SHORT: Yours Forever (shot on RED)

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svenzn

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Quick synopsis:
"A short film about an old man who one day decides to contact the love of his life."

I recently finished this movie with a classmate of mine from film school, I shot it and he wrote and directed it. The movie is shot on RED, which is a nice contrast to my usual filmmaking where I've been using a Canon HV20 and lately the EOS 550D/Rebel T2i. I'll gladly take comments on the photography and lighting in the movie, any pointers and comments are welcome. You are of course very welcome to comment on the movie itself as well, and I'll make sure to forward it to my classmate. Thanks in advance!

Check the vid here! http://www.dragonawardnewtalent.com/...din-for-evigt/

If you like the movie please rate it

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The original title is btw "Din För Evigt".
 
I would have liked to heare the sound when he takes the pictures....

I also miss dialogues.... "We see the guy is happy, we see the girl is said, we can see the guy is thinking" doesn't always work.

It's shot on RED...... but the sound is.... not there...

I would liked it much more it was shot on a stupid home-garden-camera from uncle Sam with good sound... rather then having it done on RED.

But 99,99999999999999% of "newbee filmmakers" only wants to film with RED. First learn to make a story, then learn how to put it as a film...and then maybe after 10 years start using the RED....
 
watching now

1. 1st shot has awkward/poor framing if you ask me. something about it i don't like. cam should be panned more to the right perhaps.
2. indoor scenes when he starts getting the letters cinematography/lighting is very good

3. 2:45 very awkward shot with the camera moving and lead almost bumping his head into the camera.

4. at 3:33 we see same shot as opening. this time it is framed correctly much better than awkward opening frame.

5. candle light scene very nice lighting and cinematography
 
Thanks a lot for the replies! I can agree with certain parts perhaps should have had more audio, but it was a decision made by the director early on to go for music only. Please elaborate more on why one should wait for 10 full years before shooting with a camera such as RED, and not learn the pro cameras right away. I have however been filming for about 5 years and gone through a range of cameras in the process. The cameras I own myself are more low key than RED, a Canon HV20 and a Canon 550D(Rebel T2i), however, I see no reason what so ever to not use the equipment I have access to. The film school at which I'm currently studying owns a RED camera, so naturally I will use that for as much as I possible can.

As to the framing of the first picture, I fully agree, and have spoken to the director about checking for possibilities on that shot. We did a few takes, and in the editing this was the one they felt was best for the actor, and it's been digitally zoomed about 200 percent... Hopefully it can be upgraded to something better. Glad you pointed it out, makes me feel more strongly about fixing it. :)

As to the moving camera I agree here as well, though this is more my fault and something I will keep in mind.

A big thanks for all the positive feedback as well, makes it feel like I did my work as well as I wanted to. :)
 
do not worry. It's only a way of saying. But what i wanted to notice is sometimes people spent 99% of the budget for a very good camera and have bad sound. Altough for you it's different because you can have it for free. It was more a general saying
 
It's true as you say that often it seems people think an expensive camera is all they'll need to make their masterpiece. :P
 
indeed....and then...they start with the edit....and after...they hear it in "theaters atmosphere"
 
A big thanks to everyone who gave the movie a vote. The film is participating in a competition to qualify for Gotheborgs International Film Festival, and the competiotn site is the one that's been linked to. Things were looking up for us as we had climbed to the top 5 in the competition, however a couple of days ago we were subject of what can only be described as a "coup". Being accused of vote-cheating for rising to fast in the competition the jury decided to remove 2000 votes, sending us down about 15 places in the competition. Interestingly we were not the only ones this happened to, it also occured on a couple of other films, also in the top, and all got the same description in the accusation, which was that the movie had received a certain number of votes in only a couple of minutes...

Anyways, wheter you've voted or not, if you enjoyed the movie, please suppport us by giving us a new vote! Cheers!
 
I really enjoyed the look of this. Great use of the red camera, beautiful lighting, and really captured some emotional shots there. THe lead actor is superb.

I really would have liked to see some audio here, during the speaking parts, i think it would have added a lot.

Other than that though, cant think of to many complaints. The pacing was good, and the ending moving although i could see it coming somewhat, was still emotional.

Did you rent the red or do you own one?
 
Thank you jonE5 :) The camera is owned by the film school I'm attending, so I guess you can say I borrowed it. :)
 
After thinking about it, I enjoyed this short quite a bit, I thought it was thought provoking and that is always a good thing. I've decided to feature it on my blog as the Short Film of the Week.

You join some talented ranks from indie world legends to the man himself Martin Scorcese as those who have been featured here.

Feel free to jot any comments, notes etc.. about the making of your project.

You can view where it is being featured here.

jone5films.wordpress.com/​

Congratulations!

jon
 
Fantastic work, svenzn. The reveal shot at 5:12 was brilliant - very sad. Loved the still shots from the opening as well. Particularly the shot of him at the table, thinking - the space across from him looking empty by contrast.
 
Thanks a lot for featuring us jonE5! Sorry for not getting back to you sooner on this, it's been a busy week. The movie went from idea, to finished script, planning, casting, rehearsing to shooting in about 3 weeks, during which we also had to make time for some work on other shorts that were being shot at the same time (we shot 6 movies over three weeks, which in total amounted to about 40 minutes of finished shorts). So it was quite stressed in terms of preparation for the movie, but everything worked out just in time for us to pull it off so we got a little lucky. The movie was shot over three days, though the first two days had limited access to locations so we only got about 4-5 hours of shooting from each of them, in comparison to the final day which offered about 12 hours of shooting.

Other than that the biggest problem we had was creating enough distance between the subject and the camera in the limited areas we worked in, as well as concealing all the lights from appearing in frame, or being reflected in windows and mirrors. An example of the problem with creating the requiered distance is one of the few moving cameras, where he opens the closet, which requiered a rail to be built outside the house , putting the camera on a jib-arm that could be moved through the window... Unfortunatley the shot wasn't very stable, so it had to be stabilized in post, and the result is a little flawed because of these shortcomings.

A big thanks to you as well Michael, I'm very pleased to hear you liked the shot, I think we did almost 10 takes on that one before I felt satisfied. :P
 
I liked it very much. I like that there were no spoken words. Very Very good!

"3. 2:45 very awkward shot with the camera moving and lead almost bumping his head into the camera."

Disagree, I really like this shot.

I do think I like the framing on the street shot the second time around but only noticed it after I read a comment and watched it twice.
 
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Great! How did you get the in-closet shot? The closet doesn't appear to be that deep. I thought the lighting was great...the RED is fantastic in low light.
 
@Kato

We nailed two shelves into a hollow square box and built a tower of movingboxes and pillows upon which we placed this square box. Then we had two crew members hold it steady so it wouldn't fall over. Very sophisticated stuff :D
 
I liked this film.

I agree though that it seems odd that you cannot hear the dialogue. Do you even need to see them speaking?

Maybe you could see him phoning, her picking up the phone and reacting, then cut?
 
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