director/fight choreography showreel

spokane said:
I am new to videography- But I really liked it!
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I think your fight choreography looks very good. I would show some of the bts of the choregraphy and then how the footage came out. This is more heavily geared to the choreography end. I would also tighten it up a bit. The intro could be significantly shorter. And I think the shots should be shorter and linked together without much in between time to get more impact. But it looks like you do some seriously good work. I just finished a short which I directed and choreographed. I had to sub in for a fight scene myself when an actor with martial arts skills bailed on me on the second of a two weekend shoot. I had to shoot everything I planned for a 4 day shoot in 2 days. Not the ideal but thank God I was able to pull it off.
 
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Alex DePew said:
I think your fight choreography looks very good. I would show some of the bts of the choregraphy and then how the footage came out. This is more heavily geared to the choreography end. I would also tighten it up a bit. The into could be significantly shorter. And I think the shots should be shorter and linked together without much in between time to get more impact. But it looks like you do some seriously good work. I just finished a short which I directed and choreographed. I had to sub in for a fight scene myself when an actor with martial arts skills bailed on me on the second of a two weekend shoot. I had to shoot everything I planned for a 4 day shoot in 2 days. Not the ideal but thank God I was able to pull it off.
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Thanks for the info bro. I'll cut it a little tighter. I actually felt like I should, but wasn't sure.
 
I would change the music in it. I'm a martial artist my self and all the fighting was great but the music becomes very boring and doesn't keep with with the excellent fighting.
Is it possible that I can get a copy of your demo reel so I can play around a little with the music ?
 
SilverWolf said:
I would change the music in it. I'm a martial artist my self and all the fighting was great but the music becomes very boring and doesn't keep with with the excellent fighting.
Is it possible that I can get a copy of your demo reel so I can play around a little with the music ?
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thanks for the kind words bro, my business partner made the music for it, so I promised to use it, but that would be cool. I'm also working on a live action short based on Devil May Cry right now and shooting with the dvx100bp. it's got wirework and cg effects in it. filming's going well and i should be airing a trailer soon.
 
R.L. Scott said:
thanks for the kind words bro, my business partner made the music for it, so I promised to use it, but that would be cool. I'm also working on a live action short based on Devil May Cry right now and shooting with the dvx100bp. it's got wirework and cg effects in it. filming's going well and i should be airing a trailer soon.
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Is your business partner a music producer ? The music really has a lot to do with how your trailer feels. I think when the fighting hits it should feel so action packed you wanna jump out of your seat then when you come in to explain some stuff it switches up.

Oh also I would make the beginning shorter or at least make the pictures switch because I think it holds on you too long
 
SilverWolf said:
Is your business partner a music producer ? The music really has a lot to do with how your trailer feels. I think when the fighting hits it should feel so action packed you wanna jump out of your seat then when you come in to explain some stuff it switches up.

Oh also I would make the beginning shorter or at least make the pictures switch because I think it holds on you too long
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understood, I'll make the neccessary changes. my business partner is a martial arts forms champion ( Tee Covington ), he just dabbles in music on the side. some better music would work to maximize the impact. I didn't really look at it that way. I was more concerned with the content than the music... but in the same way it's just as important to film, it's important to a reel... makes sence:)
 
The fight scenes were very nice. My only soft criticism is that you seemed tired in the footage... like very late night tired. Didn't seem to be too much energy from you, but the others yeah. Nice work on the moves.
 
loydjenkins said:
The fight scenes were very nice. My only soft criticism is that you seemed tired in the footage... like very late night tired. Didn't seem to be too much energy from you, but the others yeah. Nice work on the moves.
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thats pretty funny, actually all the footage of me was used from scenes where I had been filming for ten to twelve hours or more. a lot of the films I've done I try to keep an ultra tight schedule so that things can be done quickly.
 
Some great fighting in there. Looks so real and I love the martial arts. Looks fantastic!
 
It's cool to show we don't only make movies about life in da hood or on the prison block or about anger and resentment over oppression. I kept thinking about Yimou Zhang while watching this ("House of Flying Daggers," "Hero"). Have any of your movies been publically released?
 
R.L ,
I was reading your myspace page and notice that you created the underworld script. That is so cool. You've just went up in cool points
 
Wow, you wrote Underworld? You should know from my avatar that that definitely boosts your cool points with me. Did you have anything to do with Underworld II?
 
Thanks for the comments guys, I am an action filmmaker first, but different genres of action. mostly horror or sci fi... I sold the original script in late 1997. I got a nice penny, but I cant talk about too many details as I don't own the rights anymore ( for legal purposes ). they took pieces of the first script and brought them over into the second and third installments. the third will be much better. it was always meant as a trilogy, and I'm glad that they decided to do it. it's funny, that they thought that the idea would be good for arthouse fans, but it turned out to be more lucrative than they thought it would. knowing then what I know now, I wouldn't have sold the rights so easily.

thats why I'm doing Devil May Cry right now as a short film. it's to promote a full length feature script called Devil Hunter that I will be optioning off next year. but I'm not selling the idea, I want to direct it.
 
Haha. ARen't you the guy doing the Devil May Cry movie?

You have to fill us in a it more on that.

One up from peeps from my home town ATL.

Nevermind-- Edit -- Isee that you already mentioned it.

Should be interesting.
 
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