Austin Film Festival - Trailer Competition

Justin_Kirch

Justin_Kirch

Runner Up.
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NOW FOLLOW THE LINK TO WATCH THE FULL VERSION!

GREEN SCREEN TEST/SHOT IN MY FRIENDS LIVING ROOM!


Hey guys. This is actually my first time posting some of my work! I'm nervous for that fact, but I'm pretty confident with my product.

I made this trailer for the Austin Film Festival competition. I don't know when I'll find out if I make it to the finalists, but I hope I do!

My good friend Fernando Ulloa and I have been great film partners since high school, he knew about this trailer competition for awhile now, but said he couldn't come up with any ideas. Well, that's when I stepped in and told him I've been wanting to try something like Sin City. A few weeks went by and we were still trying to figure out WHEN we could do it, since both of us work 50+ hours a week, and HOW we were going to do it. Somehow I had an epiphany, since we didn't have a studio to shoot in or any real controlled lighting, we would use Home Depot lights and 9 pieces of green posterboard taped together.

To cut this a little short, let's just say it was a great learning experience for proper lighting. Unfortunately, the quality isn't that great since I had to go through a long process of making a copy of a copy of a copy. Watch it on low resolution to see what it's really supposed to look like. Anyways, here's the clip. Please give me some feedback.

Click here to watch Austin-City.mov.tmp15



P.S. The keying on it isn't as bad as that other video that everyone was taking giant poops on, so hopefully you won't rip me apart for that. ENJOY!
 
hmmm....you need DIVX.

i tried uploading it as a windows media file, but it's too large to put on that site

www.divx.com

it's a simple dl, please DL it so i can get some people looking at it!
 
Hi there,

Video work is good, but the voice over needs a bit of work, use a different mic, or something with a pop filter.

- Derrick
 
Hey guys, I now put up the full version! Everyone take a look so you can see more special effects and a full story. Thanks for the comments. I agree on the audio comment, I'll have to re-record my voiceover or just bump it up a little while taking out the pops.
 
Justin_Kirch,
Nice work on the visuals, they were impressive - the thing that sticks out though is the bad audio quality and the poor voiceovers. (Bad audio may be the compression you chose, I can't tell). Re-record and spend some time on perfecting those and you have yourself a nice trailer here. Good job!
 
cool stuff :D I think the lower quality audio is from the compression. Nice visual styling.
 
the-lyons-den...by poor voiceovers, do you mean they were read poorly, or you just couldn't hear them? just so i could get a feel for how it flows...other than that, thank you for your comments, i appreciate them greatly!

reflex, thanks for your comments too. it was fun actually seeing something that i wrote act out exactly as i envisioned it onto the screen. storyboarding and writing is more fun than i thought!
 
If some of you could comment on this a little bit more that would be great! I may have to re-edit it if I end up being in the finals!
 
I thought it was pretty decent despite the fact that it was a little corny(I know it was intended to be cuz its a joke). Only things that bothered me was the bright red background which screamed GREENSCREEN and the fact that we dont see the card actually get hit by the bullet(have it explode in my oppinion) A good effort for sure, hopefully you'll make it to the finals
 
The audio sounds like they were talking inside of a trash can. It was very hollow like something was wrong with the microphone. I liked the visuals and effects.
 
Hey guys, thanks for the input once again. I'll get that audio right as soon as possible. I don't know what the matter with it is. It has to be the compression of the file, because it definitely didn't sound like that on the master.

As far as cornyness, yes it is 'corny' persay because like you said Nobody, it's a spoof. I'm glad everyone caught onto it though, because if you didn't, then I would REALLY be in trouble. And with the red background, we wanted to put something there besides black, because if we didn't then the villain wouldn't have any depth and be blended in with the background. All you would see would be the face. If you have any other suggestions to put as the background, feel free to tell me. We didn't want it to look like a location or have it set in a certain place, but more of a flashback, so that's another reason for the artistic choice of red.

Thanks guys! I think I find out next week if the trailer made it to the finalists or not.
 
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