SHORT: A brand new short looking for your thoughts

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David Evans

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Hey guys,

Just finished a short film and wanted to get some opinions, if possible. Thank you so much for watching.


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Nicely done, David! Very intense without physical violence. And no score either. Not everyone can pull that off.

Tech questions: you had a lot of camera moves in the opening "oner". Did you use motion control for that?
 
You pulled it off. First of all I can't get past how good it looks. Love the aspect ratio. The colors look really good. Would have been interesting to know if this is shot on film or digital with film emulation. Could have fooled me at least.
Great acting. And really good pacing of the story.. Very intentional camera movements... just.. really, really good. Thank you for sharing!
 
QuickHitRecord said:
Nicely done, David! Very intense without physical violence. And no score either. Not everyone can pull that off.

Tech questions: you had a lot of camera moves in the opening "oner". Did you use motion control for that?
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Hi! Thanks! Actually, no motion control was used. Just a very skilled dolly grip that hit all the marks almost every single take.
 
tommetass said:
You pulled it off. First of all I can't get past how good it looks. Love the aspect ratio. The colors look really good. Would have been interesting to know if this is shot on film or digital with film emulation. Could have fooled me at least.
Great acting. And really good pacing of the story.. Very intentional camera movements... just.. really, really good. Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks! This was shot on a FX9, but I had a long talk with the DP on how we were going to get a film like look from the camera. I had never worked with a Fx9 before and was pleasantly surprised.
 
David Evans said:
Thanks! This was shot on a FX9, but I had a long talk with the DP on how we were going to get a film like look from the camera. I had never worked with a Fx9 before and was pleasantly surprised.
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That's very impressive from the FX9! Goes to show, it's more the people behind the camera, not the camera itself.
 
The FX9 was a high-end camera, one of Sony's flagships, but definitely agree - and also love the aspect ratio and overall look/feel!
 
NorBro said:
The FX9 was a high-end camera, one of Sony's flagships, but definitely agree - and also love the aspect ratio and overall look/feel!
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Yeah. I've seen a lot of FX9 footage.. none with colors and image like that. So it wasn't meant as a jab at the FX9. I can see that it looks like I was doing that though..
 
I thought maybe you briefly might have been thinking about a different model number (not dissing it), there are so many of them.

There is a lot of FX9 footage out there that looks very good, but any camera can look bad, even ARRIs.
 
I am going to be different. I have always struggled with material of this kind. Im the sort who cannot watch even a soap on tv where the husband is about to walk in on the dodgy wife. I read the comments all technical, and intended on doing the same thing. I couldn’t. The camera work, the lighting, the sound, dropped off my scope and left me with the awkwardness of a subject i was going to hate. I got to the end without anything technical interfering.

I think the point of this is that you did a great job of capturing the story totally transparently. This only happens occasionally. Usually, the actual content is poor or something sidetracks me into poor movement, or the sharpness or my pet hate DoF, but this left the drama. I was left totally uninterested in which camera it was, what the lens was, i think that equates to success. I found it very hard to watch, constantly wondering where it was going, and forgot or was unable to detach from the narrative to the technical.
 
paulears said:
I am going to be different. I have always struggled with material of this kind. Im the sort who cannot watch even a soap on tv where the husband is about to walk in on the dodgy wife. I read the comments all technical, and intended on doing the same thing. I couldn’t. The camera work, the lighting, the sound, dropped off my scope and left me with the awkwardness of a subject i was going to hate. I got to the end without anything technical interfering.

I think the point of this is that you did a great job of capturing the story totally transparently. This only happens occasionally. Usually, the actual content is poor or something sidetracks me into poor movement, or the sharpness or my pet hate DoF, but this left the drama. I was left totally uninterested in which camera it was, what the lens was, i think that equates to success. I found it very hard to watch, constantly wondering where it was going, and forgot or was unable to detach from the narrative to the technical.
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Thank you for watching and sharing your experience. That's what I was hoping for, and I really relate to what you're saying because I also find it very uncomfortable to watch, as a viewer, this sort of situation. It's a very fine line between becoming overly technical in our approach or being just plain bland. I thought the material had real dramatic potential, so I tried my best to bring that out.

Thanks!
 
Very well done. Extremely effective thematic use of 4:3. Thanks for sharing it! This is the kind of thing we hope to see a lot more of around here.
 
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