"Lakeside" - by: Matt Thompson & Justin R. Durban

yozers.. finally.. Uploading. Neeeedd. sleep...

I couldn't get that frackin' h264 to work worth a ****. I'll try a few more passes when I wake up.. oh, say around 6:30 pm.

eesh.

/j
 
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YAY! File is uploaded and ready to rock! Now.. to crack open a few more beers and relax for a few days. Sheew!

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..is ready to goooooo...



/j
 
thanks man. I stayed up all night and went to bed at 11:00 a.m. this morning just to make sure it was uploaded :)

/j
 
wahoo congrats man!! Needless to say - this film looks and sounds very impressive from what I've seen so far...very much looking foward to seeing (and hearing) it!!

-Chris
 
Thanks Chris! Ya, in terms of score.. its definitely not much theme. Just good ole' pure action stingers typical of all slasher movies. Makes me wish I had a few more libraries of sounds to work with, but I consider half the movie a sound FX anyway. :)

Yes, diligence and retardedness. boy am I feeling it today. my fingers couldn't even type when I woke up at 1:30 pm. All part of the fun. Now... to sit here and wait to watch the madness.

/j
 
In the words of Movie Master "You have no idea of the death that comith into the realm of lightness" muhahahahahahahahaha!:)
 
i've got to see these on someone elses computer since i have dial up! but i can't wait to see it bro!
 
Hey guys. I just watched it. Great work.

Nice use of Jib/crane and dolly. They weren't overdone and added a nice production quality. Score and Sound was great! The effects of the creature were great as well. It all had that 80's horror movie feel, which is great. The flow and pace in the cabin were great. You held the suspense very well. Cuts worked well.

The only things that caught my eye... the acting was good... but not great. The ranger character was perfect, but some of the lines and accent felt a little forced.

Some of the interior car shots had that digital feel. That's not necessarily a problem depending on taste, but it pulled me out for a second there and reminded me that somebody was working a camera.

Overall great job guys! Congrats.

EDIT: also, nice job fitting it into 6 minutes. I liked where the story ended.
 
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Ha ha, I grew up going to Big Bear every summer to fish, and every winter to ski!

Justin, don't take this the wrong way, but is Lakeside done? I mean, do you want to make a longer version?

I love the Raimi homages in there.

2nd time: The reason I asked about the longer version was it felt like sort of a feature film length build up to the cabin. That's not really a criticism, if that's what you guys intended, but I am always thinking about these things in terms of efficiency of time.

The only other thing that bothered me was the...thing. Don't want to give anything away, but I felt like it lost some impact done the way it was done.

Otherwise, this one succeeded in that I forgot about looking at technical stuff and just got sucked into enjoying it...which is the highest achievement.
 
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thank you. Yes.. Matt Thompson has a feature length script ready. We just wanted to shoot this short to get it in front of the right people for the bigger budget funding. Then, we'll head back up with an entire team, named actors/actresses, and spend a month or so shooting.

Raimi Homages? ut oh. I'm not sure what those were. I think I saw his darkness movie once as a kid? Zombie movie right?

Thanks for the kind words.
/j
 
This was awesome. Great casting and the opening jib shot was sweet. I totally can see millions of teens chomping popcorn watching this on a date.
 
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Well, there is definitely a raimi cam in there. And the whole feel has a little "Evil Dead" to it.
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you're gonna hate me, but I've never seen evil dead. and I have no clue what the raimi cam is. Unless you are referring to the running into the cabin shot. :) (which was, btw, the very very last scenes shot that night. we were picking up and cleaning the cabin and I was just running around out like like a friggin' idiot. I'd love to show some of that footage too when its all said and done.

Thanks Flint! that's the point! Sell the feature for the teenie boppers. It sells :)

/j
 
Dude, I have watched a bunch and this one feels like I was watching a feature and wanted more. You have done a really good job with this. One of my favs. I really liked the way you kept us in the dark too near the end.
 
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