PROMISED - A DahopaFilms Production

Envision said:
Brian, glad to see you entering the fest! To me, it was pretty obvious you weren't doing another Bucketman, only because of the big X across his chest ... unless that was added more recently.

Anyway, you have NO idea how tempted I am to check out that WMV link, but I'll honor the cast/crew only request .... dangit. :)

Look forward to seeing your entry!
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Hey Norm.

Yeah, I'm in. Same story as before, only this time Bucketman is called "Erik".

I think it works.

And I see you're rather busy. As always, looking forward to yours. You set a pretty high bar, but I'm well practised and pretty good at passing under bars.:beer:
 
I've seen some amazing edits before but nothing tops this one.
I would just call it a day and hand this in as the final version!
Great Music Selection, it really captures the essence of the Film.
I'm glad to have been a part of this.
 
Greetings all.

Well, we're pretty much done here. So here are a few screen grabs (some cropped rather severly so as not to give too much away) from the finished product.

Thanks to Rico and Craig II for the final eyes on editing. All of your lame suggestions were just awful, so it was good to know I was on the right track all along.:cheesy:

This entry will be a little "different". Different can, of course, be good or bad. We'll just have to wait and see. Personally, I'm going shopping for Kevlar tomorrow.

(smart-ass captions relating to the following pics will be inserted after release)

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Cheers!
 
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Envision said:
Wow, got some steamy action going on there, Brian! :)
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Thanks, Norm. Actually, out of consideration for the camera we used ice-cold water for shower scene depicted in the last photo. And I've got a shot where the camera op tilted down a little too far and it's pretty obvious ...:Drogar-Shock(DBG):

Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Nice grabs!
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Thanks, JDS. And if you like those, I hope you'll like the grabs in the third act.
 
Dahopafilms said:
This entry will be a little "different". Different can, of course, be good or bad. We'll just have to wait and see. Personally, I'm going shopping for Kevlar tomorrow.
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Ah finally had a few moments to examine a bit more of what my friends at Dahopa are up to. I dunno... From the looks of this thread, I'm getting the impression that you guys are taking this drama thing to heart and may deliver a production unlike any we've seen before. its getting me very curious what this versitile Vancouver ensemble is up to... Gosh, I wish I was able to be involved in this production. But alas, poor me, stuck in Puerto Rico at the moment, a DAW nowhere in sight... :)

Good luck Dahopa!!!

E.
 
nice grabs man, the lighting of the two hugging kissing is absolutely beautiful.

what are your lighting setups/equipment consist of? what about the adapter?
 
Texture said:
Ah finally had a few moments to examine a bit more of what my friends at Dahopa are up to. I dunno... From the looks of this thread, I'm getting the impression that you guys are taking this drama thing to heart and may deliver a production unlike any we've seen before. its getting me very curious what this versitile Vancouver ensemble is up to... Gosh, I wish I was able to be involved in this production. But alas, poor me, stuck in Puerto Rico at the moment, a DAW nowhere in sight... :)

Good luck Dahopa!!!

E.
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Yes. This one is indeed going to be "different". Really, really, really fun to shoot. I think you'll understand more when the finished product is up.

Oh - and Erik? You are probably the only guy I know who jets off to Puerto Rico and then jumps onto his computer and checks out DVXUser. Bars closed? Tired of pristine beaches and elegant evenings? If J. needs a good divorce lawyer, I think you know I can help her with that.:Drogar-Shock(DBG):

Cheers, man.

Now go outside and play. Wear a hat.
 
PaPa said:
nice grabs man, the lighting of the two hugging kissing is absolutely beautiful.

what are your lighting setups/equipment consist of? what about the adapter?
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Thanks - kind of you to say so.

We took some time with lighting that one (like we had a choice). And I've since promised never, ever to shoot in a bathroom with mirrors on every wall ever, ever again.

The lighting setup on the first bathroom frame grab was: the ambient room lighting (numerous halogens in wall sconces and atop the main mirror); natural daylight coming through the frosted exterior window (that would be the blue background light); plus three 250W Lowell Prolights on stands (one shooting diffused through an umbrella) setup in a lopsided triangle and aimed both direct-at-talent and also bouncing off the mirrors (we planned the latter - yes - of course we did).

It was a small room. It got a little warm. And Kristine's towel stayed on the entire time. I credit (blame?) that on her reaction to the too-close presence of her costar.

Also, KC kept blowing one of her lines (a rare event for her). She had to say the name "Erik", but for some reason it always came out "Eric". No one else seemed to notice, but being the perfectionist director that I am, I kept shooting until it came out just as written (or close enough). That, and the fact that we had to do several lighting setups for each of the bathroom shots (plus the towel) explains why shooting that scene took a while.

Shooting 720p at 24 fps. Adapter is a Redrock M2 with a mounted Canon 55mm F1.2 lens wide open (can you say excruciatingly shallow depth of field?).

I appreciate your interest.
 
Dahopafilms said:
Also, KC kept blowing one of her lines (a rare event for her). She had to say the name "Erik", but for some reason it always came out "Eric". No one else seemed to notice, but being the perfectionist director that I am, I kept shooting until it came out just as written (or close enough).
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Some of us will definitly appreciate your attention to detail :cool:

Looking forward to a fully functioning download link!!!

E.
 
My impressions of PROMISED:

a beautifully shot film. didn’t care for the mix of a romantic-comedy-style montage (set to cheery pop music) with the darker noir tones that seemed more appropriate for this story. regardless, I think your intent was well executed -- to put a twist on an audience’s expectations. the murder could have been staged better. and no one minds watching two beautiful women kiss. no one.
 
>>>>Spoiler Alert<<<<<

I enjoyed this...and after reading your posts I would love to see the comedy version. I'll bet she keeps cutting the veges in that version, after the event.

I was so happy when "The Nibbler" got his. How on earth did he manage to score 2 fine ladies with that technique? Hmmm, maybe that was his undoing.

You have some very nice shots in there, though I can see what you mean about the dof - looks like you had 4 inches to work with. Maybe that was Eriks problem too? Tried to follow your "excrutiatingly" link...it's not working.

Nice work.
 
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Ooooh, if yer gonna give anything away label as a spoiler... gonna try to download with satellite...
 
REVIEW: PROMISED

Second of the day. PROMISED was interesting. Content that could've been either explored for the entire six minute run or chopped down to a two minute short.

Another clean image. On the second watch I noticed that the camera wanted to do a few great things, but came up just a tad bit short in timing and such. S'what it's about, though... the practice. So, hopefully you got something out of it and will use it next go around!

Sound quality was just fine, though the soundtrack removed me entirely from anything you were trying to tell me. The music did absolutely nothing, for me, in terms of content. It almost felt like the music was just kind of thrown into the mix, but held no specific purpose.

But, the focus of my reviews this go around isn't going to be technical, but on content. Woo... okay so I can understand the plot "twist", what I can't understand is why we needed to join this playboy during thirty-second kissing excercises. The first kissing scene was on the edge of too much, the second pushed it overboard. With all of that fun making we voyeured in on, I felt like I should've been learning who the heck this Eric was and why he's messing around on these two chics.

Even better, I would've liked to be setup for the plot twist, instead of having it dumped in my lap. It felt kinda like Eric was telling me this story, and wanted to go straight for my panties instead of wooing me. Err, but I don't wear panties so forget what I just said.

I know that you only had a few months to conjure the short up, totally understand. I think that there might've been a lack of motivated writing. Was Eric a totally bad dude in the first place? I mean, why did he have to die if the two girls were messing around behind his back as well? Doesn't that make them just as bad?

Did Eric have a lot of cash that they were after, and this was just their web to ensnare him? I just didn't make any connection with the plot, here. If the story wasnt' going to take the entire six minutes and tell us what's really going on, then the current run could've surely been chopped down by at least three minutes and you would've had the same effect.

But he did drive a really nice car. That must've been a fun shot to organize!

Take my review with a grain o'salt, because hey... I'm jealous that you got to do something and I didn't!

Thanks for exhibiting!
 
I must be tailing on Kholi with the reviews. And once again he's pretty much said everything for me.

My #1 recommendation would be to can the music and the driving montage. The music just threw me off, and the driving montage was absolutely unnecessary.

I love how someone else in the thread referred to your Eric as "The Nibbler". It was almost comical, but it seems that you have a comedic version as well. Good, b/c I would love to see that. It's almost parody of "Love Affair" movies as it is. I was definately chuckling more than I should've been for a "dramatic" short. But good job, congrats on the entry. Regardless of my criticism, it entertained me.

And I totally called the girl on girl, right before it happened. Never hurts. Thanks for that.
 
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