Horror Intro | Short Film
Charming Hooligans | JACENKNET
Crew
Jason Kraynek – Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Colorist (frames), Actor
Chris Gorges – Camera Operator, Actor
Marty Hoffman – Actor
Darryl Knapp – Actor
Jordan Lee – Actor
Katie Larsen – Actor
Snicky Nutz – Actor
Charming Hooligans – Group
JACENKNET – Film Studio
Gear
Camera – VHS Camcorder
We shot this during the revamping of our 2000 press tape after another lineup change and everyone still hyping up the film “The Blair Witch Project” from the year prior. This was after Darren left to focus on teaching/performing improv in Orland, and Joe went off to work on films. We hired on Jordan and Katie sometime that year.
Shot in Marty’s back guest house that was being rebuilt and perfect for a “free set”, of which was a rare thing back then (hell any time we had a set in general that wasn’t one of our own apartments it was a welcome thing).
Since I was the person that shot mostly everything for the group, and we didn’t have an extra member onhand to shoot this, I had to get Chris (I think) to start filming this one as we entered the house. One of the other members walked behind with a light (or it was the operator with their other hand, I don’t recall). After my shot, I switched out with Chris and he went to hide when the camera was turned in the opposite direction (in camera effects even back when I was starting folks).
The original edit was done by a third party on this (I think at least, as I didn’t have access to those titles and nobody had a computer at the time + I know we outsourced the last press video intro for the same reason). Though this one could have been done by me, idk offhand.
I did touch up the quality and grade the frames for this page. The audio used to be an old “Halloween” theme that I think I removed in one of the many encodes and transfers.
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