TEMPO - The Wrath of Indifference

Shots were good, another film to make you think. Oh and I liked the music too.
Thank you.
 
The shots were breathtakinly beautiful, but there wasn't a plot, just an effimate guy musing. How is this drama? The music is beautiful and dang, the shots are just so good.
 
Cinematography is some of the best in the fest. I love the opening shots, I'm a fan of expansive landscapes. Enough has been said here about the cinematography though, and I do admit, it's very good. What I really like is the story/voiceover work. I like the message that is presented; the way the character is dealing with inner turmoil (lots of great subtleties in the performances). The extreme closeups are very nice as well.

This is also one of the few films I've seen that really feels like a true short film. I really enjoyed it.
 
I've now seen all the films and since I can't officially vote, I'll do it here in the threads of the films I enjoy. Because of how much I loved Similo, I loved this piece. And for reasons you've stated above, it did have a sort of connection to that. Definitely the best shot composition of the bunch. But it stood on it's own, and had some great moments. This was probably my #2. Well done!

And just to give my quick "Academy" hit list of winners (as I will also do in the various other threads):
Best Picture: Wasted
Best Cinematography: TEMPO
Best Screenplay: Wasted
Runners Up to Best Picture: TEMPO, Eighteen Seconds
Notables: Ajar, Not the Same, After Class, Middle Man

-Ben
 
Yeah, the shots were stunning. Makes me think I need to get the hell out of NYC and to some decent landscapes.

But even at 3 min, it was WAY too long for nothing to happen. I got really hopeful when the old guy showed up that you were going to take us on some surreal and trippy journey with him through the desert, maybe something Sci-Fi. But when nothing STILL happened, I'm sorry to say, it just amounted to a Life-Insurance commercial.

Also, the music combined with the philosophy made the message a little new-agey for me, but that's more taste than filmmaking critique.

In the end, I think this kind of thing is just too easy. You are clearly a skilled and talented shooter and shooting beautiful things is something you can do well. But telling a story is very hard, and even now, as I work on the second cut of my own film, I kick myself for all of the little things I missed or screwed up on, etc. Anyway, I would like to have seen the images serve a story.

Do you have a site or something with other work of yours?
 
My problem with this is a case of all style no substance. It looked nice, though the use of the voice over drove home the fact that you weren't SHOWING me a story, but instead, trying to TELL me a story... It didn't take me anywhere.

TEMPO- The Wrath of Indiffernce...indifferent.
 
I agree; I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong ... but it was basically a rip off of SIMILO and too obvious at that.

Still nice
 
Mark Harris said:
But when nothing STILL happened, I'm sorry to say, it just amounted to a Life-Insurance commercial.
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I loved this one. Really, no hard feelings :D Made me laugh.


Mark Harris said:
Do you have a site or something with other work of yours?
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Coming right up, just finished a short in which I don't have anything to do with the cinematography, only direction. Will show you as soon as it's done. ;)
 
Nicolas said:
I loved this one. Really, no hard feelings :D Made me laugh.




Coming right up, just finished a short in which I don't have anything to do with the cinematography, only direction. Will show you as soon as it's done. ;)
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Sorry, that might have been a dumb thing to say, but I was actually trying to make some points rather than say: Didn't like it, which I think it useless to you. :)
 
No, no, I'm not being ironic or anything, I mean it, it was a rather elegant and nice way of saying things and, IMHO, very softly I will say (whisper)...youre right. :)
 
John_Hudson said:
I agree; I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong ... but it was basically a rip off of SIMILO and too obvious at that.

Still nice
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Ok good, I'm glad someone else thought that it was a stylistic ripoff of Similo. You did a great job at it. If you're going to pick a director to mimic, Macgregor is a sound choice. The cinematography, set design and all looks great. Though what greatly differs from Mac's work is; the writing. It lacks something. It seemed too film student-like or pseudo depth. Like smoking pot out on the grassy hillside saying "Whoa dude, like what if D-O-G really spells Cat?"

I did like the overall theme in the writing, but it seemed like it would come from someone with a bad attitude. The cruel joke of getting old? I just don't think it's good to look at it in such a negative way. I don't see it as a wrath. I see it as an experience, and pretty thankful to have made it this far. You could get stabbed, or hit by a mack truck.

The music was nice. It reminded me of Vangelis, but not engineered as tightly. There's just something that bugs me about certain synth music. I don't like when they have a sound that seems directly recorded from a synthesizer. I mean you're already in the digital domain using synthetic instruments, exploit all the technical aspects you possibly can out of such a source. Don't treat synths like acoustic instruments. I guess I just didn't like the mixes. The composition was solid, though. I think that's why I'm being so hard on the mix. There's a great potential. If the compositions weren't so good, I wouldn't have even commented.
 
You shouldn't have commented, then. The music is Vangelis.

Oh, and it's not about seeing aging as a cruel joke. It's not about getting old, it's about taking the wrong steps, about how much of your moves can you really decide. Not about getting old. BTW, some great writers DID see aging as a negative thing (which is not the case here), for example, Francisco de Quevedo ("When we are born we begin to die.") or most filmmakers from German Expressionism. It's just a different way of seeing things, I guess.

Oh, and by the way, if you read the fourth post of this thread, I state off from the start that the objective was actually ripping off Similo.
 
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macgregor said:
Hahaha, the music is Vangelis.
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Really?! Oh well. There's certain stuff out of him I don't like that falls under the badly mixed category.

Nicolas said:
Hp..........
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I watch your film, give you my honest opinion and all I get is this reply?

Oh yeah, and I really disliked the nasally voice over.
 
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