archived-videos Date Disaster - My best film ever!

TheMutualMatt · Nov 6, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3oZnkgpDFM

This is my latest and greatest short film, filmed for my film class on a Cannon 60D. (which is a great camera). For the first 3 shots we used the Indi-mini slider. I would love to see what you guys think!

-Matt

kinglis · Nov 6, 2011

Only if we could open your link is it worth watching it

TheMutualMatt · Nov 6, 2011

kinglis said:
Only if we could open your link is it worth watching it

You can't open the link?

kinglis · Nov 6, 2011

Now I can...
But I don't buy it... A man should be able to tell a woman she has a bug in her pasta... THIS IS NOT A STRONG ENOUGH CONFLICT TO HOLD A FILM..

NickClapper · Nov 6, 2011

kinglis said:
Now I can...
But I don't buy it... A man should be able to tell a woman she has a bug in her pasta... THIS IS NOT A STRONG ENOUGH CONFLICT TO HOLD A FILM..

I'm kind of inclined to agree with this.

There was also the problem that the two leads looked really young, which might've been your intention, and then the guy in the car at the end looked much older. That seemed a little creepy.

But the thing was nicely shot. Be careful when you have doors opening to the outside that you don't get a blown out image. Some of the dolly shots were nice.

It also looked like all your cast members were trying to keep from laughing the entire time. No one seemed to be particularly serious about acting...?

TheMutualMatt · Nov 6, 2011

NickClapper said:
I'm kind of inclined to agree with this.

There was also the problem that the two leads looked really young, which might've been your intention, and then the guy in the car at the end looked much older. That seemed a little creepy.

But the thing was nicely shot. Be careful when you have doors opening to the outside that you don't get a blown out image. Some of the dolly shots were nice.

It also looked like all your cast members were trying to keep from laughing the entire time. No one seemed to be particularly serious about acting...?

Thats a good observation, Its hard to get actors, I men I am only 16 so we usually just use our friends. What can we do?

NickClapper · Nov 7, 2011

TheMutualMatt said:
Thats a good observation, Its hard to get actors, I men I am only 16 so we usually just use our friends. What can we do?

No, I appreciate the difficulty.

But what you should realise is that you're now shooting at a certain quality and that the acting should match the production. If you've got friends who can act then that's great but write the story around them so that it doesn't feel weird.

I don't know where you're from but I'm sure there would be plenty of actors/actresses willing to work on your film for showreel material- you've got a very decent quality set up and that will attract people to take part.