M D Productions presents: 'Violet'

Hey Jason,

Your experience mirror's mine. I suspect that it is simply a compatibility issue between the two formats. I really wish the fest allowed for both .wmv and .mov files to be exhibited. Seems currently biased to favor MAC playback.
 
So I download scene_11 and just watched it.

The actress are solid. This is natural for them. I love the dof in the picture.

Kevin, now I see why everyone is talking about the talent of your daughter.
 
Kevin. The trailer looks frickin amazing. Some of the best stuff I've seen on a dvx. I had a great time on this project with you guys and look forward to finishing it up! Keep me posted on the shooting schedule man!!!
 
Kevin, is this going to be up for Drama Fest viewing or no? Sorry, no time to scrub 33 pages.
 
Yes. And Kevin's film will also be available via the mirrors with everyone elses film. As will the other non-competes.

Jason
 
Jason Ramsey said:
Yes. And Kevin's film will also be available via the mirrors with everyone elses film. As will the other non-competes.

Jason
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Great! I didn't realize he ended up uploading it. :thumbsup:
 
Jason Ramsey said:
The trailer, I should see. That might have been a bit misleading.

Jason
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No, I understand it's the trailer because we haven't completed shooting it yet. :beer:
 
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I recognize your main actress from a music video I saw on TV! Very cool.

Looking forward to checking your film out.
 
Slimothy said:
Kevin. The trailer looks frickin amazing. Some of the best stuff I've seen on a dvx. I had a great time on this project with you guys and look forward to finishing it up! Keep me posted on the shooting schedule man!!!
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Thanks Tim, glad you liked the quick assembly of the trailer. I really appreciate your work on Violet. It just hasn't been the same the last two shooting days without my gaffer/key grip!

While you and Mark were forced to endure a house full of young girls, a stripper pole, copious amounts of C2H5OH I had the pleasure of going out to location scout.

I may have come upon our a place suitable for our next interior location. If Blaine has everything worked out, we have our cemetery for next Saturday AM (have to wrap early as both Christa and Courtney have to attend the Young Artist Awards nomination ceremony that afternoon, both being nominees).

More information to follow.
 
Hey Kevin, That is a pretty cool post above!!! It looks like LloydC recognizes Courtney from a music video! Would that be the one that you shared with us or does she have other music videos?
 
khmuse said:
So, here is a link to a .wmv version of a trailer for Violet.

http://www.museelectronics.com/production/Violet.wmv (this is over 102 MB, so save it locally and don't try to stream it)

I will build a .mov version that is near the 40 MB limit that the fest has imposed and post a link to that version later. I would be happy to receive any comments that anyone cares to offer and promise to post a link to the actual feature development project once it is ready (likely in early April).

Thanks to all that have visited this thread and commented. Your support and comments have been very appreciated.

For myself and everyone involved in Violet, thanks.
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I haven't read through the thread, so ignore this if it's already been said. I like the look of your trailer, but the visuals don't tell the story. I've watched the trailer with the sound off and the sound on and still can't figure out what the movie is about. I think you should add a trailer voiceover to give us a little bit of the story. Something that will shape the narrative of the visuals to give them more meaning. It would also give the scenes with dialogue more resonance.

The shot about 1 minute in where the girls turn to go on the bridge is too long. It's might be a cool shot for the film, but it looks like a bad cut in the trailer. The shot that follows also doesn't do anything for me without the narrative.
 
LloydC said:
Not sure if this has been posted before, but I recognize your main actress from a music video I saw on TV! Very cool.

Looking forward to checking your film out.
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I assume that you are referring to a music video by "The Fray". Yes, that is Courtney in that.

Both of our young leads can be seen in a number of places on both the big and small screen. Christa B. Allen (who plays Emily in "Violet") has a kids TV series running on Saturday mornings (CBS) titled "Cake". She was also on a recent episode of "Medium" and is perhaps best know for playing the young version of Jennifer Garner's character Jenna in "13 going on 30". Courtney can also be seen in a Coca Cola commercial that is currently running in Latin America and Europe, and a number of feature films that are due out over the next few months.

Since we are in the non compete category, you don't have to wait to view our project as we are self hosting in addition to the official method. Look back a few pages in this thread and you will find links to our entry (in both .mov and .wmv versions) as well as links to a full scene in both versions.
 
Theodore J Arabian said:
Hey Kevin, That is a pretty cool post above!!! It looks like LloydC recognizes Courtney from a music video! Would that be the one that you shared with us or does she have other music videos?
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I think it is "The Fray" music video for "How to save a life" that LloydC is referencing, but Courtney has worked on a number of them. For some reason she has been in two for French artists ("Pierick Liliu" and "Syd Matters"), but was also in the Stevie Wonder music video "So What The Fuss" which was the first to include descriptive video for the visually impaired. I know that there are others that I can't remember, but she has worked on a good number of music videos. She really did enjoy working with "The Fray" and has remained in contact with them since the project.
 
StormFactory said:
I haven't read through the thread, so ignore this if it's already been said. I like the look of your trailer, but the visuals don't tell the story. I've watched the trailer with the sound off and the sound on and still can't figure out what the movie is about. I think you should add a trailer voiceover to give us a little bit of the story. Something that will shape the narrative of the visuals to give them more meaning. It would also give the scenes with dialogue more resonance.

The shot about 1 minute in where the girls turn to go on the bridge is too long. It's might be a cool shot for the film, but it looks like a bad cut in the trailer. The shot that follows also doesn't do anything for me without the narrative.
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The very truncated version of this project that we have posted is far from being able to tell a story at all. I did explain this in an earlier part of this thread but I will go over it quickly again as I can't expect everyone to search for the specific post.

Violet is a 10 minute feature development project. It is in the non compete category for a number of reasons including that it is being shot under a SAG contract which would preclude its inclusion on any DVD of the fest entries. Due to a number of issues, we have less than 40% of our scenes shot for the development project, and a number of key ones are not present (super 8mm footage and SDX900 footage) so we put together a quick bit of DVX footage just to have something to put in this fest.

I would be surprised if you could extract too much about the nature of either the feature development short or the eventual feature, there just isn't enough information present. What we had hopped to accomplish is to peak the interest of a few to continue to follow our project as it develops over the next few months. Glad you liked the visuals, that is really all were are showing right now.
 
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