When friend and fellow filmmaker Marco van Bergen sent me the teaser poster for his upcoming film Shadowlands, I immediately e-mailed him back something to the effect of “Marco, get some therapy dude!”
But seriously: it is a rather neat image, although rather bloody. But I like how it compels the eye to dart around it, picking out grisly detail and the film’s tagline…
Fellow filmmaker and good friend of this blog Marco van Bergen want’s y’all to know that he’s put the final scene of his new film Normalsville up for your viewing pleasure. Here ’tis!
For more of the wonderfully wacked work of Marco and his crew, visit the website of Route 64 Vintage!...
Rising filmmaker and good friend of this blog Marco van Bergen wants y’all to know that the second trailer for his upcoming movie Normalsville is online. And he surprised me a bit by officially making me a real film critic! 😛
Good friend, fellow filmmaker and renaissance man Marco van Bergen sent along this still from Normalsville, his latest project…
That looks stunning! Can you believe this is a film being made by mostly teenagers? Well, Marco and his crew are a very talented lot and I’m not ashamed to say this either: I’ve learned a lot from him that I’m eager to apply to my own productions. This is definitely a rising young name that we’ll be hearing plenty more good from in the future.
And if you wanna know more about Normalsville, click on over to the official website! 🙂...
Marco van Bergen is a filmmaker that I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog not only because he’s a really cool guy and good friend but because, well, he rocks as a filmmaker. Keep your eye on this up-and-coming director folks: he’s definitely headed for good things!
So this morning he tells me that the first teaser for his new project Normalsville is done and that I oughta take a gander at it. So I did. Like, five times in a row. It’s a right atmospheric and moody piece of work. Can’t wait to see the rest of it (even though I’ve been “in the loop” on it for awhile 🙂 Check it out!
Here is Marco van Bergen’s review of Transformers: The Score, which in some ways is considerably better than my own ‘cuz Marco gets into a lot of detailed analysis of the score as a technical achievement. Well worth checking out if you’ve a good mind (and ear) with music appreciation and terminology 🙂...
There’s just nineteen days left before the CD of Steve Jablonsky’s Transformers score comes out, which a lot of us have been looking forward to since the movie came out. Well, Marco van Bergen has discovered something about the soundtrack. Remember the unearthly chanting that’s in a lot of the music for the Decepticons, like when Frenzy is hacking the computer and during the “roll call” scene? Marco and I talked about it and comparisons to John Williams’s “Duel of the Fates” from the Star Wars Episode I soundtrack came up. The chorals in “Duel of the Fates” were a Sanskrit translation of an ancient Welsh poem called “Battle of the Trees”. So might Jablonsky have done something similar with the Decepticons music?
Well, Marco did some asking-around in the right places and here’s what he found out:
...I was wondering for a longer time now what the great
Something I’ve been saying for awhile: the next revolution in film-making won’t be in Hollywood. It’ll be coming from out of the hinterlands. There is something really wonderful happening across the world, my friends: a new breed of filmmaker, and I’m seeing them as young as 12 all the way up to their 50s and 60s. People armed with the new technology of cheap digital filmmaking who are doing incredible things around their hometowns and down in their basements… which are more often than not rigged-up with makeshift greenscreens. Regular people, no longer content to watch the magic on the big screen, are now telling themselves “I could do that, I can do that. Maybe I will do that!”
Marco van Bergen is one of those people. A mid-teen filmmaker in the Netherlands, van Bergen just finished his new movie Zero Hour. This past week I was honored to ...
It’s been a week now since the last update regarding the drive to see an album released containing Steve Jablonsky’s wonderful score from the movie Transformers. Don’t take that to mean that things have been quiet on that front though. Far from it: the past seven days have seen a flurry of activity and investigating and conflicting rumors that some good people have been working hard to cut through. Most of this has had to do with it being thought that Sony Music had the rights to publish the score. And that’s what a lot of people have been telling me over the past couple of weeks.
Among the biggest breakthroughs that have happened in this matter came about because of Marco van Bergen: an intrepid young film-maker (click here for the website for his movie Zero Hour) and journalist based in the Netherlands. Marco’s been ...