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Winner: "Death Horse" by
Austin Butler
Mr. Butler
won the Audience Choice Award of $300
 "Death
Horse was made up in my bedroom probably two to three years
ago by Patrick (who plays Bruce Braff) and I. it was pretty
late at night and we were bored of playing video games. We had
a little spiral memo notepad and we said, "Hey, let's make up
a movie." We came up with the title, some silly names, and a
bit of the "plot," if you could call it that. We pretty much
forgot about it after that. Then, in Spring 2007 at Palomar
College I took a video production class. The final project in
the class was a ten-minute short film. Everyone had to pitch
their idea to the class and then we would all vote for our
favorites. Four projects would be picked and we would be
assigned groups. I hadn't come up with anything by the time we
had to pitch an idea, so I used Death Horse thinking it
wouldn't be picked but I wouldn't fail the assignment, either.
Well, it got picked. I had only one week to write the script.
I wrote it one night in a couple of hours.
Death Horse is inspired by horror movies and is, in a way, a
movie about horror movies. Before I wrote the script I watched
a few horror movie trailers to get some ideas and get in the
mood. I always laugh at the choices characters make in horror
movies ("Hey look! A dark, empty old house on a stormy night!
Let's spend the night! Uh oh! There's an Indian Burial Ground
underneath us!") and how stupid they are, so that's what I was
going for. Mostly, though, it was just for fun and for
experience." |
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