Filmmaker: Mark Leung

Penguin December 4th, 2007

Mark Leung is student filmmaker out of Babson College. When I saw the first episode of “College Saga“, I thought it was cute, geeky, and creative. College Saga is a spoof on Final Fantasy. He even has the on screen blue box text speech bubbles and battle menus, music and sound. But as I watched more, it started losing its narrative focus and began getting tedious. That’s probably what you can say for most of his work. It lacks narrative focus.

One of the things I’ll commend him for is that he’s willing to throw up his experimental footage. I think this is a boon for aspiring filmmakers. Try out that new shot or technique and see how it goes before risking an entire short on it.

College Saga - Episode 1