"MEAT" - short film by Andrew Olson

Thanks guys for comments and watching the my film. It's such a great environment to be able to show a film and get comments so quickly. What a truly useful resource.

I'm watching everything tonight and I'll be posting some comments tomorrow probably.

Laters,
Ando
 
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cool film, I saw a film recently that explores the same topic, (self cannibalization) but I thought this was done better. In this film though, I wondered why not go directly to others once you have the taste for human flesh. I then puked. good job.
 
I have to admit...I got a little queasy watching this one (that's a GOOD thing)! I've watched about half so far, and this is by far the most original (if that's even possible anymore).

You are certainly in my top 3 thus far, congrats you Sicko!
 
REVIEW:
And a cannibal is born! Good stuff, great idea. Looked good, sounded good. Acting wasn't too over the top, which worked. It had a very light, whimsical attitude about it, which really sold it. Great job. I liked this one a lot. :beer:

FILMMAKER-TO-FILMMAKER:
This is really a good looking film. I would have liked to seen a little more blood splatter when he's lopping stuff off himself. The ending turned serious with the kids playing outside and kind of killed the dark humor of the piece. I'm thinking something like establishing a character in the beginning that we would have all enjoyed thinking about the potential of him/her being the guy's first meal: a nagging landlord, the mother-in-law, a stuffy neighbor. I'd like to see you really polish this one up.
 
Liked the flick, though I wanted to throw up my Subway sandwich whilst watching it. (Cold Cut Trio ironically enough :shocked:) Good stuff man!


Dustin

(ps i'm associated with Retribution)
 
story wise this kinda felt familiar but it still worked for me. you had some really well chosen shots which worked perfectly. gonna save this one for a second viewing as well
 
Thanks for watching my film. I really appreciate all the comments.

cinealma: Thanks for the truthiness. I do like getting criticism because it helps me develop into a better filmmaker and that's what we're all here for right. I'm obviously pretty sadistic so him seeing the kids and people walking wasn't too serious to me because it just meant he was going to eat other people in general. I do think that you suggestion would have been a nice addition, adding an unlikeable character that could be the first victim, but keeping it simple and perserving the 'surprise' of what he's going to do seems better with just the story focusing on him.

Thanks,
Ando
 
The look of this film I think could use some improvement, but the storyline and acting were very good and made me grin, and laugh goulishly!:zombie_smiley:
 
This was a really excellent film. Kept me engaged the entire time. Your actor did a brilliant job. The audience is able to get inside his head without any dialogue. Just facial expressions, emoting, and human sounds. (I swear I think I saw him tear up as he ate himself for the 1st time)

Your images were lovely and fit the tone of the piece, the score was effective, and the art direction was so good it "didn't exist".

This one I'll remember for quite a while. Very clever.
 
Thanks guys.

It's great to hear you enjoyed it.

Movie Stunts: Any recommendations about the look of the film? Is it more color correction or different types of shots? This actually is still an 'open' project as in I will probably go back and adjust things because a few people have suggested entering it in other festivals.

Thanks.
 
Hehe, mrcheapyasui....I guess that's a good reaction. On set, it was very hard to not eat the props.

movie stunts: I did actually do quite a bit of color correcting. I even was doing tests to adjust for the mp4 codec washing things out. I didn't use a calibrating video monitor though. Problem with color correcting for internet viewing is that everyone's monitor is so different...lcds, crts...etc.

*****SPOILER******

Was is overall that you thought it needed more color correction or certain parts? I tried to make the parts before he cut himself normal and balanced then went contrasty and green for the rest of the film. Did that not come through very well?

I like getting the feedback.

Thanks for the comments.
 
Andrew i really liked your film, and it reminded me of the stephen king story from Skeleton Key that HappyGobo mentioned. So im gonna assume he basically went insane by slowly eating himself and then later realized the local kids would be a tasty treat. I was ok with that, and i actually liked that your story was a black comedy that turned ominous, ambiguous and unsettling by the end. theres nothing more vile then the thought process behing harming children. period.

technically i loved the cinematography.

one simple thing to do in the future that i think will help sound-wise:
and if you did this i apologize, im just throwing this out there. Throw a compressor or a gate on your audio, experiment a little, and find a setting that removes the camera hum and hiss from the on board mic. I think that'll help a lot.
 
Hey Defcon,

Thanks for the review and advice.

I'll have to read that Stephen King story sometime.

The sound I actually put a compressor on, but my settings could have been off. I actually eq'ed most of the camera hiss out, but put in a roomtone track to smooth out hiccups, but its kinda loud at times. Since there wasn't any dialogue, most of the sound was recorded from an on camera Rode NTG2 into a beachtek. The beachtek is pretty noisy sometimes and it definitely would have help to use a mixer and maybe the mic on a boom. Mixing with headphones and my computer speakers probably wasn't good enough to hear all the little hiccups in the soundtrack either. I'll probably go back and mix it better since I play on tweaking and adjusting the project based on the comments of dvxusers and other filmmakers.

Thanks again.

Sincerely,
Ando
 
As I started to watch this I was thinking, here we go again... Without knowing anything about this, I knew he was going to cut his finger off and when it happened the he was going to cook it. When he cooked it I actually said to the tv, "why don't you eat the rest of your hand?" and he did. I was ready to write it off. Then came the shot with the ear. That was a LMAO moment. I loved that. It turned it around for me and I enjoyed your movie. It just started off rocky but finished okay...
 
andoguru said:
movie stunts: I did actually do quite a bit of color correcting. I even was doing tests to adjust for the mp4 codec washing things out. I didn't use a calibrating video monitor though. Problem with color correcting for internet viewing is that everyone's monitor is so different...lcds, crts...etc.
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Must be it, I just watched it again, yeah, colors must have been washed out from the compression.
If I was that good, I would eat myself!
 
I think I agree with Blaine's take on this. it kind of started out predictable and it was like a "here we go again"....but then the ear missing cracked me up...and from that point I realized what type of film I was watching. What cracked me up the most was that "Jack nicholson" moment...that crazy evil looking smile while eyeballing the kids. This was done very well.
 
Hey Blaine,

Thanks for watching it and the honesty.

****SPOILERS****

It seems you are as sadistic as me, seeing the finger cutting and then eating the hand coming early on.

Was that because of the shots in the intro? Did this being a horror/hallow's eve fest have anything to do with you jumping to that conclusion early on?

I'm glad you liked the ear part...that makes me laugh everytime, too. There was actually some other intro shots for the film but it had to be cut to 'get to the point.'

Did the pegleg do anything for you?

Thanks again for your comments.

Best,
Ando
 
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