Love Is The Most Deceptive Feeling

D'oh! Just saw that I WAS on the right thread!!!

Okay, I really enjoyed this. It has a music video style to it and it works for me. I love the camera work and the subtitles telling the story.

I was confused with the dead guy in the tub. I need to watch again.

But I really do love the style of this.

Great job!

Ted
 
Hey man thanx for reviewing!

Glad you liked it. It's exactly like that, a music-video-style with a sickness inside and lots of blood. The camera work...well you know about doing your own scenes and setting up frames and angles for yourself...its difficuuuuult! So I'm glad to hear you found it ok.
The dead guy in the tub huh? Well that's the point of all this...what exactly is going on?

To reveal my thoughts on this...in a few words....the guy gets dumped by his girlfriend, wife or whatever....he gets crazy and we see that he is chopping someone in the bath tub. Well when I wrote it I thought that people would guess it was the girl...then we see him looking down the tub and seeing himself in there...so I guess it's like he was facing his inner demons...sound familiar? hahahahaha

ps. maybe it wasnt his girlfriend that left him after all....who knows....maybe it was his other side....his 'good' side...its all up for discussion....I just liked the fact that it could confuse in a way to bring up different views of what is happening
 
Hey John -

Good work. It was nice to see something different, less story-driven but more artistic. There aren't many shorts like that in these festivals. It felt very poetic - I liked the music and the way it all weaved together with the titles. It kind of reminded me of that Van Halen Right Now Video. And that's a good thing - I loved that video. And especially the SNL parody of it for clear gravy...but I digress.

My biggest criticism is that you really should have done more with the lighting. Since there's not much story, just images, you should have done some more artistic things with lighting - that would have really put this up a notch.

Overall, very good work! It was nice to see something short and sweet.

- Nikki
 
Hey Nikki Thanx for checking up on thiS!!! Very happy you had an overall good feeling towards it! As for the lighting, as I always said in both of my movie threads, we own no lighting equipment,its something we ll be looking to get in the next few months for any future project. So for this one I didnt really do anything since in most scenes I got direct sunlight from the big balcony doors in my flat or I had the lights in the bathroom and my room...I actually dont know much about lighting I have to be honest, in terms of setting up. So maybe I could have even made something out of the lights I already had in there...but I will definitely try to improve on that area!!!!!!

Thanx again!
 
Review | POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT! I watch the movies first time around strictly for enjoyment, second and third for review.

Hey John/VersuS. Got around to this one tonight. Another one-man show. It's great to see people bolder than I am. Cause I can't do one man, I can't even do two or three man; I just won't let me.

A different take on the idea. Poetic. Takes even more guts to go out and do it like you want to.

Good job dude. Lots of blood, too. You didn't just break up with someone, did you? Kidding!

Thanks for exhibiting!
 
Thanx for the kind comments comments Kholi! Errr at the time I did this there was no break up in the air hahahahaa
 
John! I finally have a chance to drop by and post in your thread! I really liked this film. i thought it was beautiful in a way. Poetic, and flowing. you are right about the end...you think it is his girlfriend but it is himself. I would bet odds that the other self with the mask is the hurt and anger he feels and that he splits so he can kill himself that way. Just my take on it. I agree, lighting could be improved, but that comes when you have "Lights" right? :-) Good work! I enjoyed watching this one.
 
Thanx Matt, that means A LOT coming from you! You got a pretty good perspective of what is going on!!!!!
 
Hi Versus

Sorry for taking so long to get round to this, but Ive just finished watching the shorts today.

I liked that you did something totally differrent with this, but I'm not a big fan of text on the screen. Well, when I say that, I mean it would be good for a pop video but I dont find it particularly cinematic.

That said you found your own style instead of ripping someone off. Thats often the first step to becoming a distinctive film-maker. it was your own creation and if you can (and will) improve on the execution then it will begin to 'work' for you I think.

does that make sense?...lol It also sounds like you had very limited resources to work with, I know what that's like and you get massive kudos for getting not one but two shorts made for this fest!

Well done!
 
Doing something so different was something that bothered me for days..didnt know if I should submit this in here or not in terms of theme and the approach I used....when I shot this I didnt know about horrorfest, I did it for my own pleasure actually and wanted to make something with the blood I had just bought, play around with some MB and also use the song I had written...the text is 50% necessity (coz I was doing it on my own and couldnt record any VO on my own) and 50% personal taste coz I love floating text in credits etc...however it was not so professionaly delivered and this is my bad
 
I liked this one. It kind of felt like a music video, but not really. But I could see where some people were coming from.

You know, I didn't care for the titles. I think the film can definitely stand on its own without them. Although some are poetic, they feel expository to me. And if I'm busy reading BIG TEXT on the screen, then I'm not paying 100% attention to the REAL film on the screen. I'd like to see a "titleless" version if you got one.

Nice imagery. Theatrical without being "stagey", if you know what I mean. The natural lighting works for me in this regard.

Good job.


John G.
 
Thanx for your time to write something about this one!!! Glad you liked it!!! I will try and make a titleless version in the next days and let you know. Never thought about it but now that I put the pictures in my head without the titles...it kinda works! Thanx!!
 
VersuS said:
Thanx for your time to write something about this one!!! Glad you liked it!!! I will try and make a titleless version in the next days and let you know. Never thought about it but now that I put the pictures in my head without the titles...it kinda works! Thanx!!
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Cool. Definitely send me a link!


John G.
 
Versus,

I think it was a good idea to submit your work. Sometimes you get praise, sometimes you get a slap, but always you get a chance for people to see your film and comment about it. Which I dont know about you, but for me is where it's all at.

Once again I think you did a good job with what you had. You have good ideas and considering you only did this for an experiment it makes it even more impressive. Some nice little moments created in this piece.
 
Thanx Darkline!! Again, coming from a guy who did such a wonderful piece, is really important! I was expecting not only a slap but something worse, people passing by not giving a damn....but hey, we live to be proven wrong, sometimes for the best, sometimes for the worse. This time it I enjoyed being proven wrong!
 
VersuS said:
You can download a title-less version here !!!
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Again, I'd like to remind whoever's interested, there's a new version of Love Is The Most Deceptive Feeling without the annoying floating text :Drogar-Smoke(DBG):
 
I am thrilled to announce that Love Is The Most Deceptive Feeling has been sent to another festival in Greece, called Platform. The festival will take place in December and there is screen viewing for all the participants' films. So....exciting news for us!!!!!!
 
Congrats on the fest exhibition in Greece.

Ok, so I watched the "title-less" version. MUCH, much better. Now it doesn't look like a college media arts class project. So now we have a film that has a single piece of music backing the whole thing without anything else, and so now it definitely has a music video feel. That't not a bad thing, it's just is what it is. Fortunately, the music seems to fit.

As is, it is a nice little piece. Lots of symbolism and still very theatrical.

There are many avenues after that to expand this piece on.

Good job and good luck!


John G.
 
Acting: Not bad but obviously no dialogue so couldn’t really tell.
Script: No script to speak of but a truly neat concept, (very original)
Direction: Interesting.
Music: Really suited the piece, engaging and emotional.
Editing: Tight.
Lighting: Some really nice colour work here.
Loved: The fact you tried something completely different props! The intro/ outro BW imagery, (what was that?), The spinning room, (great shot!):thumbup:
Hated: The font, the split screen (I just don’t like em:( )

Overall: Wow this took me by surprise, I think you really expressed yourself and took us on a journey inside the characters head.
It worked. Keep sticking to your own style. A very interesting film, in-fact the most original I've seen here yet.:dankk2:

J.P.

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