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wondering if any Canberra bands were looking for an affordable music video to help promote themselves?
Menofthehour is a 27 year old guy from ACT, Australia He was online on the 6th Nov, 2009.
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All About Me
Daniel Sanguineti’s interest in story-telling began at a very young age. From writing short stories to psuedo-novels, the need to share a thrilling, exciting adventure was something Daniel breathed on. He has always enjoyed watching films and TV adventure serials, and perhaps while growing up, spent most Friday evenings in the local video store - sometimes taking hours to pick which film would be next to watch.
However he finally was able to take his storytelling to a newer, somewhat more comfortable level when he was given an old video camera to play with. His first film, as cliched as it may be, was a short animation with play-doh and paper boats. Its current existence lost very much like the VHS tape is now, but it will always stand as a film that began what is clear to be a lifetime career.
But Daniel's intense passion to be a filmmaker, the same passion which drives him today, did not blossom until after he had turned 17 years old and was in the final years of his secondary education. On a career path that was heading towards being a air force pilot (Daniel's love of aircraft is still pertinent today), he took an additional elective of media at a Canberra College. Over those two final years, his interest in maths, physics and science slowly dissipated as his love for the media and more importantly film making just grew and grew.
When Daniel turned eighteen and just graduated from his secondary education, he attended the Melbourne University Summer Film School. Mingling with some industry personnel, Daniel gained much experience that he was able to bring into his university courses. He completed is Communication Degree at the University of Canberra, which specialised in TV/Media Production.
By 2004, Daniel was studying and working on his first major film project Screwball! as well as working part-time at three casual jobs.
By 2005, he had graduated university, and was hired to co-direct and edit a short eco-documentary How Green is My Campus?, which was funded by his own University of Canberra and Health pact Australia. In the same year he produced his first film entered into competition, Epitaph, co-produced by Goldfish Productions.
By 2006, Daniel had established Menofthehour Productions as business, producing wedding videos and commercials. He also began working for Prime Television as the Media Coordinator.
By 2007, with usual collaborator Christopher Maher, they had produced and released their first feature film A Touch of Courage and premiered it to a packed Dendy Cinemas theatre in what was perhaps the largest film premiere of a locally produced film at that time.
By 2008, Menofthehour had broaden its horizons, working collaboratively on numerous video projects with various members of the ACT Arts community.
This year - 2009 - Daniel has begun working for himself offering his production needs to an array of different clients and is currently writing his second feature film, with the quiet hope for shooting to begin by early next year...
Daniel has a very distinctive style in his work. He always thinks big and sometimes over the top... perhaps the same need to tell thrilling, exciting adventure as when he was young. He grows inspiration from filmmakers Peter Jackson and of course Steven Spielberg (so news of the development of the upcoming Tin Tin film sends shivers down his back). He loves action films - Jerry Bruckheimer always hitting the spot - Michael Bay, regardless of how so many people think his films suck - John Woo's work is always great entertainment and brilliant research - Robert Rodriquez, Quentin Tarantino - And Martin Scorcese he thinks is just brillant. He loves a whole list of classic films; he loves the film era of the 70s & 80s; he loves the big budget FX filled extravaganzas. For him to list his favourite films, is like is own mother trying to pick her favourite son.
Daniel is always open to exploring new styles and genres - and is willing to take an experiment as far as it can go.
His need to write, film and edit is as much as his need to eat and drink.
He hopes one day people are reminded of him, like people are reminded when they see Indiana Jones' silhouette.
And he believes he has had a good start - his Year 12 graduation book said that his class of 2002 would most likely see Daniel making a big Budget film in the next 10 years... only 3 years left to go...
However he finally was able to take his storytelling to a newer, somewhat more comfortable level when he was given an old video camera to play with. His first film, as cliched as it may be, was a short animation with play-doh and paper boats. Its current existence lost very much like the VHS tape is now, but it will always stand as a film that began what is clear to be a lifetime career.
But Daniel's intense passion to be a filmmaker, the same passion which drives him today, did not blossom until after he had turned 17 years old and was in the final years of his secondary education. On a career path that was heading towards being a air force pilot (Daniel's love of aircraft is still pertinent today), he took an additional elective of media at a Canberra College. Over those two final years, his interest in maths, physics and science slowly dissipated as his love for the media and more importantly film making just grew and grew.
When Daniel turned eighteen and just graduated from his secondary education, he attended the Melbourne University Summer Film School. Mingling with some industry personnel, Daniel gained much experience that he was able to bring into his university courses. He completed is Communication Degree at the University of Canberra, which specialised in TV/Media Production.
By 2004, Daniel was studying and working on his first major film project Screwball! as well as working part-time at three casual jobs.
By 2005, he had graduated university, and was hired to co-direct and edit a short eco-documentary How Green is My Campus?, which was funded by his own University of Canberra and Health pact Australia. In the same year he produced his first film entered into competition, Epitaph, co-produced by Goldfish Productions.
By 2006, Daniel had established Menofthehour Productions as business, producing wedding videos and commercials. He also began working for Prime Television as the Media Coordinator.
By 2007, with usual collaborator Christopher Maher, they had produced and released their first feature film A Touch of Courage and premiered it to a packed Dendy Cinemas theatre in what was perhaps the largest film premiere of a locally produced film at that time.
By 2008, Menofthehour had broaden its horizons, working collaboratively on numerous video projects with various members of the ACT Arts community.
This year - 2009 - Daniel has begun working for himself offering his production needs to an array of different clients and is currently writing his second feature film, with the quiet hope for shooting to begin by early next year...
Daniel has a very distinctive style in his work. He always thinks big and sometimes over the top... perhaps the same need to tell thrilling, exciting adventure as when he was young. He grows inspiration from filmmakers Peter Jackson and of course Steven Spielberg (so news of the development of the upcoming Tin Tin film sends shivers down his back). He loves action films - Jerry Bruckheimer always hitting the spot - Michael Bay, regardless of how so many people think his films suck - John Woo's work is always great entertainment and brilliant research - Robert Rodriquez, Quentin Tarantino - And Martin Scorcese he thinks is just brillant. He loves a whole list of classic films; he loves the film era of the 70s & 80s; he loves the big budget FX filled extravaganzas. For him to list his favourite films, is like is own mother trying to pick her favourite son.
Daniel is always open to exploring new styles and genres - and is willing to take an experiment as far as it can go.
His need to write, film and edit is as much as his need to eat and drink.
He hopes one day people are reminded of him, like people are reminded when they see Indiana Jones' silhouette.
And he believes he has had a good start - his Year 12 graduation book said that his class of 2002 would most likely see Daniel making a big Budget film in the next 10 years... only 3 years left to go...