Matt Fuller & Andy McNeil Presents:

Franklin Pierce in Concord! Cool. Let me know if you ever come up this way.

Yes, NH has it's attractions and I love the way of life up here. BUT I am so tired of the cold weather. I've been here for... dang, 17 years? I wanted to leave a long time ago and return to CA but I met my wife and her family is here and yadda yadda yadda. But, she is ready to move as well and hopefully we'll be making the journey soon. Someday soon.

Pittsburgh is a nice area. I had a girlfriend who knew people there (or family) and we went for a visit. I love the terrain. It was beautiful.

Watch that check book. That is the worse way to spend money! I hat bank fees. The worse!
 
Thanks man, Non butchered cut will be around 9 minutes. Like I said this cut was really rushed, but..... the film was intended for this fest originally so eh, it's all for fun.
 
oh and Ted, yeah, the only issue I had with concord was trying to buy alcohol. My ID is slighty chipped on one of the ends and the people at Walmart were giving me and my girlfriend a hard time. It was actually funny. I was just trying to buy champagne for thanksgiving and it ended up with them telling me I have an invalid drivers license and i could get arrested. Other than that the area was nice and laid back. The weather over here on the East coast does suck. So cold. Down here in pittsburgh the roads freeze and since everything is so hilly it's insane to drive at times.

I was planning on moving out to LA to further my dream in film. But I could see myself getting a job as a PA if i'm lucky. I don't want to go through life only being a PA. So, I decided to stay here in Pgh/East coast and direct a couple more short films in the range of 30 minutes, work on a documentary and then attempt a feature. I'd rather get noticed as a director by doing my own stuff. oh well, it's a gamble.
 
Good for you on that dream. Gamble away! I agree with your philosophy. And I am getting to be an old bugger, so working as a PA has passed me by! I need to get noticed as a filmmaker myself!

Good luck to you. And keep your fake ID outta my state! (Live Free or Die, my A$$!) :grin:
 
any word or update on whether or not the films will be posted tonight? because if they aren't i'm going to go out for the night...
 
THIS WS GREATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wish the VO was a little better acted. since almost all VO, see if you can find someone to ADR it with less hesitation i nthe voice. IT really does this piece disservice its BEAUTIFUL, and had a Great Perspective without getting political. I LOVED it. Top5.
 
Hey, I'll have to come back to Germanity. My initial thoughts have to do with the Voice over, as it's a bit stodgy at times.

I get what it's about, it kind of feels lagged which is why I have to sit down and re-watch a third time to really bring together a worthy review of your effort.

Before I do that, the flashbacks of the war scene were really nice!
 
yea the color and grit of the warscene, WAS NOT cliche. IT was different, it was Grittty but saturated. Not Bleach bypassed like every war film of the last 10 years.

Great look. ME AS DP HAPPY.
 
IMPORTANT UPDATE...


So it's 3:19am. I just spent the last 11 hours editing our film "Germanity". It needed a lot done from what we submitted into this fest. So, me and the other director were talking and we think we are going to provide a link for our full version. If we get disqualified from the contest for doing this then so be it. But, the edit we finished tonight is originally how this film should have been shown. I can't go down with people watching something that is crap. So tomorrow we will provide the finished version.

Thank you.
 
I want to see you guyspull up and win.

But i also want to see a better movie.


Descisions descisions
 
Haha, thanks man, It would be a treat to win, but I don't know how that could be possible with all these great films out there when ours has tons of unfinished audio/sound effects and random clips, etc. etc.

I have only watched 2 films so far because i been editing for 11 hours today to get our final film version done. But I will start watching them tomorrow including yours. I'm excited.

I think I would rather have people say, wow, that was a damn good movie and be disqualified than to stay in the contest with an unfinished film. So, I think we are leaning towards putting up the real version tomorrow...

I wonder if we will get disqualified though. I mean, if i only provide the link to people on this forum and nobody else. The one still in the running will be the one people vote for but the link i provide for the finished full version will just be extra for people to see how it's supposed to be. Think I could get away with that?
 
You mention audio issues, I hope you are able to correct them. This felt really slow. When he asks who he killed, I felt like it just hung there in the next scene. (By the way, I really liked the look of the scene.) Overall, too slow.
 
Hey guys, I love the message of your film but I am very confused.

I don't understand the church sequence. The priest with a birthday cake? Is that symbolic? I am sorry if missed something. I watched this twice but am still at a loss.

I felt that the opening sequence (the man in the bed) was too long. I don't know if it was that way to set up the basic "humanity" of this guy but for a 6 minute short, I felt it was too long.

The v.o. seemed like it was from a "how to speak German" record. I didn't feel any emotion in the dialogue.

I loved the shots in this film. I especially love the exterior shots of the soldiers and the sequence in front of the chalkboard.

The "flash" edits need some kind of an effect.

Bottom line, the message was wonderful.

Great job! Looking forward to seeing your long cut!
 
Thank you for the feedback everyone and for the comments.

Now, to clear some stuff up that people been asking. The audio issues I have been talking about are all fixed. When we uploaded for the contest the version wasn't anywhere near completion. Sound effects were missing, music, etc. etc. with those missing elements the film seemed very slow and dragging. Which is why I was debating even entering this contest. People in my crew insisted so what you see is a very very unfinished rough cut. And, i'm sorry to put you thought this and to watch it. hahaha. The finished version that I have in my hands now is completely polished with all the effects and how it was intended to be watched. If I wont get disqualified for showing you guys who are interested the finished cut I will be happy to post the link. So if someone can get back to me if this will disqualify us or not i'd be much thankful.

Ted, the birthday cake in the church was basically all imagery in his head. Erik is on his death bed basically pondering what the Americans life would be like if the roles were reversed. So the dying German puts himself in these scenarios of what he thinks the americans life would be like if he were still alive. The cake in the church scene was just a transition we used to show that this is all in his head and elements of different scenarios are running into each other. Kind of like overlapping. I don't know if we did a good job at showing this, especially in the rough mcgruff cut. hahaha.

HEY ADMINS OR CONTEST HOLDERS, get back to me if i'm able to post the finished link just for shnits and giggles so these people can see how it was intended to be watched.

thanks guys
 
Hmm, this one is an odd one. The flashbacks were right on -> directing, pacing, edits, color grading and most of all the content.

The rest of the short film needed work (although there were a few nice transitions). For example, you could take out all that dialogue about Inka, the food stealing maid, without it affecting your script in the least. Also, casting for this part was a challenge I’m sure.

There’s a gem somewhere with a solid rewrite and recasting the lead.

just me 3 pence. ;)




:beer:
 
I enjoyed this piece. It was great visually. clean and easy to watch. great audio and V/O. I was drawn in. The dirt and the grime helped a great deal in terms of realism. Most shorts dont go as far as dirtying their actors. I did not think that the bed scene matched with anything else in the film as far as lighting goes. top notch overall.
 
thanks man, yeah, the bed scene is different from the other scenes. We had a different DP for that scene. I thought it worked for a contrast of real life and the whole in his mind scenes.
 
Good job on this one. Quite a bit going on for a six minute short but you pulled it off rather nicely. One thing that stood out was the overused DOF. It seemed like every other shot was a showcase of the adapter, and though it looked good, got distracting. But overall, nicely done.
 
Hey R&V, thanks for clarifying. Really looking forward to your long cut.

btw, I put up a link on the TTN for I.D. (I don't know if you saw that I responded to your post over there.)
 
Ted, I did see it. I'm impressed that you took on all those responsibilities with I.D. and put out a solid piece. Nicely done. Yeah, no problem about the clarification, Hopefully in the long cut people wont be so confused. We kind of just went with a weird concept I guess. We are in the works to start on a much longer project. about a 30 minute short. Again focusing on an Anti-War piece like the one we did here. We will be using the same DP and Lighting guy. So we are looking forward to that.

But yes, as soon as the voting ends, I will let you know and give you the link to the polished short.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top