FEATURE: STEP OFF (was "Battle") - Narrative Feature

Quick outlet update...STEP OFF is available in many ON DEMAND cable outlets including COMCAST, TIME WARNER CABLE, COX and others. Look for On Demand, Movies, Same day as DVD...

Also, of course available via Netflix, RedBox, and other video outlets as well as available for purchase online through Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc.

Thanks to everyone who's taken an interest in this thread over the past year and a half and please spread the word if you are able.

Thanks,

Martin Kelley
 
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I tried to stay up last night to watch it but I couldn't do it. I'm gonna watch Step It Up tonight. From the parts that I did see, looks like a new creation with a small mixture of "Juice" and "Brown Sugar". Both not bad acts to follow. I'm really interested in checking out the extras as well. It's good to see a few familiar faces that helped you all (Onira and the guy from the Perry movies and Chocolate City). It's a good look.

From the beginning, I guessed that you all shot with a Sony EX series. I'll probably see it in the extras but if not, what DID you shoot with?

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Yeah, we shot with the Sony EX1.

We don't really do too much on the technical side. Our BTS is pretty short and centered on the main actor who's a music producer himself. Onira is great, that's our girl, we've worked with her on 2 projects thus far and I think you might be referring to E. Roger Mitchell? Or maybe someone else too. E. Roger is the commander in Battle:LA who let's the troops know that they're not dealing with meteors and he sends them out on their mission. He's a great actor (in fact, voted Best Actor in ATL for 2010 by Creative Loafing) and a very good guy.

Thanks for getting it and all the help.

-Martin
 
Okay, man, I saw that it was available on COX last night. I'm going to get it maybe tonight or tomorrow. Yeah, it's $4.99 to watch, but so what! We gotta' show our support for dvxusers and I really want to see it!
 
Marlon Ladd said:
Okay, man, I saw that it was available on COX last night. I'm going to get it maybe tonight or tomorrow. Yeah, it's $4.99 to watch, but so what! We gotta' show our support for dvxusers and I really want to see it!
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Have a Good Project On Your Hands

Have a Good Project On Your Hands

Martay said:
Yeah, we shot with the Sony EX1.

We don't really do too much on the technical side. Our BTS is pretty short and centered on the main actor who's a music producer himself. Onira is great, that's our girl, we've worked with her on 2 projects thus far and I think you might be referring to E. Roger Mitchell? Or maybe someone else too. E. Roger is the commander in Battle:LA who let's the troops know that they're not dealing with meteors and he sends them out on their mission. He's a great actor (in fact, voted Best Actor in ATL for 2010 by Creative Loafing) and a very good guy.

Thanks for getting it and all the help.

-Martin
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E. Roger Mitchell is the one. I've seen him in a handful of joints. Also, I've seen Onira a few times. She was a little fly about the mouth toward the end of Step Off. I was surprised to hear that coming from the cutie.

You all have a good project on your hands. I definitely see where the story was going. I'll also add 8 Mile to the list of movies that it will put people in the mind of. I'll share a few pros here.

Pros-
I thought many of the shots were graded nicely. It was dark and helped with the grittiness of the battles. Gully, if you will.

The acting was pretty good. Like many of us filmmakers, there were times that I felt another few takes would've gotten gotten the actors loose with their dialogue. I don't do it everytime but when time allows I like to film until we have a good take from the script and then allow the actors to go off the dome. The ones off the dome sometimes beat what we write. Typically, I'm shooting guerilla-style so I understand the time constraints that we put on ourselves.

The stock footage of the city was tight. I noticed those also on the trailer. Sometimes people don't fit them into their movies very well but ya'll did a good job.

Soundtrack is worth spinning. I haven't heard the mixtape but the movie makes me wanna check that out sooner than later.

Maestro's cockiness was a really good addition along with the darkness of one of the other producers that the lead character lost to the first time (he beat him the second time).

Wanted to see even more with Mitchell's character and the guy (Heat, I think his name was). I felt that the added tension from your lead and each of those characters was something that I missed. Heat was present during the competition at the end but I don't remember seeing Heat and the lead communicate after the initial discussion with his ex present.

I'd definitely watch this film again. Congratulations for completing AND distributing the film.

Tieuel Legacy! Motion Pics
 
tieuellegacy said:
E. Roger Mitchell is the one. I've seen him in a handful of joints. Also, I've seen Onira a few times. She was a little fly about the mouth toward the end of Step Off. I was surprised to hear that coming from the cutie.

You all have a good project on your hands. I definitely see where the story was going. I'll also add 8 Mile to the list of movies that it will put people in the mind of. I'll share a few pros here.

Pros-
I thought many of the shots were graded nicely. It was dark and helped with the grittiness of the battles. Gully, if you will.

The acting was pretty good. Like many of us filmmakers, there were times that I felt another few takes would've gotten gotten the actors loose with their dialogue. I don't do it everytime but when time allows I like to film until we have a good take from the script and then allow the actors to go off the dome. The ones off the dome sometimes beat what we write. Typically, I'm shooting guerilla-style so I understand the time constraints that we put on ourselves.

The stock footage of the city was tight. I noticed those also on the trailer. Sometimes people don't fit them into their movies very well but ya'll did a good job.

Soundtrack is worth spinning. I haven't heard the mixtape but the movie makes me wanna check that out sooner than later.

Maestro's cockiness was a really good addition along with the darkness of one of the other producers that the lead character lost to the first time (he beat him the second time).

Wanted to see even more with Mitchell's character and the guy (Heat, I think his name was). I felt that the added tension from your lead and each of those characters was something that I missed. Heat was present during the competition at the end but I don't remember seeing Heat and the lead communicate after the initial discussion with his ex present.

I'd definitely watch this film again. Congratulations for completing AND distributing the film.

Tieuel Legacy! Motion Pics
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Thanks for getting your hands on it and WATCHING IT!

I appreciate the nice comments. E. Roger Mitchell is the man...he's going to be MAJOR one day. If you caught him in Battle:LA you know he can hold his own with a big budget. We did (and do) have more scenes with him in the directors cut (that's way to long a story to go into here). Can't stress enough how great he is to work with.

Onira...yeah, she's awesome. Our little sister, we wanted to give her something that other folks wouldn't expect from her. She totally took to her character and to me pulled it off very well.

As far as grading...that's ALL LARON (the director) he's good, if you want to see great you need to check my man Kely McClung who posts here too...wait till you see Kerberos which I helped work on as well which is also shot on an EX 1...Kely is SICK with it! Laron is a talent MFer too.

Stock footage? Thank you...MOST of it is our own shooting. We had great partners help us get tremendous B-roll of ATL and again, props to Laron for choosing outstanding stock footage to supplement all that we got with our own 2nd Unit efforts.

Maestro? Thanks for the compliment...we wrote the character to be that way but ALL CREDIT to Errol Sadler who KILLED IT as Maestro...he's an up-and-comer who you'll see A LOT more from if we have a say.

Again, thanks so much for checking it out and posting your thoughts. We appreciate ALL the support we get.

-Martin
 
Kely

Kely

Martin,

I met Kely in LA at the ABFF around '97. I did see grading and BTS type stuff on here a month or so ago. Back then I saw his film that was in the BET comp (something A.M.). He's pretty guerilla as well.
 
tieuellegacy said:
Martin,

I met Kely in LA at the ABFF around '97. I did see grading and BTS type stuff on here a month or so ago. Back then I saw his film that was in the BET comp (something A.M.). He's pretty guerilla as well.
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Yeah, he is. Yeah A.M. Session was that short from BET. Watch out for Kerberos and of course Blood Ties (his 1st feature) is available now through Afterlight Pictures.

-M
 
Martay said:
Yeah, he is. Yeah A.M. Session was that short from BET. Watch out for Kerberos and of course Blood Ties (his 1st feature) is available now through Afterlight Pictures.

-M
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I had a film on BET too. It was called, "It Won't Come Off." Small world.

Okay, Martin, I was finally able to check it out! Rented it from Redbox up the street from the house and was excited like a kid. LOL! I have to give you guys props. For those that don't know it, this film is being distributed by Lionsgate. That, to me is a big deal. Great job.

The film had a really good story. I think the acting was pretty good for the most part and convincing. You had some nice city shots incorporated and some really creative cinematography. The audio was good and consistent for the most part, but I noticed several times that there seemed to be voiceovers done, because there was no audio besides the voices. No clothes rustling or sounds of movement. It looked like there was a heavy cc, maybe a tad bit too much, but that's no biggie. I thought this was pretty good for what you guys shot it with. I can imagine how much better it would have looked with a dslr or newer camera. I really think this film is a perfect example of how far a really good story can take a film. You guys didn't have a huge budget or named actors or anything like that and you still made it work, because you had the foundation (the story) to build the film around. Great coming of age story. I tell you what, I sure wanted Rippa' to get off his own shoulders at the beginning. Man, he was pissing me off. I guess that shows I was into the story. Ha-ha!

Anyway, BIG CONGRATS!
 
Marlon Ladd said:
I had a film on BET too. It was called, "It Won't Come Off." Small world.

Okay, Martin, I was finally able to check it out! Rented it from Redbox up the street from the house and was excited like a kid. LOL! I have to give you guys props. For those that don't know it, this film is being distributed by Lionsgate. That, to me is a big deal. Great job.

The film had a really good story. I think the acting was pretty good for the most part and convincing. You had some nice city shots incorporated and some really creative cinematography. The audio was good and consistent for the most part, but I noticed several times that there seemed to be voiceovers done, because there was no audio besides the voices. No clothes rustling or sounds of movement. It looked like there was a heavy cc, maybe a tad bit too much, but that's no biggie. I thought this was pretty good for what you guys shot it with. I can imagine how much better it would have looked with a dslr or newer camera. I really think this film is a perfect example of how far a really good story can take a film. You guys didn't have a huge budget or named actors or anything like that and you still made it work, because you had the foundation (the story) to build the film around. Great coming of age story. I tell you what, I sure wanted Rippa' to get off his own shoulders at the beginning. Man, he was pissing me off. I guess that shows I was into the story. Ha-ha!

Anyway, BIG CONGRATS!
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Marlon,

Thank you so much for picking up a copy and watching it.

Thanks for the kind words too. Glad you stuck it out with Rippa, we knew we were pushing it a little with the character being so sour in the beginning but felt that the viewers would warm to him over the course.

SPOILER ALERT!! We didn't want to compromise and make him a boy scout early. Part of the story is about all artists who feel like the world isn't fair (sound familiar) and they deserve some spot in their chosen field...but its really about finding your own voice and being good with that no matter what comes your way. SPOILER ENDS!!!

Definitely just trying to make the best movie we could with what we had to work with and I'm glad you enjoyed it and could see past some of the limitations.

Thanks again, I appreciate all the support we're getting from everyone here and everywhere we've put a mention about it.

I'm expecting to see yours soon too!

Thanks,

Martin
 
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