Your thoughts on LossFest so far?

Kholi said:
Falling up is awesome. Technically impaired but if those issues were fixed it probably would stand at the top. At least from what I've seen.
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And that's why we're all different. :)

I don't use 10 to mean perfect in this scoring system. I use it to signify my favorite. There's only going to be one 10 unless, of course, I have a tie for favorite. In this case, I don't. When the voting is done, I'll probably reveal my top 10 but I'd prefer to not have my rankings influence anyone else one way or the other.

I don't consciously compare one to another, I just rate each one on my personal criteria. I could be different than someone else's. There are going to be those that like the technical aspects above all and others who just want to be entertained. Neither is right, neither is wrong. It's subjective. There have been some movies that haven't appealed to me. Now, they aren't going to rate/rank as high as the ones that I enjoyed. I may take other things into consideration when I score them, though. While I may dislike a story, I may give it points for being a well made story I disliked, so it will come out better than a poorly made story I disliked. BUT, a well made story I disliked is not going to come out better than one I loved.

Again, if I considered it a BAD movie, pretty much couldn't get through it, it gets a 1, 2 or 3. If it was an AVERAGE movie, might not have liked the story but appreciated how well it was made, it get's a 4, 5 or 6. If I considered it a GOOD movie, it gets a 7, 8 or 9 with the 10 being reserved for my personal favorite.

In an old scoring system we used for SciFest, HorrorFest etc. there were categories that you rated 1 through 10. In that case, I didn't rate anything a 10 in any category unless it I felt it was perfect in that category. Because all the categories were weighted equally, and because there were more technical categories a movie that was technically good could be a movie with no story or poor acting. That system didn't work too good for me. I like the one we have now, because I can reward the movie I like and penalize those I don't. With 1 through 9 (10 reserved for my favorite) there is plenty of room for gradation.

I don't care how anyone else scores the films as long as it works for them. This works for me.
 
filthrich said:
Lol. What horrigan said.

Its so hard for me to take away stars for technical flaws when my films have them as well. to me there were not any unwatchable films this fest.
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I really agree with with this. I feel bad sometimes for taking away points for technical demerits when my film contains them as well. It really sucks being writer, director, DP, editor, and sound designer at the same time. Makes more room for error. :(
 
Lawsuit_Boy said:
You're certainly a "glass half full" guy, aren't you?

You're right, though. It sucks knowing how to do things properly and then not being ABLE to do it because of a lack of equipment or man-power. Argh!
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That one bites the big one right there. Only so far you can go by yourself. At some point something's gotta give or you just cannot progress any further.
 
Lawsuit_Boy said:
You're certainly a "glass half full" guy, aren't you?

You're right, though. It sucks knowing how to do things properly and then not being ABLE to do it because of a lack of equipment or man-power. Argh!
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I'm a one-man-show too. Most of the time I'm lucky to be able to find someone to hold a boom! I have to look on the bright side or I'd never get a movie done. Sh*t, most of the time I'm beat by the time I've lugged all the gear to the shoot & set it up...makes for very long days.
 
ZazaCast said:
I'm a one-man-show too. Most of the time I'm lucky to be able to find someone to hold a boom! I have to look on the bright side or I'd never get a movie done. Sh*t, most of the time I'm beat by the time I've lugged all the gear to the shoot & set it up...makes for very long days.
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I didn't have anyone to hold a boom. :( Heck, I didn't even have my xlr/quarter inch cables for the sound equipment in order to get the mic close enough to the action most of the time, which sucked.

Haha, I can totally relate to carrying gear. I was lucky on this project to have at least one other person at a time to help with that. Setting up a steadicam while prepping the actors and making a final definition for the shot as well as checking to make sure we'll get at least fair, not great, sound is certainly a hazardous situation. I feel confident in my work, though. Sure, there are technical foibles mostly in the sound, but even though the sound was quiet and occasionally picked up too much room tone, it was at least consistently mediocre without any cuts or weird losses, haha.

My friend Ryan, who's probably shooting a feature this summer on the RED One, wants me to be his DP (a stronger portrayal of my shooting versatility is on display on my vimeo page http://vimeo.com/user511902/videos ), and I would love to play with the RED. But he has been trying to help me build a crew so I can actually get some solid films done.

Sorry about the shameless vimeo plug, by the way. ;)
 
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