IOW: POINT taken on Internet
Let’s face it. From a certain point of view, we’re late by a full week in getting this entry posted to C-U Blogfidential. From another point of view – that of your humble editor’s – it’s better late than never that we provide some visuals to accompany last week’s discussion of Premonition Pictures’ A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW in this fifth go-round of Images of the Week! We start with the video below which is not the trailer we posted before but proof positive that creators Derek Klein and Marc Morin, Jr., are willing to gain fans by giving to the fans, particularly the ones attracted to their previous ONE FINE DAY! series. As you can surmise by visiting their YouTube and Daily Motion accounts (and, to a lesser extent, the new “Excerpts” playlist on C-U Confidential Revue) POV has been made available in its entirety so if the mystery intrigues you – and, to be honest without giving anything away, we’re not entirely convinced that only one killer is at work here – a trip away from CUBlog may be in order to watch the remainder:
Creative backtracking tells the interlocking POV stories of several individuals living in “Chambana County” (which technically does not exist) who wind up dead and buried in Hartley Gardens (which does exist as the Miles C. Hartley Selections Gardens in the University of Illinois’ south campus arboretum, although “on the scene” news footage seems to have been filmed elsewhere) by the hand of an apparent serial killer. Morin and Klein dramatize everything immediate that leads up to the crimes without depicting the deeds themselves, which affect no-budget porn film scribe Ben Falls (Prashanth Venkataramanujam), his bartender roommate Clark (Connor Chambers), mutual friend and possible love interest Wendy (Betsy Trevarthen), local Internet celebrity Lynda Bloom (Elisha Reichert), her vet professor fiancé Tony (Lance Barke), and Web producer Heidi (Jessica DiLiberto). Fellow OFD! regulars Brittney Refakes and Leilani Marsh appear in supporting roles while newcomer Brittany Simons plays a reporter and Kyle Follansbee takes over as Drunk David from the series’ Joseph M. Gardner. Unless, of course, there’s room for more than one Drunk David in Chambana County … but we digress.
On the final day of shooting during Spring Break 2009, CUBlog tagged along with Klein, Chambers, Trevarthen, and Venkataramanujam while they recorded Main Quad scenes which take place early in the story’s chronology. Below, the director stages a sequence that will bring Ben and Wendy together for the first time thanks to the ill-timed swing of a book bag. As Connors waits patiently with the boom and microphone, Klein describes how Trevarthen will run up the sidewalk as Venkataramanujam acts distracted by an intense phone conversation…
… and then resets the scene after the unfortunate hit, where Venkataramanujam will help Trevarthen back up to her feet …
… and finally segue to over-the-shoulder shots of the ensuing banter between the actors …
… which would be followed by costume switches as well as a change of scenery as the foursome relocated to the northeast corner of the Main Quad to shoot more exposition as Clark and Wendy learn that Ben has sold his first porn script …
… after which they decide to celebrate. Wouldn’t you?
~ Jason Pankoke
All CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW photos by JaPan