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offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-18 15:42 [#01988985]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-20 17:49 [#01990228]
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ha ha
you people don;t care
but, anyways, this is a movie i made and the premiere is
tomorrow night and i have spent the majority of my
disability hernia repair recovery time fine tuning the edit
i am very happy with it all has turned out


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-10-20 17:57 [#01990231]
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Where is the premiere?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2006-10-20 17:58 [#01990232]
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where is the full version?


 

offline -V- from Ensenada Drive on 2006-10-20 17:59 [#01990233]
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I want to see the whole thing. The milk part is great.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2006-10-20 18:01 [#01990235]
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oh boy,thid is wonderful! heheee

have fun in the premier time*


 

offline big from lsg on 2006-10-20 18:13 [#01990239]
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i see marlowe is in it


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-10-20 18:46 [#01990253]
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?


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-20 18:59 [#01990258]
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the premiere is at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Saturday, Okt 21st @ Midnight - $6
with an additional screening at 1am if over 180 people show
up for the first screening - which I am hoping for - the
theater is an expensive rental and i;d like to at least
break even

i feel awkward about posting the whole film on youtube
because I am selling the DVD for $10 -- what do y'all think?
are people actually prone to buy things they like after they
preview them in low quality?

flyer w/ more details - yeah & my band is having a CD
release show this weekend


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offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2006-10-20 19:03 [#01990261]
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What's the plot synopsis?


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-20 19:26 [#01990275]
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**plot spoiler**

Si Feud, the asshole drunkard, gets sent on usual errands by
his live-in lady, Li Groin, which hecompletely fouls up.
Meanwhile Pak Mei, a white-eybrow master, follows Si Feud
around plotting his ultimate revenge for the next day. One
decade previous Pak Mei was engaged to Li Groin, the
daughter of their master Li Huang at the Empirical Acedamy.
She had made a double gallon jar of pickled eggs as a
birthday gift for Pak Mei but while they were out
celebrating Si Feud ate all of the eggs. When Pak Mei
returns home he confronts Si Feud who throws the pickled egg
juice in defense which leaves the white-eyebrow in training
blind. Li Huang annulled the marriage arrangement.
In the present, Si Feud catches wind of his looming
destruction. He befriends a fellow wretch of another,
younger sort named Prince Ass who he trains with his awkward
unorthodoxy.

can you imagine the rest?

runtime is 43 minutes

very heavily influenced by Yuen Woo-Ping's earlier Hong Kong
flicks and some Akira Kurosawa story telling
but mostly it's a slapstick comedy with Adult Swim-esque
dialogues and some choreographed fighting here and there


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-10-20 19:32 [#01990276]
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well done!


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2006-10-20 20:10 [#01990299]
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Fuckit. Ill support this flick.


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2006-10-20 21:09 [#01990331]
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If my car wasn't such a piece of garbage, I'd drive up there
and catch your movie.

Some questions, if you don't mind:

What kind of camera did you use?

Did you use an external microphone to record the sound?

If so, did you mix the sound separate and sync it later, or
was it all straight to the tape?

What type of editing software did you use?

How long did it take you to shoot everything?

Akira Kurosawa story telling? How?

Just curious. Hope you don't mind. Hell, if you can add
anything else about the whole process, that'd be grand.

Liked the trailer, funny. Good job.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2006-10-20 22:50 [#01990349]
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aw man i wish i could see it


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-21 10:38 [#01990529]
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roygbivcore -- i;ll bring you a copy when we do that show
out yer way -- how is that coming anyways?

here's a teaser - which we filmed when the script was hardly
anything at all - filmed in my apartment and not part of the
final film

now... all those questions!

What kind of camera did you use?
I'm not exactly sure. Justin Brewer handled all of the
filming as I was in front of the camera most of the time.
He has a fancy Canon with the big square lense pretector
thing on the front but it isn't a 3CCD grade. All filmed in
DV 16:9.

Did you use an external microphone to record the sound?
If so, did you mix the sound separate and sync it later, or
was it all straight to the tape?

We had a condensor mic that went straight to the tape. Some
scenes we filmed knowing we wouldn't use any of the sound
but in many of those instances I ended up using the ambience
picked up by the cameras internal mic.
Many of the scenes inside the stores had noisey fans and a
few of the outisde scenes had some nasty wind. I've never
really messed with noise reduction before. But two negetive
things can happen when you suck the static background sounds
out - 1) you get a bunch of digital-cellphone-sounding
artifacts if you aren't careful & 2) a mysterious
reverberation of your characters voices can appear. People
talking outside can end up sounding like they've got a
megaphone in an empty auditorium. Which is rather upsetting
when you are both attached the actors' performances and
pressed for time.


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-21 10:45 [#01990532]
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What type of editing software did you use?
I use Vegas to capture all the video because it can detect
when the camera stoped and started and seperates all the
shots into seperate files. I used Premiere to do all of the
cutting. When I had completely finished the visual aspect
of the film I popped it back into Vegas for post-effects.
There a good hanful of kung fu films that were nasty old
film reels transferred to VHS and then later from the VHS to
DVD. They look horrible - very saturated, blurry and film
artifacts like dust and cuts. I tried to be subtle with it
-- but Asshole Drunkard has ended up being very colorful.
Sound plays a very important role. I used Audition for most
of my audio manipulation but sometimes I'd pull out T-Racks
for a quicker eq and compression. Premiere has this
horrible *bug* where if you stack too much audio and it
clips it really fucking clips and you end up with a nasty
crackling pop.

How long did it take you to shoot everything?
About 90% was filmed over the course of three weeks where I
creatively used my last two weeks of vacation time. The
rest was on weekends since I work 2nd shift and that
conflicts with most anyone's schedule. There was one scene
filmed without myself present which we had to go back and
film just one shot. And there were a few other shots like
that. I'm not sure exactly but I guess I'd say it took 6
weeks in total.


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-21 11:03 [#01990536]
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Akira Kurosawa story telling? How?
Heading into the filming I had Seven Samurai playing
in my room on repeat for 17 days. It's a very magical film.
Flawless. Well, I don't have that luxury and our
entertainment value is based in the realm of comedy. For my
own character, Si Feud, I was very inspired by the freedom
that Mifune had with his character. But what Kurosawa is
awesome at doing is making sure every character has a unique
attitude. There is definitely a mythology to each of his
films that reflects the diversity of real life. And so, in
the slower dialogue-driven scenes I thought it to be very
important to have a certain number of bodies present. In
this case they each got at least one line. This is a short
film and not a 3½ hour epic. But I thought it very
important to understand all the characters' relationships.
It should be implied if two characters have known each other
a while just by the way they stand next to each other while
the other is talking. I probably did way over analyze
everything but I am happy with the results. And
understaning the presence of a mythology gave me the
opportunity to fuck with it and lay down multiple truths to
leave the audience guessing, 'I see the conflict but what
actually happened to spur it all?'

We had a very restrictive timeline to work and I'm pretty
sure I spent less than a grand -- I am not totally sure --
the whole thing was kind of a blur.
There was one day where I drove out an hour to my sister's
engagement announcement party put on by my parents. Then I
got back home to film at four locations. Two of which were
inside local businesses. I love community!

If I wouldn't have booked the theater I wouldn't of had a
deadline. If I wasn't on disability recovering from hernia
repair I would have been shit out of luck with time.

I feel very fateful about this project.

Any other questions?


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-10-21 14:00 [#01990600]
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why is it not funny?

why is he not drunk?

why does he look like an acidhead instead of a drunkard?

worst youtube to date.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2006-10-21 14:07 [#01990604]
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The gentle soul of redrum strikes again


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-21 14:38 [#01990616]
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His avatar is a smahing pumpkins logo. That is hilarious!
I would rather watch camwhores on the youtube too!


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2006-10-29 00:45 [#01994293]
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Since you're here at the moment...

Thanks for answering all the questions.

I'm just interested in doing about the same thing but really
have no experience. I'd rather not do something comedic
though. Everybody that gets a DV camera immediately goes out
and makes some slapstick nonesense (not a critique or jib
toward your endeavor) or something about a monster in the
woods.

But anyway, how did it go with attendance to your movie?


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-29 02:30 [#01994312]
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we got 107 people to show up and pay

the guy who played the villain flew in from school in
Colorado - it was a total surprise!! =)

When i started this project i wanted to keep it an
eccentricly serious narrative but, like i said, we work with
what we got. Which seems to be many years of skit and odd
short film experience. The movie is eccentric to say the
least.

There is a buzz around town already. People I don't know
stop me and say they liked it. It is really cool.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2006-10-29 14:12 [#01994676]
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ive been wanting to do some kind of film project

basically i want to make street fighter with out getting
sued


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2006-10-29 14:14 [#01994677]
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this thread has my name written all over it


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2006-10-29 15:56 [#01994688]
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nice avatar!!


 


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