37, a short film

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KnoxHotch

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Here's the film we just completed for my school's 7 day film fest (took home audience favorite and 2nd place overall). I shot it on the hmc150 at 1080/24p on Cine-D and edited in Vegas Pro 9. It contains mixed footage from an hp webcam and a panasonic gs500 shot in dv widescreen 60i.

It is my first true short film shot with a crew, some lights, ntg-2 on a boompole, etc. so keep that in mind, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, especially since there was some group conflict and it took three days to shoot (and re-shoot a few scenes).

http://vimeo.com/7648364
 
That was creative, but the acting was lacking... nothing bad to say against the film aspect of it, however. Then again - I'm not exactly a filmmaker myself.
 
Pretty good I must say. You told a story and told it well. There was however 2 things that really bothered me. I heard the gun shaking around in the actors hand and could clearly identify that they where plastic. And the lead didn't really have me convinced that he had military training. (And believe I don't and I don't even care for these military video games) I just think that it's important for him to hold the gun properly and most importantly "REALISTICALLY" From 4:00 to 4:20 when he is holding the gun it just relaxed in his hand. and at some points it looks as if his finger is not on the trigger. If you want your audience to believe in this part of story then his hand should have been tight and firm around that gun with his finger on the trigger ready to fire, because you never point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them.
 
frubsen said:
Crossing the axis during the interview bothered me, but other than that nice job.
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ah, thanks, I missed that

Given a longer time to make the film (1 week to write/shoot/edit), the casting, DoF, and realism would have been improved, but as said before, I'm happy with the overall quality of the film.

We didn't have in mind to make it ultra-realistic, but be kind of like a bad video game/action movie. With limited access to locations, props, and actors, it wasn't going to be perfect. We actually made up some fake blood and ran out of time to do squibs, but for a week-long film it was definitely a lot of fun to make.

I learned quite a bit on the project and I felt the hmc150 allowed me to achieve everything I could come up with, putting it way above the other competing groups who were shooting with the school's canon gl2's. The entire thing was lit with two open faced halogen floods (no brand markings) with barn doors and some very singed CTB gels. I had a good time placing them in odd places including a 10 foot stack of wood pallets.

Like I said, this is the first project where I've had the oppertunity to use my ntg-2 and boom. It worked quite well, especially with an inexperienced operator, except for the fact that the setup doesn't allow booming of two people at a time. One thing I learned is the HMC's VU meters have more headroom than I thought, casuing the levels to be lower than I expected in post.

I'm glad everyone has enjoyed the film so far and thanks for your thoughts! Keep the comments coming.
 
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