He doesn't need any luck. He knows everything already. I just got word he's been chosen to DP and Sound Design "Avatar 2", he's so good.
P.S. He has disabled ratings on his Youtube clip AND he moderates/approves comments. Hence, no comments or rating.
lol,
Well, he's just posting it up on message boards like this one - one of his posts says "On another board someone commented..."
He's a fake. He's just posting his video up to get you-tube views which means absolutely nothing.
I gave constructive criticism and you went off the wall, got all defensive and argumentative and even started to be insulting. You will never get anywhere in the film industry if you cannot take the hits.
Independent Film does not = shit. The vast majority of independent films I have seen are at least competently produced.
So let me say this straight out: Everyone here is trying to be REALLY kind to you because the footage available on Youtube is embarrassingly awful. Everything about it is low grade. Z grade. It’s crap.
I tried to be nice. I did my best to give you advice that I believe would help you improve as a filmmaker.
But you had to be completely defensive. So I will continue to be perfectly honest…
The music I was talking about is the music in the trailer. I’ve no idea what music is in the actual film, but the music in the trailer is just jarringly bad.
I was not "ripped off" on my short by hiring a sound guy a and small crew that knew what the hell they were doing. The crew worked hard and the results were there for all to see. My short received a standing ovation at the NY Film Festival and those New York crowds are tough. They will boo, hiss or walk out if they don’t like a film. After the premiere I was approached by a producer who asked me to do seven days work rewriting his project, which was about the shoot. The money I was paid for that one job paid for my 35mm blowup.
What amazes me is that despite it being my first short film, it had some success. And I learned from it all. I took whatever tough talk was thrown my way and thought about it.
Meanwhile, I’ve been involved as a writer with two films that have been produced. Feature length films. I was brought in to do re-writes on both (the scripts were just laughably bad), so I guess you’ve no idea what you are talking about.
Good luck to you. I hope you win lotto because you are gonna need it.
Female Combatants! I saw it awhile back -I love that stuff.
There are a few that are similar, but I think it's Female Combatants
where they shoot like a 20 minute fight scene as the sun is going down, in a public park. lol
-Thanks-
I've read and heard that it's an axiom (assuming that axiom is the correct word) in low budget filmmaking that audiences can sit through "poor" visuals and easily accept the lousy visuals as ... part of the aesthetic whole.
BAD SOUND ... especially lousy sound that makes dialogue a burden to hear ... is far more damaging in labeling a work "amateurish"
It's strange but true: in a "visual" medium, lousy AUDIO often kills worse than poor visuals.
And I don't know nuthin' about AUDIO!
Here's a dark grungey visual I grabbed off video (about a Russian girl traveling with a carnival thru Indiana this summer) ... It was pretty DARK between the tents, pretty bad image, had to up the brightness beyond the sane laws of Man and Nature ... but you'd get used to it faster than if it were equally lame audio where you couldn't hear her interview etc.
Plus, I'm betting my lil editing fx let me "rescue" lousy video better than I could "rescue" bad audio??? Miss the dialogue and can it be salvaged, I dunno? I suppose there's always post!
So ... for what it's worth ... AUDIO is important! I need learn (and I'm trying to learn) that myself!