"Don't Look"

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Lost Productions presents

"Don't Look"

Some secrets were never meant to be seen.
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Very evocative on the poster there, particularly the "help me out of the prison of mysefl" writing ... wanna see what that's all about now :beer:
 
cool poster indeed. cool film as well, nice attention to sound design.
the night scene seemed too dark for me but my screen is also on the dark side so it could be that.

nice fx too, kill scene looked pretty real.
 
Standard Disclaimer: I've watched half of the films so far and have yet to see a bad film. Congratulations to every film maker, everyone did a great job. All my comments and criticisms are meant to be constructive and helpful and in no way am I trying to take anything away from what you accomplished.

Good: Computer graphics and sound effects were great and had some good looking shots in there. Cool concept with the hidden codes, had me thinking along the lines of Davinci.

Not as Good: The dark lighting for the 2nd half the of the film was maybe a little too dark. I'm on a mac which has brighter displays and it was still almost too dark to see what was going on.

Sidenote: The main actor kinda looked like the kid from 3rd Rock from the Sun.
 
I haven't watched all the films yet, but I totally dug this one.
I'd have to say it is my favorite so far.

Great directing, sound design, and editing.

My ONLY complaint would be that the dark scenes did look incredibly dark on my monitor. Mostly just the bedroom scenes, the outside scenes were dark but not to the degree of the bedroom scenes.

But I really liked it and it was quite effective in building up suspense.

Kudos!!
 
This was really well done! The first scenes drew me in immediately, like watching a good film. Clever use of voice over. I like the patterns he keeps seeing, those were subtle but probably technically hard to pull off. The park scenes were by far the best, great lighting, good tempo. The bedroom scenes were HORRIBLE. I wanted to turn my brightness on, I couldn't see a thing. That was extremely distracting.
Soundtrack was cool, the sound was fine, except for the tinny first bang - or was that simply gun against wall? The best shot (no pun) might be the shot - great lighting, I loved it, very noir.

In conclusion: good script, good acting, some really fine cinematography, except for the bedroom scenes. Consistently good.
 
Hey all, thanks for the feedback. To address the darkness: yeah, my fault entirely. Sorry about that -- I think that may have been a result of some bad color timing, poorly calibrated monitor and shoddy compression. I'll fix that on the next cut.

Hopefully you guys can still sorta make out what happens...

Thanks again!
 
Dark here as well. I'm going to watch it again later because I think I missed something. The good thing is... I want to watch it again! Very interesting movie.

Cheers,

Mike
 
I really liked your sense of style.

In the bedroom decoding scenes I liked the style more because I really felt it served the story. He was really digging here, trying to figure something out and I felt the scenes had a nice arc and build that the intercuts with the the text etc. really served.

I felt the style was less effective in the opening. Mostly because it went on past the point off "I get it". Then it was just style for style's sake and not still actively moving towards some conclusion along some arc that was dramatic and suspenseful.

I echo others on the dark being too dark in the apartment.

Not quite sure what the story was. Like others mentioned, I think I will watch again, because it is definitely worth watching again.

Overall I enjoyed it a great deal. I especially like the last panning shot with the surveillance build in the sound design and VFX.

Nice work! :beer:
 
"I felt the style was less effective in the opening. Mostly because it went on past the point off "I get it". Then it was just style for style's sake and not still actively moving towards some conclusion along some arc that was dramatic and suspenseful."



Thanks for the nods on the film. Jason's (jojopop's) film, but I would say that the "style" in the open day stuff mirrors that which is throughout, which is the whole surveillance or anxiety of surveillance. That's what I read into it cause I hate unmotivated style as well. But I think that's what's happening there with the sounds of talking, static, greenish tints and visual static that goes in and out. But ultimately, you buy that or you don't, eh?

About the darknes, well, it's dark. We're making him fix that.
Thanks for watching. It's a real treat to show in such great company.
 
Another film I really liked. Still, quiet, but some bad mojo going on. I like the internal monolgue in this one, really fits quite nicely and helps the film along instead of hindering it.

It was dark, but not too dark that it bothered me. And I think the darkness was perfect for it.

The one thing I have to say about the contrast, too dark, too light, color, etc. comments it that you have to remember that pretty much everyone is probably watching it on a different brand/size/type of monitor AND different brightness/contrast/color temp. settings. So what might be considered "dark" on one person's screen might be fine on another's.

Anyway, good job. One of my favorites. Thanks for screening.
 
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