Trailer for Feature length film made with HV20/30
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This is a trailer for a feature length film I made last summer on my weekends and evenings.
I wrote directed and edited it.
I filmed it with an HV20 and HV30
to check out the website I made go to
phasefirefilms.com/AMOR
All good apart from the explosion.
The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
I liked it.
Just a heads up, next time you might want to put this in the "Footage" Sub-forum. I see why it may be in here, but the Footage Sub-forum is the place to go.
Over the shoulder conversations!
eh. Great color correction and editing.
Horrible cinematography though. Conversation scenes should be shot with the over the shoulder/switch technique. Not a 45 degree angle from the person's face.
You know what I mean? Put the camera behind the listener to show his/her's shoulder, then you should be able to see the speaker. Then switch to behind the speaker's shoulder, to show the listener, who is now speaking. It's kinda hard to explain.
Most people on this forum should know what I mean.
I don't know what the heck you're smoking, SB.
I thought most of the shots were great, except a couple, where he could have used the 180 degree rule for dialog. I think some of the dialog shots called for that kind of 45 degree shot. IMHO
I like that this was your first post. Now all of the members wont be like "Just go out and film something! Stop asking questions!!"
When is the movie being released?
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Sorry I will post my next trailer in the footage area next time.
Yeah the explosion still needs some work but it was done as a learning experience. I still have to dig through my DVD collections and find a few to try and copy.
I also agree that a lot of the shots are not very exciting and boring angles. I don't really want to try making another feature without a 2nd person on board to help with this side of things.
The color correction came from some presets that came on a DVD with the book The DV Rebels guide. I love it. If I knew any other indie filmmakers I would give this to them. I also used Videocopilots, Film Magic Pro a lot. I love that site.
I also learned a lot from this forum like I picked up the automated reverse telecine script for AE and a link to the free HDV capture program that is super easy.
As for the release date.
I hope to make the DVD for sale by the end of 2010.
I'm putting together a screening for the actors and crew at the end of this week at a restaurant.
The only reason I'm waiting to release it is I hope to enter it in some film festivals but I can only afford to enter it in about 4 since I can't spare more then $400 on fees.
Last edited by phasefire; 2010 January 12th at 14:03. Reason: adding note
yea that's exactly what I meant, and it doesn't necessarily even have to be over the shoulder, just at that same kind of angle. Yea, the 180 degree rule.Originally Posted by drapeama
Okay now what your saying isn't making sense.
180 degree rule is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_degree_rule
The 180 degree rule is where you draw a line between 2 people talking and don't cross it.
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He's just saying he prefers OTS shots during conversations. OTS shots are actually very textbook shots, it's not how conversations are supposed to be shot. I do admit the framing does seem a little tight on those, but it's up to the cinematographer.
I remmember how Brian DePalma used to shoot with unusual angles in some scenes in the first Mission Impossible, like in the restaurant scene, he shot it with the 180 rule but from a lower angle/dutch angle...
Unforunatly, all of the effects looked really bad. They were all overdone to the point of comedy almost. For example, the 2 pistols shooting the dude. Sounded like a machine gun going off, and the blood flying feet into the air was over the top.
The crowbar to the face made an unrealistic splash of blood fly.
Hey, you made a feature, that's awesome. Kudos!
With that under your belt hopefully you can raise more money for the next one and hire SAG actors. They can really serve the story a lot better than what we have to use sometimes.
If this were my film I don't think I'd enter it into any festivals. I'd use that money to maximize the chance of selling it on Amazon or something.
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