Popular corporate and creative films and videos and animations created by Vance Mellen
My real claim to fame, I was the screenwriter and Executive Producer on this theatrically-released feature film JUST LET GO, starring Henry Ian Cusick (LOST) and Brenda Vaccaro (Academy Award Nominee).
I was an Executive Producer on this documentary-style film for the LDS church. I came up with the concept, pitched it, lined up the principles and helped produce it. Did interviews on camera.
From religion to horror?
Screatures is a super-low budget horror film shot in abandoned houses and insane asylums across the Midwest. This was my graduate project for my MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Made this even before Blair Witch made its micro-budget splash! Shot on 16 mm film and video.
Created this scary short for Halloween in collaboration with Proud Salamander Films (in charge of exteriors).
I directed/edited interiors. Shot it in my haunted barn in IL.
Trailer for AS YOU LIKE IT, the LOW-budget feature Shakespeare Film I created (see entire film below).
As You Like It - a micro-budget Shakespearean feature shot in the Rocky Mountains of UT. I directed, shot, edited and acted in this feature.
Promotional for CREEPY CLOWN Novelette. Over 90K views!
I love doing After Effects animations. This is one of the more complicated ones.
How to make fake trees for a theatrical set (Lion Witch and Wardrobe). I built this set and documented how I did it. Has 65,000 views on YouTube.
Made this mosaic sculpture fountain "how to" video.
A very strange little film I made for kids. Toby's Dinner is about some kids that meet a dinosaur and the crazy farmer who created it. Starring me and my old barn again.
A very old student film I made at BYU, BUT still a lot of fun. Made it and edited it on 16mm film!
Over 170K views!
An early student film starring AARON ECKHART in his first films ever. Colbert asked me for a copy to roast Aaron, though he never ended up showing it.
Another experimental student film starring Aaron Eckhart and my sister.
Making instructional videos to help my students learn AE.
A tutorial I made to demonstrate more advanced concepts in Premiere Pro Editing
Made this cheesy (but fun) flick with some Boy Scouts when I was Scout Master once.
