As far as student films go there are plenty of hit or miss movies. There are very few that pass the level of just good, due to the amount of inexperienced people working together, but sometimes there are enough talented souls collected in one place to make something great.
“The Hard Gravel”
Director: Matt Moore
THE LINK TO THE FULL VIDEO: The Hard Gravel
THE LINK TO THE MUSIC VIDEOS: Hard Gravel Music Videos
The Hard Gravel from matt moore on Vimeo.
Loads of people worked on this film, and helped make it into the comedy that it is. It’s like an updated, but retro version of Spinal Tap focusing on the world of early 90’s pop country music. It also has awkward comedic elements similar to The Office and Arrested Development that flow with the interviews. The pacing is chopped to shreds(in a good way) at points with some Tim & Eric style elements and Visual Effects usage.
The film is structured as a TV show, The Coyote McCoy show. Coyote McCoy is played by Joshua Jones, who also did a lot of the cinematography, but he carries the role of being crazy as hell and loving country very well. He catalogs the story of the band The Hard Gravel as they attempt to become big in the competetive country music world, and run into their arch-enemy Chet Chestnut. The Hard Gravel singer, Bobby Alexander used to be in a group with Chet, called Nut & Bobby. The duo broke up after Chet became addicted to Coke and alcohol, while Bobby chose to remain drug free. The record executive says that he’ll give Bobby a chance if he can bring the label a band.
Bobby finds a group of strangers that form The Hard Gravel:
Bobby Alexander: Lead singer of The Hard Gravel and former member of Nut & Bobby (Sam Eidson)
James McMillan: a sexually confused druggie that drums (Matt Moore)
Gerald Lee: The coke doing guitarist of the band that also apparently is Mexican (Sam McHugh & Mexican Guy)
Ronnie Brooks: The bassist, and proud father. He is also a wanted bank robber (David Andrews)
The cut that is linked above is the one for school purposes, it’s 15 minutes long, which is the school limit for a finished product, but there is talk of it possibly becoming a half hour film, containing the bands music videos throughout. I’ll keep you up to date on the newest Hard Gravel info as it comes to me.
September 9th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Great Stuff
Interesting
Best Regards
September 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Nice one ….Great work…
September 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
live the article. good job.
September 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
love this video! had a lot of fun getting to help with the bar scene even if i didnt get any movie time from it!