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Wow, this is a very nice set. I'll be scouting myself tomorrow. Hope to have some photos up soon in my thread. Very inspiring.

-Nate
 
Nathyn said:
This isn't the first film I've seen where people talk and it's intriguing enough to hold your interest and make you want to see more. Bad acting would've killed this scene. The cutting was excellent and the dialogue was on point. The twist was great because it took you a second to realize what was actually going on.

-Nate
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I've already gone on record saying this is the best piece I've seen on DVX, so hopefully that gives me immunity from the following comment. As much as I like this piece and everything about it, it's nonetheless a talking head scene. It's effectively a radio scene, not a film scene. Tarantino and James Brooks are the only guys that seem to pull this sort of thing off consistently, and neither has much to show lately. It's a testimony to the writing that this scene sustains itself but nonetheless, It can't be said enough that it's always best to have people doing things, not saying things.
 
Erik Olson said:
Looked great, very well acted. The adapter just looked terrific outside.

One technical note on an otherwise gorgeous shoot. Inside, the reverse on your protagonist (James) was soft and the light didn't match the better shot of Verlaine. Also, your practical source (the sun through the window) should have been stronger on James - more of the blinds are open on his side than on Verlaine's.

A tiny detail really on a very strong piece. I loved the camerawork throughout and the location is insane!

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I thought I noticed this too, and found myself trying to remember where the source from the previous shot was every time the camera changed. I don't understand how that happened though, wasn't the source sunlight? How did it end up looking different on each character?
 
aurantaurant said:
Thanks again Nate.

Here's the set we used.

http://www.4-aces.com/sets.html

ay. But he can be talked down to $1300 to $1500 and a two day rate is even better. Just don't shoot on a really hot day because LA county will require a water truck and fire-marshal-dude on set because the location has no running water.

There's a gas station and a hotel there as well.
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Does it have a functioning air conditioning system? I know this area, the heat is savage in the summer, It will kick anyone's a$$.
 
No AC, no electricity, no bathroom, we brought our own and the AC didn't work very good :( My friends that all came to help stuck it out for the 12 hours and are still interested in doing more. I assumed they were going to hate me.

This is a talking head scene. That was challenging.

Brian you and everyone have full immunity. Bring the critiques. It's going to be interesting to see what people say when I post the scripts for the remainder of the 13 episodes.

My response to the people who could see that the light was more harsh on the Verlaine character...

Erik, Dude it killed me during post to have to look at the reverse and go, "This S&%$# isn't matching". I really tried to hide it but it was difficult. But you're right and it really bothers me, but it was a good lesson for me to learn. It was softer on James because i had to open the lens all the way. Oh it still bothers me.

I had actually planned to shoot on the outer side of the booth, in the aisle, but when I did that I was losing some of the ambient traffic of people moving around in the back. So there was this small enclave by the window where we got our first shot... the VERLAINE shot and when we went to go get the reverse... that enclave wasn't on the other side (my fault) so we had to move the booth away from the window to get the same angle. So we lost that light a little bit. Open up the lens more.... softer image... WAH WAH.

We were shooting so fast that we had very little time to check and throw more light up there...that and as the lighting guys were still setting up I just started shooting. We only had 12 hours to shoot everything. Good observation. Thanks for reigniting the pain.
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aurantaurant said:
No AC, no electricity, no bathroom, we brought our own and the AC didn't work very good :( ...
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How does that work? Generator I get, but brought your own AC? What time of year did you shoot?

And you brought your own toilet? Sheesh. Great location though. Looked liked something out of Robert Rodriguez.
 
aurantaurant said:
No AC, no electricity, no bathroom, we brought our own and the AC didn't work very good :( My friends that all came to help stuck it out for the 12 hours and are still interested in doing more. I assumed they were going to hate me.

This is a talking head scene. That was challenging.

Brian you and everyone have full immunity. Bring the critiques. It's going to be interesting to see what people say when I post the scripts for the remainder of the 13 episodes.

My response to the people who could see that the light was more harsh on the Verlaine character...
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That's why I'm here. :)

But remember, you're still doing some of the better work anyone has posted on this forum. That you jumped the line completely to accomplish it doesn't really matter.

Sha-pow! :beer:

I'm looking forward to watching the entire series.

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Aurant...
Should you ever need to shoot inside of a grocery store let me know. I have extremely low rates and the market is located right in Burbank, a few minutes from your building.

I haven't been able to watch the episode yet but from the comments I can tell it is pretty awesome.
 
We shot it in the summer so it was 100 degrees outside. You can rent AC units that sit outside and pump air through the windows. Our AC unit had long yellow hoses that went all over. It didn't work very well though. We should have got a bigger one.

There were a couple of trailers left on the property from some Disney movie they had shot the day before. They asked us if they could leave them there. We said yes as long as you let us use them. They said yes so we had some nice trailers to use too.
 
Which Grocery store are you at?

It's weird they just shut down a Vons and an Albertsons in Burbank in the last few days. Is your store doing okay?
 
I loved the shot where he is looking into the camcorder, I love the lighting, how did you do it, it really looks like that light is coming from the lcd, but theres no way its bright enough
 
Robbie you might have commented on it in the HVX200 footage section. I posted it there as well so the HVX200 users could see it.

Jason the looking into the camcorder thingy was shot day-for-night. Then I used the day-for-night filter on Magic Bullet. Tweaked that a little.

I don't know the technical terms for what I did in Final Cut, but I just put the video in two layers, one on top of the other, masked out the section of his face that I wanted to glow green. Then I put some built in FCP effect to make it green.

I'm not a FCP whiz... I can only do the basic stuff... so it's really easy. Man I'm glad you liked it because I'm kind of self conscious about that shot... I was never satisfied with it.

The free trailers were great until they were full of poo and pee. Then they weren't so great.
 
ok nicely done, I haven't worked with magic bullet their day for night seems pretty good, added with it being indoors, with your stylization it looks nice, and the roto mask looks pretty good. it was good enough to fool the eye. knowing its a roto shape for repeated watching I'd warp it a bit through the red channel of the footage to have it wrap his face a bit. but once again for web its good enough to full the eye.

didn't the dinner have restrooms that could be used? never poop in a non hooked up trailer lol
 
Yah it's such a quick shot that it's hard to tell how terrible of a job i did. I should have wrapped it around his face some more but I don't know how to do that. :)

It could have been the FCP day for night. I don't remember. It was a day for night setting. The stabilization was my arm!!! It's actually shaking a little so if you watch closely it looks fake.

The diner had no restrooms because it was not a working diner. It's actually a set that was built in the desert and lots of productions have the funds to bring in their own water and trailers and bathrooms. We had to bring a port-o-potty and we also brought a winnebago for a sink and REAL AC.

It's a pain in the A, but it worked okay.
 
now that you mention it, it does look like I've seen it before, did they shoot an episode on NCIS there? it looks like the place where they killed off Lauren Holly.
 
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