CollyLogic: Star Wars Episode 4 and a half

Star Wars Episode 4 and a half

29th March 2005

I’d like to tell you that this film clip is taken from genuine Star Wars: A New Hope outtakes, but I’d be a big fat liar. This is what you get when two committed smokers trek for five days across the interior of Iceland with a video camera and no cigarettes.

Back in 2000, my best friend Olly and I left the comfort of our Iceland art studio, and set off on a five-day hike from Landmannalaugar to Thorsmork, crossing high snow plains, steep mountains, black deserts and fast-flowing, waist-high glacial rivers - all with a camera borrowed from the Peak Practice filmset.

The result was They Were There. Most of it was filmed in a very ad-hoc fashion, as the following clip might confirm. It’s amazing what you can do with two water bottles, a stupid hat and a walking stick. And all because Olly said it looked “...a bit like Tatooine”.

The 25 minute final edit was even shown in Screen 2 at Broadway Cinema - which was embarrassing and fun at the same time. Be sure to watch out for the laughing Tuscan Raider. Oh, and if you want more of this, tell me and I’ll post more clips. Thought I’d share this as I found it on the hard drive today and got all emotional.

You’ll need sound! File is 1.05 MB and will not autoplay.

Footnote: They Were There was finally edited into something coherent by Agenzia’s Simon Rudkin, and featured an amazing soundtrack from Nottingham’s Earth The Californian Love Dream.

Simon Collison published this on 29/03/05, at 7:02 PM

Comments

oh my, more please!

29/03 at 19:29 from Jon Hicks

Laugh? I nearly shat. More!

29/03 at 20:43 from Richard Rutter

It’s like Blair Witch in the snow and with water bottles. More please.

29/03 at 21:21 from Kitta

Genius. The other 24 minutes please!

30/03 at 08:51 from Mark

And I thought I was nerdy…

Keeeeeeen!

Now I’m sad that I don’t spend more time at the Broadway, ‘cause I would’ve loved to see it.

30/03 at 08:58 from Kate

More, more, more! I particularly like the Mark Hamill method-acting. You must have spent weeks trying to be a crap actor to emulate him so well.

30/03 at 10:14 from James

Makes me wish I had speakers on my computer at work.

30/03 at 14:04 from Scott

Kitta: Now that’s a quote for the DVD cover!

The rest of you: I’d be delighted to put more clips up, or even the whole film - just testing out our bandwidth with this 1MB clip first.

Anyone know of a central resource where I could upload a 60MB clip that wouldn’t kill my bandwidth? I don’t mean Bit Torrents or anything like that.

30/03 at 14:10 from Simon Collison

why not use ourmedia? i don’t know nearly enough about it, but it seems to be good for this kind of thing.

30/03 at 16:18 from niv

Niv: Good tip. I’ve just registered with Ourmedia, the new free hosting and bandwidth storage facility thing.

Be aware that the homepage crashes Safari! Use another browser to get past it.

OK. I set up an account and downloaded some upload software. Seems really good, but there is apparently a massive delay before uploads are available - some users are saying it’s taking a good few days!

Anywa, I’ve uploaded four more clips, so if all of this works, I’ll post them later this week.

30/03 at 18:05 from Simon Collison

LOL!... lost for words… which is unusual. Nutters!

30/03 at 20:53 from John Oxton

Fucking brilliant. Fame at last eh?
I’d almost forgotten how funny that was.

01/04 at 17:27 from stiv kiywith (Uzbekistan stylin)

OMG.! I saw the link for this on Kitta’s blog and this clip is hilarious! Just shows what two starwars geeks can do when they put their mind to somthing!

07/04 at 13:48 from Youkie

Very funny. Look forward to seeing more…

08/04 at 15:27 from Paul

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