Introduction

Three Way Monte is a cutting-edge, interactive, Internet film. Three Way Monte is the first of its kind.

Monte was independently produced by five students in the dMAT program in the Telecommunication Department at Michigan State University. The film was created as a project for TC 842: Message Design, Development and Project Management, and TC 491: Intro to Webcasting.

The Monte team—Ryan, Pete, Charles, Marcus, and Kelly—wanted to take filmmaking to the next dimension. With digital technology completely revolutionizing today's filmaking process, the team of five wanted to create something very innovative: an interactive film, produced—from beginning to end—with the explicit intent of delivery via the Internet.

Making

Monte was created over the span of less than four months during Spring Semester 2001. Since the making time was so compressed, much of the production stages overlapped significantly.

• pre-production: less than 2 months, January - March 2001
• production: about 6 days, March - April 2001

• post-production: less than 3 months, March - May 2001

Digital tools used in the production

• 3 cameras:
  • Sony DSR-300 DVCAM (primary)
  • Sony DSR-PD100A DVCAM
  • Sony TR-11 Mini-DVCAM
• 3 Power Mac G4s
• Dell PIII T600
• AVID Xpress
• Final Cut Pro
• QuickTime Pro 4
• Media Cleaner Pro 5
• Live Stage Pro 2
• Adobe Photoshop 6
• Adobe ImageReady 2
• Adobe After Effects 5
• Macromedia Flash 5
• Macromedia Dreamweaver 4
  

Script

The script was written by Ryan Mulvaney and Charles McPike over a time period of about two months.

Click here to view the script in its entirety.

Awards

• "Best of Show" DMAT showcase, May 2001, East Lansing, MI
• "Best of Class" DMAT showcase, May 2001, East Lansing, MI
• Selected and shown in Snow-Flicks, MSU student-film showcase, February 2002, East Lansing, MI
• "Five Minutes of Fame" New Media Consortium, June 2002, Columbus, OH

Special Thanks

The Monte crew would like to thank the following entities, whom without this project would not have been possible:

• Bob Albers
• Brian Winn
• Darcy Greene
• Telecom Dept
• Comm Tech Lab
• Pete's roommates: Eloy, Chris, Matt, and Dan
• Capt. Dave Trexler and the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety

Links

Other student films of the MSU Telecom Dept:

• Glove
• Stained Glass
• Into the Darkness

Film-related links:

• IMDb The Internet Movie Database
• It's your movie Interactive animated movies
• Atomfilms interactive entertainment, short
  films, and animations
• Romp 'freewheeling' interactive flash movies and more

Others:

• Apple
• QuickTime
• East Lansing Film Festival & Society
• Austin Film Resource