Ben3308
Member
Hey everyone!
After about a year of not posting and just reading, I've decided to put some of my stuff up in this forum and see how it fares. You may have seen my other thread for my film "Marathon", which only has a few- albeit helpful and positive- reviews.
This particular thread is to advertise my 24 hour film (for the Dallas 24-Hour Video Race), which, obviously enough, was made in under 24 hours.
My team's film is called "Redemption" and it's based off of a given theme of "wrong turn", a location of a flag pole, and the line "You don't owe me anything." As has been mentioned in my other film thread, I think we pulled off the most we could given the circumstances and time, though because of actor issues we didn't get started until 3pm the day of the contest (it runs midnight-to-midnight).
Redemption
(^click to watch^)
This film was written, shot, and edited in under 24 hours.
Like all my stuff, shot on a Canon GL2 and edited in Vegas 6.
No adapters or anything special used.
Lighting done with two rented fresnels ($120 for the day, there goes all the money, heh) for the interrogation, a Last-o-lite reflector for the outdoor stuff, and a really cheap softlight for the kitchen brawl.
Roughly 3 or 4 minutes in length.
I'm the co-cinematographer and director of this film, and I'm pretty happy with how generally smooth the camera is. It's in stark contrast to the jostle of 'Marathon' (if you've even seen that) and that's something I like about it. 'Redemption' didn't win any awards, and lost to some considerably worse films. I mean no disrespect to the other filmmakers in the contest, but if you'd seen their films, you'd likely agree.
Some stills:
The intended interpretation of the film is very open ended. There's nothing sci-fi or weird and unknown about it, but after a lot of people watch it, they can't help but think: did I miss something? The opening dialogue in the film holds a lot of meaning in regards to what happens in the whole movie, and I leave it up to you to figure it out. We wanted to go a little ambiguous with the story we were telling, and I think that came across, however vague. It is a bit short, and I'm sorry about that, we just didn't have enough time/resources to make it longer. We're just 16 and 17-year-olds, haha.
A few things: the black guy in the movie, Tyrien (who plays "Watts") actually had to leave during the day for graduation and we couldn't film his stuff until 9pm the night of. This means after we filmed his stuff, we had about two hours to edit everything, render, and drive to the finish line. May kudos go to my twin brother for editing this together in the record time that he did. Another thing: funnily enough, "Falcone", is actually the co-cinematographer. My brother wrote a script with an 18-year-old white drug dealer in mind, and when our actor for that part fell through on us, we used whoever we could find.
All-in-all, I think our end result came out pretty decent and I hope you'll enjoy it!
Regards, Ben
After about a year of not posting and just reading, I've decided to put some of my stuff up in this forum and see how it fares. You may have seen my other thread for my film "Marathon", which only has a few- albeit helpful and positive- reviews.
This particular thread is to advertise my 24 hour film (for the Dallas 24-Hour Video Race), which, obviously enough, was made in under 24 hours.
My team's film is called "Redemption" and it's based off of a given theme of "wrong turn", a location of a flag pole, and the line "You don't owe me anything." As has been mentioned in my other film thread, I think we pulled off the most we could given the circumstances and time, though because of actor issues we didn't get started until 3pm the day of the contest (it runs midnight-to-midnight).
Redemption
(^click to watch^)
This film was written, shot, and edited in under 24 hours.
Like all my stuff, shot on a Canon GL2 and edited in Vegas 6.
No adapters or anything special used.
Lighting done with two rented fresnels ($120 for the day, there goes all the money, heh) for the interrogation, a Last-o-lite reflector for the outdoor stuff, and a really cheap softlight for the kitchen brawl.
Roughly 3 or 4 minutes in length.
I'm the co-cinematographer and director of this film, and I'm pretty happy with how generally smooth the camera is. It's in stark contrast to the jostle of 'Marathon' (if you've even seen that) and that's something I like about it. 'Redemption' didn't win any awards, and lost to some considerably worse films. I mean no disrespect to the other filmmakers in the contest, but if you'd seen their films, you'd likely agree.
Some stills:
The intended interpretation of the film is very open ended. There's nothing sci-fi or weird and unknown about it, but after a lot of people watch it, they can't help but think: did I miss something? The opening dialogue in the film holds a lot of meaning in regards to what happens in the whole movie, and I leave it up to you to figure it out. We wanted to go a little ambiguous with the story we were telling, and I think that came across, however vague. It is a bit short, and I'm sorry about that, we just didn't have enough time/resources to make it longer. We're just 16 and 17-year-olds, haha.
A few things: the black guy in the movie, Tyrien (who plays "Watts") actually had to leave during the day for graduation and we couldn't film his stuff until 9pm the night of. This means after we filmed his stuff, we had about two hours to edit everything, render, and drive to the finish line. May kudos go to my twin brother for editing this together in the record time that he did. Another thing: funnily enough, "Falcone", is actually the co-cinematographer. My brother wrote a script with an 18-year-old white drug dealer in mind, and when our actor for that part fell through on us, we used whoever we could find.
All-in-all, I think our end result came out pretty decent and I hope you'll enjoy it!
Regards, Ben