"Tangled Web" 2-day FEATURE - clip online!

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David W. Richardson

Chapelgrove Films
A rough clip of a scene from our unique suspense/drama indie feature "Tangled Web" is up on YouTube. This is the FEATURE that we shot in just TWO DAYS! You can check the clip out here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lu_DCosXAY

(Updated 10/26/2007 with a NEW version of the clip.)

This is the very FIRST scene we shot last Saturday. Kudos to Rebecca Morris and Luke Bradley Francis!
 
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I've put a new version of the clip on YouTube. This one has been desaturated, gamma corrected, and had the audio tweaked. Comments? Suggestions?
 
The actress was good. The guy, not totally convincing, but tolerable. However, the way it was shot is somewhat problematic. If you wanted to keep the camera in one place, you should have come up with better staging. In any case, I still think it would've been much better to break up the shots here. We needed something with just her, to get closer to her visually, and also perhaps to see him from her POV. Of course, if you were super cruched for time, maybe you did what you could, and couldn't afford more setups. The sound was subpar :( Good effort overall.
 
Thanks for the feedback, OldCorpse. The whole idea of the movie is that the entire thing is seen from the POV of the webcam. But it's not all seen from just HER webcam, as this clip was. There are scenes where she is carrying on video chats with other people. In those scenes, we'll intercut between the various people's 'webcams', which should help alleviate the static feel of it a little bit.

What I'm ultimately going for is a sort of voyeuristic feel -- as if the viewer is thinking 'what if I was eavesdropping, spying on someone via their webcam?' And this is (theoretically) what they would see. Hopefully when we get it all done, it will be entertaining and interesting. Fingers crossed!

Thanks!
 
This is still worth a few remarks though. The challenge when showing things from a stationary camera is that it can get boring, and not revealing. That's when staging comes in. This is something of a lost art in these days of super fast cuts. For a good illustration of masterful staging, watch Polanski's "Repulsion" - there's a scene there with a couple of women talking where the camera is sitting still and through the clever and very natural movements of the actresses, you never feel bored - it's as if they substitute for all camera movements... mind-blowing!
 
OldCorpse said:
This is still worth a few remarks though. The challenge when showing things from a stationary camera is that it can get boring, and not revealing. That's when staging comes in. This is something of a lost art in these days of super fast cuts. For a good illustration of masterful staging, watch Polanski's "Repulsion" - there's a scene there with a couple of women talking where the camera is sitting still and through the clever and very natural movements of the actresses, you never feel bored - it's as if they substitute for all camera movements... mind-blowing!
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Interesting! Wish I'd known about that before we shot the movie. :)

I'm hoping the dialogue and performances will help keep the audience involved in spite of the relatively static visuals. Oh, and there IS some GUNFIRE too. That should perk people up a bit. ;)
 
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