action by its distributor. The movie is pretty bad, the cinematography is your typical Thai multi-cam, shaky, contrasty, but the stunts are good. My friend Charlie is in it, and I was rooting for him even though he was just…
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The Market
Apparently distributors want action thrillers. Horrors are everywhere, so they’re not the guaranteed money-getters they once were. Documentaries and comedies don’t do well internationally, and China is HUGE, so Asian actors are a plus. The globalization of the film market has drastically shifted the genre balance. One problem: if you’re making an action film with…
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When Not In LA
While at the American Film Market (if you’re a filmmaker and you have a few hundred dollars sitting around not allocated for food or bills, use it to go there), we randomly walked into an office and noticed that they were distributing Dogs of Chinatown, a film I starred in back in 2007. For all…
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I made a bwog
I’m Eric Jacobus and I write/direct/edit and act in/choreograph action films. I’ll write about all the steps I take while making action films, in no particular order, and try to say something funny at times to break the awkwardness. So enjoy the blog and add it to Google Reader or whatever you use.