The Door Between - a story about life and death

VersuS

VersuS

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"The Door Between"
"Music is fantastic!" - Ted Arabian
"Looking forward to seeing how other members view this little gem." - Mark Johnson
"I LOVED the intro...music rocked!" - Matt Sconce
" Your intro had me smiling. Loved it! Totally Dario Argento." - Darkline




UPDATE 27/09
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Tonight we will record the voice over for the movie. We will also work with my brother on the score, thinking of doing a hard rock 80s theme for the intro and something mellow for the end credits. We will also start making a list with all the sounds we will be putting....apart from ambient noise I dont think we will be using anything from our captured shots in terms of sound. Foley all the way!
The 16:9 export went great so I am waiting for the sound and music (I gave him a Friday evening deadline) in order to add subtitles Saturday morning and do final exports by Saturday noon.



UPDATE 19/09
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Added head shots for the cast/crew.....


UPDATE 18/09
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Last night we finished with our shooting schedule (finally!).
It didn't go well but it didn't go bad either. The weather was not on our side, it was too cloudy ('be careful what you wish for' kind of thing) and after a while shooting inside the old building was a pain since we ain't got no lights.

After a while there was some drizzle but we did ok with our exterior shots, however during the last scenes we were running up and down and going like 'ok stay there, look at him, look at the tree, move up, move down, that's a wrap! get the beers!, somebody please roll me a cig!!!'.

At the end of the day (after eating and drinking) I got home, transfered the footage and had a first look at it....what I said to myself was this 'oh crap, more post work for me.....'. Unfortunately I will have to spend more hours than I had anticipated editing this f****.

I have to finish this by Sunday (that's when my brother comes back from his honeymoon) so we can do the VO and the sound editing next week.....

oh and by the way

THIS MOVIE IS FOR EXHIBITION ONLY

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Title: The Door Between

Cast:
John Lahanis
Stratos Filalithis
Barouir Aivazian

Crew:
there is no f*** crew, this is the good ship lifestyle!

Written,Screenplay & Edited by John Lahanis

Directed by John Lahanis & Stratos Filalithis

Composer & Sound Engineer - Jimmy Lahanis

Make Up Artist - Miss X

Produced by cut 2 the chase productions!


PHOTOS FROM THE CAST AND CREW

Director/Producer/Actor/Pimp ---> John Lahanis a.k.a. VersuS
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Director(says who?)/Producer/Lead Actor (lol)/Little (S)hoe ----> Stratos Filalithis
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Actor/Santa's Little Helper ----> Barouir Aivazian
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Our sound/musician guru, my sibling ----> Jimmy Lahanis (pic from his wedding 2 weeks ago)
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MakeUp Artist (coz she's a girl and knows this stuff) and Little (S)hoe's Girl and an excellent driver (:P) ----> Miss X
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Thanx man! We always try to do our best and learn each step of the way. I read about all you casting and all that, and I feel so 'small' in comparison. We're just two guys who love making stories with pictures that's all.

Good luck to you too! Love your stuff!
 
VersuS said:
Thanx man! We always try to do our best and learn each step of the way. I read about all you casting and all that, and I feel so 'small' in comparison. We're just two guys who love making stories with pictures that's all.

Good luck to you too! Love your stuff!
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You are very lucky... It seems that where I live I'm the only one who love making stories with pictures... for me it's hard to find an actor!!! :crybaby:
 
Good luck on your project man! Given that I also work on a shoestring with no crew I envy the guys here who have assembled such incredible teams. I can tell you love what you do and that's the most important element.
 
If we didn't love it we would have given up after the first film. Sometimes our daily schedule is so tough that weeks go by and we don't have the time to even remember that we do movies but when it strikes me that we have all these ideas and equipment that we just love using, well...you just have to make time.

Anyway, my mate is somewhere in the Aegean right now taking some time off work for the summer and he'll be coming back on Monday so next week I hope that we will have done the last scenes and start editing the final shots :D
 
Ok 2 grabs here, 1st one is from the movie, 2nd one is right before a scene where we messed up the bedroom of my friend's parents pretty bad.

They were away.

PS. thank god i live alone and I can do whatever I want to my appartment ;)

PS2. As you can see so far I've been working with 2 people during shooting which kinda shows when you see the flicks. But I ve been blessed with a fantastic sound engineer (my brother) who has been working his magik in every project we ever did so far and sort of boosts the quality of our stuff.

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You seem like you're having a good time and learning and that's all you can really ask for. That's why these contests are great. Tim.
 
Hey Jack, I watched your 3 movies and I must say WOW to you! I LOVED!!!! The zombie film. Showed me how many things you can really do with just one person in a room. What I saw in all the films though is how good you are with lights...wish I were able to put the money and the effort to do so myself. Cant wait to see your horror flick as well. Cheers!
 
thanks Versus ...
as for $ and lights ... Shed was lit with 4 500 watt work lights from the hardware store ($10 each) and one $40 camera light.

Go to the lighting section of this forum and it will link you to the Scott Spears poor man's lighting kit.

Also look for the izzy podcast DV links there.

When you watch the izzypodcasts, he'll give a shout out to his dad's still photography podcast which has a good video tutorial on three point lighting for still photography as well, which is pretty much the same as lighting for video.

Also you can get the "prpfessional" light kit I just purchased 2 weeks ago for $200 at B&H. This is the first kit I've ever owned.

I had help and a friend's gear for bonehand.

Shed was shot outdoors using just reflectors.

hope that's helpful,

Jack
 
Hey guys and Jack (since you are my big no.1 in here) I didn't really know where to post this idea or even if I should but I have just been listening to the soundtrack from Rocky Horror Picture Show (huge fan, seen the theatre production as well) and thought that the next DVXUSER FEST should be something like that.

Without the singing and the songs, but something so surreal and funny and kitsch. What do you guys think?

(ok so I may be cheating a bit since I have a script in my drawer, a comedy one-location piece, that I could transform with a few drag queens, lace, vinyl and wigs...lol....something funny for next time??? what do ya say?)
 
yes
and think about it
comedy can have it all
zombies, horror, sci-fi, noir, action, romance
comedy screws (or unscrews) all genres!
 
A few updates.

I am just waiting for an order I made (fangs!!) to come through so that we can shoot the last scene.

We will be shooting a few more scenes hopefully later this week. I love how the story keeps evolving. When the first draft of the script was made it had a completely different approach than the one it currently has. So I guess this can go either way, good or bad.

Since I haven't talked about equipment and stuff...

In 'Love is the most deceptive feeling' I used obviously my DVX100. I didn't record any sound since I wrote the piece that is used (as I said, it could be a video clip/movie kinda thing). But it has a plot, a meaning and a story, a beginning, a middle and an end.

For this one, The Door Between, I used apart from the DVX100, my RODE mic , I also made a boom pole on my own and we made a dolly too (thanx to DVCamera Rigs). I hope that I will get some shots when we shoot, to show you the dolly.
 
Just to post a brief synopsis of this movie. Here goes...

A dream leads a man to a room with a mystifying door. What lies beyond the door? Is the door an obstacle or it just stands between his boring life and greater things to come? If you had to choose between life and death what would you choose? 'life is pleasant, death is peaceful, it's the transition that's troublesome (asimov)'.
 
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