Burn

Keep running

About the film
When I graduated from film school, I bought a Canon GL-1; a really good camera at the time but a bit "precious" - I found its prosumer status made me treat it a bit more delicately than I had done with the Canon Video-8 I grew up with. In 2003 I bought a consumer JVC single-chip camera, to have more of a beater camera to play around with - and promptly made Burn to prove that I could play.

Burn was an idea Mark had way back in the 1990s, to do a chase movie with no dialogue, no setup or tear-down, just the running. I liked the idea and we had never come around to ever finishing it, so I repurposed it for this effort, which we shot in a single day in the Don Valley, and I cut together to R.E.M.'s "Leave" - wanting to go for a hard rock sound to avoid the rather obvious Run Lola Run parallels that techno would have induced.

Production year
2003

Technical specifications
Length: 4 minutes
Production format: Mini-DV
Aspect ratio: 16x9
Sound: stereo

Production credits
Shot & chopped by Matthew C. Brown
Sprint & scheme by Mark Brown
Music: "Leave" by R.E.M.