A Little Mouth to Feed: MACGREGOR, BARRY GREEN, JIMERSON, HUDSON & JDS

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VIEW THE FILM BY CLICKING ON THE POSTER OR CLICKING HERE.



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OK ... thanks to Barry David and Hudson for making this happen.
What can I say guys except, wow and thank you so much for the amazing support.
Thanks for my best filmmaking experience yet :beer: :cry: :love4:

There will be more thanks to come because everyone, everyone associated with this went above
and beyond in a very intense, attempting-to-spin-gold-from-straw situation.

.... Did I mention Mac shot this thing :2vrolijk_08:yikes.


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Hope everyone enjoys. Had a problem working in YUV in FCP for the first time once it came to
rendering out a QT movie, so the version that's up right now is slightly washed out/too light.
But I'm working on a fix now :)

EDIT: the correct version's been up for a while now :thumbsup:
 
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awesome piece jack! I'll hit you up with a more detailed review, but it definitely creeped me out, it's got that rosemary's baby feel to it.
 
Beautiful looking, no doubt. Great acting as well.... very creepy.

I do have to say... when the midwife was attacked, and the shot of her legs quickly zipped away out of frame... I chuckled a bit.

Maybe that's just me.

Overall, the film rocked! Seriously.... it's awesome!
Glad it's not in the running. :)

BTW, did I mention how good it looked?

WOW!
The shot of her outside with the little crosses, ... golden!

Cheers,

Mike
 
Great job.
Your lead actress did a fantastic job.

Great look - script - etc etc etc as always.
Of course with that crew - I would expect nothing less.

Hats off to all of you.
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I liked this film a lot. Great all around on a technical level (especially the cinematography) great acting, interesting concept. Kind of reminded me of Rosemary's Baby, but in a good way. Great job, guys.
 
What's up with the gamma curves?

And how on Earth did you squeeze Hudson into that baby costume????

A more detailed review later, after I consult with a certain member on this board who has it in for you (you all know who I'm talking about)...
 
**********SPOLIERS***********

TOP NOTCH.

Seriously Jack, thanks for distracting Mac onto another Exhebition only film, it's the only way the rest of us have a chance! :grin:

I wasn't super thrilled by the story, but the excecution of the film was absoloutly top notch from all points. Cinamtography, lightig, set, acting- wow, costumes, everything was dead on.

I did guess the pull back & reveal of the "garden" the moment that first shot came up.


You didn't have BTS for "Lens cap", how about some BTS for this? I can only imagine the fun you guys had making this.

- Mikko
 
thanks guys ...

Kyser, laughing is allowed ... and encouraged :)

that part is absolutely absurd after all ... I mean from a physics standpoint alone :cheesy:
 
Very cool film guys. The production value was impressive on this one. Great mise-en-scene, lighting, and art direction. Very solid actors and Herman's score rocked. Slightly choppy in a few parts, but i realize the rush job--overall the editing is excellent. The baby was a little bit of a tough sell to me, I'd think I'd cut a little faster so you see shorter darker glimpses. Also would have liked to seen more emotion/fear in the midwife's face as she holds the baby--the lead up to the attack is slightly flat. Overall, very nice with a lot of style. loved the pullback with the little crosses--pow!
 
Cheers Jack and "Crew" :)

Very slick story and film. I actually saw the gravestone(s) shot coming as soon as she started to bury the fetus. Twisted.. argh. I dig!

of course the score was top notch Herman! Kudos buddy.

/j
 
HappyGobo said:
That's messed up Jack. Heartwarming too though.
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so glad you said that :)

Some people simply won't get / connect with this piece. Barry G saw how excited I was about it, and so because we were not making a $70million dollar pic (though it almost felt that way to David I'm sure sometimes :cheesy: ) we decided to go for it. So since the risk was minimal I was afforded the opportunity to go for / play with some conflicting and dissonant tones within a fairly odd world. But what you said is exactly what we were going for.

Barry_S. I wan to re-edit about half of it allreadyI think, I may not have the footy to cut some parts differently, but I want to take another look when things settle down, at which point you will be asked for critique list with timecode annotation. :)
 
I took a sneak peak at this, Jack, since it was exhibition and I've got to say you did an excellent job. Now I want to see "the other one." :beer:

As a whole, this may be my favorite of anything you've done.
 
OK! Nice work here Jack....

I do think it could be a tad tighter overall... and I did see the ending coming, but darn it all man, you sure can direct actors, nice work! Some of the scenes lacked a little staging movement (getting nit-picky) but dang it... I have nothing more negative to say.... Good work team!
 
Who did the art direction, its outstanding.
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Art direction was primarily Jack, teamed with Mac. Jack decided what he wanted it to look like and sent us a preliminary "style sheet", detailing the color palette and overall feel he was going for, gave some lighting and character references, but he also worked with Mac to determine what would look best in the final picture.

Then he spent an inordinate amount of time shopping for appropriate costumes, and we all pitched in to build the sets.
 
As usual to be expected from Jack, it's absolutely visually and aurally spectacular. The art design, the grading, the cinematography, (that shot of the crack of light piercing through the door was pushing orgasmic). Stylistically beautiful, with a truly well composed and haunting score as subtle backing. The sound effects didn't disappoint either, although the actors could have been somewhat better mic'd. But still, excellent.

Speaking of actors, these fellows not only looked the part, but did an excellent job as well. Of course, this was certainly assisted by Jack, who has proved himself adept at direction (no doubt assisted by his excellent degree) in every film he's made.

That said, like seemingly all of JDS's films, I absolutely hated this one. Through and through. It wasn't quite the unmitigated disaster 18 Seconds (again, in my opinion) was, but I'll be a drained freezedried turnip if it wasn't close.

The writing on display here was: Atrocious. Trite. Silly. Pretentious. And poor. The plot was silly and contrived, the characters bland and completely uninteresting, the dialog almost hysterically cliche, and the ending, completely predictable and banal. Nothing of any interest (by that I mean originality, of course) what-so-ever going on here, and I dare anyone to defend that there was.

Ohkhay, here's the plot: Lady wants a child. Prays to God. God won't answer. Prays to Satan. Satan Answers. Baby randomly eats people. Woman values Satan baby over husband. The End. Uh-huh.

If this film is simply a tech-reel, then Bravo, it is indeed fantastic. If this is actually a short film that should be judged artistically and with definite artistic merit-- it fails. Completely and utterly and even more completely and utterly.

In summary, this film is a prime example of the ever-so-popular style-over-substance that seems to be permeating film making as of late.

Now, what I would like to see is a JDS film with a solid writer. That could be really fantastic.


Note: I am not attacking JDS as a director. Only as a writer. He indeed could be an Oscar winning director.

Good Luck

Stefan
 
Art direction like this is very taxing on a shoe string production.

So I'm glad to hear kudos for that from an artistic perspective, but more so for Barry and particularly David to hear it. Barry was occupied readying the "studio" for general use a large part of the time so David did a lot of running for the production. The brown overalls for example, were a pain and the most expensive and only non thrift store element. So David's responsible for making a lot of the small details happen and I really appreciate him sticking with me when blue overalls would have done for another type of film. But there were tons of instances like that where it was tough to get or do X,Y, or Z and they found a way to do it.
 
StefanHaynes said:
As usual to be expected from Jack, it's absolutely visually and aurally spectacular. The art design, the grading, the cinematography, (that shot of the crack of light piercing through the door was pushing orgasmic). Stylistically beautiful, with a truly well composed and haunting score as subtle backing. The sound effects didn't disappoint either, although the actors could have been somewhat better mic'd. But still, excellent.

Speaking of actors, these fellows not only looked the part, but did an excellent job as well. Of course, this was certainly assisted by Jack, who has proved himself adept at direction (no doubt assisted by his excellent degree) in every film he's made.

That said, like seemingly all of JDS's films, I absolutely hated this one. Through and through. It wasn't quite the unmitigated disaster 18 Seconds (again, in my opinion) was, but I'll be a drained freezedried turnip if it wasn't close.

The writing on display here was: Atrocious. Trite. Silly. Pretentious. And poor. The plot was silly and contrived, the characters bland and completely uninteresting, the dialog almost hysterically cliche, and the ending, completely predictable and banal. Nothing of any interest (by that I mean originality, of course) what-so-ever going on here, and I dare anyone to defend that there was.

Ohkhay, here's the plot: Lady wants a child. Prays to God. God won't answer. Prays to Satan. Satan Answers. Baby randomly eats people. Woman values Satan baby over husband. The End. Uh-huh.

If this film is simply a tech-reel, then Bravo, it is indeed fantastic. If this is actually a short film that should be judged artistically and with definite artistic merit-- it fails. Completely and utterly and even more completely and utterly.

In summary, this film is a prime example of the ever-so-popular style-over-substance that seems to be permeating film making as of late.

Now, what I would like to see is a JDS film with a solid writer. That could be really fantastic.


Note: I am not attacking JDS as a director. Only as a writer. He indeed could be an Oscar winning director.

Good Luck

Stefan
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Stefan thanks so much for taking the time to watch and respond so thoroughly and with such passion and gusto.

Maybe you should take a Jack break until I work with another writer though. I mean why put yourself through such torture :)

I do appreciate the comments and time sir, no joke.

:beer:
 
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