"Yer Killin me" a film by Kyle Murphy

ZazaCast said:
Hell, I give you points for living in Alaska...so you're ahead of the game!
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yeah, I got a taste of those "points" a couple nights ago when a bear tried to push it's way into my garage. this after he had a scuffle with a moose in my driveway.
beats head against wall for not having the video cam readily available. But the shotgun sure found my hand pretty quickly just in case. ;)
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2062ad said:
yeah, I got a taste of those "points" a couple nights ago when a bear tried to push it's way into my garage. this after he had a scuffle with a moose in my driveway.
beats head against wall for not having the video cam readily available. But the shotgun sure found my hand pretty quickly just in case. ;)
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THAT'S what I'm talking about! WOW...look at that door...my God.
You should get one of those GoPro cameras and mount it on the end of the shotgun.
 
AJ Brooks said:
lol

Sorry about your garage, but that mental image just made my day. :)
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hey no prob. in all honesty I was laughing as well. All it did was to cause me to move up a project anyway. since I have turned my garage into a "filming studio"---green screen, lights, cam rigs, etc I was contemplating removing the garage door anyway and framing it in with a double french door. The bear merely took it from a next spring project to...well...this weekend :)
 
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That looks amazing! I bet you got some nice footage with that.

MAH
 
Especially if it's directed towards your garage door :laugh:
Put more cams up there and you could shoot ..err.. film the next bear matrix-style...

(No, i'm really eager to see what you came up with.)
 
Michael Anthony Horrigan said:
That looks amazing! I bet you got some nice footage with that.

MAH
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well, it has potential to. it's sorta a "recession filmmaking, salvaged stuff apparatus I made up. I mean literally it didn't cost a single dime other than the elec to plug the tools in too. I see it as a sort of prototype for another finely machined one and/or variations of the same concept. but yeah, I'm pretty happy with the initial run thru with it. I actually built it a couple weeks prior to starting to shoot "yer killin' me" for another project I was working on but there it was just calling to be part of this one. So I let it. :)
the radius overhead cam part of it I mean. the rest, (the part with the fan) I built for the Thrillfest film.
 
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For those who have been following and getting a smile about the bear intrusion into my garage/studio, I got the opening framed in today. Helped alleviate some of the nervousness of waiting for the films to go live for a while. And! an added bonus came to me too. The garage door opener, rail etc is going to definitely stay in place. I am going to rig it up to hold my cam to make a motorized "trolley"? (I really need to learn the correct terminology), but you get the idea. there IS a silver lining to this other than the comedic factor! :) The green screen is directly opposite the garage door opening so half, (um...part), of the work is already done. cool huh? ;)
I'm seeing ALL KINDS of rigs for it already.
 
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Ok, I kinda got the story. Not sure if the dude was shot by the bartender or what though. But really this could've just been a recorded audio, since the visuals seemed to only be there to make it a film. It did show some creativity, so keep on keepin' on.
 
I'm up in the air on this one. The story was okay as Keaton stated. This one needs a second vewing. I'm not sure why you had the double image at the top.
 
Why were the hands boxed in black & white in the beginning? Visually it was different, you had to depend heavily on the tonality and believability of actors you don't see. Faces usually tell us everything we need to know, here we had only hands. It was a good effort. I don't really throw it into the thriller bin because from the get-go you knew how it was going to end. Good "stab" at it, as it were.
 
Yep I actually didn't understand the part where the thingies chop of the chaps head (Sarah did!) Then I was like aaah! I liked the concept of this - I think it was definately experimental and an interesting way to visaully conceptualise the meeting of these two characters, and there troubling relationship - and to depict it with hands is brave too. Things like the black and white square, and other visual edit elements could perhaps do with more discipline towards a locked visual style (to match the simplicity and specificity of the story and its consequences that your telling us.

Brave - and i respect that :)
 
I don;t know what to say to this one. I had no idea what to make of that annoying square on the screen that eventually just faded away with no rhyme of reason and then I was partly amused by the voice acting but then... WTF just happened? This one leaves me with more questions than answers and the wrong questions. I can value experimentation, but I really have no idea what to make of this at all...
 
the way I figure it; everything I do at this stage in the game is experimental! :)

the double screen in question= it was an unexpected turn in layering so to speak. Then it grew on me and I sort of saw it as a kind of perpetual self induced double vision of sorts, and it faded as he got closer to taking action on his thoughts. Whether that came thru or not I don't know and the whole thing sort of keeps a question in my head as well. It was interesting to me so it stayed...for now.


The FX segment with the head was rediculously as fun to put together as fast as the whole "vision" fell apart in lack of time, preparation, and knowledge. So I know it takes a couple viewings of that segment to maybe see it. The more I painted the styrofoam the quicker it melted. :p Fake blood was dripping off it as it swang by the cam on a thread. omg the cam hood somehow still has a couple drops on it I just discovered. How? I have no idea. It was always intended to be a shadow sequence but...Anyway, that and other things I'm going to continue to tweek and learn with. I'll probably expand that segment in one fashion or another most likely including a reshoot of the flying head. and a direct shot of the deadly fan.
 
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Thanks for explaining that.

This one seemed pretty experimental and I can see that you were trying something very different here.
After seeing your rig I expected a really cool shot but didn't get it so in that way I was a little disappointed.

Keep at it and jump in the next fest. I would like to see what you do.

MAH
 
Good stuff. So does that rig move around much? Any footage from it? Quite inventive.

BTW, Did you write this? I enjoyed the repetition of the names. The way he delivered that was interesting.
 
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