dauntless films presents "the Devil Inside"

apollyon said:
He's probably just going down there to grab some more beer from the freezer or something..."I'll be right back" he said...
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Beer in the freezer? Hmmmm, okay.

Cool photoshop'd blood. That looks great.

Also, it looks like you managed to "stretch" your grabs out. Did you use the idea I suggested or did you solve how to export them properly from your NLE program?

Looks good, Apollyon!
 
Haha I didn't even realize...I was thinking of a combination of the extra freezer I used to have in the basement, and the scene in Scream where the girl went for more beer.

Yes, I simply resized it like you suggested. I didn't even realize it, but the answer I think was in my own question...DV pixels aren't square, so in Premiere the rez of 720x480 is correct, but in photoshop the pixels are square so it isn't?

Or maybe I'm off. But resizing it afterwards of course works fine, so thank you :-)
 
apollyon said:
Haha I didn't even realize...I was thinking of a combination of the extra freezer I used to have in the basement, and the scene in Scream where the girl went for more beer.

Yes, I simply resized it like you suggested. I didn't even realize it, but the answer I think was in my own question...DV pixels aren't square, so in Premiere the rez of 720x480 is correct, but in photoshop the pixels are square so it isn't?

Or maybe I'm off. But resizing it afterwards of course works fine, so thank you :-)
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you are exactly right, photoshop defaults to square pixels.
4:3 NTSC DV is almost square (.9) but widescreen is 1.2 pixel aspect ratio.

You can either do the math in photoshop and resize or ... if you scroll down under "Image" you will see a menu item called "Pixel Aspect Ratio" where you can choose from a variety of Pixel Aspect Ratios. I believe these are just for preview so if you save you won't actually have changed the image ... the easyway without doing math is to use the square select tool, drag it all around the image once you've changed the Pixel Aspect ratio and then copy, create new, and paste ... the new project will appear correctly and will save that pixel aspect ratio.

Although, I haven't tried to do it just by selecyting the right aspect ratio under the image menu and then saving in years, so maybe that works now too, because there used to be a pop up that said the pixel aspect ratio was just for preview, and that doesn't come up anymore ... so maybe try that way first.
 
Yeah, the first thing I do at just about ANY indoor shoot is...BLACK OUT THE WINDOWS :) Ask anyone on my crew. I shouldn't even have to say it anymore. :) Lots of black plastic party tableclothes. And we started using some black garbage bags to, because they let in just enough blue-ish to look like moonlight out a window. Yet not enough light to muck with your lighting.

The basement shot looks great. Very iconic.

And I think your photoshopped blood looks great. As long as she doesn't move, I guess.

Man, is our movie going to be the ONLY one without a basement?
 
Ah, the blackout system, know it well. I use black cloth I bought from a fabric store along with black shower curtains from the $1 store....Lot's of push pins and gaffers tape, lol.
 
Thanks for the tips...it's a never ending learning process. I shot the last scenes last weekend and it went ok. I don't have any pics or anything...too busy shooting. One thing I wanted to share that made me giggle like a schollgirl though is this:

I don't have a dolly, and I wanted to do a small dolly-type shot. So I put a blanket down on the ground (hardwood floors) put the tripod on it, and then had a friend pull the blanket across the hardwood slowly. Ahhh that was so ghetto, it made me laugh.

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I finished editing the video late last night, now the rest is sound fx and music which I'm dreading.

I don't know anything about sound, and frankly it shows in the sound of the dialogue. I'll just have to clean it up as best I can.

Back to work...
 
So, NOW I'm finished editing...for real this time...only thing left is music and titles and I still have a few days. Go me!

Since I'm so on top of things, I finally created a poster for this...I stuck it on the first page, but what the hell...I'll put it here too along with some grabs for your viewing pleasure:

Poster:

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Grab 1: Why's he so happy?

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Grab 2: She doesn't look happy

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Grab 3: Yes, it's supposed to be blurry

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That's all...thanks for stopping by.

*** edit...it would help if I had the right version of the poster up there... :P... fixed now.
 
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thanks, I remember that game :)

I can see where you're going with that. When I did it, it made me think of reservoir dogs, myself.
 
Like the poster. I did the blood thing in bone hand ... all the blood on the door and the blood spilling from the shoryer thug's gut on the floor is photochop. I got a pooling effect with the blood by enlarging it and moving it slightlly over time.
 
Wasn't that shorter thug you? :)

Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna have to check out that part in Bone Hand in slo mo
 
Hey thanks man, you too :)

I would say "stick a fork in me, I'm done" but I'm only 99.99% done.

The only thing that's holding me back is I can't decide between two soundtracks I put together. I'm going to make a decision and finalize it and render it this evening after work.

The good news is that I did a test render last night of the .mov version, and at 900kbps it was only like 39MB (total length is about 5:41). So I've got some room to turn up the quality a little.

I'm glad it's pretty much done though, creatively I'm spent! I need to recharge before my next project!
 
Matt Sconce's Review of the devil inside
SPOLIERS POSSIBLE!

Script
I liked the story. It had a ton of potential and a beginning middle and end.
Acting
I thought the acting was only okay. It pulled me out of the movie quite a few times, but didn't ruin it for me.
Cinematography
I think some framing changes would help this short. Maybe use more negative space to your advantage. I also think some more dramaitc lighting would have really set the mood.
Editing
I didn't notice anything I didn't like. I thought it worked well.
Overall Impressions
This is a great story and well told. I enjoyed it and was pleased to see the thought that went into it. Congrats on this!
 
One of the smart films of HorrorFest. Seeing it after Meat made me realise that there are some people in here who know how to write good stories, genuine and shocking (in terms of twists).

I didnt like the sound (typical for a HorrorFest entry :( ) but the score was neat and I liked the end credits as well.
I enjoyed the acting in this one, it was very well planned and delivered. Some of the fx could do with a bit of polishing.

The basement sequence is GREAT! Fantastic lighting job!
 
Thank you msconce and VersuS for your feedback. I'm glad you both liked the story. I do have a long way to go, and a lot of technical stuff re: lighting and sound to learn (I didn't like the sound either VersuS hehe).
 
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