2001: Razorburn

Date of Creation: 2001

Synopsis: A local drug cartel finds a new method of transportation for delivering their product. However, they quickly find that law enforcement has been quick to adopt that method as well.

A Brief History: This was a project for a video 2 class in college, and it was probably the first actual video project I did for my college career. Actually, scratch that. It was my second.

I started off spending the week before shooting a video. I can't even remember what the concept was. I very distinctly remember getting to the Thursday or Friday before it was due the following Monday, being in the edit room...and absolutely hating what I'd done. Like, embarrassingly bad.

Instead of trying to fix it, I just threw everything out the window, came up with another idea, and shot it and edited it as quickly as possible over the weekend. Luckily friends Mike Brasher and Todd Lewis were keen enough to help, and I happened to have a cop uniform on hand just laying around.

Critical Analysis: There are a billion cringeworthy stereotypes and film school character tropes in this, but all that aside I'm still pretty happy with how it cuts, considering it was like 11 year ago. It's kind of a Guy Ritchie meets Paul Greengrass ripoff, but it got me a reputation in Video 2 class that I knew what I was doing. So I had THAT going for me. Plus, there's even "400 Blows" tribute in there!

I do have to say, that's quite a lot of coke for about $80.00 though.