"Predator vs Terminator 2"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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My first movie ever, "Predator vs Terminator 2" was created merely to test the abilities of Adobe Premiere LE. What ended up happening was I would create a 10 minute movie of violent intensity! I was actually able to piece together a blunt story to go along with it, once I decided what it was going to contain of course! The military sqaud led by Dutch Shaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) must prevent the T-800 (also Arnold Schwarzenegger) from escaping from his position in an office building. What happens when Arnold meets Arnold?
Continuity glitches aside (such as night/day and city/jungle conflicts), this plays out rather well, with the T-800 doing what he does best. The title may be misleading however, as neither the Predator nor T-1000 ever make an appearance.
"Predator vs Terminator 2"
contains video footage from
"Predator" (1987), "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991) and "Eraser" (1996) [from "Entertainment Tonight"]
contains audio samples from
"Waterworld" (1995)
contains scenes of violence, foul language and Ahnuld vs Ahnuld - colour - 1996
"Lear"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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"Lear" was a project for my grade 12 English class in which we had to create a modernized version of William Shakespeare's play King Lear. Song chose art, other commercials, one group even modified the words of the song 'Lump' by The Presidents Of The United States so it would tell the story of the insane king.
My group chose to make a movie of course, after they saw what I could do with the equipment. Eventually using the name Five Guys From English Class, the 5 of us each contributed to the movie. One did video captions, two others had the overall idea, another specific details and voiceovers, and then there was myself who put it all together. Honestly, it's way too long. It was supposed to be a promotional trailer for a theoretic film, but we let certain scenes overstay their welcome, I may eventually make a Director's Cut if time allows.
The story of "Lear" is similar to its original play, but with quite a few twists, noticable only visually of course. Lear, so insane that he calls himself "Arthur, King Of The Britons" and is constantly searching for the Holy Grail, banishes his only daughter worthy of following him as heir. Thing is, she's actually the best choice but he's too out of it to care. Madness ensues, followed by chaos, bloodshed, hilarity, and even a few insults from some ignorant frenchmen. Features Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Captain Of The Guard, Mel Gibson as Kent, a few Monty Python troop members as people who are gullable enough to follow the mad king in his vain quest, and voiceovers by my friend Finbar Madden. We got over 80% on the project, and I got the majority single mark for my efforts.
"Lear"
contains video footage from
"Braveheart" (1995), "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" (1975), "Conan The Destroyer" (1984) and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991)
contains audio samples from
"Conan The Destroyer" (1984) and possibly Rage Against The Machine's self-titled album (1996?)
original literary source
"King Lear" (1608) by William Shakespeare
contains scenes of violence, foul language, frenchmen and Shakespeare - colour - 1996
contributing members
Finbar Madden (voiceovers), John O'Neill (concept), Patrick Quinn (concept), Rob Fulton (stills/post-editing)
"Totalitarianism... Or Else!"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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Another English project, "Totalitarianism... Or Else!" was a video segment for a seminar during my final high school year. The seminar dealt with the sheer power of totalitarianism control as opposed to the undominatable human spirit. The classic irresistable force vs immovable object, if you will. We decided to show elements of totalitarianism through popular films, since our seminar would otherwise be us talking away about a subject that didn't really interest us that much anymore. It was based on George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and Auldus Huxley's "Brave New World".
Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding by the class' teacher, the video was stopped after only 2 minutes were shown. What he suggested was that I explain the clip segments beforehand, then show the video, whereas I opted to air the video and explain the meaning afterwards. Not a favourable decision, as it affected my mark on the seminar, which ended up fairly decent in the end.
To rectify the seminar error, I will now describe the meanings of each clip here (as in beforehand) so no confusion arises (note: they may not be in exact order as presented on the actual video). Unskinned T-800 robots from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" are used to illustrate superior technology. The courtroom scene from "Judge Dredd" is shown to demonstrate a corrupt legal system, as is the Mega-City-One council meeting to show the government's ability to alter laws as they see fit. Scenes of Darth Vader choking Imperial Officers and his comments about The Emperor from "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return Of The Jedi" are used to show uses of fear and intimidation to keep troops in line, while a scene of the Millennium Falcon evading Star Destroyers in "Star Wars" gives an example of simply outnumbering your adversary. Speeches from "No Escape" show the possibility of privately funded world prisons. Finally, the memory implantation devices of "Total Recall" detail an example of brainwashing.
"Totalitarianism... Or Else!"
contains video footage from
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), "Judge Dredd" (1995), "Star Wars" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), "Return Of The Jedi" (1983), "No Escape" (1994) and "Total Recall" (1990)
contains audio samples from
"No Escape" (1994) and "The Quest" (1996)
contains scenes of violence and foul language - colour - 1997
"Corporal Dan Greatest Hits"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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"Corporal Dan Greatest Hits" is a 1 minute tribute to the amatuer films by Colin Williamson of PC Gamer. Truth-be-told, the production values have increased, probably a demand in the contracts of the legos. Corporal Dan was created by Williamson a few years ago and has had three movies thus far, with a fourth, entitled "Five Blocks Of Death" still in production.
This is my first movie since 1997, not counting footage of graduates' yearbook photos morphing for a year-end video. In all honesty it's not really a movie but more of a possibility to have gratuitous scenes of violence held up on a pedistal. It's good stuff.
Oh, I previously stated that the music in the video from "Tarzan" is by Peter Gabriel. I goofed. It's actually by Phil Collins.
  
"Corporal Dan Greatest Hits"
contains video footage from
"Who Is Corporal Dan?" (1998), "Showdown" (1998) and "Corporal Dan: Revelations" (1999)
contains audio samples from
"Tarzan" (1999)
contains scenes of violence, bloody legos and music by Phil Collins - colour - 1999 - 1 minute 3 seconds
"He's Usin' Paint"
a really short movie by Scott Summerton
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"He's Usin' Paint" is pure boredom on display. While trying to come up with funny and music inspired edits based on "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" I came across a hilarious clip of then-WCW now-WWF wrestler Chris Jericho introducing the competitors for a cruiserweight battle royal in August 1998. The segment I made includes his description of Damien, a few quick scenes of Darth Maul and the 'Titanic Wrecking Crew' t-shirt design of Countdown To Star Wars.
  
"He's Usin' Paint"
contains video footage from
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999) [teaser and trailer]
contains audio samples from
"WCW Road Wild" (1998) and an anonymous 'crashing car' sound effect
scenes hardly contain anything at all - colour - 1999 - 6 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
"The Imperial Maulch"
a short music video by Scott Summerton
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This one is a psuedo-video for Metallica's rendition of The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) from "The Empire Strikes Back". All in all, "The Imperial Maulch" is pretty short. Essentially, all I did was combine all the available footage of Darth Maul from the teaser and trailer from "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" with the song.
  
"The Imperial Maulch"
contains video footage from
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999) [teaser and trailer]
contains audio samples from
"The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" by Metallica
contains scenes of Maul, Maul and more Maul - colour - 1999 - 17 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
"Episode #1"
a music video by Scott Summerton
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This one is the king daddy of my latest projects, my pride and joy. Using a whole wack of footage from the teaser and trailer for "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", I was able to create "Episode #1", a music video featuring scenes from the film put to Blur's "Song 2".
In case you hadn't figured it out, the title is written "Episode #1" as and not Episode I as a take-off of the pronunciation of the musical aspect of the video (song number two). The video runs just a tad longer than two minutes, the length of the song (which is unedited) and is a definite mainstay on my (almost finished!) demo reel.
  
"Episode #1"
contains video footage from
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999) [teaser and trailer]
contains audio samples from
"Song 2" by Blur
contains scenes of Star Wars with no spoilers, 'nuff said - colour - 1999 - 2 minutes 4 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
"UberTrailer"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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Another music video and personal favourite, "UberTrailer" also incorporates various scenes from the teaser and trailer for "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", but this time in short bursts that match the tempo of the music. The music is the theme song from the film "Con Air".
Why is it called what it's called? Well, it was entered into a SuperTrailer Contest, and I couldn't very well go calling it "SuperTrailer" now could I? Therefore I went and borrowed the German translation of super, which is uber, and "UberTrailer" got a name!
  
"UberTrailer"
contains video footage from
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999) [teaser and trailer]
contains audio samples from
"Con Air" (1997)
contains scenes of Star Wars in "quick-fade advertisement" format - colour - 1999 - 1 minute 16 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
"Vader Snickers"
an ad parody by Scott Summerton
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A spoof of Snickers' "Gonna Be A While?" ads, "Vader Snickers" is just that: Vader finding a need for a Snickers bar. Why? Well, when Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are on Bespin and Vader tells Luke what really happened to Anakin Skywalker, Luke starts carrying on and whining about how impossible that is. Vader, realizing he's going to be a while, decides "why wait?" and "grabs a Snickers".
  
"Vader Snickers"
contains video footage from
"The Empire Strikes Back: Special Edition" (1997)
contains audio samples from
"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and a "Snickers" ad
contains scenes of Luke Skywalker whining his ass off - colour - 1999 - 41 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
"Bad To The Bone"
a short movie by Scott Summerton
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"Bad To The Bone" plotted itself out in a sudden burst of inspiration one day, and is a unique way of describing Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. Think of the title of the video, combine it with a song of the same name, then think 'Vader', and you get this little video.
  
"Bad To The Bone"
contains video footage from
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" (1999) [teaser and trailer], "Star Wars" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return Of The Jedi" (1983)
contains audio samples from
"Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood And The Destroyers
contains scenes of Darth Vader kicking Rebel ass - colour - 1999 - 34 seconds
originally created for - Countdown TV
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