Darkline Entertainment Presents 'Broadcast'

Hey, Thanks very much Suzanne and Pauly! We are all suuuuper happy. I just got an e-mail from my friend saying we made the top 7, so i came straight back online before I got to bed.

Pauly, you may be a hitman but you're a little softie underneath arnt you? ;-)

thanks for the vote of confidence
 
Damn.. kind wishing i hadn't given you that 10... haha!
Seriously dude.. congrats.. I'm just happy my names up there with you!
Good luck!
 
Hehe, thanks guys.

all this exctement and reality hits... Ive go to be up in 6 hours to do a 14 hour day making an on-site instant edit for a courier company's conference!

Hurrar for escapism.

goonight everyone and thanks to all who voted for our short. I'm truly excited.
 
A beautiful film, sir! Well deserving of every honor you receive. We've always liked your stuff and it just gets better!
 
TO PROPERLY CONGRATULATE DARKLINE ... HERE'S YOUR AIM SESSION.


Carrying on the tradition from Timefest, the AIM sessions have returned, a live stream of whatever may come out of our heads as we watch your films. Here are Ben Sliker and Brad Mates thoughts on "Broadcast."

10:10:45 PM Ben Sliker: ok broadcast.
10:11:01 PM Ben Sliker: rdy?
10:11:21 PM Brad Mate: yes
10:11:23 PM Ben Sliker: 3
10:11:24 PM Ben Sliker: 2
10:11:25 PM Ben Sliker: 1
10:11:26 PM Ben Sliker: go
10:11:35 PM Ben Sliker: ok, since i've already seen this
10:12:01 PM Brad Mate: it already looks better than 95% of the films ive watched
10:12:02 PM Ben Sliker: my session is going to be a 6 min long list of things i hate darkline for cause he's so awesome at
10:12:22 PM Brad Mate: and by 95 i mean 100
10:12:44 PM Ben Sliker: i hate you cause you have awesome sound design that is disjointed
10:12:53 PM Ben Sliker: i hate your awesome mise-en-scene
10:13:11 PM Ben Sliker: i hate your beautiful apocalyptic stills
10:13:15 PM Brad Mate: Question ... What's worse, knowing you are the only person left on earth, or knowing you are the only person left on earth and all you have to listen to is smooth jazz?
10:13:29 PM Ben Sliker: i hate your awesome cross-cutting between two time periods
10:13:44 PM Ben Sliker: i hate that you have a RED and i don't
10:14:01 PM Brad Mate: his smoke was better than yours. dont forget to hate that
10:14:04 PM Ben Sliker: i hate that you have a grasp over 3d effects that i dont
10:14:07 PM Ben Sliker: DAMMIT
10:14:11 PM Ben Sliker: NINJAd again
10:14:19 PM Ben Sliker: that's 3-0 for you today.
10:14:24 PM Brad Mate: But seriously with the jazz ... what beret wearing indi-film asshat is coming to get him? He'd have better luck hijacking the pop station ...
10:14:35 PM Ben Sliker: I hate that your destroyed city is cooler than mine
10:14:47 PM Brad Mate: this is ridiculous, nobody is going to know he's in there, he didn't even make a REAL help sign.
10:14:51 PM Ben Sliker: i hate that we have the same car but you made it look cool somehow.
10:15:13 PM Ben Sliker: i hate really long phone british phone numbers .
10:15:44 PM Ben Sliker: i hate the way you juxtaposed the calm jazz music perfectly with the end of the world.
10:15:56 PM Brad Mate: i hate beck's
10:16:15 PM Ben Sliker: i hate that i don't know what he just wrote on that blackboard (cause it's also probably cool)
10:16:32 PM Ben Sliker: i hate this awesome reflection shot.
10:16:46 PM Ben Sliker: i hate the eerie feeling you get right here.
10:17:01 PM Ben Sliker: i hate the awesomely destroyed buildings
10:17:18 PM Ben Sliker: i hate the awesome pace and feel of this movie.
10:17:33 PM Ben Sliker: i hate how i've said awesome 1000 times in this session already.
10:18:03 PM Ben Sliker: Wait .... what just happened at the end? nm, this guy is awful at making films. :)
10:18:21 PM Brad Mate: so wtf Darkline. you want us to make fun of your film and then you go ahead and make something amazing. MEET US HALFWAY HERE WE'RE NOT MIRACLE WORKERS ....... ASS
10:18:51 PM Ben Sliker: well, we can always fall back on the old "he probably has bad teeth" british joke.
10:19:13 PM Ben Sliker: and the fact that we kicked his country's ass back in 1776.
10:19:15 PM Brad Mate: ok ... i'll try ... according to that board he's been there for like 30 days already, i dont know how he expects to find anyone when all his regular listeners have most likely died of old age
10:19:22 PM Ben Sliker: EAT IT BRIT BOY.
10:19:32 PM Ben Sliker: WE DON'T WANT YOUR TEA IN AMERICA, HAVE SOME FREEDOM FRIES.
10:19:36 PM Brad Mate: yea well he's kicking your ass in 2008
10:20:05 PM Ben Sliker: yeah, that was my first thought when i watched this
10:20:13 PM Ben Sliker: "well ... there goes 1st place."
10:20:19 PM Brad Mate: pretty much
10:20:40 PM Brad Mate: one of the best shorts ever. let alone in this fest
10:20:50 PM Brad Mate: incredibly well done in every facet
10:20:57 PM Ben Sliker: they need to revisit some of the effects
10:21:02 PM Ben Sliker: but that's my only gripe.
10:22:38 PM Ben Sliker: use a different "defocus" filter at 2:39
10:27:09 PM Brad Mate: you still there?
10:27:19 PM Brad Mate: you're not hanging yourself are you?
10:27:29 PM Brad Mate: don't do that
10:28:34 PM Ben Sliker: im not dead yet.

Darkline, you know that we know that you know your film rocks. Congrats man. Next time, give a concrete ending so that you are guaranteed first, and not just a ridiculously high probability of getting it. Enjoy your prizes.
 
blindbuzta said:
Best AIM session EVER
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No kidding. My gf is next to me working on some paper or something. But I really want her to read this. I'm going to enjoy catching up on the AIM sessions. They're a real treat. I love how honest they are - most of us eventually resort to lovefest criticisms. These guys tell it like it is.
 
you know, Ive been out on a job from hell today. I had this god awful edit to do lay off to tape (conference instant VT!), we had 3 minutes until it needed to be played to the audience and 'premiere' was randomly exporting black frames in the middle of the programme to the deck. So I got stressed, then I jumped around a bit,.. Then I got drunk... Then I get home totally drained and find this. Funny s**t. I was actually prepared for the worst but I still found this hilarious.

Next time I promise to give you guys some really bad work to get yor teeth into. (I cant get my teeth into it cos I have none)

Thanks a bunch Ben and Brad, your Aims are normally spot on. Apart from this one which for some reason was translated through a filter which I thought only my mum had in her possession.

Cheers guys, thanks for the kind words. I'm pretty shocked, but in a majorly good way..... I think all the finalists should all do an AIM sesson for you guys...
 
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