"Diner for Two" - an Anthony Misiano film

Norm Sanders said:
H-O-L-Y C-R-A-P-!!!!

Now my second film I've given a 10 to. Just got done saying I was amazed at the last one I commented on, and now this, which just blew me away. This film gave me goose bumps, and I'm not even a huge fan of musicals.

But you & your team, SOOOOO nailed this!

Expertly cast, awesome original music/lyrics, great acting, WONDERFUL art direction, editing, shooting (AMAZING job, Brothers Tuttle!!!!), etc.

You, sir, have risen among the top of filmmakers that I respect & am eager to see every work from.

If I'm to have a quip (I swear I don't look for 'em ... just things that come to mind as I watch & experience a film), would be the mix. It was way too much bass, not enough vocal on my speaker set up, so I plugged in my studio head phones which dramatically improved it, but I still felt the bass was a tad overpowering throughout, making it at times a little harder to hear & understand the vocals.

Plenty of times near the beginning where I felt a voice/note was a little 'off' (like a dissonance was being created), but perhaps that was on purpose, because when they would really harmonize & bang out a chorus in the middle/end, it just made it all that much more rewarding! :)

I could go on & on, but needless to say, I'm in utter awe. I would so have loved to have been a part of this team, which made such an awesome treat.
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Thank you very much. I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it so thoroughly. Though I'm surprised to hear about the bass and almost wonder if it might be your sound card or speakers or something. I say this simply because I've heard it from no one else, and I've checked the balance on so many sources (computer speakers, studio headphones, living room TV with stereo, and in my honda civic). But eh, no big whoop.

I do have to make one thing clear though, and I've been hesitant to say it out of fear of coming off as douch-ey or egomaniacal or something, but, the brothers Tuttle did a FANTASTIC job lighting this project and helping me bring it to life, there is absolutely NO way I could've pulled this off without them, but, I was actually the one behind the camera for every frame of this, framed each shot, moved, panned, and even manually followed focus bare hand on lens (though THAT part was only for half of the time, the other half did require the assistance of Jeremy Tuttle whipping a marked follow focus). The reason? I am VERY particular, and really quite love being on camera, so much so I hire out my services as a DP myself, and have actually done that MORE than directing.

But, to state again, I could NOT have done this without them. They are SO incredibly professional and the greatest pleasure to work with, 100% dependable in every way, and EXTREMELY talented and great at what they do, and I owe so much of this film's received praises to them and their contributions.
 
You're right, prob sound card if no one else had that issue ... I'll have to see if I can turn down some internal settings on the bass end as well, perhaps...because I will be watching this a few times over. :)

And .... I take back what I said about the Brothers Tuttle, then! HA! :) They do great work on their own, and lighting is HUGELY important as we all know (really made your set & shots pop), so I agree that without them this wouldn't have been visually anywhere near the caliber that it is now.

Again, great time, and great piece. And solid Camera work, by yourself sir! :beer:
 
Norm Sanders said:
You're right, prob sound card if no one else had that issue ... I'll have to see if I can turn down some internal settings on the bass end as well, perhaps...because I will be watching this a few times over. :)

And .... I take back what I said about the Brothers Tuttle, then! HA! :) They do great work on their own, and lighting is HUGELY important as we all know (really made your set & shots pop), so I agree that without them this wouldn't have been visually anywhere near the caliber that it is now.

Again, great time, and great piece. And solid Camera work, by yourself sir! :beer:
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Ha ha, thanks Norm, your comments mean a lot. Yeah Anthony does love to get in there on the camera. I started off shooting the first night and he keep getting closer and closer and closer to the camera until before we knew it he was working it like a champ. It was fine with us we had plenty of other things to worry about.
 
jeremytuttle said:
Ha ha, thanks Norm, your comments mean a lot. Yeah Anthony does love to get in there on the camera. I started off shooting the first night and he keep getting closer and closer and closer to the camera until before we knew it he was working it like a champ. It was fine with us we had plenty of other things to worry about.
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I'm a sneaky s.o.b., aren't I?
 
I just wanted to stop in and say hi. I absolutely suck at keeping up with this fest. Shame on me. I just caught up on the thread and all of the positive comments are rad. The negative ones too. Jeremy is rad. Anthony is rad. Everyone on the shoot was rad. The word rad is rad. Thanks again everyone.
 
UPDATE 07/18/2009

Two things. One, I turned twenty-four on Thursday. That was, well, whatever it was. And two:

So, those of you attending the DVXFest screening in L.A. will be seeing a somewhat "enhanced" version of "Diner for Two".

I finally gave in to the pressure and had all the vocal tracks VERY SLIGHTLY pitch corrected digitally. I was morally apposed to it at first, but hey, f**k it. I did make sure to go through every single syllable of every single vocal track and make sure none of the digital enhancements were noticeable (I find that it's not on the holding of notes, but the changing of notes that one can notice if something has been digitally tampered with). So it is seamless.

Anyhoo, just a little behind the scenes update.
 
UPDATED 07/19/2009

Spent all day on it, and here it is, the completed poster. It's also been thrown onto the top of the thread, first post.

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Lots of work and planning went into this short. You are a master at pre-planning, judging by your previous films. This is your most professional looking production, and it wreaks with production value. It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful, and most, if not all of the performances are beautiful. The only downside is that I've seen it all before. Dr. Horrible took a different approach and felt original. This lacks that originality but I marvel at your command of fimmaking. Regardless, you did score high in my book.
 
Sprocketboy said:
Lots of work and planning went into this short. You are a master at pre-planning, judging by your previous films. This is your most professional looking production, and it wreaks with production value. It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful, and most, if not all of the performances are beautiful. The only downside is that I've seen it all before. Dr. Horrible took a different approach and felt original. This lacks that originality but I marvel at your command of fimmaking. Regardless, you did score high in my book.
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Thank you for the good feedback. I've always felt preproduction is immeasurably valuable, I'm glad you noticed. :)

Believe it or not, I'm very out of tune with what's popular online. In fact I don't watch TV or use the internet for anything really other than work. It wasn't until AFTER making this film and hearing comments from people that I discovered things like Adam Lambert (who people tell me Taran Gray, the villian in my film, resembles) and Dr. Horrible.

Although technically I would like to point out, even after seeing some of these other projects, that technically "Diner for Two" is an opera. :) Not a single spoken work to move the story, all exposition, and story and character progression is via song, either inner monologue or conversation.
 
Congrats Anthony! Really great job on this one and deserving of the award.
Cheers.

....and quit the smoking cigs!
 
Excellent and original opera (if you say so) hehe ;) no seriously it is it is an opera!!! This was a film i felt should have been in the top 3 but never expected it to survive the Y chromosome bias of most voters. Forunately the advent of metrosexual clothing has opened all our minds and seen this excellent film poll where it deserves to be.

My earnest congratulations mon amie!!!!
 
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Congratulations Anthony, on a well deserved third place. It is nice to see a musical do so well... You managed to dissolve many male's masculinity with your movie, and for that you deserve a prize.
 
Congrats again from me Anthony. Great to meeet you and the Tuttles at the screening - hope we can catch up again sometime.
 
A behind the scenes video was uploaded to vimeo, for those of you who wanted to know what it was like on the set, now you can see.

Also uploaded a video I made demonstrating some of the audio work done in the film. It's pretty primitive and not made necessarily for THIS demographic (referring to y'all here), but was shown at the premiere party the other night as sort of a DVD special feature to entertain families and friends.

Check them out by going to this thread: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=180292
 
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