"Sixty Seconds" an Anthony Misiano film

I really enjoyed this one.. I love the quirkiness of the story and the characters. I think this is a great example of story triumphing over the technical aspects. Although there are some shorts here with better production values, I like yours more due to the story/concept. Nicely executed. My favorite so far of the fest. Thanks for sharing!

Should add.... you also have two of the best props! Those goggles and the machine itself.
 
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A very enjoyable film. A good little story and great cinematography/colours for a comic sort of look. I liked the attention to detail and props and also how the actress played her part - again rather comic-like, but at the same time irritating enough so that it was good to see her pierced with the broom at the end. There was something a little odd with the sound maybe? I watched it a couple of times to try and work out what - at first I thought it might be ADR, but it doesn't seem so. Maybe it's just a little out of sync?? Actually, in some ways it added to the artificiality so it didn't really disturb me or take me out of the film too much.
My compliments especially on your lighting now that I have read your message detailing the lights you used. The Isbrytare is especially interesting - I looked it up and I see a couple on sale in eBay. Maybe I'll try and get one - thanks for the tip.


armisiano said:
So, I'm incredibly broke, and need new tripod legs. I'm thinking of selling the time-machine-camera-thing-a-ma-bob on ebay. See if it might be oddly popular as some other very weird random BS items have been in the past. What d'ya think?
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Why not try, you never know. I don't imagine you need to keep it for anything else!! You might get a good price for the googles too :).

Great work
Jason
 
This is one of my favorties of the fest.

The Burtonesque set design and colrs, reminded me of the old Twlight Zone movie (forget the name of that episode).

The story was perfect, the pacing and the final act was great.

Just a lot of fun and super entertaining. The inserts as the time machine camera did its thing were great.
 
I loved the invention. Crazy little box that it was. The ending was fun as well. Makes me wonder how often you could take a photo every 60 second before loosing your mind.

I found this film to be a bit of an oddity in this fest. It really came off like a short stage play. From the set to the acting to the lighting to the script. There was a lot of exposition through dialogue and description that I’ve seen and used in plays. The actors did great in that context. But I felt the film was trapped in that single conversation nor am I a huge fan of films feeling like plays... I’d try messing around with camera angles maybe? Staging and blocking of the actors too. I’m also a bit baffled about why he stuck the broom in the air.

Anyway, my stage pondering aside the film was fun. I thought Wendy Savage did a great job. Looking forward to more! Oh yeah, the goggles were great!
 
Bryce A said:
I loved the invention. Crazy little box that it was. The ending was fun as well. Makes me wonder how often you could take a photo every 60 second before loosing your mind.

I found this film to be a bit of an oddity in this fest. It really came off like a short stage play. From the set to the acting to the lighting to the script. There was a lot of exposition through dialogue and description that I’ve seen and used in plays. The actors did great in that context. But I felt the film was trapped in that single conversation nor am I a huge fan of films feeling like plays... I’d try messing around with camera angles maybe? Staging and blocking of the actors too. I’m also a bit baffled about why he stuck the broom in the air.

Anyway, my stage pondering aside the film was fun. I thought Wendy Savage did a great job. Looking forward to more! Oh yeah, the goggles were great!
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Gracias. You're actually the first person to have (at least in a comment) made that observation (regarding the theatricality of it). It's true. And intentional. Both the writer and myself are very big fans of The Twilight Zone, particularly the fact that Rod Serling wrote them as teleplays with usually no more than 1 set. It keeps budgets low and gives the actors fun language to work with. I myself coming from a theatre background don't mind this at all. Though to spite all of this I will admit that the story's mood as well as the visual style was taken much more from Tales From The Crypt then The Twilight Zone. Another favorite show of mine. :)
Regarding the broom, well, what can I say? There seems to be some debate as to why Harold did that. I know the reason, but I don't think I'll reveal it. I quite enjoy listening to either interpretations, or mere confusion. Much more fun. :)

THANKS FOR WATCHING!
 
armisiano said:
Gracias. You're actually the first person to have (at least in a comment) made that observation (regarding the theatricality of it). It's true. And intentional. Both the writer and myself are very big fans of The Twilight Zone, particularly the fact that Rod Serling wrote them as teleplays with usually no more than 1 set. It keeps budgets low and gives the actors fun language to work with. I myself coming from a theatre background don't mind this at all. Though to spite all of this I will admit that the story's mood as well as the visual style was taken much more from Tales From The Crypt then The Twilight Zone. Another favorite show of mine. :)
Regarding the broom, well, what can I say? There seems to be some debate as to why Harold did that. I know the reason, but I don't think I'll reveal it. I quite enjoy listening to either interpretations, or mere confusion. Much more fun. :)

THANKS FOR WATCHING!
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Ha. I was betting that you had a stage background!

As far the broom goes, my guess it that he did it cause it was in the picture. He reacted in a "holy crap it's what I'm suppose to do, right?!" moment of confused purpose. It's the same reason why he relents to the invention to tell him what to do at the end.
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This is my favorite film of the festival so far. I thought the acting was strong (especially from Misiano), and I thought the production design and gadgets were neat. I LOVE those goggles!

Sound was solid, picture was fine overall, good direction.

Nice work!
 
Hey, great job on this one. This was really the ONLY entry I saw that really hit the "Tales from the Crypt" theme. Among my top 5

(and this marks my 50th post, so I'm off to see if I can vote now)
 
Thanks everyone for your support. :) Sadly it wasn't in enough top fives, but alas, there's always the future.

I've gotten a lot of great comments from people mentioning what they liked, I was wondering if I could get some critiques now? I need to do a better job in the future. Let me know which departments were lacking, and why. Pick it apart, please. Weak story? Bad acting? Bad technical work? Really lay it on me, I need to do better, and I'd like some advise. I was originally planning to maybe submit this to outside festivals, but I'm thinking I probably shouldn't waste the money on suubmission fees. I should wait until I have something good, really good.
 
This was really good, but here's some critiques since you asked.

The female lead is not nearly as good as the male lead (you, I believe...), and her dialogue isn't as good. She says a lot of things that seem overly articulate and unnecessary.

The framing on the clock shot (first shot I think) is a little weak, and I'm not sure it is the strongest opening shot.

The whole film takes place in one location, which means it gets a little stagnant. It might have had more energy if the characters moved all through the house, revealing different failed gadgets or something.

I'd edit the falling on the broom thing tighter. Right now it looks like he is intentionally skewering her, as opposed to it being an accident.

All that said, I wouldn't say this isn't worthy of film festivals. But I understand your hesitancy. I'm feeling the same way with The Five Worst Days in the Life of Bartholomew Saxton. It's a lot of money for a small chance at just being included.

Best of luck to you. I really enjoyed the film and think it shows incredible potential.
 
Hm I would like to critize this film as you asked, but that would be hard since it's way beyond my current level.

I feel sorry though (:D) we didn't had more chance to see those cool googles in close-up. And the fact she asked him to take picture comes a little bit as surprise; cause before that, she couldn't possibly knew that it predicts the future by taking photos. If there is some hint, I misheard it.

See you at the next fest. :evil:
 
I'm new too and a beginner so it hard for me to say anyrhing other than i loved the movie. have not watched them all but this is one of the best so far.
 
I didn't like the look of the wide angle lens. Barrel distortion. Should of stuck with longer focal lengths

my 2 cents
 
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