Directing Movies, Vol. 1: From Action to Wrap

Starring:Ted V. Mikels
Studio: Victory Records
Product Type: DVD

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Directing Movies, Vol. 1: From Action to Wrap
Starring: Ted V. Mikels
Manufacturer: Victory Records
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0006A9ISY
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste your hard earned money.......2007-06-11

This is 101 minutes of poorly shot talking heads, discussing seventies schlock movies with very little redeeming value. That would have been tolerable if there was any insightful directing instruction. Simply not there. I was disappointed, myself.

Leon Rodriguez
Filmmaker
Austin, Texas

horrible.......2007-04-03

I don't like to really be negative in general in my life, but I feel I must truly warn those out there who think this is a slick well-polished instructional video, to take a second look at all these comments. This video looks like and was probably shot in the early 80's with home video cameras. It is not interesting nor is it very good at teaching, and the films it shows you how to aspire to are really cheap B-movies that wouldn't sell in the $1 DVD bin at Walmart. Time to retire this old video and take it off the search engines. Steer clear filmmakers...

Stay Away.......2007-03-17

This is a self promoting DVD

You should be paid to watch this.

It's not what it sounds like.......2006-07-09

Directing Movies, Vol. 1: From Action to Wrap by Ted V. Mikels sounds like a complete A-Z explanation of movie making, right? Don't be fooled like I was. It's nothing more than an unprofessional interview with Mikels who shows off numerous movie trailers from some of the worst films you've ever imagined. As bad as the movies are, they do offer hope. If Mikels could get funding for dogs like that, it should be easy for the rest of us.

Keep away.......2006-03-01

This dvd should really have been titled "My brilliant career", since it consists entirely of 101 minutes of a self-promotional interview of a director/producer/editor called Ted V Mikels, famous for such gems as "Corpse Grinders", "Astro-Zombies" and "Blood Orgy of the She-Devils," amongst others (including something called "Black Klansman", which we are assured preceded Mississippi Burning by 20 years, though it bears no resemblance to any movie one would pay money for. One of the interviewers looks like she stepped out of "Blood Orgy" and the other, who we are informed is a "writer", appears bored and embarrassed. For the entire period we are exposed to 3 minute trailers of each of Mr Mikel's 11 movies from the 1950's to 1970's (which cannot even be called B grade) followed by inane questions (such as "Were those real worms?" - the movie in question involves endless scenes of persons eating worms - and yes, they were real, we are earnestly informed). Mr Mikels himself has sufficient vibrancy to sustain his self-aggrandizement for the full 101 minutes, while taking credit for having been the first to consider heart transplants, claiming that Charlie's Angels was plagiarised from his earlier "Doll Squad", and attempting to obtain funding from viewers for his upcoming "Corpse Grinder 2" God help us. The man also has a webpage: [...], which I undertake never to visit.
This is not an instructional dvd and one is left feeling cheated out of money and time. Keep away.

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