Is anyone here seriously interested in having a serious career in martial art AND film making? That is, being serious and persistent enough to actually be successful at doing it. Please let me know of your interests. Thanks
Are you going to make us a star?
Well Im just a young man so I cant make any promises on that. I am pretty determined to be successful at what I have chosen to dedicate my life to, and I have many different ideas and perspectives that sort of steer away from the mainstream movies.
As far as my personal training goes, I dont want to learn how to “movie fight” at all. I want to train for real and I want to find some other young people that are interested in expressing their real life martial art ideas-via film making.
Where do you live? I could point you in the right direction in Florida as far as film fighting (real or movie fu).
You’re young, interested in stunt work?
Well as I said above, for my personal studies, Ive been studying real hand to hand combat techniques and not “movie fu”. I think if youve got a very good sense as to how real life combat works, you will be able to get across a much finer message on screen.
Ultimately I am an artist and I will be studying both film AND real life martial art. I am definetly interested in some stunt work to start out, but I am looking to become a writer/director. I live in Clearwater, Florida right next to Tampa.
Ive got some real unique ideas for my fight coreography and the better I understand live combat, the better I can get these visualizations onto film in an entertaining manner.
Are you the guy in the picture? If so, youve got a pretty decent resume. I could definetly learn some things from a guy like you who has alot of experience. If you are interested in communicating, let me know.
The Austin group had created 3 different fight choreography in the past 2 years and this is the latest one we created, the 1st one was a large group fighting and the 2nd one was SC fighting only.
Both demo are the same but the 2nd one is better.
http://johnswang.com/3_men_demo.wmv
http://johnswang.com/2005_demo.wmv
I intend to introduce this type of fighting choreography into Hollywood movie industry. I believe that people may have already tired of the “Matrix” type of fighting and may need to start a get some new idea. It may be just a silly dream that I have and it may never happen.
I do intend to find some money to make a movie, “The last SC King in China”. I have started the movie script, 15 pages of camera scenes and it should be completed soon.
Anybody interest in some “investment”?
Ykw
I can get you money but you gotta use a sh i t load of the Wushu people I also provide cause they are the only ones that look good on screen! :eek:
Don’t know any Wushu people has throwing skill.
One of our coaches, Jason Yee, has transformed his martial arts career into a movie-making and acting career. You should check out his website www.jasonyeekungfu.com to see some of what he’s working on. Maybe contact him for advice if you are serious.
One of our current students and fight-team members has similar aspirations and is planning to leave next year to study film-making in China.
Also, might be worth going to stunt-man school in LA to get your foot in the door. Good luck
btw, I lived in Clearwater when I was a kid (Largo next door actually).
I think the trend is more reality type fighting so TheSnake is on the right track. I did a fight scene for a Wing Chun student who’s in the film industry. It was an entry into the 36 Hour Film Challenge.
He didn’t want it choreographed so I ended up just playing slappy hands with his teacher. With cameras and expensive lighting all around us I wasn’t comfortable trying to pull off any throws. We could have if we worked it out ahead of time but it was all freestyle.
I never did get a copy so I don’t know how it came out. I’ll post it if I can get my hands on it.
I also did a fight scene for http://www.realpremonition.com/ but don’t have that footage yet. The film is still in post. That scene worked out pretty good after I reworked the directors original idea.
There good stunt training right here in Florida and plenty of indie film to learn the ropes and gain experience.
Right now I’ve got my fingers crossed hoping to get on Pirates Of The Carribean II & III filming in the Bahamas now.
There was a CMA film “The sun set down in the forbinden city - The last security guard in China” directed by Adam Hsu back in Taiwan. The 3 main actors and actress was the famous white ape master Mon Cho-Shun, his wife soft cotton fist master Fu Su-Yun, and TKD master Tan Dao-Lan. Adam tried to maintain the true flavor of white ape and soft cotton fist but still look good in the fighting scene. It was not an easy task. The invester only care about money making and can’t care less about showing the true CMA on the screen. That’s the main problem of the current CMA movies. They all look like the movie “The Matrix”.
Dayum, there’re some nice throws in there John 
Cool
Cool man, same here. How old are you and where are you located? I personally prefer the current hong kong style, though I like the more realistic stuff too. I really want to get into filmmaking+martial arts, I just worked as choreographer for a small, ragtag, no budget indie feature over the summer. It was fun, but probably not going to lead me anywhere special. I’d love to hear about everyone’s experiences with martial arts filmmaking though. I’m actually shooting a short film this weekend (zero production values), if it turns out alright I’ll post it up here.
Check out the Zero Gravity stunt team, their MA fights are pretty clean. Their cheography borders on HK early days.