The Navidson Record: Exploration #4

An excerpt from The Navidson Record.

Written by Ariadne Blayde and Trevor Scott

Adapted from the novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Filmed in 4 hours as part of a class project at NYU.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• navidson
• record
• house
• of
• leaves
• exploration
• holloway
• jed
• wax
• lost
• dark
• Mark
• Danielewski

[nicoleeriot]

I greatly appreciate what you've done here. I did picture the characters differently but that's expected. Also the firearm Holloway is carrying is different. The book repeatedly mention the crack of rifle fire. And the ash colored walls, of course. But those things aside this is how I pictured things. Seeing it is nice, makes the book feel all the more real.

[Launchbay07]

@nicoleeriot Unfortunately, I had a budget of about $200 for this project, and renting a rifle is at minimum $300. I was kicking myself the whole time, but I just couldn't spend that much.

[Blacklemon67]

Good job! But I don't think there should have been any camera cuts, and I think the jump cuts should have had no black space in-between

[Launchbay07]

@Blacklemon67 It was a tough call, really. Technically, I shouldn't even have had people other than the characters filming it, but I had to make that decision, too.

[ZRDAUGHARTY]

This was not good. Having read the book I do not see any of it in this video...

[Launchbay07]

@ZRDAUGHARTY I'm sorry you feel that way. I did my best with the tools that were available to me.

[Soldier0Cross]

Great job on trying, however I dont think House of Leaves should be represented through film. The sense of loneliness and darkness that you can imagine while reading the book, I dont think could ever be truely recreated through film.

[prismacolored]

The acting is really good! I think by its very definition, though, the atmosphere of the house is impossible to recreate in film.

[wackywankavator]

And since I'm rambling anyway, the initial appearance of the hallway and its extension would really add to the video.

P.S. Navidson Record was awesome, the rest of HOL sucked. :)

[wackywankavator]

Meh, too much light, too many wall backdrops... The characters should be drowning in darkness. No ambient light, just flashlights. I know it would be hard to see the characters, but that's half of what made the Navidson Record work. The sense of claustrophobic darkness. And honestly, the actors just look bored. So meh. Someone should try this though, I reaaally want to see the Navidson Record in video (maybe try again?)

[TheAaron1375]

I tentatively give this a thumbs up. The acting was actually rather good it just could not recreate the feel of the structure, though whoever made this at least did not make it so all we saw was complete darkness. I would love to see a film version of the Navidson Record as I don't think a full House of Leaves movie is viable. This is a nice effort, but one would need a big budget to recreate the Grand Hall and Spiral Staircase. A very big one indeed to make it look like a real place.

[Archedgar]

Nicely done. I'm quite impressed.

For the budget you had, I think you did a solid job of showing Hook, Wax and Holloway's plight. A for effort, I'd say a D- overall, but that's only because of the budget.

If you guys had a good $60,000, this could be something really special.

[ruinyourshoes]

More like Exploration #420, am I right?!!!

[redresch]

Hey hey hey hey..... Whoa whoa whoa.... There were no Ghostbusters in House of Leaves. I call shenanigans!!!!

[thegreatcheesedemon]

@Soldier0Cross

And what's the point of a fake Navidson Record?

[L33Tspartan]

shouldn't the cameras be attached to their chests though? very well done btw

[kmthedrummer]

Somebody get Christopher Nolan...