Are you happy with your entry?

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Are you happy with your entry?

Now that most of you guys wraped,
I wonder how satisfied you are with your entry?

I mean, does it look like your expected?
Where you able to get the "inner vision" banned on tape or p2 or whatever?
Did you forget to shoot scenes in the heat of the moment or miss anything (and pulling your hair now)?
Did you mess something totaly up cause your plain stupid or run out of time?

I have to admit I messed up a lot (and again - learned a lot).
We shot yesterday from 1300 hrs to about 2200 hrs.
So one afternoon for everything.

Of course everything took about twice as long as expected.
So I had to skip 3 minor scenes - wich sucks.

Had no time to practice with my new crane and got some pretty wierd footage that I have to cmouflage no with other edits - sucks again.

The crane moves in my head did not work in reality.

On the other hand I got some stunning pictures and the performance of my lead actress was absolutly mind-boggling .

I put my attention on better lighting this time, and that also worked out better than I thought.

How about your films?

Frank
 
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Good Thread. I am pretty happy with "The Puppeteer" It came out pretty good considering all that went wrong. (made a thread about it) I still made mistakes and I am learning more and more on every shoot. I know that I need a monitor for focusing and need to pay Ultra close attention to it. And a follow focus is simply a must have.

My second film is barley watchable, but I'm gonna post it anyway so I can some input from the members here. Focus and audio are what was lacking on this one.

So overall I'm happy they are done, but unhappy that I'm not quite there yet in terms of being a filmmaker. But that will come in time. These 2 films are only my 3rd and 4th attempt at narrative filmmaking.
 
It's my first short film. The ideas in my head aren't half as good as what I shot. It was my first time using a 35mm adapter and my lighting skills are basically non-existent. I want to do a reshoot for a scene but might have to use what I have since I'm running out of time. As a result, my film will be pretty mediocre. What I am proud of us that I will have my first completed project and will take what I have learned and apply it to my next film.
 
Morox said:
It's my first short film. The ideas in my head aren't half as good as what I shot. It was my first time using a 35mm adapter and my lighting skills are basically non-existent. I want to do a reshoot for a scene but might have to use what I have since I'm running out of time. As a result, my film will be pretty mediocre. What I am proud of us that I will have my first completed project and will take what I have learned and apply it to my next film.
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Congrats on that one. This is my second.
 
Yes I'm pretty happy with this film. It is my four DVX fest I think. I had a idea early on but I knew I could do it so at the last minute I came up with this new idea.
 
I'm happy with mine. We had no issues on set. Didn't have to drop scenes or shots to make the day. Even wrapped half an hour early.

of course we are editing now and going thru the "jesus god what are people going to think" phase where your confidence plummets and you fantasize about a way to bow out gracefully so no one sees what you've done.

the only thing I'm not happy about is everyone knows this entry as ELOQUENT GRAFFITI and it is part of that story universe but the actual title of this short is "model/photographer" and serves as a prelude to the ELOQUENT GRAFFITI feature. having the two titles attached to it is confusing and I don't know how to remedy it.
 
filthrich said:
...unhappy that I'm not quite there yet in terms of being a filmmaker. But that will come in time.
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That's my feeling, too. There's always some amazing-looking work on these DVXUSER fests, so the bar is there and is set quite high. It really gives one something to work towards.

I am reasonably happy with my entry; it seems like I can get a shot or two that looks just like I want it, and if only I could string together enough good shots, I would be happier with the end result. Sounds a little like my golf game.....
 
Zak Forsman said:
I'm happy with mine. We had no issues on set. Didn't have to drop scenes or shots to make the day. Even wrapped half an hour early.

of course we are editing now and going thru the "jesus god what are people going to think" phase where your confidence plummets and you fantasize about a way to bow out gracefully so no one sees what you've done.
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I think you'll be fine. I have never seen any of your films but they seem to well liked across the board. And you have some idea what you doing. A lot of us just think we do.:Drogar-Dum(DBG):
 
Well, I'm not done but I am pretty sure what i will think. All I will see is the mistakes in my movie, but that is just what I do. I am happy with much I learned through the process, this is my first dvxfest entry and my first production that wasn't in 48 hours, as well as first time editing and I feel much smarter here at the end of this process then I did at the beginning. I am very happy with some parts of what we did and I know my mistakes on others so hopefully I won't make them again. Most of all, I feel confident that my next entry will be much better in every aspect, and that is what I am most excited about.
 
I'm happy with this film, because I went into it not doing anything and just let the minds flow with ideas, and didn't say no to anyone. and just shot everything, and made it all work. Thus equals something from my warped mind. We had the mindset of we only get one shot. What we get is what we got. and we stayed true to that through out the day. this is probably the cheapest movie made on dvxuser. using the cheapest camera ($258 on Amazon) No other equipment. (granted i used the first 15 seconds of a HVX...but majority of the film was on the Panasonic Lumix camera. So I was happy about not having to pay anything for this film! The Score fits the movie perfectly (Thanks Damian)

Hope you guys are happy with it :d

rOGAN
 
FALLING UP: It was too big a concept for this festival, especially all of the things I wanted to accomplish with it. Over all I'm happy with the edit that I have, but I had to drop so many good scenes and transitions that the movie is almost a completely different animal. Yesterday hearing Damian's score reinvigorated my passion for the story. Now after making a couple of adjustments and locking the sound down, I am about 90% happy with it. Which is as close as I'll ever come to complete.

KEEPER OF THE LOST: I'm very happy with what we did on Keeper, and I can't wait to see what you guys think of it. There were some shots I wasn't entirely happy with, but we got them and they work in context with the movie. Lots of work on post-production here and it was well worth it.

Over all, great experience this fest and I spent a heck of a lot more time in pre-production than I ever have done before. Even for the features I worked on.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about my entry. Two orthodontists from Harvard wrote the screenplay. I swallowed the screenplay and regurgitated a pile of evil. It could be a pile of something else. It certainly disturbs my wife. She left me because of it.

I'm lying about that last part. :)
 
There are things that I would really like to adjust, reshoot, or just re-organize, but when it's all said and done, I'm satisfied. I'm much more satisfied with everyone who participated in the project (especially my actors) than with myself, but that melts away eventually. A few weeks later, I'll look at the project, with flaws in plain sight, and tell myself that it's fine.

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Just think of the other things we could be doing. No matter the flaws, mistakes, or the fact some one almost always just be a little better than you, the other options are all bad for me.
 
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