KEEPER OF THE LOST - Flyin' Monkey Films & MattSpat Films

Nice nice...are you working it into the score? Or is the song for something else I don't know about :P

P.S Where can I hear this song?
 
kevinkshah said:
I dig this teaser fellas. Keep up the great work.
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thanks kevin. hoping to see a teaser of your film too. any chance of seeing one?

I know I made an effort to film some shots specifically for the teaser(s) for my films.

It would be cool to start seeing other teasers popping up. We could really bombard facebook and youtube with them.
 
Hi Rodney,

I am watching your work since TimeFest and I only want say - I love your beautiful cinematography and your choice of very interesting and charismatic actors. Both trailers ('Falling up' and 'Keeper of the lost') making me curious to watch your films. Especially I adore the humor of the 'Falling up' trailer :)

All the best

Susanne :bath:
 
Susanne G. said:
Hi Rodney,

I am watching your work since TimeFest and I only want say - I love your beautiful cinematography and your choice of very interesting and charismatic actors. Both trailers ('Falling up' and 'Keeper of the lost') making me curious to watch your films. Especially I adore the humor of the 'Falling up' trailer :)

All the best

Susanne :bath:
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thanks suzanne. glad to know you're watching my work and that I've made you curious about the films. You'll like them I hope.

both very completely different films... at least so I hope... All I know is that I've had fun making them and definitely tried a few new things,
 
Sprocketboy said:
I like that camera move around the actor in the last shot of the trailer. Nice job on the trailer overall.
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thanks dude. pity you won't see it in the short version. You'll have to see the super long festival cut to see that particular shot. lots of really cool stuff got cut for the DVX Fest edit.

You gonna shoot something for your movie? We'd love to get inside your head for a bit, even if it's only 30 seconds....
 
puckthemad said:
You gonna shoot something for your movie? We'd love to get inside your head for a bit, even if it's only 30 seconds....
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Do you mean a trailer? I'm thinking about it. For my particular short I'm not too sure how to go about it. It may have to be 1, 2 or 3 shots at most.

What's cool about your trailer is that you obviously used footage associated to the storyline without giving much of the story away. All you reveal is the basic concept. I have no idea it will play out.

A job well done.
 
Sprocketboy said:
Do you mean a trailer? I'm thinking about it. For my particular short I'm not too sure how to go about it. It may have to be 1, 2 or 3 shots at most.
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go for it. a trailer can be any number of shots. It would be cool to peek into the concept of the movie without seeing what's there. It's a good exercise anyway.

Sprocketboy said:
What's cool about your trailer is that you obviously used footage associated to the storyline without giving much of the story away. All you reveal is the basic concept. I have no idea it will play out.

A job well done.
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Thanks. It helps that I shot the **** out of it. We got more coverage than we ever needed. Even for the long version, so it was nice to be able to use some shots that we would never see otherwise.
 
Somehow I;ve managed to extend the running time of the short. with the new clips that are going in running time is now at 9:42. I really have to get started on the short edit... Mainly it was fixing story problems based on some feedback.

I'll be shooting a couple of pickup shots with Robert on wednesday and an addendum to the ending (or rather a whole new ending that works better than the one we currently have) Hopefully I can work this ending into the 6 minute version... I just don't know where to cut right now...
 
I've never did anything like this. My first time in this festival. I find it fascinating how the rigid 6 minute rule can force you to re-examine your ideas and cut out the things that do not push your story forward. I like it. Its a great education. I "loss" some great scenes that the crew and I spent a lot of time on, but the story seems to be holding up in a creepier way.

Use whatever is relevant to the story. Tie it up really pretty in the end. :)
 
Sprocketboy said:
I've never did anything like this. My first time in this festival. I find it fascinating how the rigid 6 minute rule can force you to re-examine your ideas and cut out the things that do not push your story forward. I like it. Its a great education. I "loss" some great scenes that the crew and I spent a lot of time on, but the story seems to be holding up in a creepier way.

Use whatever is relevant to the story. Tie it up really pretty in the end. :)
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The problem I keep running into is pacing. I like things like elongated moments in film. So even though it's one sentence on the page, it can be half a minute of a single "elongated" moment.
 
Mark Harris said:
The problem I keep running into is pacing. I like things like elongated moments in film. So even though it's one sentence on the page, it can be half a minute of a single "elongated" moment.
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that right there is almost the exact same problem i'm running into. I knew immediately when cuttign together the scene in the alley that pacing was going to be an issue, especially since the real time of that scene was 30 seconds... and the movie time ended up being 01:24. anything less felt rushed.

That was the first scene I shaved off and now looking at the entire story, I may have to shave off the character building montage (30 seconds total) in order to tell the rest of the story. there is almost literally no fluff in this film and that's how we wrote it. to be sharp and concise... but then actors step in , characters are created and something happens to the scene. scenes that have 3-4 lines of dialog are now longer.

I may have to throw in the towel and get someone to help me make the hard cuts. I'm usually very good at this, getting right into the heart of the edit, but right now it feels as if one scene is excised, then a vital bit of information or character is missing and the viewer is left wondering why.
 
just installed digital juicer. can;t believe i waited so long. makes finding sound fx so much faster. pity it doesn't plug in to adobe so you can drag and drop.
 
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