The Broadcast- Dramafest Entry

alright ladies and gentlemen. putting aside all the trouble i had uploading the film... IT"S ON! the film is now on the website and should be p for viewing and judging soon.
 
Excellent Leo. I was wondering where it was, considering our title confusion early on in the fest. Can't wait to see it.
 
thanks Lloyd. thanks Ben. That was one of my main concerns haha. After a full 12 hours of difficulties, i was just thinking.."Ben is going to kill me...and break my DVX..." haha but in the end it got up there.
it's going to be a great festival. Cheers AND THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!

P.S.

Who thinks Kimko should run for president in 2008?
 
Hello Everyone,

My name is Tyler Poppe. I am the co-director/co-producer with Leo Fernandez. I just wanted to drop and line and say hello to everyone. This is my first time on DVXuser, and this was my first shoot ever using a DVX 100. I am working right now on a banner and a poster for the Broadcast, but I dont not have photoshop so this has become a little harder than I expected; I am now using GIMP. The second problem is that I am also new to Final Cut Pro and Motion so I have not figured out how to take an .MOV file and make a picture out of it.

This was my first movie I've ever made, so I am really excited to debut it.

Well I hope to hear from other posters on their comments and thoughts.

Oh also I want to make a comment for Kimko.

Kimko:

Thank you so much for putting your trust in Leo and I. I was so happy you could join us and the performance along with the input you have given us along the way has been superb. I hope that we will be able to work on another project in the near future.

I am on the verge of Finalizing the DVD menu system and the cover art should be soon to follow. Again, thank you so much Kimko.

Tyler Poppe
 
Yardsale said:
You guys sound really excited, glad you got it done! Can't wait to see it!
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Very excited, but then again I'm always excited about this stuff... it's just so much fun to make movies and see the final product.



I just wanted to update some things.

Here is a poster of The Broadcast. Hope you like it.

These pictures were courtesy of Geoff Reisner. Thank you again!
 

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Sorry for the double post.

In the Broadcast we used a DVX 100a ( I think A Leo will have to correct me).
We had 4 lights: 2 1K 1 650 and a 300(maybe 350).
For one of the scenes we used only a 60 watt bulb.

Well if anyone wants to know anything please ask. For now this is the questions I've seen on other threads so I thought I'd answer them on ours.

Also. How do you post a banner in your signature?
 

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Hello everyone. I was just wondering what your thoughts were about our movie "The Broadcast"

Let me know what you think.
 
Tyler,

I thought it came out well. I liked the overly-dark atmosphere, especially in that cellar/shelter. I like the twist at the end, I didn't see that part coming and the story altogether was engaging. Kimko did a really good job w/ his part! I liked his performance.

I'm a little confused on some parts of the story, was the guy going crazy from the idea of the attack, or in general was he already on edge and this was the one event that sets him off?
 
I thought Kimko did a good job acting here. His character was somewhere between the part he played for Ricki Rocket and Chad Callaghan. The other two actors didn't really register to me. I wished you had decided on a look and stuck with it as the changes pulled me out of the story. The story is what I had a problem with, though. I just didn't buy it. There was not enough information given about Kimko's character to make me believe he would kill his family. We've come a long way since Orson Welles caused panic with The War of the Worlds. In today's world, the story just didn't ring true.
 
Hello everyone thank you for your comments!! Leo and I will be responding to them soon, but I did want to make a quick comment before I have to run:

Leo and I came up with the idea actually based on the Orson Welles idea. We wanted to do the story, but figured it'd be to costly with props and what not to truly recreate and Orson Welles panic attack. As we threw back ideas back and forth we stumbled upon wikipedia's article on the Emergency Broadcast System. The article states:


To prevent inadvertent activations and abuse, a ten bell alarm would be transmitted by the AP and UPI wire services along with a confirmation password during nationwide activations. Stations who subscribed to one of the wire services were not required to activate EBS if the teletype was operating but did not have a confirmation.
Despite these safeguards, the system was accidentally activated at 9:33 AM EST on February 20, 1971. A system operator accidentally "played the wrong tape" during a test of the system. As a result, an EBS activation message authenticated with the codeword "HATEFULNESS" was sent through the entire system, ordering stations to shut down and broadcast the alert of a national emergency. A cancellation message was not sent until 10:00 AM EST. This false alarm demonstrated major flaws in the EBS system. Many stations had not received the alert but more importantly the vast majority of those that did ignored it. The only station in the country that shut down as mandated by FCC rules was WSNS-TV (Ch 44) in Chicago. The operations manager in charge refused to play the attack warning. Numerous investigations were launched but few changes were made to the EBS.
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From this we took the idea and created a short story. Thank you for respones. Will reply soon to the comments

Tyler
 
Great story so far, very compelling. Too dark , especially in the basement, can barely see their faces. Acting isn't spectacular, but not bad.

When she says go get the radio, that's not credible at all. One moment she's saying "What about you? come with us" the next moment she wants the radio? Doesn't make sense.

Don't like the music, it's very cliche. Doesn't say anything except "tension ahead..."

And it just doesn't make sense he'd kill his family before an explosion.

Overall I don't buy the premise of the film.
 
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