CARRY-ON - A Caffesse/Wildman Film

Nice work!
As a Canadian I am highly offended though. :D

Seriously, very good composition, lighting, sound, etc....

A few "extras" in the store would have been nice but no big deal really. This was very well edited as well. Near the top of the bunch for me.

Cheers!
 
Thanks Michael -
And let me take this opportunity to say that our film is no way intended as a comdemnation of the great nation of Canada or it's wonderful people, who we have always found to be inviting and gracious.
:)
 
Beautiful short. The story was told in a sweet way. I'm watching these shorts with some non-filmmaker friends. Your story was one that produced an emotion from some of the audience. Thanks.


Luis Caffesse said:
Thanks Michael -
And let me take this opportunity to say that our film is no way intended as a comdemnation of the great nation of Canada or it's wonderful people, who we have always found to be inviting and gracious.
:)
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"... I don't want to talk about Canada... "
 
Holy **** wow Luis !

Absolutely great. One of the best shorts I have seen on the DVXFest circuit. Wonderfully done. The story, the shots, the talent; wow. Great casting.

The actors were perfect. They sold me 100%. And the punch at the end, awesome, awesome, awesome. The Audio was very nice and war, the tracks gave us ambiance ...

Impressed, inspired.

I loved it.

Sub tech:

Try mixing up the shots with such lengthy dialogue. In the book store, it started becoming a tennis match by going back and forth to the same cuts and shots. Whether though camera angle change or moving the talent themselves through the aisles or having them cross the line and thus creating new frames would really have been nice eye candy.

Overall ? Excellent.

Great job !
 
Luis,

I didn't know what to expect from a wookie, and it certainly wasn't such a serious adult film. I thought it was a very good film.

The acting was superb. I really empathized with the characters. I felt for the women until then, of course I didn't. It is really hard for actors to effectively play angry, especially on film, and I thought they did a great job.

Technically I have to echo the shallow depth of field issue. I think when you up the saturation and the detail level with and adapter, it can almost look like a chroma key background with edges around the objects in the foreground. I don't know the solution to this other perhaps lens selection. It wasn't overly distracting though.

I really liked your composition on the shots, the car scene was a nice one.

The end caught me by surprise, and I thought the husband could have been more of an uncaring figure to motivate the affair, although I guess in real life that doesn't need to matter.

All and all one of the better films in the fest. Congrats!
 
Luis my man, great job. This film kept me guessing. What happened!? what happened!? Your actors were believable, I could feel the tension. I didn't like the girl from the get-go (not referring to the acting). The night photography was great. I love the high-contrast there.

Some constructive photography notes (I'm just picky about it):

I noticed some focus-pulling errors, that is always hard because you actors have to hit their proper marks. Every one can improve on that though.

The color scheme for the first half was a bit to saturated for me, It is exaggerated because your black levels are low, maybe try to tone down the color in camera, (or use a different color matrix like "norm" instead of "cine") That might give it a more film-look too.

The final dolly shot felt sudden, maybe start the move at the first frame of the scene.


Overall, Great job. This film worked because of the tension, you knew she said/did something crazy but you didn't know what. I just wish there was more stump the chef in this one! (jk)

Thanks for the film!
 
MDCFILMS said:
from two viewers,

Too saturated.
Story was just weird to us.
Take it or leave it.
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Weird story ?

It was perfect. What was weird about it ? :undecided

Guessing until the end and then we realize it's an affair !

Hell you talking about Willis ? :lipsrseal
 
Luis, Luis, Luis... This couldn't possibly have been your first DVDUser fest. This was just too good for that. As I was watching it I was just hoping we wouldn't see a bunny cooking on the stove. Then you went and twisted it at the end. Good job.

She definitely started getting creepy, reminding me of someone I once knew. :lipsrseal

The acting was very good in this as was the direction.

I wonder, did you ever think about exchanging roles for your actors? Of course, the way it was, was less predictable.
 
Luis,

Your film is in my top favs.

I liked the ending, and the story. These kind of movies really get to me, and I love surprises!

Your shots were incredible, AS WELL as the audio (I know that you aren't an audio guy, but I had no problem with it).

Aside from your part, the acting was amazing also.

I'm glad you entered, and I hope to see more!

Robbie
 
Luis, luis, luis..... this is one of my favs. I have some questions for you. Was this a two camera shoot or single cam? I ask because the back and forth between the complementary over-the-shoulders was very fluid... and usually you need the continuity of performance that a 2 camera shoot can bring to get this kind of... fluidity.

second question, how did you select that second location? because its awesome. i love the contrast from the book store to here and how this darker environment informs the scene.

last question... how the hell did you get Lyle Lovett to play the husband?!?!?!
 
Zak Forsman said:
Luis, luis, luis..... this is one of my favs. I have some questions for you. Was this a two camera shoot or single cam?
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Well, I'm glad it seemed fluid - because it was only one camera.
On top of that, there was virtually no blocking done... we kind of just let the actors go 'wherever felt right.'
Alot of the production (and preproduction) on this was a bit of an experiment for us... we did a lot of improv, and gave the actors a lot of freedom.
Actually - you'll be happy to know (hopefully) that a lot of this process was inspired by your work on 'Heart of Now.'
After reading about it for so long we thought it sounded like an interesting approach - and decided to incorporate some improv work into this.

second question, how did you select that second location? because its awesome. i love the contrast from the book store to here and how this darker environment informs the scene.
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The first location is a coffee shop my wife and I practically live at.
The house is the place we actually DO live at.
:)

The bookstore was thanks to Cliff (my partner in this) - he found it... and it fit all of our criteria. The main one being that we were able to shoot there. I say that half jokingly, but we only nailed down that location a few days before shooting. The biggest hurdle was that every bookstore is open until about 11pm around here...seven days a week for the most part. This place closed at 7pm on Sundays - so we got in there just at closing and got out by 11pm.

The parking lot, just after the bookstore scene, is actually the parking lot right next to the coffee shop from the first scene - you can see the red railing behind them (we were hoping to tie it all back visually to the first location). Not sure if that came across.

last question... how the hell did you get Lyle Lovett to play the husband?!?!?!
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hahahaaha.
Funny, never noticed the resemblance until now.
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Well, I'm glad it seemed fluid - because it was only one camera.
On top of that, there was virtually no blocking done... we kind of just let the actors go 'wherever felt right.'
Alot of the production (and preproduction) on this was a bit of an experiment for us... we did a lot of improv, and gave the actors a lot of freedom.
Actually - you'll be happy to know (hopefully) that a lot of this process was inspired by your work on 'Heart of Now.'
After reading about it for so long we thought it sounded like an interesting approach - and decided to incorporate some improv work into this.
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well, you did amazing here. and i could see in that bookstore scene that although you were on sticks, you didn't "lock the shot off". i've seen a number of films here where the framing goes to hell the second the actor starts to move. here, you were subtly guided by the action. worked very well.
 
Luis... what can I say... I'm speechless... I don't want to be cliche' but there's no denying it... you may need a kick in the nuts also.

In another thread I said that I'm amazed at how PRO some of the entries look... you were the other person I was thinking of in that statement.

This is a very solid effort... definitely within the very top places on my list. Seriously... this will be saved to my PC along with less then a dozen entries since the fests began. Very very good.
 
Wow. That was great. I loved the ending.

Your actors were wonderful.

My only complaint/suggestion, the first two thirds felt a little too repetitious. I think it would be even more powerful if it were edited a little shorter.

Still, this was really fantastic. I am very impressed.

One more thing, while I like the end credit music, it felt a little too "flippant" for your story.
 
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