Hello, Hello by deedive
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pauly_the_hitman
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Nice grabs. I especially like the picture of the RED.
Pauly
Pauly
deedive
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yeah...:lipsrseal
definitely, lookin forward to it.
thx, mike, amyo, pauly and zaza, hope u like it.
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Well
Hello, hello "Hello, Hello" welcome. Great surprise. Looking forward to your unique style and the mood you create once again.
Hello, hello "Hello, Hello" welcome. Great surprise. Looking forward to your unique style and the mood you create once again.
Robbie Comeau
Como's back. back again
So you make a thread YESTERDAY, and your film is APPROVED ALREADY.
Kidding, can't wait to see this!
Robbie
Kidding, can't wait to see this!
Robbie
deedive
Well-known member
look forward to another installment of JDS-VISION
i think someone else directed my movie, jk
lol, maybe the audience wont approve so quickly...
Brian Parker
Well-known member
Hey deedive. Welcome to the fest. I have yet to see any of your work but based on everyone's response, I'm already looking forward to it. :beer:
(oh, and great avatar! That is one freaky movie.)
(oh, and great avatar! That is one freaky movie.)
Michael Anthony Horrigan
More Cowbell Pictures
Spoilers
Loved the opening shot! A perfect bookend for the closing shot. The noise from the construction was perfect. It really helps to drive home the ending. Same with all the clutter, again, it sells the bookend shots.
The actress was great and I could watch her all day.
This was a little different for you but your footprint is all over it.
Very well shot! You guys should be really happy with this entry.
Well done!!
Mike
Loved the opening shot! A perfect bookend for the closing shot. The noise from the construction was perfect. It really helps to drive home the ending. Same with all the clutter, again, it sells the bookend shots.
The actress was great and I could watch her all day.
This was a little different for you but your footprint is all over it.
Very well shot! You guys should be really happy with this entry.
Well done!!
Mike
ChrisHurn
Well-known member
Spoilers below
Very interesting film!
Really loved the hard hitting titles at the beginning. That brought my attention to the film straight away. The opening shot was really excellent and I loved how that ran through. Nice one with the fridge, I liked the cut and shot there. I also like how it's the first line that you can really "hear" through the noise and kind of brings you in.
Shots were good overall, very suitable. I loved those refil/book shots, I thought that was pretty nifty especially when they animated, that is cool!
The lighting was nice, I liked the difference in colour and light between the two places.
The music was good - I liked that theme, worked nicely with the film.
Overall I really enjoyed the film. Really well put together, good job.
Very interesting film!
Really loved the hard hitting titles at the beginning. That brought my attention to the film straight away. The opening shot was really excellent and I loved how that ran through. Nice one with the fridge, I liked the cut and shot there. I also like how it's the first line that you can really "hear" through the noise and kind of brings you in.
Shots were good overall, very suitable. I loved those refil/book shots, I thought that was pretty nifty especially when they animated, that is cool!
The lighting was nice, I liked the difference in colour and light between the two places.
The music was good - I liked that theme, worked nicely with the film.
Overall I really enjoyed the film. Really well put together, good job.
MsManhattan
Well-known member
Thanks, Chris, and everyone else who has chimed in!
It was a long shoot -- we did it all in one day -- and it was our first time to work with the Red, so a new workflow and lots of on-the-fly lighting changes. But as DeeDive mentioned earlier, dvpixl was cool as a cucumber. Khushboo Shah, our lead actress, was a consummate professional and somehow managed to deliver great take after take for 16 hours.
I always like working with DeeDive because his scripts are so unique and I can always see the wheels turning in his head. He really understands the value of collaborating with a producer, and I enjoy the constructive back-and-forth with him throughout pre-production and production. He's always going to have that one shot that, from a logistics point-of-view, I know is going to be a tremendous headache, and the conversations working out the details and arriving at a practical solution that delvers the production value we both want yield a lot of creative satisfaction.
Jim the Jib hasn't been on the board too much lately, but shout-out for all of his hard work! And thanks to our Red techs, Clay and Kendall, who were terrific and really helped us get everything done.
It was a long shoot -- we did it all in one day -- and it was our first time to work with the Red, so a new workflow and lots of on-the-fly lighting changes. But as DeeDive mentioned earlier, dvpixl was cool as a cucumber. Khushboo Shah, our lead actress, was a consummate professional and somehow managed to deliver great take after take for 16 hours.
I always like working with DeeDive because his scripts are so unique and I can always see the wheels turning in his head. He really understands the value of collaborating with a producer, and I enjoy the constructive back-and-forth with him throughout pre-production and production. He's always going to have that one shot that, from a logistics point-of-view, I know is going to be a tremendous headache, and the conversations working out the details and arriving at a practical solution that delvers the production value we both want yield a lot of creative satisfaction.
Jim the Jib hasn't been on the board too much lately, but shout-out for all of his hard work! And thanks to our Red techs, Clay and Kendall, who were terrific and really helped us get everything done.
Mark Harris
Pain in the ass
Hey Dale. I like this a lot. I like that you're stretching and kind of searching, trying new things.
I remember being pretty hard on the Circle, mainly because I felt like it was all gimmick. Check had some gimmick, but enough story and connection to the character to carry it through. Then in Circle, I wanted to see you build MORE story and/or character on top of it. Instead, it felt like you abandoned all story and just left the gimmick.
Check felt like an exploration, Circle felt like just trying to wow us. This film feels like an exploration again. Which is what some of the most intriguing films are.
A couple of suggestions:
1) A REALLY good actress. Not that there was anything wrong with this one per se, but if she's going to be basically the only thing we see, the camera HAS to love her, and she has to be someone we want to look at. I don't mean pretty or not pretty, but it's just a fact that cameras love some people and not others. That's why there are movie stars.
2) I found it most interesting when she was going through the fridge. I dunno why, but I think it's because she had an activity. I think it would have benefited from maybe making the scribbling on the pad more active. Maybe that sounds weird, but the scribbling and resulting images felt kind of disjointed from her, and not a part of the action in the scene. Maybe it's because you went from that one wide static shot to the images, without directing us to her hand drawing? I don't know.
I'm not entirely sure how it all adds up. I mean, I get the gist I think. but it doesn't seem to completely jive, her going from images to the fancy place. I felt like the story wanted to be her drawing and things starting to change, ala "Lathe of Heaven." But it's not quite that, so I didn't get it. Going to watch again.
Nice work! Again, this feels like an exploration, which I think is a good thing.
I remember being pretty hard on the Circle, mainly because I felt like it was all gimmick. Check had some gimmick, but enough story and connection to the character to carry it through. Then in Circle, I wanted to see you build MORE story and/or character on top of it. Instead, it felt like you abandoned all story and just left the gimmick.
Check felt like an exploration, Circle felt like just trying to wow us. This film feels like an exploration again. Which is what some of the most intriguing films are.
A couple of suggestions:
1) A REALLY good actress. Not that there was anything wrong with this one per se, but if she's going to be basically the only thing we see, the camera HAS to love her, and she has to be someone we want to look at. I don't mean pretty or not pretty, but it's just a fact that cameras love some people and not others. That's why there are movie stars.
2) I found it most interesting when she was going through the fridge. I dunno why, but I think it's because she had an activity. I think it would have benefited from maybe making the scribbling on the pad more active. Maybe that sounds weird, but the scribbling and resulting images felt kind of disjointed from her, and not a part of the action in the scene. Maybe it's because you went from that one wide static shot to the images, without directing us to her hand drawing? I don't know.
I'm not entirely sure how it all adds up. I mean, I get the gist I think. but it doesn't seem to completely jive, her going from images to the fancy place. I felt like the story wanted to be her drawing and things starting to change, ala "Lathe of Heaven." But it's not quite that, so I didn't get it. Going to watch again.
Nice work! Again, this feels like an exploration, which I think is a good thing.
I loved this. I love that it dared to be so simple and was still really good. It was more real than anything else I have seen so far.
While I was watching it I was enjoying how ordinary and real it felt and I was praying nothing stupid would happen to ruin it, like some crappy short movie twist. So when that music started coming in and she started looking around I was like "ahhhgh.....no! Please don't!!", but then it happened and I loved it.
The music was great, as was the direction, the cinematography, and the ambient sound. If I had one gripe it would be the sound of the contents of her purse moving around on the plastic you had in front of the camera.
But anyway....its my favorite so far.
While I was watching it I was enjoying how ordinary and real it felt and I was praying nothing stupid would happen to ruin it, like some crappy short movie twist. So when that music started coming in and she started looking around I was like "ahhhgh.....no! Please don't!!", but then it happened and I loved it.
The music was great, as was the direction, the cinematography, and the ambient sound. If I had one gripe it would be the sound of the contents of her purse moving around on the plastic you had in front of the camera.
But anyway....its my favorite so far.
Darkline
Veteran
Hi D
What I like is that you completely do your own thing. For me sometimes you;ve hit it right on the head and nailed it. But here I didn't really feel the justification of the transformation of her life. What she had really done to deserve what she was given? If anything she seemed so passe that I thought the reverse might happen and she's end up with worse that she currently had.
However, it's hard to comment on something so personal ,which this is. I enjoyed watching it and the animated sequences on the pad were certainly unexpected. Was this meant to be her scribbling or the external force at work?
The end apartment looked great, and I thought the opening shot was a fantastic intro. I always look forward to your work and will continue to seek it out.
What I like is that you completely do your own thing. For me sometimes you;ve hit it right on the head and nailed it. But here I didn't really feel the justification of the transformation of her life. What she had really done to deserve what she was given? If anything she seemed so passe that I thought the reverse might happen and she's end up with worse that she currently had.
However, it's hard to comment on something so personal ,which this is. I enjoyed watching it and the animated sequences on the pad were certainly unexpected. Was this meant to be her scribbling or the external force at work?
The end apartment looked great, and I thought the opening shot was a fantastic intro. I always look forward to your work and will continue to seek it out.
"Check" is still one of my favorite films from these fests so I was pleased to see you pull something together in a short period of time. Glad to see Leslie involved in something too. I think what I like most about your film making Dale is that you are wiling to take chances. I often feel when watching your films that you are experimenting and daring for a vision and willing to risk falling short. Too often filmmakers try to emulate their favorite style or director and don't develop their own unique voice. You don't fall prey to that and it is commendable.
as to Hello Hello, first off I think you could make a significant improvement to the film by improving the audio. I was leaning forward for the dialogue in the kitchen. It improves with what I would guess was ADR upon entering the living room, but then deteriorates some as it goes on. A richness to the sound of the dialogue would really make this come alive more opposite the external clutter of the streets.
The choice to include the animation on the paper was really interesting. I dug how you brought us in with the list of groceries and then continued to use them symbolically as her frustration progressed. I bought in, but wanted you to do more with it. We are presented with her issue; she is not happy with her life and progress professionally, but there is not enough conflict in the story to earn the resolution at the end. I thought maybe you would have brought the roommate further into it and used the animation as more of a gateway to her new life. These were just thoughts I was having while watching it, not necessarily what you should have done.
All and all, one of the more interesting films of the fest. I look forward, as always, to seeing` more from you down the road. congrats
Jim
as to Hello Hello, first off I think you could make a significant improvement to the film by improving the audio. I was leaning forward for the dialogue in the kitchen. It improves with what I would guess was ADR upon entering the living room, but then deteriorates some as it goes on. A richness to the sound of the dialogue would really make this come alive more opposite the external clutter of the streets.
The choice to include the animation on the paper was really interesting. I dug how you brought us in with the list of groceries and then continued to use them symbolically as her frustration progressed. I bought in, but wanted you to do more with it. We are presented with her issue; she is not happy with her life and progress professionally, but there is not enough conflict in the story to earn the resolution at the end. I thought maybe you would have brought the roommate further into it and used the animation as more of a gateway to her new life. These were just thoughts I was having while watching it, not necessarily what you should have done.
All and all, one of the more interesting films of the fest. I look forward, as always, to seeing` more from you down the road. congrats
Jim
deedive
Well-known member
its her scribbling, ill work on the animation a bit.
thx jim for your comments they are always thoughtful.
Maybe i need to find a balance for the sound.
MrKilloran
Well-known member
Ok, I like the opening shot, really interesting from inside the purse, cool idea great work!
Keeps my interest but a lot of talking on the phone ... that just keeps going as she's venting about her frustration rather than seeing any real conflict arise.
The contrast between the apartments is great but I'm a little unclear as to how we got from point A to point B.
What really Keeps me interested is the weird animation notebook ... it such a cool idea, I really like being drawn into her world --- sorry for the pun.
Keeps my interest but a lot of talking on the phone ... that just keeps going as she's venting about her frustration rather than seeing any real conflict arise.
The contrast between the apartments is great but I'm a little unclear as to how we got from point A to point B.
What really Keeps me interested is the weird animation notebook ... it such a cool idea, I really like being drawn into her world --- sorry for the pun.
Bryce A
Well-known member
I think that sums up my thoughts right there. The thing that got me through your film was the warm sense of humor the sketch pads brought to the table. It was cute without being overly quirky. The little scream was nice.
I think you need to use this film as an example on what to focus on. What didn't work was the girl sitting on the couch chatting for 5 mins (sorry, there's no cutest actress on the phone award). But the animation was fun, but to little and oddly paced. But, the two combined, you began to approach a very sincere sense of ho-hum this is normal life, but with a comfy, inviting, and even nostalgic vibe. Like reading a book on a couch.... or talking to a friend on the phone after work. Relatable. Focus on what makes your films work and cut the fat.
I think you could have some very solid films in your future.