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This short started out very differently. The original followed the concept of, “what if Hell shut down due to budget cuts?” We would see through the eyes of a nobody, maybe someone who was damned for tax evasion, released back into the world along with history’s most evil characters. Somewhere along the line, we had the idea to add Jack Jade to the mix, a character from a short we had made in our High School days. After figuring out why an 80s action hero would find himself in Hell (the answer being that any action hero would– for hyperviolence, misogyny, etc.), the rest of the story just fell into place. From there came the not-so-simple task of finding a bowling alley near NYC on a shoestring budget. We asked 6 before one of them agreed to our teeny-tiny offer, and they were incredibly accomodating every step of the way. Thank you, Paradise Lanes! We booked a studio in the city for casting and found some really fantastic actors. We count ourselves extremely lucky to have worked with them all, and
hope to work with them on future projects! Once the film was cast and we had our locations, we started filming. Other than the taped scene, which we shot in December, we filmed the entire short in one four-day span on location at Paradise Lanes and in a soundstage at SUNY Purchase. For the most part, it went off without a hitch. Where we did run into something resembling a hitch was with our parking on the first day of the shoot at Paradise Lanes. Long story short, make sure you triple check parking instructions, or you might wind up with 2 parking tickets per car. There were 4 cars. Oof. Other than that, the cast and crew pulled together to grab over 100 shots in 4 days. It was a miraculous thing to witness. 7 months of editing, sound mixing, visual effects, music composition, and color correction later, Hell Broke Loose was released to the world.
This short started out very differently. The original followed the concept of, “what if Hell shut down due to budget cuts?” We would see through the eyes of a nobody, maybe someone who was damned for tax evasion, released back into the world along with history’s most evil characters. Somewhere along the line, we had the idea to add Jack Jade to the mix, a character from a short we had made in our High School days. After figuring out why an 80s action hero would find himself in Hell (the answer being that any action hero would– for hyperviolence, misogyny, etc.), the rest of the story just fell into place. From there came the not-so-simple task of finding a bowling alley near NYC on a shoestring budget. We asked 6 before one of them agreed to our teeny-tiny offer, and they were incredibly accomodating every step of the way. Thank you, Paradise Lanes! We booked a studio in the city for casting and found some really fantastic actors. We count ourselves extremely lucky to have worked with them all, and hope to work with them on future projects! Once the film was cast and we had our locations, we started filming. Other than the taped scene, which we shot in December, we filmed the entire short in one four-day span on location at Paradise Lanes and in a soundstage at SUNY Purchase. For the most part, it went off without a hitch. Where we did run into something resembling a hitch was with our parking on the first day of the shoot at Paradise Lanes. Long story short, make sure you triple check parking instructions, or you might wind up with 2 parking tickets per car. There were 4 cars. Oof. Other than that, the cast and crew pulled together to grab over 100 shots in 4 days. It was a miraculous thing to witness. 7 months of editing, sound mixing, visual effects, music composition, and color correction later, Hell Broke Loose was released to the world.
We got to film in a church! In the Red Glove Media chronology, this marks the first project where we went WAY out of our comfort zone and actually found a real location to shoot in. As you’ll see with videos released before this one, we had been limited to what we had immediately available. For the record, both the church location (University Presbyterian Church) and the meeting room location (The Newman Center) were provided to us completely free of charge, out of the kindness of the staff and management. Everyone at Red Glove Media thanks everyone at both locations so, so much. In addition to the incredible generosity of the locations, we were very lucky to find an exceptionally accomadating cast. May God Strike Me Down shot in Red Glove Media’s home town of Buffalo, NY, but many of the main cast (Kristen Harlow and Theodora Loukas) were based out of NYC, where we cast the film. They came right
out to us with no hesitation, ready to get to work (and, in Kristen’s case, ready to stick a white contact lens in her eye). Our talented lead, Daniel, played by Johnny Barden, was already in Buffalo as he went to High School with the writer/director, Ben Graham. Once the cast and crew were together, we shot for 5 days, and only ran late once! During the course of the shoot, we realized that a vital piece of the dolly we used to get the last shot in the film was missing, but our spectacular head gaffer Sal Natale rigged it to work with a c-stand arm. We love ya, Sal. In post-production, Ben designed a giant floating boulder and killed the Pope. Thankfully, by the end of the film we’ve learned that maybe getting zapped isn’t such a bad thing, after all. While this is obviously a very Catholicism-heavy piece, we hope the thesis can apply anywhere: if it doesn’t make sense to you, don’t be afraid to ask questions.
We got to film in a church! In the Red Glove Media chronology, this marks the first project where we went WAY out of our comfort zone and actually found a real location to shoot in. As you’ll see with videos released before this one, we had been limited to what we had immediately available. For the record, both the church location (University Presbyterian Church) and the meeting room location (The Newman Center) were provided to us completely free of charge, out of the kindness of the staff and management. Everyone at Red Glove Media thanks everyone at both locations so, so much. In addition to the incredible generosity of the locations, we were very lucky to find an exceptionally accomadating cast. May God Strike Me Down shot in Red Glove Media’s home town of Buffalo, NY, but many of the main cast (Kristen Harlow and Theodora Loukas) were based out of NYC, where we cast the film. They came right out to us with no hesitation, ready to get to work (and, in Kristen’s case, ready to stick a white contact lens in her eye). Our talented lead, Daniel, played by Johnny Barden, was already in Buffalo as he went to High School with the writer/director, Ben Graham. Once the cast and crew were together, we shot for 5 days, and only ran late once! During the course of the shoot, we realized that a vital piece of the dolly we used to get the last shot in the film was missing, but our spectacular head gaffer Sal Natale rigged it to work with a c-stand arm. We love ya, Sal. In post-production, Ben designed a giant floating boulder and killed the Pope. Thankfully, by the end of the film we’ve learned that maybe getting zapped isn’t such a bad thing, after all. While this is obviously a very Catholicism-heavy piece, we hope the thesis can apply anywhere: if it doesn’t make sense to you, don’t be afraid to ask questions.
When life gives you lemons… that was legitimately the inspiration for this short (which has now been stolen by a Super Bowl commercial. We shot this before that came out!). Perhaps you’ve noticed a love of 80s action heroes for Red Glove Media; I really just wanted to see what would happen if we plucked a hyperviolent badass out of his normal, bloody life and stuck him at a lemonade stand. Turns out he can’t escape from his own need to KILL. What a jerk. I really wanted to try out crazy practical effects for the first time (other than the laser blast), so I made about a gallon of fake blood out of chocolate syrup and washable paint. There were also some fake intestines made of nylon stockings and stuffed with paper towels, but they didn’t end up featuring TOO heavily. Good thing, they were disgusting. This is also the only one of the shorts featured on this site to be made in the time of Coronavirus. It was a very different
experience to have the crew all socially distant and masked up, but I’m really glad we did it. There were awkward moments, but mostly it just showed that some degree of normalcy was possible with small changes. And we made a really cool thing on top of it! The end credits are a favorite of mine, too. Obviously, all of the text is done in post, but the background was completely practical! You know you’re making something unique when you spend 10 minutes pouring blood into a pitcher of lemonade. Johnny Barden (who you might remember as Daniel in May God Strike Me Down, absolutely killed it, as always; my wonderful father played the short-lived Jack and his bald head shone brightly; Red Glove Media’s composer graced the screen as well as the entirely-too-kind Trench Stone. Thanks to Alexis Abramo, Mandy Hebblethwaite, and Caity Heffler for being so talented and so willing to make weird stuff.
When life gives you lemons… that was legitimately the inspiration for this short (which has now been stolen by a Super Bowl commercial. We shot this before that came out!). Perhaps you’ve noticed a love of 80s action heroes for Red Glove Media; I really just wanted to see what would happen if we plucked a hyperviolent badass out of his normal, bloody life and stuck him at a lemonade stand. Turns out he can’t escape from his own need to KILL. What a jerk. I really wanted to try out crazy practical effects for the first time (other than the laser blast), so I made about a gallon of fake blood out of chocolate syrup and washable paint. There were also some fake intestines made of nylon stockings and stuffed with paper towels, but they didn’t end up featuring TOO heavily. Good thing, they were disgusting. This is also the only one of the shorts featured on this site to be made in the time of Coronavirus. It was a very different experience to have the crew all socially distant and masked up, but I’m really glad we did it. There were awkward moments, but mostly it just showed that some degree of normalcy was possible with small changes. And we made a really cool thing on top of it! The end credits are a favorite of mine, too. Obviously, all of the text is done in post, but the background was completely practical! You know you’re making something unique when you spend 10 minutes pouring blood into a pitcher of lemonade. Johnny Barden (who you might remember as Daniel in May God Strike Me Down, absolutely killed it, as always; my wonderful father played the short-lived Jack and his bald head shone brightly; Red Glove Media’s composer graced the screen as well as the entirely-too-kind Trench Stone. Thanks to Alexis Abramo, Mandy Hebblethwaite, and Caity Heffler for being so talented and so willing to make weird stuff.
The most experimental of all our films, Game Night tells the story of a man who gets into a car accident while driving to, you guessed it, a game night. While this was mostly an excuse to make a cool montage with some of the board games I had collected at the time (the board game collection has since grown considerably), we got to try some pretty interesting things along with it! For example, I had never filmed a car crash before. How did we do it? Well, we drove Hussain’s car very close to a tree and filmed it driving away from the tree, then reversed the footage. Hussain’s car was never in any real danger. That’s a load off your mind, right?
We shot that scene near the woods at the University at Buffalo campus, and evidently piqued the interest of several University Police. Throughout the night shoot, three separate officers came to make sure we were okay and thankfully did not request that we stop filming. A little more behind-the-scenes action: that shot of blood dripping down my face? Shot one whole year after the rest of the film. We shot a different take of it along with the rest, but it didn’t look quite right so we redid it when Hussain and I were both back in Buffalo the following summer.
The most experimental of all our films, Game Night tells the story of a man who gets into a car accident while driving to, you guessed it, a game night. While this was mostly an excuse to make a cool montage with some of the board games I had collected at the time (the board game collection has since grown considerably), we got to try some pretty interesting things along with it! For example, I had never filmed a car crash before. How did we do it? Well, we drove Hussain’s car very close to a tree and filmed it driving away from the tree, then reversed the footage. Hussain’s car was never in any real danger. That’s a load off your mind, right? We shot that scene near the woods at the University at Buffalo campus, and evidently piqued the interest of several University Police. Throughout the night shoot, three separate officers came to make sure we were okay and thankfully did not request that we stop filming. A little more behind-the-scenes action: that shot of blood dripping down my face? Shot one whole year after the rest of the film. We shot a different take of it along with the rest, but it didn’t look quite right so we redid it when Hussain and I were both back in Buffalo the following summer.
This is a favorite of mine, and there’s a really fun story to go with it! It starts with my family getting our floors redone. Scintillating, I know. Because of that, we couldn’t be in our house, so our insurance put us up in a hotel for a few days. I came home for summer break to an empty hotel room (parents at work and sister at school), called Hussain, and we just… made a short film. All we had was a camera and whatever props we had lying around. This is the only official Red Glove Media short made like the things we made when we were kids; flying by the seat of our pants and just because we had the time and a fun idea. Can’t lie, I’d love to do more things like this, the only problem is that you only get lucky with an actually enjoyable short with this amount of work every so often. More frequently, you get the characters like Turdman.
Yes. That is a real superhero we made up as kids. We are so proud. Anyways! This was an absolute blast. It took about 500 takes to stab the orange correctly (my bad, Hussain is still annoyed about that). Fun fact: since we only had a camera, the audio outside was SO BAD. Like, completely atrocious. Unusable! So none of the audio in the exterior shots was captured by us! Just free assets we found online, rolling suitcase and trunk sounds included. It was a really interesting challenge, but I’m glad I got experience doing that because high-quality sound is one of the toughest parts of making professional short films. Hussain’s music on this one is fantastic, too. It makes that walking-down-stairs scene so much cooler than it was. Hit me with that jazz any time.
This is a favorite of mine, and there’s a really fun story to go with it! It starts with my family getting our floors redone. Scintillating, I know. Because of that, we couldn’t be in our house, so our insurance put us up in a hotel for a few days. I came home for summer break to an empty hotel room (parents at work and sister at school), called Hussain, and we just… made a short film. All we had was a camera and whatever props we had lying around. This is the only official Red Glove Media short made like the things we made when we were kids; flying by the seat of our pants and just because we had the time and a fun idea. Can’t lie, I’d love to do more things like this, the only problem is that you only get lucky with an actually enjoyable short with this amount of work every so often. More frequently, you get the characters like Turdman. Yes. That is a real superhero we made up as kids. We are so proud. Anyways! This was an absolute blast. It took about 500 takes to stab the orange correctly (my bad, Hussain is still annoyed about that). Fun fact: since we only had a camera, the audio outside was SO BAD. Like, completely atrocious. Unusable! So none of the audio in the exterior shots was captured by us! Just free assets we found online, rolling suitcase and trunk sounds included. It was a really interesting challenge, but I’m glad I got experience doing that because high-quality sound is one of the toughest parts of making professional short films. Hussain’s music on this one is fantastic, too. It makes that walking-down-stairs scene so much cooler than it was. Hit me with that jazz any time.
Zamarad! Weird name, huh? The story here is that we’ve always been interested in dipping our toes into different genres, and science fiction seemed like a natural progression from superheroics and action flicks. Obviously, our budget is on the tight side, so we settled for more of a scene from a larger whole; trying to whet appetites. Should Red Glove Media ever trip and fall into a bunch of money, expanding this story is a very real possibility! We know the beats that happen from here, and we’d explore how our character got where he is at the start of the film, too. If we did revisit this concept, we’d reshoot and rewrite everything with our updated skills and techniques, of course.
The color correction and a lot of the effects still look good, but we’ve learned a bunch and we know that this would be an even more polished product on a second draft. Now, about the name… “Zamarad” came from the Arabic word for “emerald,” which is (fun fact) the name of the protagonist’s weapon. If you look closely at the high-tech lasergun, you can fairly clearly see markings made of green screen tape, used as a very hopeful attempt to give us something to use as a motion tracker to lock the HUD to the gun’s movement. Not the most elegant (or effective) solution, which is why Zamarad could benefit from another pass. Let us know if you like this one! It’s scrappy and it’s got a special place in our hearts.
Zamarad! Weird name, huh? The story here is that we’ve always been interested in dipping our toes into different genres, and science fiction seemed like a natural progression from superheroics and action flicks. Obviously, our budget is on the tight side, so we settled for more of a scene from a larger whole; trying to whet appetites. Should Red Glove Media ever trip and fall into a bunch of money, expanding this story is a very real possibility! We know the beats that happen from here, and we’d explore how our character got where he is at the start of the film, too. If we did revisit this concept, we’d reshoot and rewrite everything with our updated skills and techniques, of course. The color correction and a lot of the effects still look good, but we’ve learned a bunch and we know that this would be an even more polished product on a second draft. Now, about the name… “Zamarad” came from the Arabic word for “emerald,” which is (fun fact) the name of the protagonist’s weapon. If you look closely at the high-tech lasergun, you can fairly clearly see markings made of green screen tape, used as a very hopeful attempt to give us something to use as a motion tracker to lock the HUD to the gun’s movement. Not the most elegant (or effective) solution, which is why Zamarad could benefit from another pass. Let us know if you like this one! It’s scrappy and it’s got a special place in our hearts.
WHO ARE WE?
Red Glove Media is a video production company specializing in screenwriting, editing, visual effects, and music composition. With Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, and Logic Pro X, we strive to make each project more ambitious than the last.
Ben Graham has over 5 years of experience in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase. He’s written and edited sci-fi, action, drama, thriller, and comedy films, and is always excited to add to that list.