Home Invasion - Bena

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Hi everyone.

FYI.. it is on the individual download page.. look for it as Home Invasion-Bena ... its 14 down in the list at

http://64.38.14.46/scifest/index.php...ename&type=asc

Just a hint, it really helps to have a rocking sound system to watch this, a subwoofer really helps.

Also mac users might want to darken the picture just a tad, I think the gama got changed when it was encoded.

Ben
 
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Ok it looks like our film is up now.

I think its a bit over compressed though... if it aint one thing its another.
 
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Just an fyi, on my mac it looks like the gama is off, its about 1 stop brighter than it should be...

Oh and it looks like I wont be able to post a link to the most excellent Quicktime version until voting is done.
 
I hope you were going for some humor with the VO because I found it had a charming "cheesiness" to it. I like your effects. The feel I got from this was one of those doc-style fifties sci-fi movies but with up-to-date visuals. It was an interesting blend of past and present style of filmmaking. At first I was thinking the VO was a little pretentious until I realized ( I hope) what you were doing. I really like what you've done here.
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Thanks Blaine.. we were going for a twilight zone feel with the Voice over. The music also has a 1950 feel to it, if you ask me.

How would it have been without the voice over, better ? worse? or just different?

Humor is in the Eye of the Beholder.. or something like that. Of course My dad actually burst out laughing when he saw the wet leg shot.. which I did not intend to be funny, but I guess it is if you remove yourself from the proximity of the project.

There are a bunch of hidden effects.. as well as the obvious ones.

And I learned that you need to be very orgainized with your file structure, because I just put all the fx in one folder, and well it just kept growing until I started getting lost in it, must have wasited hours trying to find the files I wanted... Live an learn.
 
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The VO did it for me. I like the feel it gave. Like I said it had that cheesy 50s vibe going for it.
 
I enjoyed it. What program did you guys use to make the spaceships was it Maya or 3D max. Very nice composition and very funny VO. But what really did for me in this one was the music.

Darkfader
 
I used Cinema 4D for the 3D.

Yes the music is most excellently scored, many thanks to Kevin!
 
This had a very Twilight Zone feel to this , this is good!
I liked the camera work you did and the bit with him pissing his PJs .
I liked it because it was a simple story you told and did it nicely .
The VO was also good , gave it that Twilight Zone feel .
Ian


Edit...Just read your above post ..You were trying for the Twilight Zone feel ...well you succeeded.
Ian
 
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Darkfader--

Thanks! This is when I jump in and say 'hello' and say that I was the one that helped Ben with this little ditty-- I did the sound fx and over-dramatic music. Plus I look tired and confused.

I figured that with this sort of a movie... it's almost like a silent film type thing. No dialogue; sparse voice-over. So I thought it would be cool to make a score that takes the spotlight and drives things a lot more than would be appropriate in just about any other film. I thought of the score like: "If there were NO images whatsoever being used to tell this story, how would I make notes-alone tell it?". Which is probably an ego-maniacal way to approach the score, but I guess that's for you guys to decide if it works or not. ;)

-Kevin
 
This did have a really excellent score, it really carried you through the flick. Effects were nice, especially something as (theoretically) simpe as glowing light and floating. The v/o wasn't, like, compelling, but it conveyed that 50s twilight zone vibe people have mentioned well, and it was kinda amusing. Actually, and don't take this as a negative, something about this reminded me of a "Got Milk?" commercial. Something about the style of it, and the silent-movie feel... makes it feel like one of those slightly-humorous parables. It's a nice looking, relatively entertaining piece.
 
Not much out of place on this one as most have said.

Things I noticed.

Title credits looked cheep as opposed to the rest of the film. I felt they could have been done better, more creatively and I guess a little more pro looking.

More work for you but a hole in the celing or roof would have been a nice touch. Next time ask your wife if you can tear a 3 ft hole in both the celing and the roof. That would up the production value of your short tremendiously.

Kidding on the last one. Well done!

Kip Kubin
 
Hey!

Nice job. I can't say too much additional. Didn't the ray beam come from the wrong direction? It seemed like it was coming right at him towards the window and then he turns and its in front of him, when it should have been behind?

Overall, nice job.

-Robert
 
Is this one only located in the .zip files? I can't find it anywhere, and have yet to download the .zip files. If it's located in the main scifest folder where we originally were pulling the .wmv files, can someone post a link to it here? I'd like to review it, but am missing it. Thanks!
 
For the sake of helping Bena's thread out, I'll just bump/post here instead of PM'ing you. :) Thanks for the heads up that it's in the 5th file ... saves me time. Also, The Yankee's section on the charts is on the 2nd version of the spreadsheet (they updated it). By that time, I'd already put a bunch of my scores in, so I just inserted a row where it needed to be, alphabetically, and then put the formula in the end cell to average out the scores in that row. Otherwise, I think in the sci-fi forum, where Jarred's got the .zip file links, that should be the updated xls file.
 
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