The Silent City, short film now online... in HD too!

Yep, I hear ya. As I said before, it looks great! I am looking forward to what you can do with a more complete storyline! :)
 
It reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, actually. I dug how they were so freaked out by the dead soldier, and it seems like if you ever did expand it, that's another direction you can explore - what if these guys were THE last guys in the city and they get done in one at a time, solely through their growing paranoia.

Would you post at least some basics of the stories of the other two films that did not get made?
 
Mark Harris said:
It reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, actually. I dug how they were so freaked out by the dead soldier, and it seems like if you ever did expand it, that's another direction you can explore - what if these guys were THE last guys in the city and they get done in one at a time, solely through their growing paranoia.

Would you post at least some basics of the stories of the other two films that did not get made?
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You aren't far from the mark actually - Part 2 was based on an old Heavy Metal comic strip from 1981 called "Goodbye Soldier", and I adapted it so that it's connected to my film - it's what happened to the OTHER guys the ones in my film are late for rendezvous with ... you see them dead below the burning building. If you look REALLY carefully, you can see there's more than one soldier there...

Part 3 was just a basic concept I would have developed if the other was funded... And there were lots of loose floating ideas besides...

R.
 
Cool, Ruairi, that makes more sense to understand it as part of a series. Didn't mean to be unnecessarily harsh on you. Anyway, take it in stride: generally only things worth talking about inspire debate!
 
dougspice said:
Cool, Ruairi, that makes more sense to understand it as part of a series. Didn't mean to be unnecessarily harsh on you. Anyway, take it in stride: generally only things worth talking about inspire debate!
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Well, I didn't exactly introduce it as part of a trilogy, but I probably won't get to make the rest, so it'll have to suffice as standalone...

I'm at peace with it anyway hehe

R.
 
dougspice said:
Cool, Ruairi, that makes more sense to understand it as part of a series. Didn't mean to be unnecessarily harsh on you. Anyway, take it in stride: generally only things worth talking about inspire debate!
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Ditto. I honestly thought it deserved the debate it recieved. If this were a few kids playing in a backyard, there wouldn't have been a debate about it. The more potential something has to excel, the more it's going to be spoken about.

I did the same thing with Norm's entry in Drama Fest. By the by: That eye thing on your site is funny.
 
Man, did it look professional. I wish I could afford 35mm at the moment, lol. Not to beat a dead horse from the other site you were talking about, but I thought Saving Private Ryan only because of the "sniper mirrors" thing, and the color of the footage. I will say that I found the short to be a bit more similar in look to Starship Troopers than anything else.

Very impressive 3D. Are there any feature-length projects you have been trying to propose?

Also, why is it so hard to get funding for these shorts if they aren't all that expensive? Especially if you had someone like Murphy on board (I am not in the industry yet, so you can obviously see I am a bit niave).

Thanks so much!
 
it has been interesting following the threads on your film ruairi, i saw it posted on two forums and on youtube, compared the quality of the different sizes, (sorry about the short mirror, tried to fix it but never got to a full download again)

to me it was like, here is a guy that really didn't stop himself, he went all the way to produce a short with all his might and i wanted to see how that would be received

the youtube audience obviously loves it and like you anticipated just want to see more, they have seen tons of trailers before when not everything is explained

the red people completely got your strategy and loved your abilities

and here you have had most people deeply impressed, and then a few that wanted to kind of change the way you did it, or was unhappy about something in how you held the tension and not gave away your story completely, whatever...

i don't think you need another short now, this one should be enough to take you to a feature, either by expanding on the silent city, or through collaborating on another script with the talent and resources that know how to get things greenlit and done
 
This was really good. I wanted to see more so that's good, you did your job. That's what a short film is about. You don't tell a whole story you just build up and let people wanting more. Now I thought this was shot on HD w/ a 35mm adapter, doesn't feel to me like 35mm, sorry. Loved the 3d work!. Congrats!

G.
 
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Can you talk about the 3d tracking. Which software did you use, any advices you have would be appreciated. Also, did most of your tracking reference points came from the actual set/location, or did you position specific tracking points yourself? If so, did you have a special workflow/method on how to position them, or is it pretty much random?

The film looks great by the way, the vfx are very good, especially since you did most of them yourself... it must have been an herculaen task. I am glad you decided to finish it.
 
SomewhereinLA said:
Can you talk about the 3d tracking. Which software did you use, any advices you have would be appreciated. Also, did most of your tracking reference points came from the actual set/location, or did you position specific tracking points yourself? If so, did you have a special workflow/method on how to position them, or is it pretty much random?

The film looks great by the way, the vfx are very good, especially since you did most of them yourself... it must have been an herculaen task. I am glad you decided to finish it.
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Because of time limits for setups, there were no measurements taken on set - but plenty of natural detail in the environment to track. So most of it was automated, except one shot, which was a complete nightmare, and had to be hand matched for the 2nd half of the shot (the shot where the camera swings around Don just after the explosion) I made the decision to allow us to do more setups on the day (where time = money) and offset some of the hard work to post (where I have plenty of TIME, but no money) I wouldn't do this on a "real" production, but on my own project, it was fine, cost less, was a little painful - but hopefully worth it in the end...

Screenscene in Dublin were kind enough to let me use their equipment and render farm in downtime, and use 3dsmax + vray to render, syntheyes for tracking, Premiere Pro, and AfterFX for comping...

Cheers,
R.
 
WOW, I really enjoyed it. GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
would love to see you put a video of how you created the 3d world, lighting, etc.. and how you matched it to film, etc... I'm familiar with 3d max, but can't seem to break from that computer image look. I need to become more proficient at it.
 
Great stuff! And as said tons of times allready - very professional looking! Finish your trilogy and move to features.

Cheers,
 
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