"Trapped" - by One23 Films

[clarkage]

Hey everybody! Back in the game again! Really looking forward to this one. The script is still in the writing process but we already have a great actor on board. Zack Emerson, from "The Five Worst Days In The Life Of Bartholomew Saxton". Really excited!

llCrewll

ll Written and Directed by: Kevin Clark ll

ll Audio Design: Calvin Muusse ll

ll Camera Assistant/ DOP: Sam Pepke ll

ll Grip Master: Matt Patterson ll

ll Assistant Grip: Kelly ll

llCastll
Zack Emerson



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[clarkage]

Updates

8/6/08 - The script is still a work in progress. Zack Emerson, our actor just got into LA a few days ago. Hoping that we can finish the script off and start shooting in a few weeks!

8/8/08 - Just finished the rough draft for our script last night. It seems to be coming together really nicely! I think we are all going to sit down and figure out what needs to still be worked on with it!

9/20/08 - Just finished outr first shoot of the day it went really well i thought! Will have stills up later for sure!

[clarkage]

Zack Emerson our lead actor! Playing the role of Scott.
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BTS
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[Matt Sconce]

Sounds great! Welcome to the game!

[pauly_the_hitman]

Cool look forward to seeing this one man. Good luck.
Pauly

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

Good luck! Intriguing title.

Mike

[clarkage]

Thank you for all of the comments! I will get some more stuff up here later hopefully!

[ZazaCast]

Rock It! Like the poster....

[jasonthewho]

Well, I'll be! No one tells me anything! Have fun with Zack, he's a great young actor!

[clarkage]

Thanks Jason! We look forward to having him on board!

UPDATE Just finished the rough draft of the script!

[Susanne G.]

Very much luck and best wishes!

Susanne

[Simon Höfer]

Welcome to the fest! Nice poster :) Looks really good!

[clarkage]

Thanks for all the comments guys! Its greatly appreciated. I'm hoping to get a few more details up as soon as I get back from vacation.

[clarkage]

Hey sorry I have been really bad this time around about keeping everyone updated... I put up a headshot of our lead actor Zach Emerson!!

[Rodney V. Smith]

dont feel "trapped" to keep us updated. :grin: we know how it is sometimes... post here or make a movie.... decisions, decisions...

[clarkage]

Yeah seriously... I'm really looking forward to this though! Hopefully it turns out as good as intended.

[Simon Höfer]

So how is it going? Are you moving along? You know we need those updates :evil:

[clarkage]

Yes! moving along very well! We are shooting on the 20th and 21st. I have a shot that is going to call for some 3d work and i was unable to find any VFX guys to help so i have been messing around with blender, after effects, etc. Zach (our actor) is currently in Valencia and we are planning on having him stay down here in the OC at a hotel during the shoot. I'm super excited for this one!

[clarkage]

Well I thought I would just update all of you guys! I am shooting this weekend and I made a dolly!! I might put some stuff up of it in the DIY section. But ya... Screen shots are soon to come! And hopefully a new poster when I get the time! Cuz the one I have now is kinda lame.

[clarkage]

BTS is up =)

[Susanne G.]

I love your BTS! :thumbup: Did you finish shooting and start with the editing?

[Mike Manning]

Heeeeeeyyy...
Nice dolly!

[clarkage]

I love your BTS! :thumbup: Did you finish shooting and start with the editing?Yes we are all done with the shoot and it is in editing right now!

Heeeeeeyyy...
Nice dolly!Thank you it really worked out nicely and ui thought added to the film! =)

More stills/ BTS coming soon!!

[Robbie Comeau]

Dude, how old are you? I'm insanely impressed on the resources you've gathered. What did you shoot your Timefest entry on? Now you have a nice beautiful DVX, you have a dolly that does the work, you have some crew, and you have talents.

I'm impressed man, and I am DEFINITELY looking forward to this..

Robbie

[clarkage]

thanks man means a lot! I am 15 years old. I want to get some more BTS shots up so you guys can see what we REALLY had going. We had a 11 ft by 12 ft green screen and a LOT more equipment. I was sooo excited with everything we were able to borrow out from everyone. It's all a really good learning experience for us! But i wish it could have turned out a little bit better. Im still really happy with what we got.

[ZazaCast]

Wow...good for you! I don't know WHAT I was doing at 15, but it wasn't making movies. I'm really impressed & looking forward to seeing this one. Best of luck.

[clarkage]

Thanks a lot ZaZa! We just finished all of our editing last week and I just rendered it down to 44mb today! I'll try and put up those BTS pics ASAP for you guys.

[Mile Bozicevic]

I am 15 years old.

O_o

Gotta see that one. And I guess it'll be a movie which directed THE youngest guy ever (at least in my case).

Best of luck!

[Red4Breakfast]

clarkage...i like the look of your dolly a lot.

did you build it? if so what did you use? how did you do it? cost?
if not...do you know the answers to any of the above?

[Tom Marshall]

What do you pay your crew with, Oreos and Gummi Bears?












I'm kidding... that line is from Gone in 60 Seconds and I think it's a really cool line... :)

[clarkage]

clarkage...i like the look of your dolly a lot.

did you build it? if so what did you use? how did you do it? cost?
if not...do you know the answers to any of the above?

Thanks for your intrest in the Dolly! I did build it. It cost me about 60 bucks and it runs AMazingly smooth. I am in love with it now. I used some cheap angle iron, rollerblade wheels, 3 by 3 peice of wood and some PVC. If you want some more in depth instruction feel free to PM me!

What do you pay your crew with, Oreos and Gummi Bears?

hahaha! I love this line too! Actually my crew probably wishes they could get paid in Gummi Bears and Oreos... what crew doesnt??? ;)

[Robbie Comeau]

Any grabs?

More BTS!

How do you stop the PVC from moving? Gaffer tape?

Robbie

[clarkage]

I put up a pic of the green screen we used. This was at 7AM And i hadn't thrown any lights on it or anything yet.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb316/clarkage24/IMG_0221.jpg

As for the dolly I know there are a lot of questions about it. I actually just put sandbags on the end of the PVC which also helped as a blockade to make sure the dolly didnt roll off or anything. And then when we used it on grass, just the wait of it kept it planted but i still put sandbags on there just in case. It is a very GOOD idea for any of you indie film makers out there or just anyone wanting to save a few bucks. If you have any more questions i would love to answer them.

[WayneB]

Love your post, look forward to seeing UR work. Looks like a good one. Best 2 U.

[Edgen]

Love the green screen in the living room. :)

Looking forward to seeing your entry!

/j

[gabrielflorit]

You guys built a green screen??? Wicked cool! How did that turn out?

[clarkage]

Yeah we got it from a USC film student I know and he let us borrow it for a weekend. It was 12 ft by 12 ft and it was awesome!! We used it for an effect in the end of the film.

[Tom Marshall]

What's cool is your parents let you tape a green screen to a wall inside your living room. Cool parents! :)

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Well they did use painter's tape. When I was that age I probably would have used duct tape. And it probably would have involve spaghetti sauce as well.

Seriously. Impressed with your BTS photos. And feeling really old.

Welcome :beer: <- (don't drink that) :)

[clarkage]

Thanks for all the great comments! And yeah we had it all taped up, but that only lasted about 2 hours without falling, so we took a trip down to the hardware store and bought a bunch of PVC to make a ghetto frame for the green screen.

Welcome :beer: <- (don't drink that)

hahaha I think we should get a avatar holding a milk glass for us "youngins" =)

[Brian Parker]

Nice stuff Clarkage. Looking forward to what happens with the green screen. You got some great BTS going on. Good luck!

[Zim]

Nice Twilight Zone ending....good work

[MrKilloran]

Nice, very twilightzone like

[stinkpot]

If I was that kid, I would'a tried driving!

I am quite partial to "last man on earth" type stories. Great ending.

:beer:

[darkrequiem1134]

"its a trap!!!!"

[Marlon Ladd]

I love kids stories, but I tell you what. This one threw me for a loop! Great ending! This was a really good piece. I noticed there was some hissing in the narrative audio in the beginning, but other than that it was very good and I thought the kid did an excellent job of acting. Just can't say enough about that shot at the end.

[ZazaCast]

Great job Clarkage! ...and you're only 15 years old? I'd say you have a very bright future in film ahead of you! That said, it seemed to me that the audio in this one needed work, levels, noise, etc. I also didn't feel the score fit the action. Great story idea & you really pulled it off. Congratulations!

[gabrielflorit]

What happened with the compression? I think you could have tried a couple more times to get a higher quality file.

I enjoyed the lighting, nice flesh tones, the indoor shots weren't badly done either. I did have a serious problem with the music, it was so poor and intrusive I couldn't focus on what was going on, I think less is more with ambient music.

Good story overall, I felt bad for the little kid, didn't see the ending coming.

[Brian Parker]

Nice, Clarkage. You really got the Twilight theme going with this film. My only advice is to be very mindful of the audio as it is so very critical. I didn't catch some of the dialogue. It was a very good film overall. You're well on your way!

[clarkage]

First off, thank you for all the comments it is really appreciated. As i have said before the whole thing is an amazing learning experience and just what i love to hear is more things i can work on for next time!! =)

I have to agree with all of you on the audio. It really disappointed me... And as for the music I went back and watched it again and i can see what you are all talking about it definitely had some awkward moments. I think that Justin Durban is willing to score our next one that we do because i have used his stuff in every film but I have problems when it comes to throwing the music down. Also I think next time around we will be monitoring our audio levels like hawks because it can just KILL any project you are working on. Thank you for all the feedback guys! Did anyone see anything else they thought didn't fit, etc.? I prefer brutal honesty over light happy little comments that don't help.

[pauly_the_hitman]

Man you guys rock. I wish I had started at your ages. I loved this one very well done guys. The end actually caught me off guard for once I was expecting something completely different to happen but it made another scene make so much more sense. Great job once again.
Pauly

[heccky]

Very nice movie, guys!!!

It definetly ends like I didn't expect!!

Keep on with good work.

[John LaBonney]

Nice work. If I might be allowed to nitpick, one thing I would point out is that the camera shake seems to come in a bit late and isn't totally consistent through the quake. Great ending, looking forward to your next work.

[jpsheets]

Nice job guys, the only thing I had a problem with was the volume on your young boy's voice. I could barely make it out. Also I would have liked to have seen him walking down a deserted street, I wasn't quite sure what was going on. It would have been nice to have set the scene/story a bit more. But hey, that's just me. Best of luck on your next project!

cheers,

JP

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

This was fun and the ending surprised me a little.
There were some pretty smooth shots pulled off in this. Good camera work.
Work on the audio and you will come across much stronger.

Nice job overall.

Mike

[Mile Bozicevic]

Very good, you're lucky to have actor like him by your side. One-man films mostly depends about the performance of that one.

Zack did a great job, though at some times he walks strangely a little bit, like he's limbing. I didn't like the lighting outdoors-it looks overexposed to me, I think you just needed to lower your brightness in post-production(if you were able to), but I guess you're aware of that either.

Another thing-he's all alone there and he shouts if there's anyone out there. Now, if you couldn't get the empty street while he's walking, you could just shoot some details, roofs, windows, doors, cars, the sky...much of those shots would be like his point of view, that meaning, you don't need some great total shot etc to show that he's all alone. And of course, while editing it's much easier to put together ''Zack looking into sky---sky---Zack continues to walk'' then ''Zack---Zack---Zack''. It's better while editing, it looks better, and it doesn't cost you a lot or anything by that matter. : )

Audio could turn out better, but as I said-this is one-man film(hard and mostly unthankful), and dude, you're 15 years old! This film is much better than some on the fest by my opinion, and that just means that you should keep it coming, work more etc. If you continue, by the time of my age you should be one serious filmmaker.

Keep it up.

[Maximus]

Definetely captured the Twilight Zone theme. Actor did a great job. Nice dolly moves! My only critique would be that the effects could have been a little better. But that's nitpicking. Good job! Look forward to your next film.

[Susanne G.]

Very nice story and fantastic score. I loved the moment when the snow fell down. It gave me the sensation of fairy tale and I wished to could go back in my childhood time. Very enjoyable film - compliments! :)

Susanne

[hoz]

very ambitious short! i will echo an above poster to say that maybe add in a POV from the boy. love the ending, good twist! the boy did a great job too, keep filming!!!

[Dick Campbell]

dragged out a bit it seemed, but what a clever story. reminded me of the TZ where the dolls were in the barrel. audio mix of the dialog a bit weak in places (ambient noise, etc., like the mic placement was off, background noise).

[Horncastle]

You had a great story here Clarkage, and some clever ideas like the earthquakes and the snow. Zack is becoming a pretty good actor too. That said you have a quality problem, both with overcompression of the file and with overexposure. I wonder if you tried doing the latter on purpose to give a "washed out inside the glass" look. If you did, I'm afraid it didn't work.
It was an ambitious idea, trying to tell the story with just one young actor, and it was maybe a bit too much for both of you. I think you needed to tell the story through images and action as far as possible, reserving Zack's monologue to tell the audience what's happening only when you really couldn't find another better way. I don't think "Look Mum, it's snowing" was necessary, for example - we could already see that.
I also think you could have made the editing a bit tighter: you had some shots in there that could have been cut entirely, the CU of the grass with Zack behind out of focus at 1:37, for example.
Overall, a good job though. The original story made up for some of the shortcomings.
Jason

[clarkage]

Thank you guys for all the great comments! I really feel like I know exactly what I need to work on next time around.

[Bryce A]

Hey, nice film. When the ending came I felt like I had been thinking waaay to hard about the earthquakes and snow. I was thinking cosmic phenomenon or something. Guess not. ha. Anyway, most of my thought have been covered. The one thing that stands out is the length, I'd like to have seen a shorter film. Or perhaps with more events. Either way, good work gettin this sucker in (all the more impressive after checking out your bts).

[SparkyZa]

Nice film IMO. Pace was a little slow, but good story.

[Tom Marshall]

Hey Clarkage, every time I see your signature, I think I'm getting ready to type in one of those Captcha things... :laugh:

[clarkage]

haha yeah I never even noticed that but that is totally true! Yeah that is what you get when you dont put any efforts at all into your poster... hopefully that will be different next time around.