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Ian Daffern is a writer, producer and director based in Toronto, and he hopes you like this stuff. Check out his portfolio at www.iandaffern.ca
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Recently directed this trailer for Third Floor, a new Play by my friend Jason Hall (@halljas) that’s premiering at Summerworks this year. Theatrical trailers are only slightly more obscure than book trailers, but they make sense for getting the word out. You can get a taste for the dialogue, the performances. The trick is you can’t really show the actual on-stage action— because you don’t give the whole thing away, or simply because there is something lost in just straight trying to tape an on-stage production. Or like in our case, because the stage isn’t even built yet. So what do you do?
We went with recording some of the more enigmatic dialogue of the play, scenes that captures the tone and the essence, and then matched it with our thriller-ish shots of condo interiors, which was quite a challenge when you don’t want to show the actors exactly.
Third Floor itself is set entirely in the hallway of a condominium. It’s a liminal space, claustrophobic, always not quite home, not quite away. And as a location I think has a great sort of psychological aspect— floating through hallways like traveling through your mind, surrounded by locked doors. Which will open? And will you like what you find on the other side?You’ll see it in videos like Karmacoma which in turn seems to lifted it’s weirdness from the Shining. Trent Reznor lifts it for his spin-off project How to Destroy Angels. But check your urban thrillers your horror. You’ll find that floating hallway shot in every one.
