briceman "A Price Too High"

Brandon Rice

Brandon Rice

Distributed Producer
Comments, critique?
I wanna hear it

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I also want to recognize all the people who worked on the film.

Written and Directed by
Brandon Rice & Daniel Noa

Cinematography and editing
Brandon Rice

Original Music
Matt Derr

“The St. Clare Burning”
By Tear The Sails
2005 All Rights Reserved
www.myspace.com/tearthesails

Sound mix and boom operation
Matt Derr & Ryan MacArthur

Visual Effects
Henry Schneider

Logo Design
Jason Lavorante

Creative Consultant
Gina Hoke

Produced by
Brandon Rice


Cast

Sarah Anne Rice: Jennifer Clark
Jorge Noa: Agent Rodriguez
Brad Silverman: Dr. Carlson
Jake Putich: Jake Clark
Lauren Roward: Lauren Holmes

SPECIAL THANKS

dvxuser.com
Norm Sanders (Envision)
Jack Stanley (jdanstan)
Chris (krestofre)
Signature Productions
Signature Fundraising
Russ & Carina Rice


Technical details:
Shot with a stock DVX
Lit with a 1k softbox, and one 650 Ari.
Sound was with an Azden shotgun mic, and Azden mixer
Cut in Avid XPress Pro 4.5
All Color Correction was done using the Avid color correction tool.


Some of the pieces of music that the fabulous Matt Derr did for us.

www.splivemovie.com/mystery.mp3
www.splivemovie.com/chase.mp3
www.splivemovie.com/healing.mp3
www.splivemovie.com/target.mp3

Blogsite for the film
www.noarice.blogspot.com


Thanks for all the comments!
 
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Brice,

Very well done.

I liked how you kept it simple and only used the CGI for some extra "punch".
The blood effect was effective and blended well with the shot, looked extremely proffessional.
The sniper scope was also well done, that was by far the best scene of the film, the flashback scene, and my favorite.
Only, the sound of the gunshot from the rifle sounded too "fake". It sounded like a cap gun or something.

Kudos to the man that played Rodriguez, he's a great actor and inhabited his role well. He was perfect.
The main lead, the girl, was good as well and held her own.
I only had a problem with the psychiatrist, he was a little stiff and seemed to "know" there was a camera in front of him, if that makes sense.

The editing was crisp and flowed fantastic for the story and the cinematography was natural and wasn't too distracting and over the top, bringing attention to itself, you know like trying to show off.
It was perfect for the story.
which brings me to the story... For a 6 minute piece it had a beg, mid, and end in my opinion and a depressing ending at that. Just what I like.

Good Job and keep it up, Briceman!

I'm sure I'll think of more after I watch it again, but this was coming straight from just watching it for the first time.:)
 
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i liked your concept but i think some of the lines were a bit cliche at times as well as the ending. i don't mean to be rude. I really liked the assassin actor. I felt he was the most natural
 
I'll add to the initial kudos, with more to come.

Great job, Brandon. I agree the assassin was perfect--I'm loving the redemptive imagery. The story moved well, and I was fairly quickly invested in the characters.

A bit confused at first--I thought the hand-bleed guy was the "healer", and was initially waiting for him to come back in, but I eventually came up to speed--more likely my slowness than the development.

Where was that Library? I saw Adams' book on the shelf.
 
The healing hand effect at the beginning was great way to draw the audience in to the story. After that I was hooked to see what I was in for. The dialogue during the face-off with the assassin was little off, but a great story none-the-less.
 
Hey everyone, I'm here sitting in LAX. I just couldn't stay away that long! Thanks for all the comments! I will try to answer each of your questions as I can. Thanks again for watching and I'm glad you all enjoyed it!
 
Brandon,
With all your darned excitement I was ready for a disappointment...but I didn't get it. Nice job. You should be happy with what you did on this. No aliens just an exceptional girl in a world not ready for her. The healing of the hand was cool. I DID wonder about her not saving her friend, though. Maybe she just didn't have time under the circumstances. Anyway, you done good.
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FabioRafael said:
Great movie! how was the blood effect done?
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We shot Jake's hand with the blood, and without, then my effects guy added a glow, and used a mask to mask out the blood on the shot with the blood. Honestly, he just did it. I was attempting to do it myself, but not getting very far, so he came in and did the effects, which I think turned out fantastic!
 
Blaine said:
Brandon,
With all your darned excitement I was ready for a disappointment...but I didn't get it. Nice job. You should be happy with what you did on this. No aliens just an exceptional girl in a world not ready for her. The healing of the hand was cool. I DID wonder about her not saving her friend, though. Maybe she just didn't have time under the circumstances. Anyway, you done good.
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Thanks Blaine! Actually she did heal her friend, and I know some people are confused by that. It's hard to sell in this shortened version(the DVD version is 11 min long). But anyway, thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)
 
Filmjunkie677 said:
Brice,

Very well done.

I liked how you kept it simple and only used the CGI for some extra "punch".
The blood effect was effective and blended well with the shot, looked extremely proffessional.
The sniper scope was also well done, that was by far the best scene of the film, the flashback scene, and my favorite.
Only, the sound of the gunshot from the rifle sounded too "fake". It sounded like a cap gun or something.

Kudos to the man that played Rodriguez, he's a great actor and inhabited his role well. He was perfect.
The main lead, the girl, was good as well and held her own.
I only had a problem with the psychiatrist, he was a little stiff and seemed to "know" there was a camera in front of him, if that makes sense.

The editing was crisp and flowed fantastic for the story and the cinematography was natural and wasn't too distracting and over the top, bringing attention to itself, you know like trying to show off.
It was perfect for the story.
which brings me to the story... For a 6 minute piece it had a beg, mid, and end in my opinion and a depressing ending at that. Just what I like.

Good Job and keep it up, Briceman!

I'm sure I'll think of more after I watch it again, but this was coming straight from just watching it for the first time.:)
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Thanks my east coast homedog! I agree with you on the sound effect(needs work). Also, with the Psychiatrist. The last scene with him and the girl is literally cut down to 1/4 of what it should be. So, I agree that he is the weakest actor in the film... and we had to sacrifice a lot of his better lines for the sake of time. :( Glad you enjoyed it though! :)
 
Nice work Brandon .
The blood effect was very good !!!
The warehouse scene was a nice touch I thought .
Jorge Noa did a bang on job playing Rodriguez. the only let down for me was the Dr . I felt he didn't pull it off .

keep up the good work !
Ian
 
arielman said:
Nice work Brandon .
The blood effect was very good !!!
The warehouse scene was a nice touch I thought .
Jorge Noa did a bang on job playing Rodriguez. the only let down for me was the Dr . I felt he didn't pull it off .

keep up the good work !
Ian
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Thanks Ian! I am really excited to hear that so many people are enjoying the film. It was a blast to work on it!! :)
 
Ok, I am now about ten minutes from boarding the flight. I'll be landing in VA in about 6 hours. So, I hope to come back to some more comments and things I can answer :) Good or bad, it's all good! Peace everyone, see you in a few hours.
 
B-Man, answer me this when you get back, cuz I have to know:

Did the actor playing the Psychiatrist improv his lines?
 
Ok, nice work.

So yeah I was impressed by the effects. Also the framing was nice too. Yeah why didn't she bring her friend back to life. ALso why did the box ruin that dudes day when it fell on his head.

And the most important question....

Who is the main actress. Her name is Rice so I assume she's either your wife or your sister?

Please say its your sister coz CHACHACHA!
 
Brandon I thought the lighting was good and I was impressed with (your sisters?)acting. She did a nice job as did most of the cast. I thought the weakest link was the interview at the end. You have some talent as do those your working with nice job.
 
Lucidz's last comment had me laughing, because I'd PM'd Brandon last night saying that he was smart to open the film, for a bunch of guys who'd be viewing, by doing it with an attractive woman, in a tight white tanktop, dancing in front of the bathroom mirror. He didn't comment back on that, so hopefully I didn't come across offensive, knowing now that it could be a wife, sister, etc. Oops! :)

Anyway, Brandon, you did a very fine job with this. It's among the higher scoring films on the slate so far. There were some issues I had with it as well, which others have already mentioned (not healing her friend, etc.), but it sounds like much of these would be answered in the longer cut, so I'll leave them be for now.

I actually thought the girl's acting was stiff in parts, which is in contrast to what others here are saying. The assassin's role was the strongest, in hindsight.

Again, great job.
 
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