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macgregor said:
If the sex scene looks cliche is because one reason:
People usually makes love in the same way. hahaha.
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LOL! You should think about doing a comedy show for DV aficionados. The other answers were very funny too. A stand-up comedy show, doing jokes about HDV artifacts and the lack of robot fluid spilling from the robot´s mouth when he was dying.
 
zacharias said:
Hello, I am the codirector.

I’m very pleased Gumonstro.

Thanks.
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You´re welcome!

This film is surely an inspiration for us because you guys proved that some time spent on writing a good story, thinking carefully about your shots and ALL sort of film production issues CAN make you achieve a real professional look.
 
Hi MacGregor,

Your movie really touched me, great work in all respects!

Any chance you're creating a full packaged special edition dvd? I will buy it immediately, not only to support your efforts but also to learn from it (as I am also a DVX100 PAL user, shooting 'different' movies).

All the best,
 
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Great stuff Mac! I know there were a few more people than Mac who contributed to this film, so I congratulate them as well. Also, it's great to see what a 35mm adapter like the g35 can do! I know that there was some controversy surrounding the "promotion" of the film on other boards, and Im glad to see this film is still up and running in the contest.
 
I liked this movie. near perfection.

The one thing I wish I could have is seeing what happend to him. I think if I saw what happen to him this movie would be perfect. But since that im like, "Aw I want to see how it happen or what might have happened."

Great job though. in the top three for me.
 
kyledroid said:
I know that there was some controversy surrounding the "promotion" of the film on other boards, and Im glad to see this film is still up and running in the contest.
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Interestingly, the main thread you're speaking of on the other forum has now been completely deleted.
 
Beautiful.

I had no trouble understanding the compressed storyline. Worked well for me. 'Antarctica. summer. future." titles did a lot with very little. good costuming. VO work was top notch, good actor choice. gorgeous short film.

negatives: I think the sex scene felt slightly gratuitous and the music rang extremely familiar to me.

congrats to you and your team!
 
similo is just fantastic! macgregor you've got liquid cinematography in your veins .....
so, what is the scene without the g35? :)
how did you make those red and blue flares?
it's so refreshing to see you backstage on the stills with just a dvx100, handheld. people are always posting backstage stills with tons of cables plugged into the cam (i sometimes think they are adding some fake ones) , monitors, mics, lights, matte, dolly, kind of "look how big is my tool"...... and most of the time it's not half as good as your work
 
"The car scene. We wanted to shoot this at dusk. They are in the Antartic, so dusks take a lot of time there. Also the landscape needed that dark atmosphere. They are in a new Merc SLK. And it was shooting on the director´s garage."

I was going to ask how this effect was done. The "in car" scene. Any chance of some production stills of this? Those car interiors looked very lush.

EJ
 
Envision said:
Interestingly, the main thread you're speaking of on the other forum has now been completely deleted.
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Yea, that is interesting. I guess Jarred Land gave Mac another chance on the condition of that thread being deleted; however, that is only speculation on my part. Im not saying there is favoritism on Jarred's part, BTW; I'm just saying that Jarred is a nice guy for letting it slide. BTW, I wonder who the "sweat guy" was? Pm me if someone knows, lol?
 
Don't think it matters who that guy was ... least not now. No offense, Kyle, but I can't imagine your speculation being right.

K, 'nough of that. Back to the topic of this being a beautiful film, which it is.
 
Envision said:
Don't think it matters who that guy was ... least not now. No offense, Kyle, but I can't imagine your speculation being right.

K, 'nough of that. Back to the topic of this being a beautiful film, which it is.
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No offense taken. You're right...let the past be the past. Great film. Kinda pretentious , but that's what makes it charming. The slow motion/ movement-of-the-characters made the film seem much longer than its running time. The voice over/ internal monologue seemed top notch as well. the visuals were amazing. There is no doubt, in my mind, what 35mm adapters bring to the table.
 
EJ Pennypacker said:
I was going to ask how this effect was done. The "in car" scene. Any chance of some production stills of this? Those car interiors looked very lush.

EJ
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I´m afraid we have no pictures. I wish we had.

We had no money to rent a camara car. Also the light we wanted was almost imposible to achieve in the real world. So we used a back projection at home.
This is how we did it:
- I shot the landscape backgrounds on location.
- Once we were back at home, I made a 60 seconds loop and color corrected to give that dusk feeling.
- Then we moved to a garage, where we placed the car and put the actors inside.
- I set a very complex light scheme as well as i could but ended pretty well. It was a hard task since digital projector are never bright enough, but the G35 needed a lot of light. Also the sun light on her face could not reflect in the projector screen, otherwise it looses contrast.
- And then we asked the actors to feel like they were driving, and i tried to simulate hand helding on a driving car, so it would feel like the car was actually moving on a road.
- Also for his shots, whe had to turn the car 180º and place the backprojection in mirror mode.

And that is all i think.

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The set.

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One of the many missing scenes.
 
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A digital projector ? Really? Rear screen .............? Or Front ?

(I knew it was a composite of sorts and think it looks better as oppossed to actually shooting on location)
 
The DLP projector was in the same room we were, so i guess that is called front projection. Maybe i am wrong, I dont know.

BYW, how did you get to write 14,000 post? Have you ever considered to be a novelist? :]
 
Macgregor, could you describe better how you shot the scene in that picture (girl on the bed) and how you made the flares?
 
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