Take Out

Jay, my first post was an extremely gentle reminder of something I read during a cursory glance at the rules, and my other posts were simply to defend myself against unprovoked flames. I have nothing against you, and have been lurking on here for over a year, and I certainly wasn't trying to push your buttons. When I recently created my account, I'd never even heard of "Take Out". I went to your site, as I've done with others, because it looked cool, and had a look around at what you had going on, great stuff. No in-depth study or investigative work on my part, just an enjoyable ten or fifteen minutes of surfing. So, take care, and good luck with this, and all, of your future projects...



Jay Rodriguez said:
Uh, I have a hard time believing that. Just poking around and you just so happened to find my entry thread and browse my site after reading the contest rules in detail as a non-entrant? uh, riiiight. I won't feed into your crap, you really seem like your trying to find a button to push but you're failing. :thumbsup:

I wish a mod would step in here and sort you out.
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Ok, I think we can all dial this one down. After communicating with Jay, he took his stuff down and I don't have any reason to doubt that shuffle1 is a newly registered user (and yes I checked out his IP). I wrote the promotion rule to primarily prevent people from 1) spending too much energy on promotion as opposed to filmmaking and 2) to avoid vote begging on any external sites as in "hey come on down to dvxuser and vote for me!". I've disqualified films in the past for what I felt were significant infractions, but I don't see that this rises to that level.
 
Looks like I caught this thread just in time. Fun, lol.

Jay, yours is the first thread I've posted in. We've known of each other for a while (and will hopefully hit a trip at the same time with our wives on the cruise!), and am excited to see you're in a fest!

Looking forward to your film, man. :)
 
shuffle, it's all good man.

thanks barry.

norm, thanks for stopping in. haven't seen u around in a while my friend. looks like this years trip might happen for us. we're stoaked about the cruise!
 
Cool man!

When he got hit with the bat I thought the sound effect might be missing there. You might want to check it. Very cool though, that guy was pretty creepy as well.

The sound could use a little TLC but overall this was pretty good.
Loved the closing shot!

Cheers,

Mike
 
Jay!

Ok brother... this film made me want to look away...

Your evil dude was just out of control insane, lol! Nice acting on both characters... the shots looked good overall... seemed very much "your style".

The sound was a little hit and miss for me as well, but that's always tough...

LOVED the tie into the tattoo... nice! hehe ok... you're a sick sick man, but this film was good... in a sick way, hehe :)
 
I've watched about half of the movies, and this is one of my favorites--color coded the file for saving.


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The lipstick and of course the way he plays with his victim gave the character a Joker-esque feel that was cool. Honestly, loved that scene. Missed some sound on the bit with the bat, that could have had a bit more impact for the viewer. Last--the sick thing is, I had to skip dinner tonight and the shot of the meat in the stir-fry had my mouth watering! This abated when I recognized the tattoo though.
 
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Awesome short.

The bad:
The sound was pretty dicey. I had to adjust my speakers to hear the quiet parts and then turn them down for the loud parts. That's all my negative.

The good:
Disturbing. Unsettling. Wrong. Bad.

Decent acting by both characters. Loved the dark circles under his eyes. My favorite so far.
 
Jay, this had some great lines in it,
"I got to look pretty for daddy" hahahahaha!
and the acting was quite good. It made me laugh,... and that's only because i'm a sick individual. Great job man!
 
I thought the piece of skin with the tattoo at the end was a nice twist. And yes, the guy was very, very twisted and funny. The interaction between to two of them was good, because the killer was real crazy and the other guy is trying to decide what he would have to say or do not to set him off - any more than he already was.

The victim's acting was okay and there was a thing or two with the sound, but I liked it and thought the killer was pretty funny (in a psychotic kind of way).
 
Nice short man, definately one of my favourites. I like making these films, and after my first "Stale Blood" feature, i want to continue making these type of sick, demented shorts.

That guy was messed, creepy, F'ed. He needed help, and i LOVED that! The acting was good. And yes, the volume was to loud when the guy was screamning, i also had to adjust my volume. Great shots. Great ending. 9/10.

Why was he naked on the toilet after? just for random, creepyness?
 
hey thanks como! it was fun shooting this movie regardless of the hassles that I endured during it all. we completely wung this movie from beginning to end, totally improved and all. The reason why is because the lead actress backed out three hours after she was suppossed to show up. But, the show had to go on! lol new story, no shot list, no plan.

The toilet scene was thrown in there to incorporate a sense of insanity to the guy. He just taunted then killed someone and now he's sitting on the toilet sh!tting as if it was no biggie to him as he smokes a cig with his bloodied hands/arms.

The audio was horrible, I know. There wasn't much I could do to be honest with you. I had a buddy who never even seen a boom pole handle the audio.... lol, bad choice but I needed someone to handle the audio. I thought he would be able to make a good judgement on things but I know that I can't simply assume things.
 
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