"Where some things end, other things begin."

A DASjr Films / KHVideo Production

PLOT: This scenic and costumed reflection on time and loss follows five mourners, and the mysterious stranger that leads them to places unknown.

END CREDITS:

* DIRECTED BY David Alan Scott Jr.
* PRODUCED BY Kevin Hurley

CAST:
* THE PILGRIM - Adriana Harnas
* THE CAPTAIN - David Alan Scott Jr.
* THE POET - Cindy Clark
* THE LADY - Kevin Hurley
* THE STRANGER - Michael Webb
* THE ARTIST - Amelia Harnas

CREW:
* WRITTEN BY - David, Kevin, and Cindy
* CAMERA - David, Kevin, and Michael
* MAKE-UP - Peter Chan
* MUSIC SUPERVISOR - Amelia Harnas
* EDITOR - David Scott

SPECIAL THANKS:
* WENY-TV 36
* Will Smith
* Richard & Judy Hurley

SONGS:
* "O Fortuna" by Carl Orff
* "Ase's Death" by Edvard Grieg
* "The City" Bernard Herrmann
* "Pimpf" by Depeche Mode
* "Neptune, the Mystic" by Gustav Holst
* "Gnossiene No. 1" by Erik Satie
* "Pavane Pour Une Enfante Defunte" by Maurice Ravel
* "Miss Clare Remembers" by Enya
* "Watermark" by Enya
* "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age" by Gustav Holst

c. 2003 DASJr Films / KHVideo
All Rights Reserved.

LOCATIONS/DATES FILMED:
* Beaver Dams, NY and surrounding area, February 23-24, 2002 (film)
* Corning, NY, September 19, 2005 (audio commentary)

DATES EDITED:
* February 26-28 and March 1-5, 2003 (movie)
* July 5, 2005 (outtakes)
* September 19, 2005 (trailer)
* September 23, 2005 (photo gallery)

REMASTERED FOR DVD:
* July 5 to September 23, 2005

HISTORY:

In the days preceding my life-alterring move from upstate New York to uptown Dallas, I reunited with most of the "Things That Ring" cast (and some new faces) to make another, less goofy, silent film. This continuation (but not sequel) to "TTR" was shot over the course of two days, and may stand as one of my (and Kevin's) better works, at least because it was shot and edited digitally.
After the move, Kevin made three half-hearted attempts to edit it on Final Cut Pro and Avid, two computer programs I'd never used before. Eventually, I finally found the time and patience to put the bulk of it together on Avid myself, one year after the footage was originally shot.
In March 2003, I finished editing the movie, and made a digital video master of it. At this time, Kevin was designing a DVD-R release, complete with a sepia-tone version, a movie trailer, outtakes, and audio commentary. This version of the DVD was never completed, though an unfinished prototype disc, including animated menu plus color and sepia versions of the movie, was made.
In Summer 2004, I had a video editing company transfer the color DV master onto a DVD, which I could later dub onto VHS, thus finally being able to premiere and distribute the film amongst friends and family during a visit to upstate New York in late July.
One year later, former WENY co-worker Bruce Hauver used the DV master to make a fresh digital transfer that surpassed the compressed quality of both Kevin's 2003 prototype and the 2004 disc. From July to September, I created the final, official DVD version of "Other Things", released on the last week of September.
The DVD, with menus, includes: color version remastered from DV, prototype sepia version(*) with remastered audio, audio commentary version by David and Amelia, theatrical trailer (2 versions), outtakes montage, and a gallery montage of photos from the February 16 location scouting and February 23 shoot.
(* TECHNICAL NOTE: The work setup used to transfer DVD footage made the sepia version 30% darker than originally intended. I hope to fix this error in a later edition of my official DVD.
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REVIEWS:

"Other Things didn't do it for me. It was too serious. I guess it was pretty in the way that looking at a painting is pretty. But the plot is useless. If I had been involved, I would've told a story. In Things That Ring, it was the humor that kept the audience interested. But what keeps the audience interested in Other Things? I'm all for serious stuff, but it's gotta say something. I always thought that Things That Ring made fun of the type of movie that Other Things aspires to be. You could show someone both movies, and convince them that Things That Ring is a parody of Other Things. I think that Other Things lacked a real creative spark. It had a lot of good elements, but it needed to not repeat itself so much. It became predictable, and as an artist, I think that's such a wasted opportunity. To be fair, it was a decent first attempt at something non-humorous. I'm sure that it is a great movie to everyone involved in its making. But I don't think it's going to cross over to other people like previous DASjr works have been able to. On a scale of 1 to 10, as far as DASjr movies go, it'd be a 2, simply because of the production quality. (The closest thing to a 10 would probably be Retro Man, of course.) I'd have to judge DASjr movies based on how much I can show them to other people, and I don't feel that my old dorm mates at Fredonia, nor my mother, would've cared much for this one. The only thing worse than Other Things may be Stop Eating Babies, but at least Stop Eating Babies didn't try to be anything more than what it was." -Adam Lindquist, 8-3-2004

"When we got together to do Other Things, we wanted to do something we could be proud of. Despite the cold weather, the actors gave a lot more effort than usual. We had an outline, but no script or dialogue, so everyone added their own personal touches to the characters. It gave us all a chance to be ourselves and have fun. The best part about Other Things is that whoever watches it can form their own opinion about what's going on and who everyone is. It took a year for David to be able to edit it, and two more for him to release it on DVD. But thanks to technology that only recently became available to him, he has put together something that was worth the wait. I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I did, and still do." -Cynthia Clark, 9-26-2005

"Wow, what a crazy piece of something-between-deja-vu-and-nostalgia it was to go back to that. Very impressive, of course. You guys certainly did a hell of a job with the editing and production. I loved the outtakes. They brought back memories of some of those moments when we just couldn't stop laughing long enough for a supposedly serious shot. The "mysterious figure appears, person dies" pattern seems a little repetitive after a few iterations, but the ending was a nice twist--one I had forgotten(!). It was like "oh yeah, there's me without death makeup." The whole thing was a welcome yet bittersweet reminder of the artistic side of my life which has lay far too dormant since I graduated and moved to California (yeah, music was always my main thing, but it was really cool to be part of this project)."-Michael Webb, 6-27-2006

PHOTOS:
* The mourners, unused shot
* Amelia and Adriana
* Kevin and David
* Michael and Cindy
* Entire cast, second scene