So, who does everyone like so far?

apollyon said:
...I find it odd that he would become a serial killer and 'discover' this afterwards by accident.

That's just me.
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me too, but some things must be sacrificed to the 6 minute god.

(and quick disclaimer - this is not a defense, just a discussion of the method to my madness, if it didn't work for some people this is not to suggest their response isn't valid)

Truth is WHY it worked, the killing bringing her back, was irrelevant to the story and every tim I tried to include it sidetracked the scene and openned a can of worms that couldn't be fully explored in the time.

there used to be a line ... "it's this house ... the highways of the dead intersect here ..."

but again it just bogged things down and served little purpose other than me telling you something I thought you should know.

So its glossed over due to the short form.

Really I intentionally concentrated on just the big beats and relied on you guys to fill in the rest as you will, and you can see there are interesting subvarients within the major beats being thrown around here.

but yeah the big beats are:
- he kills people to make her comeback for a while
- she finds out she was his firts victim and that she is infact dead.
- to put things right she kills him and now they are happy ghosts together

the rest is icing

I know why he killed her, why it works to bring her back, whether he was a serial killer by nature or by design, but there's not a ton of reasons to include all that in explicit dialogue.
 
Maybe, but I ate like one inteman's cake for every day of editing, lol.

Virum said:
No, he had the desire to kill (some line about it pained him to know that he had a heart like that inside him but couldn't act on it).

The first person he killed was her, she was his muse and unleashed him.
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and this is another problem in the 6 minute form* .. major things like that should really be re-enforced more than once, but here it is hinging on a single line.

*another disclaimer -- obv the form is not the problem but what I choose to put in it, and I am definately chooisng things to put in it that don't quite fit, because I am pushing things in terms of the narratives I want to explore, which probably are to big for the form.


But I don't want to jack this thread.

If anyone wants to discuss the particulars of my story - if you wanna know backstory that wasn't included in the film, or talk about what worked or didn't, or your various different yet wholey valid interpretations, then we should probably do it over in my thread.


 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
If anyone wants to discuss the particulars of my story - if you wanna know backstory that was too much for the film, or talk about what worked or didn't, or your various different yet wholey valid interpretations, then we should probably do it over in my thread.
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Oh, so this was all just a way to move traffic to your thread. that's pretty pretentious, if you ask me...When you start working in Hollywood and try all these promotional gimmicks to get your movies noticed, you're going to be in trouble. Cause you know, NO one does that...
:beer::beer::beer::beer:
 
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ahk I hope people know that's an inside joke ...
(it is isn't it?)

I didn't think continuing here was the most appropriate thing since the thread isn't titled "a discussion of Jack's story".
 
yeah, I'll get us back on topic.

My favs remain Broken Circle, The Seeing, I still like Matt's movie.

But I watched Dead Inside and that is a really nice straight-up zombie flick. If you guys haven't checked it, go do it. It's moved up my list, and in this contest of people trying different things, it was kind of refreshing to see just a well-done basic horror flick.

I have a ton to watch the second time and review.

M
 
I'm still partial to Rekindled, but The Commitment actually made me scream out loud. Halfway had me glued all the way through.
 
I liked yours Zenbarai. Very whimsical. the juxtoposition of the form, content, and self awareness the film had really helped it to move along nicely. Plus t he cinematography was good , and there were no gratuitous, "cool" flashy shots that served no purpose to the story. AFer watchign the umpteenth film, that had a random flash of a corpse, it was nice watching a movie and not having a siezure.

(Halfway did it properly though.)
 
Just wanted to bump this to call attention to Put on a Happy Face. Nice short that is not really getting the views it deserves. Go check it out.
 
I have to agree with Mark here. Put on a Happy Face made me smile through the entire movie. I couldn't wipe the grin off my face.

It was great fun!
 
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