Wages of Sin

Yeah I mean my comments follow most here Nate regarding the tech quality and performances - however what i think is great and really quite bold is sticking your film out there for us all to watch and enjoy.

Good for you ;)
 
visugeek said:
My pleasure, thanks again for sharing your film with us!
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lawriejaffa said:
Yeah I mean my comments follow most here Nate regarding the tech quality and performances - however what i think is great and really quite bold is sticking your film out there for us all to watch and enjoy.

Good for you ;)
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Thanks guys. Honestly I can only do so much technically, but with each film things get better and better. If you saw "The 4th Beast" WOS was a major improvement in everything from lighting to choreo. I learned to trust my instincts on a lot of things that I relied on others for that wasn't so good in the first film and at the same time I learned how to avoid major issues, like for Divinity we'll have a dedicated boom op on every shoot to assure good sound coming in. When the sound is good it's no big deal on the flipside when it's bad it's extremely noticeable and sometimes there's no way to clean it up or do ADR.

Ironically in "Wages" I found ways to get good sound in tricky situations (talking on a pay phone while on a busy street) then in some basic situations like the classroom scene, for whatever reason it just didn't work out.

In music I got a lot of flak for the garage band loops but when normals (people who aren't in film - or who aren't superheroes) heard it they wanted to know who the band. LOL. It's really different hearing from filmmakers and basic people on the street. What they're looking for is so totally different but not really, if that makes any sense. Even my mom's reactions to certain things were quite different. (I knew I had something when The York woman's threw her little tantrum over my choosing not to deal with them).

In the end "Wages" has worked out as somewhat of a micro-budget calling card. A DIY film that's "watchable". If nothing else some reviewers seem to feel my films are at the top of the heap and not the bottom. We only got one really bad review and became known as the first indy film for Apple TV. My students have seen some of it and they're really interested in screenwriting now.

With all that said keep in mind all this is based on the fact we set out to make a B-grade action film. If I came into this thinking I was going to do The Matrix on $4500 this would've easily been Epic Fail. Overshooting has cost a lot of filmmakers. You have to know what you're working with and be able to understand that.

My only regret was it could've used two more martial arts scenes for pacing and some of the last scenes after the warehouse fight could've been better. We couldn't get an office (would you believe I could get a cemetery easier) and had to put that scene together rather quickly. And there's a really bad edit in one of the final shot that I just couldn't make work the way I wanted to. I also would've hit some of those scenes with the full 1250 watts we had available to us (1750 if you count the halogen).

-Nate
 
I had to reupload the "Wages of Sin" movie because Youtube took it down but didn't ever really tell me why, so along with deleting it the more than half a million views went with it.

-Nate
 
Amazing how arbitrary youtube/google can be. They'll take down something for unknown reasons, even if it's had a shedload of views and was made by someone well-known, like in your situation. There's just no real defense against it, that's what's scary. Anyhow, good to know you've put it up again!
 
OldCorpse said:
Amazing how arbitrary youtube/google can be. They'll take down something for unknown reasons, even if it's had a shedload of views and was made by someone well-known, like in your situation. There's just no real defense against it, that's what's scary. Anyhow, good to know you've put it up again!
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Yep, back up and it will probably take awhile to build back up like that again.

El Director said:
OH man, that sucks
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Yea, but it is what it is. At least the strike is gone which means someone actually looked into it.

-Nate
 
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