This is an updated version that I cropped up a bit. The original had the word "Bandidos" across the bottom.

It takes a little explanation to understand this one, so here goes.

My friend and partner in filmmaking crime is actually still in High School. He's making this silly movie called Los Bandidos Del Colegio. Translation: High school bandits.

The idea behind the movie is that it is an exercise in completely self-indulgent piece of silly, stupid, throw-the-rules-away high-school filmmaking. He wanted to make it because, since it is his last year in high-school, its sort of his last chance to do a throwaway sort of a picture before joining the RTF Departement here at UT. Plus, he wanted to try his hand at new and different types of special effects, to push what could done with zero-budget mini-DV filmmaking.

What we have here is an image from near the very end of the movie, when a meteor smashes into the main characters' favorite hang-out. Yeah, its that kind of a thing.

Anyway, the idea here is to sort of show that image in wht at first glance just looks like an abstract southwestern/geometric pattern. Since the movie takes place in West Central Texas, and owes a lot to Clint Eastern westerns (again, that kind of a thing), the southwestern thing seemed the way to go.

The very minimalistic color scheme was a choice I made for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, its easy to work with. Har. Secondly, I wanted something vaguely reminiscent of the Soviet posters with which we have been dealing so much in this class. Also, since so many of the people involved are punkish guys, I thought they'd like a design they could have made into a patch for their jackets.

OK, there's that. Back to lab work. Today: Flash.