Jill?

[Rock Punk!]

Here's that poster everyone's been asking about:

 

[DarkMatter]

Got a Poster or grabs? Good luck!

 

[Rock Punk!]

Process - for me anyway

Process - for me anyway

Step 1: Put idea into script (4 1/2 pages) turned out to be too long:

Step 2: Storyboard - sketched this out on a drive back home to Butler, PA - GO STEELERS!

Step 3: Convince brother (Tim) to do shoot = 12 pack Budweiser. That's me. Okay - no "real" actors this year - c'mon this was a last minute shoot!

Step 4: Vegas + Magic bullet + Sony B/W:

 

[cinealma]

Another B/W film! Awesome! How many is that going to be now, half a dozen? I'm in heaven, I tell ya!

 

[Rock Punk!]

It's a sign o' the times my friend.

 

[cinealma]

It's a sign o' the times my friend.

Then these are fine times, indeed.

 

[agentjonny]

uh oh. two films starring jack and jill!
let's battle!

 

[Tom Marshall]

Hey man, good to see you back on the boards... I'll be watching for this one... :beer:

 

[Rock Punk!]

uh oh. two films starring jack and jill!
let's battle!

Yeah!!! Just like my entry last year: "Mary Mercer" vs. "Bloody Mary"!

"Bloody Mary" blew me away - way far away!

 

[Ki-Ki]

Have you got a poster? Congrats on filming it in time. I'll look out for this.

 

[Rock Punk!]

More process

More process

Script and storyboard

Squeeze mode (who needs to lose weight with squeeze mode?)

Magic Bullet light bleach bypass + vignette & Sony B/W

 

[Rock Punk!]

Have you got a poster? Congrats on filming it in time. I'll look out for this.

Edited first post in thread to include poster! http://dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=114060

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

SPOILERS!!





Cool!

I thought the pacing could have been sped up a bit but I loved the shot with the scissors. There were a few pretty good shots in this actually.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Rock Punk!]

Cool!

I thought the pacing could have been sped up a bit but I loved the shot with the [sp*!Ler deleted]. There were a few pretty good shots in this actually.

Cheers,

Mike

Thanks!

 

[Rock Punk!]

Here is a review from BergVision:

Warning! SPOILERS!

WALGREENS?

Let this be a lesson to all who take too many prescription drugs!
You might end up going crazy and having a thing for pumpkins!
Or maybe it was just too much Viagra!

I can tell what you were going after, but I think the film was too serious to start out with to be funny by the end when we see he killed his pumpkin wife.

I would work on getting the editing tightened up, cleaning up the audio and and smoothing out the sound fx transitions. As well as trying to button down the story telling a bit.
I still don't understand what the guys issue was with Pumpkins??

 

[cinealma]

REVIEW:
Argh! OK, so this is one of those films that irks me. Really good stuff and then that awful ending. I don't want to sound harsh, so let me review the first 99% of the film: AWESOME! The black and white looked great. Felt like a Twilight Zone episode. That's why I was hoping for a better ending. Sounds like you figured out the plot and the ending and then shot it. Probably no time, but after cutting it together I would have said to myself, "WHOA!", and then reshot a new ending.

Anyway, good stuff. Loved 99% of it.

FILMMAKER-TO-FILMMAKER:
Did you use a 35mm adapter? It looked like you had some sort of spot /barrell distortion going on.

LOTS of good stuff in this. The blinking pumpkin on the table. The shot through the scissors, the 60's-esque mind-altering VFX stuff.

I mean, basically, a guy walks up to his porch, goes inside his house, gets a phone call in the entryway and then kills his "wife" in the adjacent bedroom. Very simple layout. But what you did in the confines of that small space was brilliant. I credit that to your shot selection and editing. Very well done.

I just, damn. I just wish you had a better ending... for me anyway. You could definitely expand this out to a nice little short film. You just have to figure who or what his wife is.

Good job! I look forward to more films from you. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[BergVision]

I voted in your poll. Good idea to do a poll.

I actually said inside "WTF" and then Laughed Outloud. So a combination of both. It was funny. And I was actually pleased to see it was a pumpkin rather then some killing of another woman. lol

 

[traviscool]

I did none of the poll's options, I just kind of sat there. Really I liked it, a lot, acting was pretty good for what I've scene, relatively well written and the cinematography was great.
SPOILERS

However I felt that as you built the suspense you when a little too far, I pretty much guessed the ending as soon as he hung up the phone. I like the fact that you made it seem like his wife was sick however the door 'shook' one too many times and I just got tipped off to the fact that he was actually the mentally ill one. Also I liked the murder of the pumpkin at the end but I wish it was something else like a pillow or a doll the pumpkin was a bit anti climatic for me.

 

[Rock Punk!]

REVIEW:
Did you use a 35mm adapter? It looked like you had some sort of spot /barrell distortion going on.

Nope. Just the DVX plus Vegas & Magic Bullet. Thanks to Barry G's DVX book and the wealth of knowledge on dvxuser.com I tried my best to set up the shots to get depth of field with the DVX.

Here is one scissors shot:

STEP 1: 24P Advanced Squeeze Mode.

STEP 2: Sony Vegas Black and White

STEP 3: Magic Bullet - Light Bleach Bypass (adjusted a little bit)

STEP 4: Magic Bullet - Vignette (adjusted a little bit)

Thank you for taking the time to watch my film and put together a review. I appreciate your feedback.

 

[Rock Punk!]

REVIEW:
I mean, basically, a guy walks up to his porch, goes inside his house, gets a phone call in the entryway and then kills his "wife" in the adjacent bedroom.

For more information, please see thread entitled "Is it just me, or do most Indie films look like they were shot in their basement?" One of my personal favorite threads that seem to persist because .... well because ...