How-To Plan Movie Party Games
- May 23, 2008
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Hostess, Adventurer Extraordinaire, Producer
Madeline Merced
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Director, Charades Performer, Sound Editor, Editor
Eric Wyeth
- The Nefarious Brian Brian Castenada
- Thug 1, Party Guest 1 Tatiana Castenada
- Thug 2 Brad Foster
- Party Guest 2 Doug Miller
- 3-D Special Effects and Digital Matte Paintings Kevin Wyeth
http://www.howtogirl.com Movie night doesn’t have to be dull and predictable anymore! In this episode, Madeline shares her favorite games that will transform your next movie night into a MOVIE PARTY — after she kicks some bad-guy butt first!
You Will Need
- 2 Movies - DVDs, VHS, or your preferred format
- Party Guests - At least 3
- Pencils and paper - enough for your guests or number of teams (optional)
- imagination and creativity
For each of our four “How-To Host a Movie Party” episodes, we shot a skit to represent a different movie genre or a specific film parody that best represented the theme of the given show.
Not a real iPod with Video. The video effect was painstakingly hand rotoscoped into the video. The episode being shown on the iPod is our “Make-Up for Proms and Formals.”
The 3-D Effects and digital matte paintings were created by the director’s brother, who lives three hours away and only saw video stills and storyboards to help him compose his shots.
All the interior “temple” scenes were videotaped in a two car garage in front of a green bed sheet.
All scoring and sound F/X was for this video was done in Apple’s GarageBand.
We felt that an “Action Movie” genre would best represent the theme of an active movie party with planned activities. The “Tomb Raider” parody also played into the comcept of puzzle solving games, such as scavenger hunts, and trivia games.
Madeline’s sword is actually an antique ceremonial sword from an old fraternal organization called “The Knights of Pythia.” The sword is over 130 years old.
In one take, Madeline actually kicked her brother, Brian in his “junk.” She said it was an accident.
Check with your local game store, or online for DVD Game sets. They usually involve trivia on such topics as movies, TV shows, music, and pop culture.
Step 1: Play Movie Charades
Play movie charades by either letting your guests pick their own movies and scenes to act out, or come up with a list of movies and/or scenes for your guests to draw from a hat or bowl. You should play in rounds, with each round getting more difficult. If you have a small number of guests, play as individuals; if a large number, divide into teams.
Step 2: Heckle a Bad Movie
Rent the worst movie you can find (or stand), and encourage your guests to insult the video. Talking back to the screen, sarcastic comments about the movie, the acting, or effects are all encouraged. Scoring points is optional. If you choose to, the comments that get the biggest reactions should be awarded the highest points.
The movie scenes shown on the TV in this episode are from an actual short film called “Icarus” that was created and directed by Eric Wyeth, and starred Madeline Merced. In this scene, we’re heckling the worst line in the movie!
Step 3: Guess the Movie Quote
This game may inspire some heated debate, so it’s best played among good friends — and a laptop connected to the Internet Movie Database to settle arguments. Scoring is based on whether or not the quote is guessed. Can be played as individuals or teams.
Step 4: Movie Scavenger Hunt, Step 1
Watch the movie before the party and make a list of objects, props, or locations to look for; lines said; actors in cameo roles, etc. and write down for your own reference when these things appear on screen (so if someone asks for verification, you can go back and show them).
Step 5: Movie Scavenger Hunt, Step 2
Pass out a separate list of the Scavenger Hunt items that do NOT include the time (or DVD Chapter) references that you made for yourself; and so you can participate too, ask one of your friends to also watch the movie beforehand and make their own scavenger hunt list for you to use. It should have the same number of items.
Step 6: Movie Scavenger Hunt, Step 3
Play as individuals or teams. The person or team with the most items wins. Prizes could include a movie pass or free video rental, or an inexpensive party favor.
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Comments (9)
how do u make your scene in the temple it was cool. and the tomb raider costume was hot. how do u use the green sheet to be in a different place.??? what software do i need to make a video like this?
over 3 years ago by e3_007
The green bed sheet provides a color that isn't normally in the scene (ie -- the costume isn't green, skin tone isn't green, props aren't green, and lighting isn't green). Then, using a program that can remove the green color channel (remember, video and computers use the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color space), and can also layer the video (like layer pictures in PhotoShop, you can easily create the appearance of being in front of a different background, or a whole other room. Its the same concept that puts a weather map behind your local weatherman on TV. We use Final Cut Pro on the Mac, but any high end video editor like Adobe Premier and Sony Vegas (do they still make that?) can all do it to some degree. Your best bet is to use a high end digital painting (Adobe After Effects) or compositing program (Apple Shake).
over 3 years ago by HowToGirl
Oh yeah, I should also point out that the exterior shots we taped outside at a park, with a hill in the background (intended to block the local neighborhood from view), and the sky was over exposed to remove any cloud features. We then used the same concept as the green bed sheet to remove the sky color (which was white), but instead selected the sky's color to ";key out"; using a color tool. We then layered a still picture of the temple underneath the park video, and layered the foreground pillars on top of the video. But you have to plan shots like this using storyboards and blocking for your actors.
over 3 years ago by HowToGirl
She's cute :)
over 3 years ago by fedmich
Soo cool!
over 3 years ago by sanjay
Great video!
over 3 years ago by HeatherMenicucci
So Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
over 3 years ago by HeatherMenicucci
bon soire
about 1 year ago by Mohamed_Hafid_Stook
tous va bien
about 1 year ago by Mohamed_Hafid_Stook
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