My 48 Hour Film

Buqui Productions

Buqui Productions

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I made this film as part of the 48 Hour Film Project 2006 in Asheville, NC. I live near Atlanta, so I had to drive the 4 hours each way to Asheville, so I actually did this film in 40 Hours, one drive returning from getting info and one drive to turn it in. I had a lot of fun. Critiques are welcome. Thanks.

www.buqui.net (click on the kicking girl)
 
Oh, I forgot to mention.
Our requirements were:
1) Genre: Martial Arts
2) Prop: Puppet
3) Chracter: Sid Dionne, Rest. Owner
4) Line of Dialogue: "Sometimes you feel like letting loose."
 
yeah man the vid kinda crapped out on me at the end there. Umm I thought that you were able to come up with a pretty good story line. i think a lot just took away from being able to watch the video like a lot of shot where not tripod so camera moved alot and lot of bad audio. I mean u had a time limit so bet that was hard.
did u shoot with dvx100a or b. but i didnt get to finish it went crazy when i go to the fight sence between girl and master
 
Answering Question

Answering Question

Yeah, I really wish I had used more tripod shots, but it's hard to shoot quickly with a tripod. A mojor problem was that most people had not done crew work before, so I was training people on the fly. My experienced audio person was in Maine at film camp, so that was a serious loss because she had experience doing boom work. I used a DVX100a with an XLR Azden Shotgun Microphone. This is only my third film, and I am sixteen, so I have a ways to go. Thanks for your comments. I will see about getting the video fixed....

Thanks again,
Michael Crommett
 
Fixed it!

Fixed it!

The video should be working now...a little dark from the encoding...but the full video should be working now!

-Michael
 
alright

not bad for a story, but to be brutefully and honestly critical, i thought the photography was next to horrible. But Im not flaming this video! i would just like to share some of the things that i have learned over the passed while.

Framing is very important. Many of your shots were medium to far, very few closeups were used. Sometimes your framing was much to far away for my tastes. Looked more like you could have letterboxed that shiz and get away with the fake 16x9, as your framing would lend itself well to it.

Color correction. Play around with your colours, i know it takes time to render, but as an actor and film maker, 48h film fest should be shot in a day, and a day to edit, never give up your editing time if you want to make something fantastic, unless time really does not allow. But from what i can see, there are many improvements you can make to what you have. Framing, try letterboxing, work on your colour correction and audio. Find some ambient noise just to fill the background of your actors and diaologue. Music is another thing, but as its, well for me, one of hte most difficult things to add to a movie, it takes a long time. But filling the sound would greatly impact your short.

Your actors were pretty strong, but we didnt get to see them, i felt too far away from them to feel their feelings. When the man was shot on the ground, i felt nothing as i didnt get to see her. Show your actors, and trust them to dop their job.

:) Great though, what were your settings? 30p?
 
Thanks for the comments

Thanks for the comments

Yeah, This is only my second time doing all the work behind the camera, and my first as part of the 48 Hour Film Project. I felt rushed throughout the whole thing. We got started late because our male lead was late. I only had an hour at the cemetery, so yeah that's why close ups are hard. I had time restrictions at the cemetery because I had the pizza joint only at a specific time. All in all we didn't finish shooting until midnight, then it took 70 minutes to import. Then half way through the morning I discovered 30 minutes of video had unsynced audio. I had to fix that. Color correction at that point was out of the question...I just had to get the film done. Remember I had to have the film finished and printed to tape by 1:30 p.m. my time because I had a long drive up to Asheville. This is the version we turned in, so roughness and all. Thanks for your comments! I just need to work harder. I love this forum. It's the best place for help and comments. I have learned so much already, but I am still remedial compared to most of you.

Peace,
Michael

:dankk2:
 
Settings

Settings

I shot 30p. I did not have the neutral density filter outside because it was overcast. It ended in 60i in the movie theatre because I had to exporrt to tape. I had cine-like gamma settings on. Iris was about 2.8-ish most of the time form what I can remmeber. I edited in FCP. Thanks for your comments. I needed to get ripped...it's the only way I learn.

Thank you so much,
Michael
 
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