Trailer from a new DVX feature now available

khmuse

khmuse

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My daughter just wrapped 23 days on a feature film titled "Freaky Faron" produced by Blue Cactus Pictures of Valencia California and shot on location in and around Tulsa Oklahoma. They have three different resolution versions of a rough trailer available on line at:

low res (9.1 MB)

http://www.freakyfaron.com/movies/trailer_low.mov

medium res (23.5 MB)

http://www.freakyfaron.com/movies/trailer_med.mov

high res (30.5 MB)

http://www.freakyfaron.com/movies/trailer_hi.mov

The film directed by John Ross was shot entirely on the DVX and is currently in post production. ADR, sound design, color timing and film out are being completed now. Distribution for the film is scheduled to be announced shortly.

While I would have preferred that they shot with the anamorphic adapter, the DP felt that she could obtain the results that they wanted with shooting 1.33 and protecting the image for a 1.78 film out.

We expect to see a projected print sometime in next month; I will be interested to see how well this holds up against anamorphic DVX footage that I have seen printed to film.
 
Opps. A typo in each of the links from above has been corrected. They should all work now.
 
How did they get so many nicely lit night scenes? There were a lot of shots that were far away from the subject so I have no idea where they placed the lights. khmuse do you know anything about that?

Also, the trailer is a bit long, more of a preview then a trailer.
 
the music sounds a darn lot like edward scissorhands. The whole thing looked really dark on my monitor for some reason, but other than that, I thought it looked pretty good. When my attourney tried to get me out of the hospital they tried the alien thing a few times, but it never worked. I'm curious to see how they pulled that one off!
 
I don't really have any involvement with the production side of this project, just a parent of the main actress, so I can only make ‘suggestions’. I agree, a 4+ minute trailer is a little too long; but as I mentioned this is really rough, just something that they put together while still on location. I am certain that it will evolve as the post evolves.

The movie is mostly night shots. I think that over 75% of their "days of days" were overnighters (sunset to sunrise). I wasn't on set for this project so I don't know exactly how they were lit. I know from a conversation that I had at a preproduction meeting, they were very keen on using practicals as much as possible, but that was likely supplemented by a number of practical motivated sources (I know that the production company brought a 3 ton grip truck from LA to OK). I will ask my daughter for some more information about the lighting on the night exteriors and post some more information.

As for looking "amateur" I can't say that I agree. Its certainly not as high of production values as a lot of films that she has worked on, but for a modified low budged feature shot on the DVX, I thought that they did a pretty decent job.
 
I don't think it's too long... It would be for a TV ad, but I like to watch a lot from a movie on the internet.

Pretty decent score, nothing like Scissorhands IMO.

Good acting, unlike most production we see within this level. Nice lighting, some mistakes but nothing serious. Good prodution values. Good camera work. Cinematography is a bit boring.

The story didn't really enticed me though, seemed quite bland.

Which one's your daughter by the way? The lead? She sounded pretty convincing.
 
hey man

I liked the story.. acting was really good (especially for kids!). I main character is likable too.

Cinematography needs to be spruced up. seems very boring and bland. Maybe increase the contrast a bit?

other than tht, well done. congrats on doing a feature too!
 
Thanks for the comments, my daughter's role was Faron, the title character.

As for the story, it wasn't intended for an adult audience, more targeted for the tweener and younger teen crowd. It's been called a cross between Veronica Mars and X-Files, its targeted toward a PG audience.
 
Looks like a really entertaining movie :) Good acting and score! Yeah, I really don't like the camera work... It felt amatuerish to me as well... The cinematography was boring too... Mix it up a little... just my 2 cents...
 
Yeah for trailers, you usually want to get someone who specializes in cutting trailers. If you have your feature editor do it, they're gonna wanna let these scenes they're familiar with finish out.
 
Produced by "the other" Chris Moore.

Your daughter was very convincing by the way. She seems very talented.

Any idea what the budget was?
 
In answer to a few posts:

flipsidekrew - The sound man on this project was Jim Manchowski. You can find him on IMDB and forward a question to him about what he used (I know that they were using UHF wireless rigs, but don't know which lavs they used).

chrispenney - Thanks for the complement about my daughter. She has been a working actor for about 3 1/2 years now and has worked on something like 25 films, a lot of music videos, a number of PSAs as does VO work for a summer Disney series. The budget wasn't disclosed to us, so I can't answer that question. Would have loved to have known as it might have given her manager and agents a better position when they negotiated her rate. I think that it falls under the modified low budget limit.

This isn't the theatrical trailer that will be used, just something that they put together while still on location. If and when they post the final trailer, I will put up a link.
 
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