The third and final film in the Romeo and Juliet trilogy, Epitaph stands out as the best of all three.  Compared to A Public Place and In Choler Verona, it has exlent fight choreography, a well based and developed plot and some of the best acting ASAP Films has seen since Halite.  Epitaph truely is one of ASAP's masterpieces.
  Based around William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' Act V, Scene III, Epitaph shakes the plays surroundings as it enters stunts modeled after that of the Matrix.
  
  First of all, Epitaph for those that don't know, are the Final words engraved on a tombstone.  Just so that the title is not so confusing.  Why ASAP tactled such an elabrate project for no reason...  Well that's a little bit more.  At the time, ASAP Films had been making tons of little, poorly edited clips for the BHS Tv aftershow.  They were funny but showed no real talent.  So I being desperate to relight the filming flame, decided to look into my possible project folder.  The third R & J film looked like a huge challenge but would boost the ASAP crew out of cheesy aftershow clips, show the true side.
  So once the movie was decided upon, we began to look for a favorable graveyard, one where the cops would not be on us in a second.  This is when Nate went searching down some back roads and found this little old graveyard, the Cooks cemetary.  All was well and good until we started filming.  Little did we know that the filming climate would be the worst weather ASAP Films had filmed in yet.  Rain, Rain, Rain, Snow sometimes, Freezing climate, disgusting cabage smell from some pile across the road...  It was horrible, but after the entire Thanksgiving break of filming, I had all the footage.  This movie really brought ASAP Films back to its standards, and now everyones struggling to catch up...   

Effects, I would deffinatly say that the choreographed sword fighting was an effect...  I added new muzzel flash elements in instead of the old luma key flashes.  They do look a lot better.  I really wanted everything to look good, so we used fake blood this time (Katsup) and it really looked real.  I was impressed.
As for a soundtrack.  The project had nonstop music, it went through the entire thing.  The song mostly consisted of Matrix music and a little bit of varity but mostly just matrix.  The music really adds to the film, but doesnt make the movie like most of our other things.  Thats a good thing.  So the music was good and fit the scenes very well.

This film was not really a turning point or anything in the editing department.  Sure it took some time and was put together nice but did not require to many new skills.  However that does not mean we didnt try.  The original version called for blue screen stunts almost every other scene, however we had a malfunction with the blue screen, lighting or something was bad and it didnt work...  It really was a major disappointment but we pushed our boundry to far.  I try to outdo the last film everytime, but if everything had worked this video would have been amazing and impossible to beat.  So it was a dissapointment that it failed but the video came out fine and eveything worked... 

Director - Sam Avery
Producer - Sam Avery
Nate LaFrance
Editor - Sam Avery
Camera - Nate LaFrance
Mitchell Ensman
James Meyers
Rain Guards - John Rood
Erik McCannon
Stuntmen - ASAP Cast and Crew

Cast
Romeo - Sam Avery
Paris - Mitch Ensman
Balthazar - Pete Rundle
Page - James Meyers
First Guard - Max Monaghan
Other Guard - Nate LaFrance
Pitchfork Guard - Tom Hartter
Axe Guard - Erik McCannon

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