◗ Back to School Kahn. “Almost every shot in the movie has a cheat like that.” One sequence with many visual layers shows the students using their smart phones to look up a pirated version of the not-yet-released Cinderhella sequel in an attempt to determine the killer’s next move. The characters in the pirated film are also in detention, and they are also looking up a horror movie for the same reason. This film-within-a-film motif continues down several more layers, each getting cheesier and featuring older and older technology, until we finally end up with a porno-film version of the same library scene ripped from a grainy VHS tape! Each level of characters is then progressively killed off as we step back out to the present-day scene, where our characters are now certain an axe is about to fall on them as well. Detention’s frenzied narrative comes to a climax at the prom, which we shot in the gymnasium at University Dolly track snakes around desks for Elliot Fink’s flashback sequence, which covers 19 years of detention. Chairs were adjusted to camera to accommodate the multiple morphs, blends and wipes needed to combine several eras in one continuous shot. Image 80 backlights can be seen armed in from Max Menace stands. 62 Photo by Christopher Probst.http://www.jlfisher.com http://www.jlfisher.com http://www.jlfisher.de