New Site with New Short

Staven

Staven

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Finally have my new website up and running after my old server went bankrupt and my Stabbfilms site disappeared.

www.alteredstudios.com

Click on the picture on the main page to watch my newest short Any Other Day. it's 10:30 long 67.5 mb's. If the size is a prob for online viewing I'll make a downloadable version - so let me know if you want that instead.

There's also a short that was done for the 2004 cinemuerte 48hr film fest last year called Bed and Breakfast on the films page that most probably haven't seen either.
 
Looked really good bro... very nice audio... just out of curiosity, did you use squibs for the bullet hits or rig it some other way? Looked good. Was this shot with a DVX?
 
Pale Rider said:
Looked really good bro... very nice audio... just out of curiosity, did you use squibs for the bullet hits or rig it some other way? Looked good. Was this shot with a DVX?
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Yes shot with the dvx(non a)

No squibs. Gun was an airsoft $100 of the $150 budget went to renting it. The guy already has the hits on him as he falls backwards.
 
very nice... had a feeling the gun was an airsoft gun... those things are the best things to hit the prop world in years :thumbsup:
 
I really liked it! What'd you use sound wise? The guy who played the hitman did excellent. Looked perfect for the part also.
 
Slimothy said:
I really liked it! What'd you use sound wise? The guy who played the hitman did excellent. Looked perfect for the part also.
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What did I use soundwise?

Guess you are asking what type of mic? In that case I used the seinheisser shotgun. For most of the shoot i was solo, so I actually connected the seinheisser right to the camera or used the on camera mic.

I did wild lines for the father/kid scenes which I used to replace any bad sound. Should have done wild lines in the house, didn't and regret it cuz that could have sounded way better. Had to do ADR for all the office scenes with the hitman and other guy. Too much car and city noises in the background inconsistently to use any of the dialogue.

Glad you liked it!
 
Slimothy said:
Sorry, I'm a newb...what are wild lines?
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On set after you've gotten all the coverage you need, have the actors redo the scene the exact same way they'd been playing it just for recording the dialogue with the microphone in as close a range as possible to get the best quality audio you can get. Would probably do one actor at a time with the other actor pausing in between lines to give clean air for the others dialogue.

Theory is that the actors are still in the moment and as they've been repeating the performance over and over for coverage they can give you the enthusiasm required on the day and you can get the audio quality you need without having to bring them back weeks or months later for ADR.

If on set it is too noisy, you'd take them to a quiet area and redo the scene for the dialogue. You may also get them to repeat actions they performed in a seperate take for foley.

It tends to work well and save the time of setting up adr sessions(especially when you don't have access to a studio).
As long as you have lots of coverage with cut away shots, the dialogue usually sync's and when it don't, just show something other than the talkers mouth.
 
I'm actually using some Airsoft guns in some scenes too. They can look pretty convincing. I really like the cut on and around the shooting sequences, very nice.
 
Good work - the 1st office scene hurt your production value but everything else geled pretty well - can you say festival. And if you do, write the feature before you submit - that way if you get approached, you have something to show.
 
Maverick711 said:
loved it. loved it loved it. plain and simple. any special lenses or boxes?? All stock???
LOVED IT!!!
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Glad you enjoyed it.

No I didn't use any special lenses or boxes. I shot it 4by3 without using anything to frame it anamorphic... which wasn't the best idea as I ballpark framed, sometimes forgot to frame for anamorphic, so whenever you see a shot that just doesn't look composited correctly that's probably the reason.

I also did a whole lot of magic bullet in post to give it it's look. The scenes that were lit, even with my limited knowledge of lighting looked nice just plain old dvx. The practicals and naturally lit stuff came off too bland.(except for the car scene where it was a nice overcast day).
 
soarprod said:
Good work - the 1st office scene hurt your production value but everything else geled pretty well - can you say festival. And if you do, write the feature before you submit - that way if you get approached, you have something to show.
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That's funny you mentioning having the feature written before submitting as i've bantied about the idea of revolving a story around the single father hitman.(i severely suck at getting my ideas onto paper though)

I originally had this movie written and paced to be a 20 to 30 minute film. And as I got into shooting it i realized I could introduce more characters and play the movie out in a real non linear way sort of along the lines of Memento, and quickly turn this into a feature length movie without much effort. But, I only got 2 weeks notice before learning i could use the main house location and rushed in and shot it without prior rehersal time. Everything happenend on the day, and a lot of what i shot didn't make it into the movie. I did not have the opportunity to reshoot at that location. So i sucked it up and cut the movie down to the 10:30 length it is now.

In regards to your comment on the first office scene, i'm assuming you mean when he enters the office and converses with the secretary? If so, it has a real handheld, documentary-ish feel to it, something i kinda like. I shot numerous other shots throughout the movie that way, but they were too inconsistent with the way I was cutting most of the scenes, making that one scene kind of stand out. It was also shot with practicals and they didn't do the job too well, especially on the single of Mr.Mills right before he goes into his office.(if I am talking about the wrong scene let me know)
 
Good work. You did a really effective job of cross cuttiong with the timeline.
That's not always easy to do. The only thing that rang a liitle false was when the Hitman met the employer in his office. Not the scene per se, just the location.

Don't know many people that would use such a personal place to conduct that kind of transaction. Even housewives who hire hitters to do away with husbands, lovers, rival cheerleaders, meet in out of the way places. However the location could have been just "what you had". If so please disregard the above (except for the liking it part).

Cheers.
 
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