Spaghetti Western with a twist

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KBPhilips

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Hi everyone,

I made video a couple months ago using the DVX100B. It's inspired by the showdown of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by Sergio Leone but there is a visual twist.

Spaghetti RGB

-KB
 
Hey welcome to the forum.

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This was a fun idea.

Don't know if you made this for fun or for yourself or what exactly, but at 4 minutes its about 3 minutes too long to sustain a stranger's interest.

Long lock down shots of people standing in a school hallway are just not that interesting regardless of what color you put over them.

Is it a shot by shot reconstruction? That sounds like a valid exercise, but too long to be entertaining. If it's not a shot by shot recreation or something, then blue guy, green guy, and red woman meet and two get shot - without professional stunts and camera movement and art direction etc, is a 1 minute idea.

Sorry if that's harsh. I really like the idea, but that's my honest feedback given with no context of why you made this or for what audience.

Again, cool experiment and thanks for sharing it with us
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It was a project for an experimental video class, and the assignment was to experiment with form without concerning the narrative. It had to be a minimum of 4 minutes so I drew out the scene and wanted to have every color interact with the others.

Also, the showdowns in the Man with No Name trilogy are always drawn out and there is very little camera movement.

Basically I did this as an experiment with the RGB additive model.

-KB
 
KBPhilips said:
Also, the showdowns in the Man with No Name trilogy are always drawn out and there is very little camera movement.

-KB
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I think the issue is were these drawn out sequences are, and where some fast action occurs.

In the first hallway shot, we the viewers, have no context for which this builds tension... we the viewers don't know if there is a bad guy lurking, whether this guy in the hallway is good, bad, or ugly... Tension comes from say identifying The Good Guy and while we don't know what's at the end of the hallway yet, we know The Good Guy is there and most likely there is a Bad Guy somewhere...

Or alternatively identifying The Bad Guy, and we assume he is up to no good... just don't know exactly how or when...

An example not of a spaghetti western, but the 'Well Scene' in 'Lawrence of Arabia'. The series of shots spans a number of minutes of film run time. But basically we, the viewers, 'know' that Lawrence is The Good Guy... of course... we also know the fellow at the well has helped The Good Guy out. Now, who is this new character, who takes so long to get to the well... and then, out of the blue, shoots, and kills the guy who helped The Good Guy... until Omar Shariff comes to the well, shows himself to not intend to harm The Good Guy, and explains why he shot the other guy, we, the viewers, have no clue what's going on... but all this is done to elevate tension, and does so over this rather long, by today's standards, series of shots.

On a more technical note, and I'll just note one item... I think the cut from the initial long hall schot to the shot with POV from side hall, has a momentary 'blip' were there is no person in the frame.. cut should have the guy visible and in motion in the new shot...
 
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A line crossing disaster of an axis conundrum.

I am embracing of experimenting when shooting and restricting oneself to an idea or technique; I'm curious what you learned from this one ?
 
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