My Graduation film: "Flat Rider"

Smettli

Smettli

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Hey guys. I just came back from my college and thought I should share my "Exam" film with you guys.
This is the first film I have written and directed by myself, which was finished off yesterday in sound.
My friend Lasse did the cinematography with a standard Dvx-100PAL, I also had a lighting person and a sound guy with me.

The story is basicly about two brothers, one of them suffering from an unusual disability, just trying to live it up.

EDIT: Sound upgraded.

Flat-rider.jpg


It's 50mb big, in quicktime h.264 format.
http://www.rimeligok.no/Flat-rider.mov
 
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Awesome! I loved it, very professional as well. Had me laughing in between. Thanks for sharing your piece!
 
thanks for the reply 3ccd. Any feedback is highly appreciated, both negative
and positive.

Hoping for more :)
 
Smettli,

You know how I feel, so I am not going to compliment you anymore. :)

Ah **** it, I'll do it anyways. I love the film, it's funny and relevant, and you should make it into a feature, my friend, I seriously think there's possibility for that!

Keep up the good work, and see you on the 16th!
 
hehe, I'm glad it was worth the download :)
Yeha, Gustav, see you the 16th, we have a lot of beers to catch up with.
 
Loo said:
that was great. loved it!
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Agreed. VERY well done.

There were a few issues with a couple of shots, but I'm fairly certain that it was in the compression. Really loved it.
 
Holy crap that was awesome! Hard to capture that kind of comedy well, but you did it. Yeah, a few shots could've used some better lighting and there were a couple of color inconsistencies, but whatever. That was sweet.

Fox
 
I enjoyed that very much, it was like a sickened napoleon dynamite. Good mix of oddness. lol

I liked your wide shots a lot. Very nice.
 
thanks for the kind words, guys :)
You are right about the lighting in some of the shots, we had problems because
most of the shots were filmed during day, but due to our strict timelimit we had to shoot some of the
interior during evening when it was dark outside. We also had an issue with the LCD screen on the camera not being well calibrated, so some of the
shots turned out darker than we thought they would. So I simply had to crank them up in post, that's why they're kinda greyish :)
I'm glad that you found it entertaining, that's the most important thing.

Keep em' coming! :nads:
 
Well done, Smettli.

I echo other's words here.

It was absurdist and, I thought, more than a little inspired by the Farrelly Brothers. That's a compliment. ;)

The start and end were strong but I found the middle dragged a bit until the "concept car" was introduced and then it picked up again. As for the audio it sounded like you were using the onboard mic in places.

Others have already spoken about the lighting so I'll remain quiet.

I was entertained and in the end, that's what counts.

Now to show my brothers-in-law this one. They'll love it.

sincerely,


ian
 
Your main actor is awesome. You were right on the money to cast him. I also really appreciated the simplicity of the cinematography--your lead actor is so good that I'm very content to watch the story unfold without all the fancy camera movement so many think is a requirement. Several very funny moments. Love the "we were out of Coke" line. Only a couple of character moments I didn't believe (like when Linda says he's "black"--nothing to do with her performance--I just didn't believe anyone would say that in that situation--certainly not someone as middle-of-the-road conservative as her character). Dare I say it could be edited down by about 3 or 4 minutes.
 
Wow. I was really surprised with that piece. You took such a delicate situation and had a perfect balance of both sympathy and humor. The lighting, for the most part, was on point and you had some really intruiging shots. The steady close-up shot of Rusty finally feeling 'free' while on his new ride was particularly eye-catching. It looked excellent and added to a closer understanding of the character. The only bit of criticism I think think of is there were a few audio inconsistencies. I was listening with headphones and cross fades at a lot of the In and Out points of dialogue would make this piece pretty much perfect. One added note, the dialogue in the video was extremely well-written. Good Job. -Chris
 
Hey guys.
Sean, I must agree with you on the fact that the "black" comment is very out of place, I kinda wanted to make Linda less ordinary an more absurd, but of course
it's hard to believe when it comes in small and unexpected doses, mostly for comedy reasons. There is room for edit, but it will mainly cut down on charachter
and back story, but I'll look into it.

Cityofcrash, We had issues with the set recording(who doesn't :)), we couldn't get a trained sound recorder and none of us really knew the sound equipment. So we used a friend of mine who was given a 10 minute gerilla course from a teacher and went on :) We used 3 different mics, and since our location was in a "farmhouse" we all the time had waterwarmer machines etc. turning off and on while filming. It was also a home for troubled kids
who from time to time made racket in the background :) I'll try fix up the sound some more.
All in all, The crew was great and it was really fun shooting this short.

Thank you very much for your views, you give me a new way of looking at things.

cheers!
 
Yea, I know all too well the struggle of untrained sound crew and background noise. The only one who REALLY knows what's going on in terms of sound is your sound operator! But all in all I was very impressed. I downloaded and watched it a few times. I actually got kind of inspired from it and started conceptualizing and storyboarding ideas for a short (about 15-20 minute) narrative after watching yours a few times. Nothing to do with your idea, I was just somehow suddenly inspired. I have a few short narratives under my belt but they're all been shot on PD150 so I'll feel like a fraud if I post them! (Plus they'll look nowhere near the footage so many DVXusers have been posting. Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent. What was I talking about? Oh yes, good job! -Chris
 
Cool! It's not every day I hear from people that they got inspired from something
I have done.
If you can post your films somewhere, I would love to watch them. Doesn't
matter if they're shot on pd150's(though I might get shot saying that here:)), as I believe and as I think you do as well, the story is the most important thing.

Thanks again! -Anders.
 
I just did a little 6 minute narrative with a few of my friends as actors (not a good idea) using the equipment from the film department here at UC Santa Cruz. This video was shot and edited in the span of three days (even though I had ten weeks to finish it). Whoops! Anyway, here's the link

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...en=955271EF-DA93-6155-145A61E72CF48E837558902

There's also a personal documentary on there I did on the primitive GL-1 and under the "My Favorites" section is a quick video I wrote and Directed a few days ago during class times. -Chris
 
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