"The Sunset Headlights" - nostalgia, loss, and narrative.

Reverend Godless

Reverend Godless

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Well folks,
This was my first time using narrative, or really any significant speaking (dialogue or otherwise) in any of my shorts. I think this one came out alright. I actually spent quite some time thinking things over, re-recording sounds, and making sure things flowed just right. I might suggest watching it with headphones, I liked my use of audio mixing :)

well, here you have it.

http://www.safety-last.com/videos/thesunsetheadlights.mov

Shot DVX100a (no adapters), edited on FCP 5, used MB for the CC, mostly tweaked versions of no. 85, and Color Reversal.

I appreciate ANY and ALL comments. Thank you!
 
I liked it quite a bit. I find poetic-narrative to be on a sort of surreal genre all on its own. This seems like an ultra-personal catharsis full of childhood thoughts. Keep up the good work!
Jgastelb
 
OK... I agree that there were some nice visuals, and LOVE the basic idea... but the end credits ruined it for me. Why do people insist on letting EVERYONE know that they "wrote, directed, edited, narrated, scored, mixed, produced, executive produced, catered, etc" the entire piece?

It's pretentious, and (to me) it just prove's that you're an amateur.

The only situation where justification would be needed on a short like this, is if it was the opening sequnce to a longer film, or even a feature - - which it did feel like it was, and I almost wish it was.

-brown
 
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Very nice what you've done with just the dvx and some tweaking in MB. Care to show some uncorrected vs corrected stills?

I love the handheld style to this mood piece although I would've hoped the handhelds were a little bit more smooth lol.
 
the reason the credits were there is because I'm submitting it to the Boston Globe art submission and credits have to be specified. Originally I just had the collaboration title. I'm no Vincent Gallo.
 
How is crediting yourself PRETENTIOUS? Thats the most absurd thing i've heard in years...Even if you credit yourself for all of the jobs...
 
inspire84 said:
How is crediting yourself PRETENTIOUS? Thats the most absurd thing i've heard in years...Even if you credit yourself for all of the jobs...
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Maybe he means subtlety instead. i.e. A so and so short but not every little task you took on. I don't know though.
 
Yeah, I usually wouldn't go into so much detail about everything, but since I have to specify each thing (to keep them from assuming plagiarism), and also because it was a collaborative project, I needed to write out everything we did. I'm not too keen on pretension. I hope my work doesn't come off that way...
 
i don't think it's pretentious to credit yourself, even if it is a short piece. hell, you're the one who made it and put all the effort into, so there is no problem with doing that.

i liked it alot. i listened to it with headphones and it was fanstastic. what are those background ambient noises? and what's the name of that song? keep up the good work.
 
I really enjoyed the scene of him sitting on the side of the highway and the cars passing quickly in reverse as if, metaphorically, he's journeying backward into the past.
 
The song is Sigur Ros, the name of the song is credited at the end. It's off a somewhat hard to find EP of theirs for the single Ny Batteri.
The sounds in the background were the sounds of cars driving in the rain, and then I added some reverb and stuff to them, and messed with the levels and such.
 
Bravo!

The music is nice for this style. I believe you can make this into a great nice short or feature. If you do that, this will be great for the intro or in the middle of the movie as a climatical scene.
 
I really enjoyed this piece. It speaks. Keep it up as you're on the right track. Most young filmmakers make movies with themselves running around with guns and trying to be wiseguys (Not that that can be a bad thing) but you seem to really want to say something

Bravo !
 
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