ANONYMOUS - Anthem78/CineMark

Robert Pottorff said:
also - were the "mug" shots at the beginning shot without your adapter?
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Sorry I forgot to answer this - yes this was shot with our adapter. Everything in the film was.

Simes said:
Excellent stuff! I'm currently saving for a DVX100 and this demonstration of excellence is making me impatient.

There is one minor thing I noticed;
When Anonymous is in the chair taking the stuff out of the drawer his right side is well lit by the lamp and his left in the shadow.
When you cut to the arm close-up I think it is a little too well lit. Also in terms of practicality most people would have moved their arm to under the light to see better - unless he has super-vision too!

I really hope to see more stuff from you guys as I loved the look of this short.

Cheers
Simes
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And Simes, thanks for your comments. Keep saving, and once you get it learn everything you can. Watch movies and deconstruct them, try to learn everything you can about lighting, framing, etc.

Regarding the lighting in the chair - this is something we discussed, but you will notice that even though in the arm close-up it is lit more, it is still brighter towards the source of the lamp. But I agree the lighting could have been improved upon.

Good eye.
 
Very nice work. I loved the look of it, the music. As said the criminals did not look that rough. Only other prob I had was during the showing of the criminals the sounds you had seemed like they were recorded too loud or something. They were fuzzy like you peaked out. Other than that it was very good, and the extraction scene was very realistic.
 
Cryogenic Filmworks said:
Very nice work. I loved the look of it, the music. As said the criminals did not look that rough. Only other prob I had was during the showing of the criminals the sounds you had seemed like they were recorded too loud or something. They were fuzzy like you peaked out. Other than that it was very good, and the extraction scene was very realistic.
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Thanks.

Regarding the comments about the criminals, if you look at the FBI's website of the ten most wanted criminals (http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm) only a few are rough looking. The others are more "normal", such as Diego Sanchez, James J Bulger, Warren Steed Jeffs, Robert William Fisher, etc. These aren't your run of the mill sherrif's office arrests. These are smarter criminals.

And for the audio over the criminals, we wanted the rough, distorted sound. Maybe we took it too far, though.

I'm glad you liked the look of the film, as we tried hard to get the feel right.
 
I enjoyed this film. The Makeup and Special effects are really well done. Your film has some really nice photography and style. Some good editing, some beautiful shots. Overall I would say you tell a very nice story. My only critique is that it might be even better if you did a little more showing of the story versus telling. Specifically in regards to the Acting and Voice over. I think voice over can tend to be cliche and overdone. I also think in this case it doesn't make sense. It might help if we knew who the Voice over was talking to. A cop in the future after his revenge? A girl-friends voice mail? A diary? His family tombstones? Or maybe it's just that by using voice over you set your film up to be compared to some of the most memorable movies with voice over. (usual suspects, fight club, etc.) At any rate, I still enjoy this short quite a bit. The five minutes seem to fly by. Good use of music/editing/photography/makeup/fx. Well done, can't wait to see what you do next.

~Ian
 
Thanks Ian. I'm glad the 5 minutes went by quickly for you. That was one of our main goals with this film, becuase I remember watching some of the films inother festivals and feeling like they were either dragging or trying to cram way too much into the time slot. So we really worked on the pacing.

We will be working on the voice over when this contest is over - just to tighten things up a bit.

Again, thank you very much for your positive comments as well as your constuctive feedback.
 
Hi everybody, I'm in Vegas!!!

I've been here since Sunday for the HOW design conference.
Hopefully I'll be up to see the voting tonight, since I'm now on west coast time.

Just checking in.

Thanks for all the support.
 
Anthem -

Well, this almost goes without saying but ... beautiful film. Style meeting form, really a pleasure to watch.
I think the high point of this film is in the opening moment - this is, by far, the best superhero introduction in this festival. Without words, in a moment, we know not only what his power is but also how personality and power intertwine...a tortured power for a tortured hero. The SFX timing is great - are you a musician?
Things to watch out for are performance and the pacing of the 2nd half. The revelations in voice-over are neither as interesting nor as fun as the revelations on screen. So we end up hearing a boring film and watching an interesting one. A film entirely done in voice-over is nearly impossible to perfect, and it's better to use dialogue if you can. The vocal acting of the cop on TV is kinda ridiculous, and drags down that brief portion of the movie. He doesn't fit the mood of the rest of the piece.
Great film to watch, see you next fest.
-Ben
 
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