48 Hour Film Project DC 2005 - "Have You Seen Me"

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first try at this competition and really had a lot of fun. here's my team's entry:

http://www.phocinema.com/hysm.mov

genre: mystery
character: r. moellering, hypochondriac
prop: bottle of wine
dialogue: it was like that when i got here

shot with the regular dvx100.

lenguyen
 
hey lenguyen, i did this last year! i had a fun time doing it. we didn't end up winning anything for the regular 48hour film project, but when we entered the National Film Project (same thing but nationwide contest), we won 2 awards. go figure we can't win locally. anyways, looks like you had fun. it's hard pumping out something good in 48 hours, but some people end up doing it.
 
That's awesome man! Last year I didn't have my dvx at the time but I'm sure it would have looked much better. We used a Sony shoulder mount dvcam, apparently I didn't care enough to get the model number, but it did the job. It was definitely a great experience on how fast you have to work to get something done, but also remember about acting, lighting, camera movement, continuity, so on and so forth!.
 
thanks uhrgl! yeah, we finished just under the gun... only 3 minutes to spare. yours was hilarious... i love the ninja star... are you with atlantic video? i recognize that "A:" symbol from somewhere.
 
Thanks -- glad you liked it. The "A:" is the wayfinding system where I work (rhymes with Bay - Oh - El) -- you can see that logo on the glass doors during the elevator shot.
 
oh, yeah! your company's one of my clients. i did the opening graphics for "___ insider". do you know regina, brad, jay?
 
I'm sorry I don't. It sounds like their job is a lot cooler than mine -- I work in the online marketing group.
 
Hello,

Ok... I've said this to a few people, now you'll know too: I tend to ask LOTS of technical questions, because I'm very interested in the latest technology; what it can do, and how people are using it. So I want to ask... How'd you do the opening credits? What program? What filters did you use?

The opening credits look great, but I am always somewhat dissapointed when I see that the actual movie doesn't seem to have as much visual work put in to it as the opening credits do, so it's like I am seeing a completely different movie.

Perhaps if you worked on the color correction a bit, or darkened it down a bit to fit a bit more with the opening credits... or make the credits brighter to match the rest of the film. It seems like the credits have a real Hollywood film look to them, but then the actual movie looks much too much like straight on video with no special lighting or anything.

I DO love how you have English subtitles for the Asian bartender, and then you have Asian subtitles when it goes back to the main character speaking English. That was very very clever. You had some pretty smooth hand held camera movements later on (looked like you were simulating a jib/dolly type of thing).

There are a couple of disolves I could do without durring the chase.. they don't seem to match the tone of the scene. Hard cuts would be fine for me.

I also liked the lightining in the end scenes.
 
MagnumDB said:
Hello,

Ok... I've said this to a few people, now you'll know too: I tend to ask LOTS of technical questions, because I'm very interested in the latest technology; what it can do, and how people are using it. So I want to ask... How'd you do the opening credits? What program? What filters did you use?

The opening credits look great, but I am always somewhat dissapointed when I see that the actual movie doesn't seem to have as much visual work put in to it as the opening credits do, so it's like I am seeing a completely different movie.

Perhaps if you worked on the color correction a bit, or darkened it down a bit to fit a bit more with the opening credits... or make the credits brighter to match the rest of the film. It seems like the credits have a real Hollywood film look to them, but then the actual movie looks much too much like straight on video with no special lighting or anything.

I DO love how you have English subtitles for the Asian bartender, and then you have Asian subtitles when it goes back to the main character speaking English. That was very very clever. You had some pretty smooth hand held camera movements later on (looked like you were simulating a jib/dolly type of thing).

There are a couple of disolves I could do without durring the chase.. they don't seem to match the tone of the scene. Hard cuts would be fine for me.

I also liked the lightining in the end scenes.
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i agree... definitely A LOT of things we could have done better... but, hey, it was done start-to-finish in 48 hours... and i'm no Norm Li!

what's even more clever about the chinese text is that it's literal translation is "this is very very clever." -- ok, not really.

opening credits were pretty simple... had our 2nd unit camera guy go outside and shoot a bunch of exteriors of one of the houses we were shooting at. it was really cloudy and had been raining all day so the the basic look was already there. i took the footage into final cut at 24PA and then exported the raw footage into after effects. i time-remaped the footage to slow it down, enabled frame-blending... used about 6-15 frames stretched to 6 seconds per shot. used the levels filter to give the images more contrast and messed with the hue and took down the saturation a little.

the titles... animated the kerning on the text. applied a fractal noise filter to a layer that i then used as a travel matte for the text layer and then applied a glow filter to that pre-composite. took me about 30 minutes to do and 2 hours to render.
 
Good job ... I'm slated to do the NYC competition in July. I have to agree though that the color scheme you had did not mtach the tone that you were going for ... it looked too much like it was going to be something more along the lines of a comedy ...

But then you only had 48 hours ... good job ...
 
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