First of all, "in choler", in old english means 'angry'...  Therefor, it means 'Angry Verona'...  As for the project.  When John entered 9th grade, he got the same teacher that Max and I had when we did "A Public Place"...  So when his Romeo and Juliet project came up, I was extremely excited to do it...  Not only because I had a feeling it would be great, but because I wanted to try and beat "A Public Place"...  Saddly in A.S.A.P. Film's eyes, it did not out do "A Public Place" but it was better in the sense of filming, angles, editing, sound, talking and film...but it didn't have a big influence as A.P.P...

  The background of the story is simple, almost too simple, meaning that the movie doesn't have a plot...  The movie really doesn't have an ending either.  Sure the Prince comes and stops the fight...but then it fades black, and then credits...  Not really a story, just an awesome battle...

  However good this movie may be it took an extremely long time to finish...  What went wrong you say... well every thing...ev-er-ry-thin-g!!!  This was not only the hardest project to edit but to film!!!!  First of all, when we bagan filming, I figured I would do it like Halite's large gun fight...  Both big, both many die...it's got to be filmed the same...  What I didn't know, that I learn, was that things that are different are filmed different...  You don't film a talking scene like an explosion and apprentally you don't film a sword fight/war like a gun fight...  I had a false confidence because of the slow motion technic, and I thought the rest would be fine...  NO!!!  I thought that, like in Halite, people would just fight and do what ever they want, and the camera would move around, catching things...  Well, after the first day of filming, I watched the footage...and was worried, I knew we were getting crap.  Not only that, but the last 10 mins of video was damaged by snow that got on the camera...  So I thought about it, and thought about it and decided to turn to the pros.  I put in Braveheart and watched the battle of Sterling, taking down notes on moves, positions, angles, everything...(Though I didn't stick to that, it helped to get going)  In Conclusion to the filming problem, I realized how I was doing it wrong...  Braveheart had double kill moves in 1 sec, while we were getting 5 min fencing sequences...people didn't fence in battle, they killed, killed and killed in quick angles...  I think I counted around 100 different angles in 7 mins during braveheart and we were getting 1 and a half...  So once that was figured out, we were good... 

     Editing this movie, oooooooo god, that was horrible and it hurts to even think about it!!!  So we got amazing footage, but unfortunatly, since the camera got wet the first day of filming, the files that weren't damaged became erroneous on the computer...  Erroneous meaning that they screwed the sound, screwed the video by freezing and then jumping to catch up, screwing as in just breaking the program...  It was really bad, it took me around 3 weeks to get this project done, when 4 days would have been enough...  I had to cut the video in half to get it on tape, not only that but in the middle of a song...  The video, somehow, by the grace of the flying turtle in the sky frooze during an off point in the song, so I could just pick it up again from that point...  It finally worked and we got an awesome video, but a lot of work went in...

A new technology was developed for this video which made this film possible...  I had the idea that we do everything in slow motion, and then speed it up.  It looks great!!!!  This made people more confident, this made more people do funky/cool things with the swords and axes, and amazingly, it looked great on the program, after being sped up...  This technology will continue with A.S.A.P. Films for ever...
An amazing soundtrack came with this video...  With a combination of Lord of the Rings, The Last Samurai, and various artists...  Songs in this movie make it enjoyable, with out, it would be horrible, just a half of hour of death...but with the music, its great...

Crew
Director - Sam Avery
Producer - Sam Avery
Co-Producer - John Rood
Editor - Sam Avery
Main Camera - Nate LaFrance
Co-Cameramen - Sam Avery, John Rood
Music Supervisor - Sam Avery
Co-Supervisor - John Rood
Prop Provider - Sam Avery
Stuntmen - ASAP Cast and Crew

Cast
Tybolt - Sam Avery
Benvolio - Mitch Ensman
Prince - John Rood
Samson - James Meyers
Gregory - Tom Hartter
Abram - Pete Rundle
Bathazar - John Rood
Master Capulet - Nate LaFrance
Lady Capulet - Abby Avery
Officer - James Meyers
Capulet 1 - Abby Avery
Capulet 2 - James Meyers
Capulet 3 - Tom Hartter
Capulet 4 - Mitch Ensman
Capulet 5 - Sam Avery
Capulet 6 - John Rood
Capulet 7 - Nate LaFrance
Capulet 8 - Pete Rundle
Head Montigue - Pete Rundle
Montigue 1 - Max Monaghan
Montigue 2 - Pete Rundle
Montigue 3 - Nate LaFrance
Montigue 4 - Sam Avery
Montigue 5 - Mitch Ensman
Montigue 6 - Abby Avery
Montigue 7 - James Meyers

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