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mentatDUKE

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mentatDuke! I am stoked to see another of your films!!! I still have your horrorfest entry in my head.

Congrats and good luck!

I'll be watching.

best,
Ted
 
Hey I just watched this one and I really enjoyed it. I thought you had a good grasp on the story, and it felt like a Kevin Smith flick to me, (a good one, not Jersey Girl).

I think the main thing that would have helped your film is sound. It peaked a couple times and some of the cuts were made noticeable with the sound. A little more attention and I think it would have felt a lot smoother.

Also I think it would have been nice to have one more dirty line from the friend. He had about one and a half, and I think one more occurrence at the end would have followed the rules of threes a little better.

Otherwise I dug this one. Keep up the good work.
 
"So this is how White People live" HAHAHA!!! LMAO!

I always love your work, mentatDUKE!

Your films are quirky and fun.

I really loved some of your camera here. And that edit of the luggage handle extending. Brilliant cut. The dolly out on "One Month Later..." Perfect!

The actors did a fine job. Nothing too stand-out but nothing bad. I loved the girl at the bar.

Speaking of the girl at the bar, I didn't agree with the framing on her reverses. I felt that you were trying to include those pretty little lights to her right (camera left) but was putting her out of frame to do so. Maybe I am wrong... maybe there was another argument in this choice. Just sharing my thoughts.

The audio in the living room is weird. Echo-y. Don't know what you had going on there. And the guys voice in the Kitchen is just wrong! Sounds like he is in some sound vortex or something!

The music is perfect. It just compliments the quick, witty style of the film.

I thought that you could have cut some of the dialogue between the three guys in the in living room a bit. Didn't need it and it slowed down the pace for me.

Overall, I enjoyed your film. The girl at the bar was the cutest!

Congrats, man!

-Ted
 
Thanks for the feedback smashedburrito and Ted. The Kevin Smith things is a huge compliment. I really dig the guy's work. Flawed often, but has a lot of heart.

Regarding the framing of the girl at the bar, I wanted her to seem awkward and alone. Regarding the sound, there was some noise and I had to rush the sound mix. I'll remix it due to the feedback on this.

Thanks for watching Ted and smashed! I plan on watching yours later today. Same to you dvpixl. Matt, I've already watched yours, liked it a lot and will leave feedback soon.
 
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from two viewers,

Sound could be improved.
Story just didn't go. sorry
Take it or leave it.
 
“I kinda liked Masturbating”- had me rollin. Where’d you get the bar? It looked really good and it seems like I’m always looking for a bar to shoot!
 
i really like your work mentatDUKE. 'how to get away with murder' had me in stitches.

some really hilarious moments in this one and some beautiful shots. definitely was one of my more anticipated entries in lovefest. more thorough review upon 2nd viewing.
 
Thanks Slim and Wartez.

We shot this in Austin, TX. A pretty film-friendly town. The bars we used were Joe's and JBlack's. You're in Cali, are the mom and pop businesses there cool to filmmakers or are they kinda jaded by now?

Thanks again.
 
The sound was very tin can sounding but that can be forgiven.
I also thought the cut between when she was leaving with the teddy bear and when he came to take it back seemed awkward. Almost in the wrong direction.

Now the good... the acting and writing was very well done. I was entertained throughout. Loved the ending!

The music was also perfect.

Cheers!
 
DUKE! Very funny stuff here. I got caught up in this one.

My only real complaint would be with the sound. Quite hollow and hot.
 
I thought this one was pretty funny. I liked the dynamic between the three main characters. Some clever bits of dialogue.

I'd say my dissapointment was that you pulled the 'and then random girl sits next to lead character and... magic happens'. It was for a good cause (so you could have the ending 'ohh, this is a cycle of madness!' moment), and you certainly gave it some time to developer so it wasn't too smack-the-head, but it'd be the weak point in the story. I agree with the previous comments on audio, but I didn't find it distracting enough to pull me out of the story (except for the opening phone call).

Much like 6" 45RPM you didn't bother trying to change the world, just just said "hey, let's tell a quirky story with funny characters". I can dig it.
 
I liked this quite a bit. Professional lighting and comps, sound was a little iffy but not too distracting. One thing I noticed is during the couch scene at the beginning the camera didn't move at all for the characters close-ups which I found a little bit boring. Rotating the camera around to show a little more of the face would've been better imo.

Another thing I noticed is that when he's getting dumped with the Teddy bear, his close-up has a nice looking rim light in it, but then in the two-shot its missing and it looks a little flat as a result to me.


The bar looked good, and the girl at the end seemed like she actually knew what she was talking about. I've seen it happen all too often where dumb as nails actresses delivery "nerdy" lines like that and you can just tell they have no clue what they're talking about. Thank you very much for avoiding that pitfall.

Overall very nice work with fun characters.
 
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