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watch Short Comedy Sketch- Monopoly

Just posted this to youtube. Shot it a few weeks ago on vacation. It's a pretty simple sketch, please let me know if it makes ya laugh... I feed off positive feedback like a vampire.

(Now I'm off to seek help with this ego)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fcp-1mpCJ0
 
"I made it precipitate." :lol: LMAO! Beautiful! I loved her delivery.


Yep.
Pretty much how most Monotony games go, minor varaiations aside. ;)


Wha'd you do with the coloring?
An awful lot of medium shots.

Review 'Maverick' and/or 'Ocean's Eleven' for their card playing scenes.
See how those directors/DPs shot the same scenario. Rip off some technique. ;)
(I don't think the card table scenes in 'Casino Royale' will be useful. Too much other junk and the table's too big to be comparable for a tight space shot.)
 
"I made it precipitate." :lol: LMAO! Beautiful! I loved her delivery.

I'm glad, cuz I was a little worried about that line, but she insisted it was humorous.



Wha'd you do with the coloring?

Is this a compliment or a de-compliment?

An awful lot of medium shots.

That's kinda my style... plus it was a tiny porch, not much room for setups... had an awful lot of lighting problems too.


Rip off some technique. ;)

Methinks you mean to say "borrow" (But we know the truth, don't we?)
 
No sound at work :( But I've got a couple comments:

1. The eyes are the window to the soul. The chick in the red shirt on that one longer shot toward the beginning looked like her eyes were completely closed and it removes the viewer from the moment.

2. I cringed when I saw you(?) were drinking Natty Ice. Thankfully you saved the day by pouring it out, the only appropriate use for it ;)

@ray, not sure if you're comment about medium shots is a critique or not, but I'm gonna paraphrase Mel Brooks' advice here, which is that comedy lives in the wide shot, it needs to breathe.
 
I'm glad, cuz I was a little worried about that line, but she insisted it was humorous.
She's right. It is.

Is this a compliment or a de-compliment?
Neither.
Just a guess that that's probably not a in-camera effect (unless it was set on "vivid" or something similar.)
Looks like a post effect.

For a humor skit I think the extra saturation looks appropriate.
I think too many "serious films" go ape sh!t desaturating.

I just was interested in the workflow process used here.

Lately I've been putting my camera's brightness setting on the low side and then practice tweaking the tints in post.
Supposedly with a "less bright" (AKA dull) image it allows there to be more grays in the blacks so that they're not crushed and not quite so many blown-out highlights.
I've had "meh... ' results with this approach.



That's kinda my style... plus it was a tiny porch, not much room for setups... had an awful lot of lighting problems too.
I recognized the space limitations, and was why I thought of those two similar spaces+scenarios.

Methinks you mean to say "borrow" (But we know the truth, don't we?)
Nope. Steal. Swipe. Rip-off. :yes::lol::D
I steal like a mutherflapper.
Every chance I get.
 
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No sound at work :( But I've got a couple comments:

1. The eyes are the window to the soul. The chick in the red shirt on that one longer shot toward the beginning looked like her eyes were completely closed and it removes the viewer from the moment.

2. I cringed when I saw you(?) were drinking Natty Ice. Thankfully you saved the day by pouring it out, the only appropriate use for it ;)

@ray, not sure if you're comment about medium shots is a critique or not, but I'm gonna paraphrase Mel Brooks' advice here, which is that comedy lives in the wide shot, it needs to breathe.

1. She was looking down at the board, but I see what you mean.

2. THAT BEER IS ****ING TERRIBLE!!! I took one actual drink before I decided I didn't wanna chug it like I was planning to... so I poured it on someone's head. (improv, baby!!)


Mel Brooks's comedy, and much of the comedy of his time was usually focused on physical gags. My comedy usually just relies on speaking, and I find the medium shot to be more useful... Especially when improvising, so I can cut around anything someone says and splice it with something else (even if that conversation didn't happen when shooting)
 
Thanks guys, its nice to get useful directing advice. That's why this site rules
 
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I forgot to ask this: Did anyone feel that the lighting was sucky on a few shots? Specifically on the blonde girl?
 
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