No One Remembers & Love Requiem are now ONLINE

[Pascal Payant]

Love Requiem ( 25min)
http://vimeo.com/11469052

Written, Produced And Directed By Pascal Payant

Starring:
Ashton Swinford, Ryan Neal, Caroline Panagiotidis, Jlynn Johnson, Nadja David and Christine Beaulieu


Music By :

The Flaming Stars
July Skies
Bosque De Mi Mente
RIM
Kalle Pyyhtinen
The American Dollar

Sound Design By Frederik Tesser
Hair : Crews
Makeup : Josephine Perrone
Other make up: Meagan Mason

PLOT:

Unable to face her past and her fears, Megan is slowly destroying her relationship with Alexander. This movie explores everyone's secret dark world and its effect on the real life. This masterpiece of visual poetry brings the audience in the emotional confusion that lives in Megan & Alexander minds.

Shot in 3 days. NYC, Montreal and Vegas was the location of shoot. no technical team. no budget.
Shot with the Hmc150 and Letus Extreme

No One Remembers & Love Requiem NOW ONLINE!
I'm proud to say that my 2 latest movies that has been premiered in Los Angeles at the Westwood Crest Theater are now Online. Go check it out.

No One Remembers (19min)
http://vimeo.com/11469221

A couple struggling with their engagement in Hollywood.

The movie shows marriage as a contractual agreement instead of a passionate love affair between two people. Through a Hollywood couple crisis, we discover that marriage is not for everyone.

Written, Produced and Directed By Pascal Payant

A couple struggling with their engagement in Hollywood.

The movie shows marriage as a contractual agreement instead of a passionate love affair between two people. Through a Hollywood couple crisis, we discover that marriage is not for everyone.

Starring:
Trisha Lurie & John Harpster, Eddie Jarvis

Screenplay By:
Pascal Payant & Stéphanie Locas

Music By:

Shamrain (huge band in Finland),
Matti Reinola (one of the band member of Shamrain)
Glissando,
Kill the Zodiac

Sound Design by:
Syllabes (company in Montreal)

Premiere with Love Requiem , 8 April at the Westwood Crest Theater. over 350 peoples, medial, celebs...

Shot with the Sony Ex1 and Letus Extreme in 2 after noon only. no budget and no technical team.

Premiere both movies 8 April at the Westwood Crest Theater. over 350 peoples, medial, celebs...

 

[averan]

i gotta give ya credit for being able to shoot these in such a short time with no budget!
and to get ahold of that mansion. i like the creativity/thought you put into your locations/sets.

however, these 2 films just were not 'my cup of tea'.
to be honest, i was bored, not drawn into the story or characters and had to fast forward through the film just to check your cinematography.
my critiques are:
1. too many scenes out of focus....need to pull focus on those long shots where the character is moving towards/away from the camera for a long time. no one wants to watch half a scene with the subject and point of interest out of focus.
2. the night scenes seemed way overlit and unnatural.
3. i couldn't swallow the constant internal dialogue/monologue thing....i prefer that a filmmaker show me what is going on instead of telling me.
4. too long. way too long. at least for the amount of content.

i don't know if you've done some other shorter films, which i'd love to see, but i think if you could try to condense everything it might improve things a lot. i kept thinking to myself, 'how is this shot moving the story forward?' i feel like you could've communicated the same amount of information with about half the number of shots. i could be wrong about this, it was just how i felt after trying to watch them and i could've just been annoyed by the melodramatic slow pacing.

that said, i see so much potential. you've accomplished so much for just one person running the whole show and i think if you found some cool people to work with you could focus all your efforts on 1 or 2 aspects of production and raise the quality all around. trying to do it all by yourself, to be a great writer, director and dp all at the same time, is spreading yourself too thin.

i look forward to seeing you progress and grow! =)

 

[Pascal Payant]

I guess that's why it's called Art .everyone will love and everyone will hate. my style of movies is not your cup of tea of course when you do everything alone it's not perfect but for me imperfection it's perfection. E! news interviewed me about this movie and they said totally different than you. Thank you for your comments. Everything is there for a reason. if the girl is talking for 3 min alone in a dark room there's a reason why. for the movie and for the audiance. people are used to fast cut cut but not me. all my angle , dialogue etc.. everything is there for a reason.

 

[averan]

i can respect that.

 

[Skilled]

Didnt really like either of them as well to be honest. Very slow,,,and not a great story. The second one had very bad acting..and seemed abit washed out. The house did not seem to really be lived in. Looked like a model house for sale. Personally I like a better story..that keeps me interested. You have know character a bit to even care about a story. These just seem like a story that just starts..about perfect strangers. Hope I am making sence here.