"Carpe Diem" A Musical by Ramsaur Films

Alright so the guy who wrote the songs and that's doing music... he just gave me a cd track of all the songs he sung. So getting those to the actors TODAY! He still hasn't done music yet! he said he'll get on it today so crossing fingers! I'll be going up to him today to pick it up so then I can check out his progress.

This film will make it too the festival! Cross your fingers too!

EDIT: turns out he has done the music! So just getting with the actors now to give them what they need then schedule a recording session then film! Still need to find a DP. If not it'll just be me and my HV20.
 
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alrighty, last update till I get some screen grabs going. We're recording this sunday and shooting this coming tuesday.

Two conflicts at the moment.
Waiting on a call back for location and finding someone with a better camera than the HV20. The HV20 (my camera) is nice but I don't have any lenses or focusing and I want that. I was so close to getting the Canon XH-A1 from one of my good friends but then he didn't let me borrow it cause apparently he let someone borrow it a while back and didn't bring his power cord back and then I bought his shotgun mic then didn't like it and he gave me 2 triple A batteries and I didn't' give the batteries back so he's not letting me for that reason as we.... ugh. some people are just weird!

So talking to a guy who has a RED because he know our DP very well so we have a slight chance at that.. other than that. Looking for a camera with lens and focusing.

and also we'll show a few BTS pics on sunday after doing some recordings then some grabs tuesday till the deadline from the shoot.
 
This will probably be my last post till anyone comes in and gives feedback on the film. But it's shot Thanks God! It was extremely challenging to put all this together! Crazy, Crazy!! But it's shot, music is good, and now I'm editing. There's some grabs posted on the first page. Not color corrected yet, but getting there. Go to the first page for grabs or just click HERE
 
I just got done with it.

It was cute. There were distractions. The lipsync was off most of the time. I know how hard musicals are to do. It was a nice piece. Don't get me wrong. The music was good. The sync, not so much. And it didn't look like it was a hair off, some parts were pretty off.

I enjoyed it, I think it's awesome you did a musical. Just keep an eye on the sync.
 
Quick first up impressions - nice music, solid voices, good story - timing was a real issue.
 
Cute. Musicals are never easy and hats off to you for not only taking this on, but entering 2 films! I know how much work that can be having entered 2 films in TwilightFest. Nice little story that I think everyone can relate to. I won't repeat the sync stuff, but that was the killer for me. Good choice of actors, they all did a great job.

Congratulations to the cast & crew for a job well done!
 
Great Musical, loved it.

Hard to do. Only part that felt out of place was the death and some of the audio, which was obviously location, compared to the studio singing.

Well done.
 
I am not a fan of musicals, but this one kept my attention. The singing track seemed to be a bit off from the video footage and at one point the manager seemed to be mouthing something entirely different that what was singing, almost like that person who forgot the words to the song and just hums along till they get to a part they knows again. I wonder was the music recorded before or after this was shot? My guess would be before, in which case you're trying to sync up video to singing that was done after in a studio or some such place (i'm assuming) and it's VERY HARD! As opposed, recording the song first and having playback going while filming would probably eliminate a lot of syncing issues. Just a thought...

I liked the manager's performance, except for the end leading up to the death, and thought the girls were okay, but could have taken it a step further. The mail boy was seemingly amusing, but uninteresting to me. The sound quality seriously degraded when there were spoken lines as opposed to singing ones. The songs sounded really good and the singing was enjoyable. I almost wished they had sung the entire time and not spoken at all.

Overall, good humorous film! Thanks for sharing!
 
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I wonder was the music recorded before or after this was shot? My guess would be before, in which case you're trying to sync up video to singing that was done after in a studio or some such place (i'm assuming) and it's VERY HARD!
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The music was recorded first. You have to do that in order to have playback when you film. I didn't think it was that bad (syncing) but come to it now I'm going to go back in there and fix what needs to be fixed so when I send to festivals. Thanks for the feedback.
 
A MUSICAL!!! WAY TO GO! That takes some huge guts and I admire that. You film kept me smiling all the way through - it is a fun one. Congrats :)
 
Very nice concept - I smiled the whole time. I liked the detail with the stamps - I felt so much with this girls, which have this very boring job like in an post office. The best actor in your film was the awful boss. I loved his arrogant nature when he first came in the room.

Compliments

Susanne
 
That was a hoot man! Although I would have liked to have seen some more dancing throughout. Like through the halls, etc.

best,
Jon
 
Hi Ramsaur,

I always look at a musical and say I don't really like musicals... but that's crap. I love Labyrinth (David Bowie), I love The Muppets Christmas Carol, I love Sweeney Todd and I loved that musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Anyway, I enjoyed this, but it does need some work. Some of the miming is out of sink with the singing, the live sound isn't as sharp and really stands out, and there is an out of focus shot in there.
You can't go wrong with sexy ladies... well you can't to me anyway. I thought the acting was really good. Well done.
 
Hey! Yep I agree that the acting was good - and the musical numbers are pretty polished (apart form some syning bla bla bla). Your leads were endearing and likable and that's half the battle. I would have either cut the dialogue altogether or put some more in for balance. Also I think this could have gone further humour wise? It could have had its tongue more firmly in its cheek if you get me. Overall though a good attempt at a difficult genre. Cute and likeable despite technical issues. The performances in particular stood out for me.
 
Yea, I didn't think it was that noticeable? Well the canon hv20 does have manual focus so I guess I didn't notice when I was filming.
 
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