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BrianABernhard — A CLOWN CAROL
Published: 2008-05-17 22:31:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 6529; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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There is a murder in Clownland. Someone sinister has committed a horrible crime, but who? Just as Scroogie the Clown gets back to his shop after morning the death of his long time business partner, Marley the Clown, he must deal with a nagging nephew, a clumsy freezing assistant, a couple of bumbling charity collectors, an annoyingly noise caroler group, and a marvelously mysterious doorway specter. Attempt to figure out, "Who done it?" in this shockingly funny clown-noir, "A CLOWN CAROL - The Marley Murder Mystery."Way back at the end of November 2007, I was invited by the good people at Inky Thumbs Productions and the Gene Frankel theater to be a part of a new off Broadway show based on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". The concept of the show was that the story was broken up into 8 parts and 8 different artists would create their part independently from one another, then all the parts would come together and form the complete tale. This film is my contribution to this show. I shot the film in one day on Dec. 2nd 2007 and completed the film for the premiere screening on Dec. 20th 2007. I decided I liked this little film enough to begin working on the script for a full length version of "A CLOWN CAROL." If you or anyone you know would be interested in funding, helping to fund, or distribute this film, please contact me ASAP, [link] .
Thank you,
Blight Productions
Cast:
(In Order of appearance)
Michael Freeland - Marley the Clown
Barry Mitchell - Scroogie the Clown
Brian A. Bernhard - Old Hag in the Window
Jerrod Bogard - Crachie the Clown
Elias - Bobo the Clown
Sam Dingman - Charity Clown Collector 1
Garrit Hall - Charity Clown Collector 2
Julian Hintz (Julz-A) - Clown Caroler
Anne Kugler - Clown Caroler
Chvad S.B. - Clown Caroler
Rainbow Blight - Clown Caroler
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Comments: 74
lol, only a little bit. ZBut how much damage could you really cause with a cheep plastic wiffle ball bat?
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oh you'd be supprised *evil laugh*
my sister wound up in the hospitial from one
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I liked this film, the characters from the story were recognizable but with the clown touch!
Great costuming and special effects.
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Ha cool, my friend Rainbow Blight from the band Hate in the Box did the makeup, and I spent about $1500 bucks on clown costume shit for the movie. Good thing is I am still working on a series of other clown movies so all the costumes are reusable.
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hehe, well it's good that you bought and didn't hire, it helps for the continuity of the movies. Can't wait! Are you doing this professionally?
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Well, professionally I created and produced a television series about artists, called "ART or something like it" and I also produce and edit all kinds of other stuff too, but the clown movies are my own projects. If they make me money that would be cool, but if not, I enjoy making them.
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Nice, seems you've got some great things going on. I'd love to be a professional artist of some kind, some day
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You are a professional artist when you don't give up and quit.
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hehehe, that's said easily enough. I find it difficult to juggle my job and the desire to become better at drawing and painting. Often there's just not enough time to do any of it properly. Though I agree, if someones mind is set, he should be able to do what he want. Have you always wanted to become a musician and artist?
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Being an artist is more about doing, then saying. Just keep doing and you can't fail. Hell, I still never sleep, up till 3AM most nights working on my art, then I go to the day job at around 9AM. Even though I have a day job, that pays for my ridicules rent in Brooklyn, NY, I still consider my art as my full time job and my day job as my second job. I have always wanted to do something creative, it just took me until I got to college to figure out what that was. Before that, growing up in the swamp, with no such thing as the internet and no cable tv, I had no exposure to other artists and artwork. Its just something I had to figure out on my own.
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True true, it also has to be something that comes to you one way or another. hehe, guess I should be focusing more on my art, and less on every day banalities.
You're a wise clown
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Why, thank you. Your art does come from an inspired place, I can tell thru your images.
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yeah, I like to think it does, it probably has something to do with reading literally thousands of books I have more stories mixed up in my mind than Sheherazade had. 
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I can't wait to see those stories come to life on the page and beyond.
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I'm working on it! by the way, the sisters seem to have found a peculiar box
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I SAW IT!!! It looks awesome!!!
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hehehe great, the noise that carolers made, scrooge wasn't the only one bothered by it. My bf asked me to turn down the volume because he couldn't stand the kakophonics, great sound effects
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Ha ha ha, thanks. We recorded that lovely composition live in my apartment. I think my neighbors must love me.
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Why thank you, you are sweet.
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So far I like it, I love the surrealistic feel to the whole.
Great special effects. Love the use of props like the giant ear to give it a cartoony edge. Some acts are a bit slow like the entrance of the good willing clown who passes the cribe a coin. when he is in scooges office I see a frontal full body shot of him gesturing and after this he continues to do that but then filmed from behind. I would have choosen either one of those shoths but not both of them
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Cool, thanks for the feed back. In the script, there is more information being conveyed, but I suppose the performance did not read properly. The full length script I am working on is entirely in verse. And it will be told, with the help of a narrator. I think a feature length movie with only gibberish would be too taxing for the audience.
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hehe, well there are people who pull it off
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Well, even Mr. Bean has other characters that speak that help drive the story in his full length movies. There will still be a few clowns in the feature that only speak gibberish, but over the last year I have made some really great connections in the clown world, and I plan on having some of those top notch Cirque players in the cast to pull it off properly. My next film, the one I am currently editing, features a famous real clown that toured with Cirque for 15 years and now tours with Slava's Snowshow on Broadway. It is a clown love story between a boy clown and a girl clown and they are both played by the same performer. It is a short, and it is in all gibberish, but the performance is amazing, its just that post productions is taking forever because I am being anal with this one and it takes place in central park, so all the backgrounds are way more complex than the clown carol.
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sounds like and amazing project and like you know your stuff!
How come you made so much connections with people from the 'clowning' industry?
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Well, I began doing the clown character in my band, then the band took a little break while we worked on a new album. During the break I wanted to work on my character for the live performance of the band, as well as research clowning for my movies. I started going to a clown class, where i met a bunch or really interesting clowns that practice the classic form of "Play" type clowning. After taking this class for several months I was inspired to take my research of my clown even deeper by creating a comic strip where I could explore Blight the Clown in various different ways. After about a year of the comic strip, the band started doing live shows again, but this time I was fully engaged as Blight the Clown, and it has been amazingly well received at the live shows. It takes about an hour of warm up to get the general vampire goth industrial music crowd to get over their fear of clowns, but once I break out the Blight Balloons, NO ONE can resist the Blight!
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awesome! I think it's great you put that amount of research in the character. hehehe, now you did pick a scene to introduce it to
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Blight basically goes to what ever venue we can get to book the band.
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he's such and easy going fella
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Ahhh its him he killed Marley oooh if only someone had a lion.
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Ha ha ha, just don't get caught out in the cold too long, and you should be okay.
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How do you get your Avatar/ profile picture to be 50 x 50 pixels and no larger than 15kb....It's impossible I have been trying for like 3 hours now.
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It looks like you have one now, if you still need help, please send me a note through my page and not a comment on my movie. Thanks. I would just rather the threads on my movie be about the movie.
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hey really good stuff man
it entretained me and my puppy
though i awnted to see some justice for the murder :/
jaja
greetings from mexico !
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Thanks, This is just the first part of the story. I am still working on the feature length version. Justice will be served! ......Eventually.
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oh!!!
snaps!
will be back then
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woow this is great!
by the use of the bleu/green screen you made it look like a own world they live in.
very cool!
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Thank you very much. That was pretty much the goal. I am very interested in creating my own worlds for my characters to exist in. I have another clown movie on the way. Stay tuned.
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This is interesting, I hope you get to complete the full version of it. It's odd how it can be dark and colorful at the same time. Nice work so far!
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Thank you berry much! I hope to get the full version complete some day as well. But first you will be treated to a few more clown shorts, while I continue to work on the script.
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i cant watch it whole from my home.. arg
i havent got any disk space so i cant watch many videos >_< ill keep on trying though!
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mmm, go to your neighbors and borrow their computer. You can to it!
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haha ill try watch it from my work again tomorrow and just put my headphones were the speakers were supposed to be, that should work
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hehe ok then ill comment tomorrow then
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