Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Cheddar Connection
I threw up two old Cheddar Connection trailers onto my Confused Director youtube account. The second I finished high school I wanted to make a movie. A big movie. I had a concept for a movie: A cheesy-addicted junky hallucinates a giant cheesie who convinces him to perform evil deeds. I contacted Max Goodis to co-write it with me, and after many nights of writing sessions downtown Burlington (including getting kicked out of a parking garage) we had a movie.
Making The Cheddar Connection was wicked. We got a good chunk of BCHS theater students and alumni (Tom Hart, Myke Dukich, Simon Livingstone, Martha Sachs, Danny Difiore, Kirsten Hess and Roy) to act and help us out. These guys were of extremely high caliber. Maybe it was the school, maybe it was Helen, but everybody was so professional and dedicated to the project that it most likely wouldn't have been able to come together if I wasn't working with them.
Over the next 8 months in college, I worked on cutting The Cheddar Conenction whenever I had the time. When classes ended I spent a good two weeks working full-time at the shool on The Cheddar Connection. Finalizing the edit, doing the sound mix (which sounds atrocious now) and assembling a very in depth DVD, took so long that I was still in Oakville when my lease ran out and I ended up sleeping on a couch at my friend's place for a couple days.
In Burlington, there were a surprising number of people waiting to see the film. I knew nearly half of the staff at a nearby Block Buster, so I would go in every day, asking a different friend who worked there, if they could spare me some empty cases, and after about a week or so I had thirty or thirty five.
I just got bored of writing. Watch the damn videos.
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3 comments:
Very cheesy, John
How long is the final film?
If possible, it'd be cool to chop it up and put it up in small segments or individual scenes on THEOFFLINE or YouTube
John, you failed to mention (probably because your tired of typing) the huge amount of fan fare it got in college; mainly by Trendkill Studios.
I'm surprised they didn't erect a statute in your honour... they certainly erected other things... ick, I just typed that.
The Cheddar Connection will never be on the offline. Although I have a romantic image of it and love it with all of my heart, it suffers from far too many flaws. I maaaaaay put it on youtube... some time... When I'm really bored.
It was 30 minutes long.
As for it's fanbase... About 5-1o times a year somebody comes up to me and says "Hey! I just showed the Cheddar Connection to a friends of mine and they LOVED IT!". W00t. I'm a real auteur, yo. Nick Flook was also a big supporter. Apparently it also had a small following at the Vancouver Film School.
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