Dispatch - a Fat Monster film

Shawn Philip Nelson said:
nice video!!

What gel was it that Geoff and the breasts were taping onto the fluoros? I really liked the color it cast. I presume those were 5000k or something else?

Also, how did you tape the wall paper to the wall so well without it bubbling up?

thanks!
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Can't remember the gel, maybe half blue(quarter?)... Maybe matty will poke his head in here and remember. The lights themselves were I think around 4000 or 4100k to start. We had a nightmare of a time trying to find small flo's as we had that didn't require wiring. We wanted ones that we could just switch on and gaff tape wherever we decided to place them.

Wallpaper was actually pretty easy... just pulled it super tight... taped the top really well... pulled it super tight, taped the middle... bottom... corners, etc. We used heavy duty clear packaging tape so it held pretty well.
 
Geoff_R said:
Can't remember the gel, maybe half blue(quarter?)... Maybe matty will poke his head in here and remember. The lights themselves were I think around 4000 or 4100k to start. We had a nightmare of a time trying to find small flo's as we had that didn't require wiring. We wanted ones that we could just switch on and gaff tape wherever we decided to place them.

Wallpaper was actually pretty easy... just pulled it super tight... taped the top really well... pulled it super tight, taped the middle... bottom... corners, etc. We used heavy duty clear packaging tape so it held pretty well.
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can't be halft ctb, way too much green in it for that (unless the fluoro haf a huge green spike to begin with). Looks like a special steel blue or something.

On the wallpaper, thats pretty good, looks glued on.
 
Grats on 1st prize, you all deserved it!... thanks for sharing the behind the scenes footage also, it helps alot:)
 
Gord.T said:
Looked good and everything. Still thought is was pretty lame. I mean, I watched a girl pulling a stick out of her chest for about 70% of the short. Great acting and all. Still pretty lame story though, if there was one. Yeah, sorry man, I didn't dig it as a short story or as a short film. But grats on the effort and for winning. People are weird and I guess I'm one of them, then, lol. meh...Congrats.
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Are you saying we have to make it look good AND not have a lame story?
 
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Geoff and I went to home depot looking for small flous with ballasts we didn't have to hook up.
The hard part is finding them in daylight or cool white. We never did. Called Tim and Luis who were making their own run to home depot and they said they found some.
When we got back I found out they never checked the color temp of the fixtures, just that they were indeed, small flous with a ballast. They were damn near tungsten, so we ended up doubling up on the steel blue gel.
 
Well I started writing a review a few weeks back when you had 10 pages of comments... and now you're at 31! And you won the fest ;)

So I'll keep it brief:

CONGRATS! Great stuff. In the first 30 seconds you already feel that this is a very confident and assured filmmaking. Also, humble filmmaking. You respected the audience enough to give them a really well-crafted piece.

Acting, production design, sound and cinematography (yaay Matt and Geoff) was great, of course. All pulled together masterfully by the director.

Pretty soon we could guess where it was going - but the same can be said for most Hollywood films, books, Shakespeare, etc. The thing is that the filmmakers have treated us with respect up to this point and we the audience feel confident that watching the details and small twists unfold will be totally satisfying. And they were! Thank you for making this.

Congrats and all the best with the festivals!

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Just watched it, and thought it was fantastic. Keeps things simple and doesn't try to do too much in 5 minutes. I particularly liked the sound design. Really great job.
 
You shot this with one lens ? What kind of anamorphic you had and what did you had on the front of it ? Was it 50mm lens or 35mm ?
 
Thx , i guess there was crop factor on gh-1 sensor , was it very noticeable ? Ive seen something taped to the front of the lens in the making of ,or maybe its how the lens looks like.Anyway ,this looks incredible ,you did amazing job,its not easy to make it look like that ,like big budget hollywood film.
 
The crop factor in the GH1 is minimal. Compared to 35mm motion film you have to stand back .3 times farther than you would to get the same framing. So 1 foot becomes 1.3 feet. 10 feet becomes 13. Not all that different.
 
I just saw that this was a Fat Monster production. Why am I not surprised? :)

This was a first class production all the way. I love the attention to detail.

Awesome film.
 
Slimothy said:
Are you saying we have to make it look good AND not have a lame story?
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Hey Tim. Yeah, yeah, hehe.

Just a couple gripes on a recurring mentality I've noticed over the past few fests...
Ummm, story. Well, you guys have obviously done a great job, again.
I mean, for what it was, it was top notch.
Not something I look for myself in a short story and don't want to encourage anyone to follow your paths, because I don't believe your on the right one.


Like, "Let's do one scene from a hit feature and call that a short film". No. Please , God, no. I've seen that over and over again and those seem to be the ones that win. Please, to everyone else, do not, follow that menatality.

Let's get back to short film basics, can we? You know? A short film with a story?

Mark, you know animations are based and thrive on stories. You know that.
Check out Pixars "Partly Cloudy" on youtube. A 6 minute animated short.
Not the best imo but it works. It has a poo pooing story. Alright.

Lets get back to story telling, can we? And no, I still don't think you guys should have won. Friends or not. You had no friggin story regardless of how well you shot it.

My vote went to "Bit's and Pieces" for #1. But I love you guys, in a weird way, hehe. :)
Just saying, I'm not going to BS you guys.

Alright. I'll catch up with you guys in a bar sometime and have a few beers and we can punch each other out.
Good job guys. Grats on the win and for the many more to come.
Sincerely, Gord. Have a good year guys.

//edit: oookay, Pixars "Partly Cloudy" is no longer available on your tube. Tim, shoot me a PM if you'd like a version of that. :) Alright.
 
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But in this short we were attached emotionally from first takes and in "bits and pieces" it was very slow and then child died,i didnt liked this story.
This short was intense and shot in hollywood big budget style, thats why it won.
 
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