Finally, "Quickie in the kitchen" is completed.
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Big hug! So proud! Music composition is great.. I wonder if you could just get someone with a better strings library to export those parts of the composition for you... that would make it much more "real" sounding and cheaper than redoing the whole thing. And the voices are a bit too "clean" in the dialog. You can bleed a little off the bottom frequencies and add a touch of echo to dirty them up a bit (don't go overboard, just match the main actor's voice with the others 
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You may want to cut one of the phone to face thingies "hello? ... Hello?" as it seems that it's one too many to me.
Everything else was really cool... loved it, performances were quite good, especially the raccoon guy - who was that again?
)You may want to cut one of the phone to face thingies "hello? ... Hello?" as it seems that it's one too many to me.
Everything else was really cool... loved it, performances were quite good, especially the raccoon guy - who was that again?
Oh man, I'm glad you all liked it! Huge relief!! :-D
Flicker Pictures - Hmm, i'll ask the actors to move a little bit when we'll be recording ADR for our next project. We just need a bit more experience doing these stuff. But we'll get there!
JoshL - I need to get my crew the same mind set as I have. Use only what we have, and don't try to cover things with cheap stuff
Thank you commenting on my "acting" haha! My actor who was supposed to play a raccoon bailed, so I just framed the camera, hit record and quickly ran in front of the camera. Took few tries to make it happen.
Phill_UK - Glad you liked the cinematography. I've shot this on good ol' t2i, 18-55mm 3.5 and 50mm 1.8.. nothing fancy. Had one reflector and some 100w scoop lights for interior shots. We had only 2 hour window to get good lighting, because of stupid trees! (uggh), and took us 4-5 Saturdays to film it.
Knightly - haha thank you very much! I'm sending all of the suggestions to my composer! We learned a lot during our first serious ADR session. Will be better next time, i promise!! :-D
Danevans - thank you!
Flicker Pictures - Hmm, i'll ask the actors to move a little bit when we'll be recording ADR for our next project. We just need a bit more experience doing these stuff. But we'll get there!
JoshL - I need to get my crew the same mind set as I have. Use only what we have, and don't try to cover things with cheap stuff
Thank you commenting on my "acting" haha! My actor who was supposed to play a raccoon bailed, so I just framed the camera, hit record and quickly ran in front of the camera. Took few tries to make it happen.Phill_UK - Glad you liked the cinematography. I've shot this on good ol' t2i, 18-55mm 3.5 and 50mm 1.8.. nothing fancy. Had one reflector and some 100w scoop lights for interior shots. We had only 2 hour window to get good lighting, because of stupid trees! (uggh), and took us 4-5 Saturdays to film it.
Knightly - haha thank you very much! I'm sending all of the suggestions to my composer! We learned a lot during our first serious ADR session. Will be better next time, i promise!! :-D
Danevans - thank you!
This is very nice.
The image the T2i puts out is beautiful.
I'm not much of a "crushed blacks" aficionado, but the deep blacks at the 0:15 and 3:22 scenes are impressive. I really like that.
Now, later on, at 3:34 and 3:36... well, that's just too much black for me.
FWIW, the "too dark" scenes match up well, so...
I've no ideas about what to do about it now, but I guess for future reference get "some" more light in there and tweak it in post, maybe?
I like the stability in your hand held shots.
Not shaky at all. A wonderful example of how to do it right.
Looks like you waited for the perfect overcast sky for the drive home. Two thumbs up!
@ 0:31 the camera is looking down, or less than 180° level. It's kinda funny looking. Like you were having to physically work around something that couldn't be moved more than as an artistic choice.
@ 0:36 consider having the "squishy" sounds semi-muted to give cause as to Todd's expression & investigation.
@ 2:24 you did a great job balancing the sunlit background with some (bounce board, white sheet?) fill light on Todd's shadow side. Those are easy to ignore, but you didn't. Nice.
Slider shot at 2:41 might could be cut a half second so that it doesn't end where the track runs out to a stop. Maybe.
The voices get a little "crisp" from 3:00 to 3:08. I dunno what to do about that.
The foleyed slide cocking @ 3:16 needs to be less clinky little metal and more solid chunk of steel & spring chambering a round.
I'd take this and "deepen" its pitch with an editor: http://soundbible.com/1399-Chambering-A-Round.html
Might have to speed it up a skosh, too.
Or just use the last two clicks of it.
@ 3:28 Todd's final words are mumbled or something. Intentional?
@ 3:56 the delay until firing can be cut down a bit.
Looks really great!
Hope it does well on the festival circus... I mean circuit!
The image the T2i puts out is beautiful.
I'm not much of a "crushed blacks" aficionado, but the deep blacks at the 0:15 and 3:22 scenes are impressive. I really like that.
Now, later on, at 3:34 and 3:36... well, that's just too much black for me.
FWIW, the "too dark" scenes match up well, so...
I've no ideas about what to do about it now, but I guess for future reference get "some" more light in there and tweak it in post, maybe?
I like the stability in your hand held shots.
Not shaky at all. A wonderful example of how to do it right.
Looks like you waited for the perfect overcast sky for the drive home. Two thumbs up!
@ 0:31 the camera is looking down, or less than 180° level. It's kinda funny looking. Like you were having to physically work around something that couldn't be moved more than as an artistic choice.
@ 0:36 consider having the "squishy" sounds semi-muted to give cause as to Todd's expression & investigation.
@ 2:24 you did a great job balancing the sunlit background with some (bounce board, white sheet?) fill light on Todd's shadow side. Those are easy to ignore, but you didn't. Nice.
Slider shot at 2:41 might could be cut a half second so that it doesn't end where the track runs out to a stop. Maybe.
The voices get a little "crisp" from 3:00 to 3:08. I dunno what to do about that.
The foleyed slide cocking @ 3:16 needs to be less clinky little metal and more solid chunk of steel & spring chambering a round.
I'd take this and "deepen" its pitch with an editor: http://soundbible.com/1399-Chambering-A-Round.html
Might have to speed it up a skosh, too.
Or just use the last two clicks of it.
@ 3:28 Todd's final words are mumbled or something. Intentional?
@ 3:56 the delay until firing can be cut down a bit.
Looks really great!
Hope it does well on the festival circus... I mean circuit!
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Aw, shaddap!
Dima, you must have waited FOREVER!
I forgot he lives in Seattle.
The land of perpetual fog & overcast.
He must've waited until... oh, gee. Pretty much any day!
Thank you, ray, for detailed review! I took note of it, and will tweak it out prior sending a copy to festivals!
Yea, it was reaaaaly hit and miss trying to get non rainy day, nonless sunny. We were filming at the end of november/october, on saturdays, from 10am to 1pm, waiting for dry intervals. Can't believe my crew didn't say "F**k this" when I phoned them every Friday.
I ve even tried to immitate the sunshine without any proper lighting by bouncing car highbeams off my gold reflector onto the actor. Really ghetto, but hey, he got lit up a bit
I really need a budget larger than my planned $50 bucks!
Oh well, one of the lessons is to write for 90% interior, or include rain into the scrip...
Yea, it was reaaaaly hit and miss trying to get non rainy day, nonless sunny. We were filming at the end of november/october, on saturdays, from 10am to 1pm, waiting for dry intervals. Can't believe my crew didn't say "F**k this" when I phoned them every Friday.
I ve even tried to immitate the sunshine without any proper lighting by bouncing car highbeams off my gold reflector onto the actor. Really ghetto, but hey, he got lit up a bit
I really need a budget larger than my planned $50 bucks!
Oh well, one of the lessons is to write for 90% interior, or include rain into the scrip...
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Very good..
DOUBLE your budget!
DOUBLE your budget!
Where can I check this out?
Wheatgrinder, hell yea I ll be dOubling my budget! I ll go from 20 bucks to 40
Blackthorn , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwSOSrUE0k
Blackthorn , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwSOSrUE0k
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Love the short man! Also, the color grading was really good on this one! Did you use cinestyle? And what did you use to grade it?
Good luck on the film fests!
Good luck on the film fests!
Nope, no cinestyle.I did 3way color correction on all the clips to make everything look even, and then slapped good ol curve adjustment on the entire short. All in premier.
Added camera shakes and gun flash in after effects.. Thats pretty much it
Glad you liked it!
Added camera shakes and gun flash in after effects.. Thats pretty much it
Glad you liked it!