Love Doll (spec spot)

Thanks everyone! Glad you liked it and I'm glad I'm not getting slaughtered here for doing off the wall humor like I would at other sites. We've got a bunch more of these types of spots coming.

HartStudio said:
How did you score that gig?
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Okay, this is going to be a bit of a plug, but it's a really good one.
Music Beyond (http://www.musicbeyond.com) is where we got the music composed by Dewey Dellay. It's a company/website where you can listen to tons of different tracks that are mainly made for trailers & spots. It's a great site and the music is amazing. You can preview the music, or test it out by downloading high quality .wav files.

Also, they're really really reasonable with their licensing rates and are ultra-indie friendly. I highly recommend them, they were totally willing to help us out. The guy I spoke with is Jonathan Parks. He rocks and handled everything for me.

Seriously, everyone, check them out. The rates are much more affordable than you'd think.

Thanks again.

-CJ
www.arkhamfilms.com
 
I think he meant how did you land the job?

[Don't worry stewardess, I'm fluent in jive....]
 
BrandonC said:
Awesome short film, looked amazing!

Give us some details on the shoot!
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Thanks Brandon. The spot was shot in one day, and pretty much cut that night. We lit it with an arri fresnel kit (2 650, 1 1k), Kino Flo 4 bank & double system and also a 1k par. We should have ND'd the windows, but we didn't have a whole lot of time.

We shot in in 24p Advanced mode. Cut with FCP 4.5. Used the DFT 55mm filter sets.

Umm, anything else?

MattC said:
I think he meant how did you land the job?
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Well, we didn't land a job. It was just a funny idea that I came up with that could be applied to a Personals type website, or an escort type website. It was a little less funny when it was Yahoo! Personals. I'm sure it would never sell to any of those companies, since they are either too conservative (yahoo! Match.com) or don't spend money on advertising (escort sites).

The whole deal is more just to show that we can put together a funny and effective spot. Something to slap on the old demo reel. Something that sticks in ad people's minds, when they come across my reel.

Thanks again, guys. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

-CJ
www.arkhamfilms.com
 
ArkhamFilms said:
...or don't spend money on advertising (escort sites).
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I believe they don't really need to :grin: This is one industry where word of mouth is still da king. :thumbsup:. Besides, demand is probably higher than supply. :evil:
 
XCheck said:
I believe they don't really need to :grin: This is one industry where word of mouth is still da king. :thumbsup:. Besides, demand is probably higher than supply. :evil:
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Haha. You wouldn't believe the number of sites that came up when I was looking for a website name to put on this spot. Unbelievable.

-CJ
 
Really funny. But... Since you are dealing with such explicit behavior/service it would be good if it was for real company. I tried to look for hookers.com and couldn't find anything.

Also,since i'm assuming you want to get into directing advertisemnts it looks like even though it's good to have on the reel it might be tough to convince an expert from a good ad house that you didn't go the easy way by showing plastic doll to advertise sex.

Either way, geat job.
 
Like usual, awesome! Very very funny. How are you getting your actors man? Also was your camera set to auto, or what was you manual settings like?
 
avatuar said:
Like usual, awesome! Very very funny. How are you getting your actors man?
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Thanks man. I've gathered quite a few headshots and resumes over the years for various films, but for this one I absolutely had to go with Tom Gander, who also played "The guy in the Trunk" in Roadside Attractions. He's got such a great goofy look, and as he puts it "has no shame". He's also been a producer on a lot of our stuff and I work with him all the time. He's a funny guy to be around.

avatuar said:
Also was your camera set to auto, or what was you manual settings like?
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There's an auto function on the DVX? (kidding) I don't think I've ever used auto on any camera in a really long time. It was shot with really low contrast, -/+ 7-8 (I forget which) on Master Pedestal. Shutter at 1/60, 24p advanced. Then just all the regular normal type settings. Oh, I turned off the cinegamma. For some reason it's been bothering me lately. Couldn't tell you why, exactly.

The reason I now like to shoot low contrast is so that I have more control over the shadows in post. I can adjust and leave the information I want. This helps when applying DFT's 55mm bleach bypass filter, which is my favorite.

Hope that helps.

-CJ
www.arkhamfilms.com
 
lots of fun and that actor is great. really good movement and timing. what kind of response have you had with it in the 'commercial' world?
 
good job man! looks great..funny idea..well done!



Patryk_Rebisz said:
Also,since i'm assuming you want to get into directing advertisemnts it looks like even though it's good to have on the reel it might be tough to convince an expert from a good ad house that you didn't go the easy way by showing plastic doll to advertise sex.
Either way, geat job.
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i dunno if thats totaly the case. a friend of mine made some spec commerials...one was a hallmark card commercial..in it he had 4 italian brothers from new jersey...who were taking a break from painting a house, dressed in white painters overalls...they were sitting on ladders and scaffolding. they were reading what each other had writen to their moms in a mothers day card. every other work was ****..."to the best ****in mom on the ****in planet" "happy ****in mudders day to the greatest ****in mudda a ****in guy like me can ****in have"

stuff like that ...anyway, it was pretty funny...and they must have liked it cause he got a directing gig at anonymous content. doing pretty well now.

i think as long as you mix it up you should be ok..

anywho :thumbsup:
 
The actor was great!

Damn it! When I logged on to the website out of curiosity of course, freakin 9 pop up banners popped up and locked my freakin computer! uh, thanks Arkhamfilms for that lock up!~
 
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