Please watch my new short film, "Sudlikov" and leave a comment or rate it!

tomyboy342000

tomyboy342000

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Please watch my new short film, "Sudlikov" and leave a comment or rate it!

http://films.thelot.com/films/1101
http://films.thelot.com/films/1101
http://films.thelot.com/films/1101

About the story:
A young Russian girl and her father are caught off guard as Germans invade "Sudilkov", a small town area on the the Russian front - the very first area to be invaded when Germany decided to turn on and attack their biggest allies. Based on true events.

About the film:
I wrote the screenplay based on several real accounts during the war and met a production designer who had worked on the film festival smash: "Saints and Soldiers." After he read the script, based on the message and story, wanted to donate all his WW2 collection to the film production. He even went on-line and made purchases to get the German soldier's correct unit/region patches correct. He made sure that the whole production was 110% authentic to period. We also made a last minute change to the script that proved to be our most part of the film. We changed the family from a Jweish family to a Russian family. During the final research process and final script drafts, Paul mentioned that over 17 million Russians lost thier lives as well. I felt it was important to tell their story, as we've seen other sides of the war have already been filmed. The whole Russian side to the war had never been filmed, at least not my knowledge, and it seemed to make the film more original - in that regard. Story is the most important part, and this seemed to be a perfect fit. Plus, we did not have access to period sets and buildings, so putting us in Utah (where we shot it) made the Russian front a much better option. We already had that Russian front feel, so things like this fell into place. Paul Dixon even plays the German captain, and on the flipside, his daughter plays the young girl. Out of all my shorts, I'm most proud of this one.

Budget/Gear:
Film was shot on $50.00 budget, all costumes and props provided by Production Designer/Museum Director Paul Dixon - all authentic to the times and period. We had a three man crew, and used the Panasonic DVX-100.

Winner:
Best Silent Film, 2006 UVSC Film Fest
Official Selection: 2006 Barnes'n Noble Film Fest
Official Nomination: 2006 LDS Film Festival

Updates:
It's got 5 star rating on Spielberg's Reality Show website. Go DVX-users!!

Thanks for watching and please post a comment or rate this short!

Tom Laughlin
 
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this is quite amazing! How did you get the german uniform and guns?
Great work!

george v.
 
I tracked down a guy who worked on a film called "Saints and Soldiers" www.saintsandsoldiers.com, and he was able to hook me up. He wasn't able to use a lot of his German uniforms and props for "Saints", cause they'd already had hired three or four other guys for that, but he was tracked down and has scours of all this gear in a museum as well as down in his basement. Most of the casting, planning, and pre-pro was done on-line and I did even meet the cast till the day of the shoot. It was all shot in one day. I think it was also luck - getting the gear for free, the guy Paul, liked the script and saw we were students with no budget and took pity on us...
 
heavy. nice work. i found myself more into the story than into the framing, lighting, etc. well done. music was good.
 
The DVD copy of the short is much better, with the terrible webstreaming going on, but yea, the story is always number one, above anything else. Thanks for the comments!
 
Great short. The subject and story involved speak for themselves. And for 50 bucks, you sure pulled off some great stuff! Great way to end it.
 
Lovely little film. I especially liked the use of the "rope bond". Too bad about the compression as it makes it almost impossible to enjoy the cinematography.

Chris
 
I worked on this short as the cinematographer. Everything was natural lighting. We wanted to capture the realism of the event by going hand held and using available light.
We had a great time!

Great work TOm!
george
 
epsilonbass said:
hey that was pretty snazzy, was that just the dvx at work? you had some great dof.
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The depth of field was all in the camera, pure DVX magic, thanks to my DP on this site, George Vilalba...

What you do is take the camera farther back and zoooooom in and check the focus and presto! I wish more shorts had DP's who took small moments like this to add that film look to the shorts, I'm trying not to toot my DP's horn, but does one really need a 35mm adaptor?
 
CMessineo said:
Lovely little film. I especially liked the use of the "rope bond". Too bad about the compression as it makes it almost impossible to enjoy the cinematography.

Chris
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I liked it too. It gave that Hallmark feel to the film.:)
 
cheezweezl said:
heavy. nice work. i found myself more into the story than into the framing, lighting, etc. well done. music was good.
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I see alot of DVX-users focusing more and more on the "dvx" and let's not forget that it is the story that counts as well.
 
Thanks to the viewers and hopefully I'll be able to get this into some film fests very soon. You guys think it has potential?
 
Lawsuit_Boy said:
Great short. The subject and story involved speak for themselves. And for 50 bucks, you sure pulled off some great stuff! Great way to end it.
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I think the text ending worked ok...
 
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