From the Future: A Musical

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So this is my first time entering a DVXUser Fest. I decided to make a musical because I figured not many people would make one and it'd be challenging. Thus, I present...

FROM THE FUTURE: A MUSICAL

Logline: When Laura receives a surprise visit from her "future self," she must reevaluate her love life.

We recorded the song this past Wednesday, started shooting this past Thursday, and finished editing today (Sunday). Not a lot of time, but a whole lot of fun :). I hope you all get a chance to see it.

-Brad
 
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You finished a MUSICAL in that short amount of time?

Geez... and i thought I was a hard worker. Congrats and I really want to see this. To my knowledge you'll be the first musical in ANY dvxuser fest.:thumbsup:
 
Fricking AWESOME!!!!

I'm not sure what other people are going to think, but this hit my sense of humor on the nose. I was dying laughing and it's one of my favorite, if not my most favorite short I've ever seen. Some really great lines in there and a lot of creativity.

My only minor complaints though, it would've benefited from a good steadicam op. And the lighting was rather inconsistent. But, as i said, i love this short and it easily gets a 10 from me (and so far i haven't seen anything else above a 7)

PS - If your song writer is ever looking to write another short film musical, I've been looking at doing on down the road but haven't found someone up to write the music/lyrics yet.
 
That was actually really funny.

Good work.

Visually there are some things that could be changed but it's entertaining and that's all that matters.
 
Thanks guys! Yeah we had to rush to film the end because a storm was coming that forced us to end our last day of shooting half an hour early. So in our frenzy we messed up the aperture settings for some shots towards the end. You can see the last shot was literally right before the storm hit - dark clouds and lots of wind hehe.
 
Alright, holding on roll to say: I come from Ithaca - where musical theatre is huge. I can't wait.

And rolling...

First note: Compression seems to be a bit iffy. Would like to see a better compressed version.

Though, I would ask, why am I a guy in the future and not my female self?

Haha, what is up with the mellon? Haha.

Interesting music. He can sing and that is surprising. Haha, I must admit when I saw musical I was wary. But they can sing. If only real life was a musical eh?

So how did you pull the playback on set? I am interested in finding that out.

And it looked like you lost some saturation in the latter half of the film.

Very creative take on it. And that is an interesting position for him to end in. Kinda planted his face in her chest...haha.

I liked it. Nice film.
 
HEHE. A refreshing change of pace from the dramas in this contest! Really cute and funny. One technical issue, starting around 2:38 you can see the edge of the lense adapter on the left side. You could fix this with negligible quality loss by increasing the scale to 102% or so and shifting the image left. Especially for the "small screen" you wouldn't really notice and it would be less distracting.

I personally wasn't that crazy about the vignetting and would like to see it color corrected a bit more to match shots to each other and to bump the brightness/contrast on the last sequence. It seems like it should be brighter after 3:51 to at least match what came before.

All of that being said I think it was a good first attempt at a musical and you should make more to refine your approach. Great song!
 
Yes, pretty entertaining. The song was actually pretty funny and it was nice to see something different.
Some technical issues but those were already mentioned.

Very creative!

Cheers,

Mike
 
THAT was great! I'm still laughing. Nice change of pace...and look ma no guns, F-Bombs or exploding heads! Technically, there were a few things as mentioned above, but nothing you didn't know about.

I could see you expanding on the idea and creating another Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Congratulations to the whole cast & crew on a job well done.
 
You deserve bonus points for tackling musical. I can't imagine the extra challenge that presented.

I would say that for a musical, the music didn't really start soon enough for my tastes, or for the genre. In fact at one point I started questioning if "The Musical" in the title was just part of the joke. But the film took off when the music started. The song is pretty clever. Sync trailed a bit in some areas, but otherwise, it was fun.
 
bwahahaha i love it. Just odd enough to be funny. I thought the acting at the begining/middle was spot on. The camera work in the later musical stuff was good too, felt like a strange take on Sound of Music.

Classic.
 
Hey,

Ballsy, ballsy move with this one. Unfortuately, I think it only half worked for me.

I liked: THe music, the singing is outstanding, the story is fun all the way through, the long takes worked and made the dancing around them and the compositions all the more impressive when they worked.

Not such a fan of: The color, the hand held stuff (aren't musicals beautifully composed, super-saturated crane/dolly/ shot craziness????), the acting when they weren't singing.

All in all, I liked your work here. The story is very very fun. Knowing it was a musical I would have liked to be into it as a musical earlier. But this was a very fun viewing and a bold attempt. Good work and can't wait to see more from you in the future.
 
good for you, some really great comedic moments. I always have wanted to try something like this in a comedy. Family guy has done this a lot in the recent past.

I like the contradictions that are out of left field like the fact he really is from the future. Also the offbeat date is played well. Good job, keep em coming.

Jim
 
I was smiling the whole way through. A musical is definitely one of the hardest to produce I would think. Always wanted to do one after I saw this musical about a falafal stand and a (i think burger but it could be another ethnic food) stand a few years ago. I wished that the shots were cut up more but I can imagine how hard it was to get a long single shot with them without screw ups. Was this something you guys perform in a theater all the time? The song was great and fit the fest though. Just wondering.
 
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Was this something you guys perform in a theater all the time?
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Haha no it was written just for this movie, although a lot of us do musical theatre. I wrote lyrics when I wrote the script and then met with my friend who I'd done a musical project with before. I gave him some ideas of how the song should flow and then he worked his magic. He also played all the instruments in the recording. And he played Chris, the awkward date guy.

Mattykins said:
So how did you pull the playback on set? I am interested in finding that out.
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We used a boombox that worked off of batteries. Unfortunately, it wouldn't play a burned CD, so I had to get an FM adapter for an iPod and play the recorded song through the boombox's radio.
 
haha the opening scene had me going already. good short and like how you chose to do a musical.
 
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