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cinealma
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I just finished watching Crawl Space and I find that there is no thread for the film. So I'll jot down my thoughts in this one.
Not the best, but not the worst either. Looked like you guys had fun making it. The script was little weak and it sounded like I was listening to it through a flanger, but I liked the concept. A lot was unclear though and the film suffered from weak character motivations in the script. I did like the shooting in the actual crawl space.
John G.
Not the best, but not the worst either. Looked like you guys had fun making it. The script was little weak and it sounded like I was listening to it through a flanger, but I liked the concept. A lot was unclear though and the film suffered from weak character motivations in the script. I did like the shooting in the actual crawl space.
John G.
penfever
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Crawl Space
Crawl Space
I'm so disappointed there's no thread for this film. What a nice surprise this one was.
First of all, for whoever made this - you have committed the three cardinal sins of film-selling. #1 - you didn't leave credits on, #2, no thread so we don't know who you are, and #3, you shot your own film in the foot by compressing so poorly. Why do this to yourself? You must have worked hard to make this film, take pride in it!
There's a lot here to be proud of, I might add. It's hard to be certain through the poor compression, but I think this is some of the best cinematography I've seen in the fest so far (through 1/3rd of the films). The use of close-ups here is much better than in some of the competing films - I think comparing this film to 334 Lost Lake is particularly interesting, because they're two films that specialize in silence and close-up to build tension until a climax.
The space beneath the house is an excellent claustrophobic space, well shot, and surprisingly well lit. In fact, the lighting in general is surprisingly good. The blue light with the television is nice as well.
Downsides - the sound is spotty, the music is really not doing justice to the film at all - I'd strongly suggest rescoring, and foleying some higher-quality sound effects. i'd also suggest a recut of the film - just because you have six minutes of time doesn't mean you have six minutes of story. The sequence where he watches himself on TV is too long - you really don't need much to figure out what's happening, especially if you've seen Lost Highway.
Anyhow, nice effort, and maybe next time, you'll concentrate as much on putting the film out there for people to watch as you did making it.
-Ben
Crawl Space
I'm so disappointed there's no thread for this film. What a nice surprise this one was.
First of all, for whoever made this - you have committed the three cardinal sins of film-selling. #1 - you didn't leave credits on, #2, no thread so we don't know who you are, and #3, you shot your own film in the foot by compressing so poorly. Why do this to yourself? You must have worked hard to make this film, take pride in it!
There's a lot here to be proud of, I might add. It's hard to be certain through the poor compression, but I think this is some of the best cinematography I've seen in the fest so far (through 1/3rd of the films). The use of close-ups here is much better than in some of the competing films - I think comparing this film to 334 Lost Lake is particularly interesting, because they're two films that specialize in silence and close-up to build tension until a climax.
The space beneath the house is an excellent claustrophobic space, well shot, and surprisingly well lit. In fact, the lighting in general is surprisingly good. The blue light with the television is nice as well.
Downsides - the sound is spotty, the music is really not doing justice to the film at all - I'd strongly suggest rescoring, and foleying some higher-quality sound effects. i'd also suggest a recut of the film - just because you have six minutes of time doesn't mean you have six minutes of story. The sequence where he watches himself on TV is too long - you really don't need much to figure out what's happening, especially if you've seen Lost Highway.
Anyhow, nice effort, and maybe next time, you'll concentrate as much on putting the film out there for people to watch as you did making it.
-Ben
TheatreGuy
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