The Salesman and Hämnden (The Revenge)

[Janssen Herr]

G'day all,

I thought I would post some clips from my two films in Post production that I shot on a Cannon XM2. (Ahem!) All Clips are Quicktime H.264. I am interested in gaining some critical feedback on the material.

Both the films are in Swedish. The fist clip is from my film Försäljaren (The Salesman) . This is a black comedy/social satire about a multinational company which actually feeds off its loyal customers and employees.

It was filmed entirely on a Canon XM2 using the dreaded "Frame Mode", the XM2's psudeo verson of the DVX's (and in what lust I say this!) 24p:

http://www.janssenherr.com/TheSalesman.html

The next clips come from my film Hämnden (The Revenge) which deals with domestic violence. I shot in interlaced and use a Sony VX2000 as a 'B' camera.

Link to the films official website teaser trailer:

http://www.janssenherr.com/Hamnden/Trailer.html

(24.9MB, 2min 16s, Quicktime H.264)

The above site work best if viewed on Mozilla (Firefox) or Safari.

The next link is to a clip of very, very beta test scenes. The sound is only an experiment of what the final design will be, at times it is a bit noisy. The CC is an experiment also. And the material here is only a 1/4 of the takes I have available. I should say to those who are not comfortable with violence that there is a strong violent scene (no blood) towards the end of this clip:

http://www.janssenherr.com/therevenge

(75.2MB, 6min 32s, Quicktime H.264)

Sound recoded via a Røde Video Mic to Sharp MD. Edited Final Cut Pro. Sound edited on Sountrackpro, Sound Design on LogicPro.

Cheers,

Janssen Herr

 

[Herman Witkam]

Hi Janssen,

Hamnden has some stunning visuals! Great sound design too. Are you scoring it yourself?

 

[Paul Coleman]

Hämnden looks like my kind of film.:love4:

 

[Janssen Herr]

Thank you Herman and Paul.

Yes Herman I am scoring the film, if you want to see/hear the process of the scoring /sound design I have a link here:

http://www.janssenherr.com/Hamnden/More.html

I will be uploading a whole heap of new sound that I am developing for Hämnden to this page around the 20th of January. Not all the music that is currently on the trailers/ clips will be the final version, its just experimenting- working on getting the perfect piece(s). I am still yet to have found the overall 'theme' for the film. There are 4 main characters in the film and each character has their own 'musical theme', plus an overall theme which will weave the threads (characters) together over changing moods/environments.

Out of interest Herman which parts of music did you like the most?

 

[Herman Witkam]

'An Unclear Blow' and 'Mig' are definitely my favourites so far, but I think all of the tracks carry great sound design and compositional ideas. It would be cool to see the images with it.

Btw - if you need a co-composer or an instrumentalist (woodwinds/percussion/plucked strings) feel free to drop a line.

 

[c.g._eads]

wow, some stunning visuals here. especially when he's in the forest. Can you tell me a little more about this camera? Is it a DVX comparable? Price range? Have you used the DVX and if so, how would you compare the two?