8/15/2007 4:43 PM
posted awhile ago
The film is now uploaded to MySpace TV as well.
This means that you can now watch our entire film on our MySpace profile. Which is kinda trippy cause of the influence that myspace has had over the film it's self. At slamdance in january of 2005 the first public screening of an early cut of our film actually had "meetster.net" as the site where susan and I met. In reality it was nerve.com on susan's side and Time Out New York on my side. But we wanted to do something about all the people online trying to meet other people and having very specific things they are looking for so we had a 3 minute montage of something like 25 different people talking about what they are looking for in a relationship. And this was supposed to be the "online people" looking for love. Also we wanted an internet component to the film and thought maybe meetster.net would be a site we could build and have all of these online video clips from singles. But after showing the film that way for a few months we decided that montage didn't completely work and snipped it out. Also we decided that the story of making the film was better online video compenent to the film then these fake singles. Then in the summer of 2005 we started to get pumped about MySpace and were talking about it alot with Paul from spout.com when we were at the Waterfront film festival as well as Joe Swanberg when we were hanging out at the Chicago underground film festival. This was the time when you realized all at once that everyone you know was getting a myspace profile. So we decided around that time to actually shrink the people talking to the lens down so they were in boxes just like you see when you have myspace search results. And now, everyone sees our intro to the film and thinks, "MySpace" even though the word "MySpace" never appears in the film. Also we kept in the scene towards the end that we refer to as the "distressed singles" scene and decided to shrink those down ass well. Not sure what the meaning of that scene is anymore, it used to be sort of the "character" of all of the online daters having their character arc but now there is just the tiny bit of them at the start and then that scene. But some how with out that scene there the flow just wasn't right and In my abstract mind it's almost kinda saying, "well it's not working out, maybe the girl is crazy, or broken, but what are you going to do, go back to myspace and find other crazy and broken people?" But I don't expect people to actually have that dialog as they watch, it's just sort of what I think when I see it. So anyway, long story short, it seemed appropriate that the film be put on MySpace. You can watch it on our films profile here: http://myspace.com/foureyedmonsters The intro is different, it actually shows us getting the first spout check and cutting up 3 credit cards. So keep spreading the word to get people to join spout.com/foureyedmonsters Who knows, maybe spout.com will reach some kind of critical mass at some point that seems like everyone is on here discussing and discovering films. That would be a bright day for indie film, thats for sure.
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