Jack Daniel Stanley & Mark Johnson's REKINDLED

sean90291 said:
I've already commented on Rekindled, but watching it again, I had to reiterate how impressive the craftsmanship is. If you did the production design and lighting and everything else, I'm even more impressed. You have a really finely honed vision, and I agree with others, your talents are ready to go pro. I am curious though, whether you've considered directing other people's scripts? As you say, you barely finish the script when you have to start running around in prep. I'm wondering if you're scouring the planet for a good screenplay, because I don't doubt you could do some amazing things for the big screen.
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will respond to a few things in more detail later but had to log back on...

Mark Johnson and I co-DPed Rekindled and he operated a great deal of the time.

Timur and Aram made significant conotributions and co-DPed or DPed segments of Bone Hand.

K ... gotta log off and watch BAttle Start Galatctica On Demand w/ My GF now and then bed time ... she's a 9- 5 er ... will respond to some of the great posts here in more detail mañana.
 
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John_Hudson said:
I think Jack has made a solid effort with Horrorfest; I knew he had the goods with Shed, I knew he had it with ODD ..

I questioned his 3rd go around at Bonehand but with this film; he has taken a quantam leap. This just feels so much like cinema; higher art ....

There aren't many filmmaker's on this site I consider legit Auteur's but Jack is one of them.

I think Jack is ready for Prime Time. This is really one of the most solid films we have ever had for one of our fests and I am left wanting more of Jack. I want too know what he's working on and when and I hope he isn't waiting around for dvxuser to hold him back.

Go the way of Rich Lee and get on with the career. I used to think I might be on the same page as Jack as far as filmmkaing talent went; albeit different styles .. but he is off into the stratosphere .... I'm left scratching my head and scrambling for another short ... I have a ton to learn still while Jack appears as if he;s already figured it out

This is the kind of film (subject matter or not) that we should all strive to achieve.

Bravo !
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Whoa John ... Will definitly keep you updated.

When I shot Bone Hand I was mostly trying to just get some coverage for the dialogue scenes and then we wound up not getting even that.

After receiving feedback from John on Bone Hand he was definitly on my shoulder talking in my ear during all of the production work on Rekindled.

I was shooting for TV or the internet before in a lot of cases, just getting right into those ECU's but based largely on John's feedback I really considered the dialogue scenes in a new way and made it a point to hold off on the CU's until really motivated and to try to think of my tiny movie as on a giant screen. - Can I see their eyes? Yes. No need to cut to closeup, keep working and framing within the mise en scene - has the scene reached some new level of intimacy - yes. ok go ahead and cut to closeup ... at least that's how I tried to work this time and to see what I could do with the framing vs. just covering the scene

Thanks john
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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Whoa John ... Will definitly keep you updated.

When I shot Bone Hand I was mostly trying to just get some coverage for the dialogue scenes and then we wound up not getting even that.

After receiving feedback from John on Bone Hand he was definitly on my shoulder talking in my ear during all of the production work on Rekindled.

I was shooting for TV or the internet before in a lot of cases, just getting right into those ECU's but based largely on John's feedback I really considered the dialogue scenes in a new way and made it a point to hold off on the CU's until really motivated and to try to think of my tiny movie as on a giant screen. - Can I see their eyes? Yes. No need to cut to closeup, keep working and framing within the mise en scene - has the scene reached some new level of intimacy - yes. ok go ahead and cut to closeup ... at least that's how I tried to work this time and to see what I could do with the framing vs. just covering the scene

Thanks john
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Dude!! That helps so much. I have never thought of it that way before!!! Thanks!
 
this movie had everything; then lost it.

good cinematography, and lighting and editing.
overacting and poor script.

the throat slit is off too. looks too unreal.

I really thought it was going to hold me but it blew out like candles in your movie.

you have good eye for stuff but the acting was like watching a stage performance and it comes off badly with the big spill at the end.

the saying true, stage performance can't leak on screen. it looks faked.

I enjoyed the atmosphere and the editing was creative but the story wasnt there and the acting.

sorry. good job though.
 
now about that footage..... jk when ever you got time. i really just want the opening scene in the rain. and the graveyard sequence. the rest was you and Aram.
 
Here I thought good ol bone hands would've came to the girls rescue .lol

Very nicely done Jack !!! I think this topped Bonehands .
Ian
 
hvxabuser said:
this movie had everything; then lost it.

... overacting and poor script.

the throat slit is off too. looks too unreal.

I really thought it was going to hold me but it blew out like candles in your movie.

... but the acting was like watching a stage performance and it comes off badly with the big spill at the end.

...but the story wasnt there and the acting.

sorry. good job though.
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Hmmm ... did you really mean good job after saying all that negative?

Granted, I've never truly been around someone that was a serial killer, and was then having delusions of his main love coming back to him after killing her ... so I don't have anything to compare his performance to as to whether or not it was fake ...

But I thought the acting in this was GREAT. In fact, I've looked hard to try & pull this down from the straight 10's across the board this got for me (well, a 9 in one category, but can't recall which one), and the more I watch it the more impressed I am every time.

I mean, really ... there are a lot of REALLY solid films in this fest ... possibly the highest number of quality films I've seen in a fest yet ... but none (IMO) have touched the attention to detail that REKINDLED did. I keep hearing Jack and a few others refer to "min es scene" ... or whatever, sound French and I really have no idea what it means ... and I'm guessing that means looking at all the small things ... even stuff that most may not notice.

But then when you throw it all together it's impossible not to notice. Most of the films (even the GREAT ones) are very plain with regards to the set, the music, the story ... but this one I felt had attention to all of it, and in greater detail than all the rest.

*remembers to breathe*

Okay, stepping off now ... other threads to comment on.
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
got one?
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Dude, I have SEVERAL. Jarred didn't give me that tagline under my pic just for kicks. :grin:

Wide variety too, all very well written & commercially viable. PM me if you're looking for anything.
 
So, I showed my friends the top 5 movies in my opinion today. I asked him afterward what film he thinks was the best and he answered Rekindled hands down. He absolutely thinks it stood head and shoulders above the others.
 
Yeah, but is that really fair? I mean, in some of the films folks actually lost their heads ... so of course REKINDLED would stand taller.

... um, that was probably funnier in my head than what I just typed. Ho-hum.
 
Well amy is like 5'2"
but
Jason is like 6'2"
So he might be head and shoulders above some people, but I doubt amy can claim that often :)

I was just watching Battlestar Galactica miniseries on DVD and there is a love interest between a like 6'1" cyborg hottie and a like 5'8 human and in all the wides and mediums he's like 4 feet shorter than her but when they had them nose to nose in close profile two shot damned if they didn't have that sucker up on an applecrate ... so they were totally eye to eye, and then they cut right out of it to a wider shot as he moved away from her and he's like 3 feet tall again.

I suspect this is common practice and that I just noticed it having worked with amy and Jason. But we tried to keep it within reason. We still kept her way shorter and just cheated her up enough to get her in frame, never more than 4 or 6 inches at most!

Amy was also very good at walking on her tip toes and transferring to the applecrate we had placed for her if she had to walk into closeupl, lol.

Crazy what we accept on camera sometimes :laugh:
 
Envision said:
Yeah, but is that really fair? I mean, in some of the films folks actually lost their heads ... so of course REKINDLED would stand taller.

... um, that was probably funnier in my head than what I just typed. Ho-hum.
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That was hilarious! And you are right about those poor Headless actors.


Jack, that is very interesting! I never would have guessed the height manipulation!
 
Ugh, that would have stuck out like a sore thumb. I appreciate the ones where even in the wideshots they may have the angles such that it still cheats the actual variance in height some.
 
msconce said:
...Jack, that is very interesting! I never would have guessed the height manipulation!
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They do it for framing and also so the leading man doesn't look like a dwarf in the kissing scene.

Tom Cruise and Clark Gable's most memorable moments were more than likely shot with them standing on something (other than Opera's couch).

In bonehand it was hard to frame me and the stunt cordinator John as the thugs in the two shot through the door peephole. He's 6'3" and I'm 5'9". It gets even harder in 2.35:1 obviously because its a narrower window. Either I can crop the top of the frame at John's eyes or my lips.
 
Funny! I just had to pull out my Hero-Fest DVD (I've got all four of the last fests so far stored on separate data DVD's) to watch Bone-Hand again ... had no idea that was you in that scene. Very cool.
 
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