Before there was Trif3cta, there was just Topher and Scott. We began making movies when we were fourteen years old. Back in those times, our audience included ourselves, our other closest friends, and our bemused families. We like to refer to these first few shorts as 'basement scripts', as they were made at two in the morning during sleepovers and were dreamt up in my basement.
There was our very fist collaboration, "The Box", in which a man (Scott Landy), receives a package and just can't seem to get the damn thing open. Our second movie, entitled "The Insomnia" starred Matthew Arnold as a man who could not sleep, despite his obsesisive attempts to fall into slumber. Then of course there was "The Hunter", in which an inept gunman (Matthew Arnold) pursues the ultimate quarry: an obnoxious human being (played again by Matthew). We made a fake trailer for a sequel to "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" and our final project in those days was a silly little project called "A Grim Life": in which the Grim Reaper tried to live a normal life. Interestingly, Scott directed this last film, while Topher starred; reversing our usual roles.
After these silly, immature comedies (so bad production wise we edited them as they happened), Scott and I made our first attempt at a feature length film. A spoof about Hollywood antics, the project was to be called "Filmmaker" starring Ed Andrews as a washed-up film student trying to bring his terrible vision to the big screen with the help of a broke producer, Big Al Banks (Matthew Arnold). Unfortunately the film was never completed, yet several gags live forever amongst the group.
"Filmmaker" was never completed, yet it was the first step towards something bigger.
This is the end of part I. I'll bring the remains of Trif3cta's glorious days very soon.
Peace all you fans.
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