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Couldn’t help but throw these up. The amazing Sam Bragg made these for our film festival movie.

You alive blog? Sorry I neglected you so long. Wish I could say I would continue to update, lets just see how it goes

I entered the 72 hour film festival once again this year, and loved every bit of it. The team we gathered together is really great and was nice to finally force myself to make a film. It always makes me so happy, yet sad that a year goes by and I do so little of it. Well things are changing!

First off, we won Best Film in the festival! This was shocking to say the least, because of some of the other amazing applicants. But I won’t complain Check out the video below…

Calming Heads from michael bartley on Vimeo.

And yes, that is Ken Poore in there(show off).

More info to come about upcoming projects…

Sorry I have been gone for awhile, thought I would give a short update!

As some of you may know, I am doing video work at my job now! It has been a lot of fun and a lot of work. Its finally starting to really get off the ground and are starting to actually get paid to do more and more!

The bummer part is that many of them I won’t ever be able to show as they are internal Microsoft videos. But trust me they are looking good

In the midst of all the serious videos, the spark of creativity has come back up and I have begun writing again. Several scripts are looking good, and I am hoping to begin taping them in the none to distant future.

Talk to you soon!

Well the film festival was a ton of fun and there were some really good films that were made. Although, to my surprise, several not so good ones as well. Here is the info once again:

This was made during the Grand Cinema’s fourth 72 hour Film Competition in Tacoma, Washington.

A film by Jeff Alldridge

Featuring
Ken Kreps
Michael Bartley
Nick McCord
David Kennedy

Portrait of a YouTube Star: Behind the Scenes of “The Forgotten Heist” (20 Minute Extended Director’s Cut Version)

Heres the short film we created for the Tacoma 72 Hour Film Festival. We had 72 hours to come up with a film. We decided to do a documentary about the creation of another film called, “The Forgotten Heist” (which was also an entry in the festival) and located here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPpFP…

Festival Requirements:
-Must be 5 minutes in length
-Must include the line, “I feel like I’ve been here before”
-Must have at least one scene shot at a museum
-Must have a fortune cookie in a scene
-One scene must incorporate bubbles in some way

Directed by: David Kennedy and Michael Bartley
Edited by: David Kennedy and Michael bartley

Starring:
-Nick McCord as Alfonso Guiterrez Bernard Smith Benson Xing
-Michael Bartley as Michael Bartley
-David Kennedy as Solomon Kennedth
-Jeff Alldridge as Jeff Alldridge
-Ken Kreps as Ken Kreps
-Layne Bukey as Girl in Club
-Patrick Bartley as crew member #1
-Keith Bartley as crew member #2

Film shot in 36 hours (May 2nd, May 3rd) on location in Tacoma, Washington.

And of course if you would like to see it in HD Glory check out this link instead:http://www.vimeo.com/997484

Well I went and checked this movie out tonight and overall really enjoyed it. It was another in the vein of Superbad, Knocked Up, etc. These types are always surefire to crack me up.

One thing I really liked about this one specifically was how honest it was. And that goes in many ways, honest that the jokes were over the top most of the time, but seemed to really embrace that not seem to forced.

Yet at the same time, I really loved the honesty of some of the characters(mainly the leading guy), and how tangeible he seemed around the wonky humor and situations.

One crazy thing though was the amount of male privates in the film. And I even scoff a bit as I write this, but in the first scene alone, you get like 3-4 shots. By the end of the film, I was seriously wondering what the heck was going on with the filmmakers, as it was pretty unnecessary and not blatently made as a joke. I mean don’t get me wrong, it was on some level a joke, but not really played clearly as one, if that makes sense.

What makes you wonder even more is when you see that the main character wrote the film.

so…..

The guy that is running around naked….wrote the film? lol

I mean, he wasn’t just signed up for this, or pressured into it. I mean HE wrote himself into the situation! Who knows…

Well it was fun and made me crack up a ton, you should check it out!

Hello again, as a little side project, and because I enjoy these videos so much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l2POYziCn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwa88fZOHh8

I was inspired to try one out, so the last few nights I put one together with a band that I love! Hope you like it

I called and they had a single spot left, so I found myself driving down to Tacoma in rush hour to snatch the spot.

Since I am just acting in Jeff’s film, and have several other friends who are very interested in being part of the competition I decided I would go ahead and join.

So thats 2 movies in 72 hours

We thought it might be fun to connect the films somehow…

more to come!

Hello out there! Check out my newest video:

Hope you like it!

Well I have started development on a new video project. It is going very well right now and because I have a hard final date for the showing of the video it is helping push things along. Isn’t that funny that you can have things in your life that you would like to do but find less and less time to spend on it. Yet once there is a deadline in place, you have a blast finishing it.

In this case, I am showing the video at a large work function. Needless to say I wish I could give myself the same type of personal deadlines and goals sometimes.

The second, and more interesting part is that I have a expanded team of people working on this, who several weeks after we complete this (April 18th show date) will be entering the film competition I wrote about before.

We will be shooting most of this weekend and I really hope it comes out alright.

Thats right kids, the 72-Hour film festival is finally approaching and I am excited to say the least!

Basically the premise is that 30 teams of move makers sign up ahead of time and show up to the Grand Cinema Theater on May 1st.

Teams can be no larger than 8 people and you must create everything for your film within the time frame.

On the day of the event you pick several key factors of the video from a hat:
1. Genre of the film!
2. A prop that must be included
3. A line that must be included.

Then once you have those you run screaming out of the theater, only to return within 72 hours to submit your film. They are then judged and brought down to a small set which are then shown to a packed crowd who votes.

Needless to say, I am excited. Here is the current crew:

1. Michael (me, duh)
2. Jeff Aldridge
3. Keith Bartley (For making the soundtrack)
4. David Kennedy
5. And a few select others as we fill out the group.

Wish me luck and I will post more as it gets closer.