Short Film Teaser

jambredz

jambredz

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Aight guys....this is a teaser for a 2 and a half min comedy i shot last saturday. Sigh...what can i say. It was the first time I was doing a short film...and even tough it was just one little room....it was alot of work. Everything just seemed to go wrong and it was all due to a time crunch. I realize now that people just dont understand how much work goes into this...and the enthusiasm that they had at first cuz they want to be in a film quickly dissipates when they see how many times u have to do one thing...let alone many. Many of my planned shots and lighting just went to hell cuz people got tired and miserable (myself was tired of them). Honestly at the end of the shoot i felt VERY discouraged and was questioning if this thing is really for me...for real.

It wasnt all bad though...and we actually did have fun...just was pretty rushed. But the reason I did it was mainly for my lighting practice and i felt really sucky after cuz i know i can do much better...but i was battling homeade lights which are hard to control and gradually impatient people... and being the ONLY one with technical knowledge on the set didnt help.

So that sthe bad...the good is that it still may turn out do be pretty funny...and i had fun with my frenz, all of which are non actors. So here endeth my rant.

picture is locked and i'm doing sound design and composing with my other friend...but real world work comes first.

Heres the teaser.

http://vimeo.com/7321689

oh..this all came about because Jamaica is Blackberry crazy.
hope ya'll enjoy it for what it is when its done.
 
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yeh its just an appetite teaser :) really for people to question...how the heck those three topics relate :)

thanks for watching.
 
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dont be discouraged!!! filmmaking can be fun! it's hard with just friends and no budget. try to keep everything in 4 hour blocks. i've found that's about the limit for most non pro's. and that fits perfectly into 8-12 for nights. and 1-5 for day shoots. it also just after/before lunch and dinner... so you don't have to feed everyone :D

once you start to use a proper/trained/student crew and actors. you can work for 12 solid hours and everyone is fine. they're happy to work hard and fast as long as you feed them well. i've been on a few shoots like that and it's actualy fun to work hard. you just need a good crew and a few beers at the end. also you need to be the kind of guy people will want to work hard for. i think that's half of what beeing a good director is. not just telling the actors what to do.

anyway. good luck with the edit!!
 
tru that Patrick. And to be Honest there were alot of laughs and fun...and i fed them. I can't imagine how it would have been if i didnt. But as you say...after a while when winding down...and doing the things so many times...i think reality sunk in that "this film thing isnt a cake walk" .:)

its all good though..they luv what they see so far....and like feeling like "stars" lol.

When i woke up the next morning i definately shaked that discouragement off...it was just a long night.

thanks for the encouragement.
 
Hi again jambredz.
I'm really sorry that I only commented on the trailer and not what you wrote.
I was kind of tired and didn't bother reading every thing.
So yeah, very sorry about that!!

But I read it now. And I know exactly how you feel!!
But that experience, I think, was good for you. That you got it early and that you were able to shake it off as well.
And the fact that you got some great shots even though were under pressure requires talent. And as we can see you obviously have it!
Imagine what you could do with more time?!


And as you say.. This ain't no cake-walk.
It takes time.
And to get customers/rookie actors to understand that, can sometimes be hard.
If your customer want it quick and easy, I seriously want you to tell them; "I don't do quick and easy!".


Continue with what you are doing, cause it seems to be working very well!

And always be critical (in a good way) and think "how can I improve this" (be it a scene, colorgrading, take, editing, lighting..)

When I was filming on location for our short, we did a scene.. we lit it up, did all the scenes etc.. After we were done I was just sitting there for a while thinking...

"Man.. this really isn't working out at all... how can we make this better?"

And we just moved the scene to a different location, lit it up, and got some shots that worked waay better.
It wasn't exactly how I wanted it to be, but compared to the flat lighting and ugly location that we had before, it worked out so much better.

It was a good experience.. Tough, but good!


Keep shooting, cause every shot is a new learning experience.
 
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