Recent content by dandevans

General rule in the UK is that copyright (in the composition) expires 70 years after the death of the author. It's the same for recordings, but you aren't going to find many recordings over 70 years old!

Why wouldn't you want your name to stand out? Seems people would be more likely to remember it! Unless it's Roger Young-Boyes or something. (I actually once had to call someone with that name when I worked at a call centre) :)

Not bad, but the blacks on the castle and nearby mountain are too black - it's quite a distance away and as things go into the distance the perceived contrast is reduced (atmospheric perspective). Having the very high contrast there looks a bit unnatural. The edge around the added elements looks...

The script's written, bar some inevitable further revisions because I can never leave anything alone :) I'm in pre-production at the moment, its cast and we have most of the (motley) crew. Hope to shoot Spring/early Summer and have it out by the end of the year, preferably for our local horror...

+1 for vimeo - render out from vegas to mp4, upload to vimeo (you can upload one HD video per week for free), the quality is pretty decent, you can protect it with a password and there will be no waiting at all at the other end. And if they really want to they can download the original mp4 file...

No worries wheatgrinder - I know it's not like the best name ever, but there was some thought put into it :) I'll try and come up with something better anyway, but having read up on it a bit it seems that trademarks are only infringed if the one in the film could reasonably be mistaken for the...

Me too, the trailer looked really interesting!

Wow, that's a little harsh. I thought it was quite a good name. :( I like it because it hints at survival of the fittest / competition for a mate in evolution. As the story is about a love triangle its kind of fitting. Probably no-one will care of course but I was more just curious as to what...

So in my script there's a vegan healthfood shop called "Natural Selection". Turns out there's one or two actual healthfood shops called this in real life, according to Google. Is it legally OK to use that name for the shop in my short or do I need to change it? I imagine its quite difficult to...

Liked it a lot! Loved the subway train in the cupboard! I did think it could have been slightly shorter, I get that you were going for a slow dreamlike feel and it did work but I found myself wanting it to move just a little bit quicker at some points. Camerawork and lighting looked great...

Pretty effective, like the sound. Not 100% sure about the "Wake Up!" vocal at the end though it sounds a little comical almost, and definitely don't like the font / kerning for the title - looks very amateurish whereas the rest looks quite professional.

I love bad 80s movies, and this was a good pastiche. Really professionally put together especially on such a small budget. Music was awesome. Only criticism I'd have of the production quality is that the CG elements stood out as not-very-convincingly-80s. The trouble with pastiche is that these...

Liked! Is it going to be a musical like the original Oliver? Please say yes :) Here's mine, all likes much appreciated: https://www.facebook.com/primecutsmovie

Loving the effects video - the smoke in the "red alert" section was particularly effective I thought! How did you do that?

Thanks for that! Really useful when people can post good examples to learn from - I can never seem to remember which bit of which movie I should be looking at for reference :) Great scene, obviously. Interesting that in a lot of the shots only a very small amount of the closer actor is visible...