Love Is The Most Deceptive Feeling

I don't know what to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you all so much!!! This means SO MUCH to me you can't imagine!!!!!

ps. cinealma I can't thank you enough for what you said about the text....your input in this piece of art has been tremendous and I can't stop thinking how much nicer it looks without the text. I decided to send the title-less version to this fest in Greece as well. So far I've only sent the online forms and was supposed to go to the post office today to mail the dvds...but I ll wait another day to make the titleless version. THANK YOU! The remark about the college media arts project really made me realise trully how it looked and how it looks now. Thanx!
 
Hey John, I want to give you a better critique than the quickie I did before.

First of all, I love the passion you convey in your film. It is a direct result of the passion you have in your filmmaking, story-telling and vision. It is just stunning.

You film is so moving and filled with emotion.

It is funny, because where as I like the subtitles and the artistic way they are presented... they are not needed at all. This is such a great example of fine story-telling. You tell a story that is completely understandable without a single verse of dialogue. The images tell the story!

The one thing that constantly bother's me is the eyes opening. I want his "love" to be dead, gone and never return. I guess that is a bit final, but in this short, I wouldn't mind if he has just cut off a huge part of himself. (though, I do love the shot! I mean, heck... that is a great shot!)

Your cinematography and editing are so polished and pro. The color choices are flat-out fantastic. I love the blown-out and bleached look of many of the scenes. And then the warmth of the bedroom. Such contrast.

The camera work is well done. I have not attempted the handheld or quick zoom work in a film yet. I hope that I can acheive what you have done. Which is basically implenting cuts of handheld and zooms without drawing attention to them or being distracting. A feat I don't see successfully acheived often, especially in the early stages of filmmaking.

The editing is grand.

The music works very well.

This is work that you shoould be very proud of.

I have just watched this again for like the 20th time... I do understand the eye opening. I am sorry that it has taken me so long.

I applaud this work and look forward to more of your work.

You have a firm grasp of filmmaking and story-telling and you do it in the most uncoventional ways. That can rarely be said anymore.

Congratulations on this fine piece of work!

Ted
 
It's funny....I set out to do this out of the blue...didnt plan on doing anything a the time....we were actually just started planning The Door Between (without yet knowing about Horrorfest)....So I was listening to some tunes....and writing some lyrics and stuff ....and suddenly I felt an urge to do something coz being just me and Stratos its always hard to really go out and make something,sometimes he cant, some other time I might be occupied with something else...and at the time it's been a really long time before we had done anything (even test footage) with the camera...so I wrote those lines ...wanted to create an emotional piece of dialogue that actually is VERY personal to me and my personal life....and then I took the camera and just wrote down the scenes...I knew I'd use my song but the first cut of it was less than 1 second, so had my brother make an extended version of it (he is a great guy) and thus I had my 2mins to film.

So apart from the scene in the bathtub where Stratos came a Saturday evening to help with the camera (that is his camera work with my direction), every other shot was done by myself.

I had a great time filming this on my own, placing the camera and checking the frames...doing multiple takes to be sure...I enjoyed the spinning room, both takes , the POV and the other and I can tell you my head was spinning for the rest of the day....

Anyway, this is how it happened....and I prefer this one to The Door Between artistically even though The Door feels more like a movie to me and gives me goosebumps every time the end credits roll.

All in all....when you've done something that you have broken down so f*** many times and you have started to see it as little pieces and not as a whole...not as a 3rd person in this....you cant really appreciate what you've achieved even if its something really small.

Reading your comments and yours especially Ted made me pause and say 'hey...was it in the end something really sweet and good looking in its own amateurish way?' and the answer comes...YES

Thanx Man!
 
Hey again, John...

I forgot to mention the spinning room. I loved that! I was trying to figure out if you were on a "lazy susan" spinning disk or something. And the POV shot, is that the camera on a tripod on the same disk? Very cool.

I can totally appreciate the "one man show" footage. How did you like doing it? HA!

The simplicity of your film is marvelous. Maybe it's too simple for you feel like it is a film. That is why I had referred it like a music video. I guess it is, now that I hear how you wrote the song and lyrics before shooting it.

Either way, it works. I would NEVER refer to this as amateurish. Absolutley not.

You should send a copy of this to people who need music videos done. They would be blown away at the story-telling that you accomplished in such a profession way!
 
The spinning room....ok.....maybe I should make a BTS of this just for the laughs....no chair...no...POV I m holding the camera and spinning around the room...the chair would not help me since the area in which I was standing was small for a chair to do this properly and I didnt think of a chair at the time...looool (shame on me tried to explain myself...hahaha)...and the shot where you see me spinning around, well just put the camera on the tripod (love you tripod!) and started spinning again really fast...of course I upped the speed of these shots but when I shot i wasnt sure how well it would show on screen with the speed up so I spinned myself REALLY fast...lol....oops....dizziness come back ...
 
Ok now you got me going, I m currently cutting BTS from Love Is The Most Deceptive Feeling to post soon, I will make a nice video collage with subs of course and I will try to explain what happens coz there are some really funny moments there.
 
This vid was great.

I liked the different feel of it. I liked the mask and I liked the acting. I thought the story was a little angst-ridden teenager for me, but then again, I'm not very deep, so I could have missed something.

Very good music by the way, and a nice solid effort.
 
THE BTS IS FINALLY READY. ONLY FOR HARDCORE 'LOVE IS THE MOST DECEPTIVE FEELING' FANS. SO I AM SURE THE SERVER WON'T SUFFER.

Click Here
 
Hey John! Thanks for sharing!!!

It is very cool to see your shots out of context and without the CC. And I am very familiar with the "peeks" into the camera to check framing! Had to laugh my butt off with that!!!

Great musical score to accompany this, too!

Very fun.

Every one....CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!
 
I'm there for you, bro! Plus, it is great to see such great BTS action. Makes you appreciate the final cut so much more!
 
TheatreGuy said:
I'm there for you, bro! Plus, it is great to see such great BTS action. Makes you appreciate the final cut so much more!
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Thanx Ted! I hope the BTS for THE DOOR BETWEEN will be much more interesting and the interviews for the DVD. Heck, someone will learn how you can do something that is worth watching with 0$ and 0$ experience!
 
Really enjoyed this. I like the way you did this piece . the music went perfect with the short .
Video art ? Ya I agree .
The only complaint I have is at the 1:38 mark , I thought the clip went a little too fast to read..Minor complaint.
Nicely done!!!!

Ian
 
Ian, there is a title-less version you can download, at the first page of this thread you can find the link. After many suggested it, I realised that this piece works without the text. Seeing it quite a few times title-less, the video is much much much more film-like, and the viewer can emphasize on what he's seeing and not what he's reading. If you want for your own pleasure you can check it out and tell me if it worked better for you without the text.

Than for watching and commenting!
John!
 
John you have the soul of a poet.
Really interesting and original.
Much better without the text.


I liked that this felt warm and fuzzy sort of and then
SPOILER
somebody gets hacked up in the bathtub.

Cool and weird

Congrats!
 
Thanx Jack. Just read your other review for The Door Between. I was really happy to wake up today and find you posted in both my movies!

I hope that I can make the transition from poetry and philosophy to film-making quite soon. I am not saying that I denounce those two characteristics nor that they dont belong in my movies, its me, i cant and dont want to change me. But I feel that to progress and improve I must use them and not abuse them ;)

Thanx again!
 
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