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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 |
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Where is the premiere? |
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where is the full version? |
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I want to see the whole thing. The milk part is great. |
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oh boy,thid is wonderful! heheee have fun in the premier time* |
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i see marlowe is in it |
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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? - yeah & is having a CD release show this weekend |
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What's the plot synopsis? |
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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 |
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well done! |
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Fuckit. Ill support this flick. |
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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. |
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aw man i wish i could see it |
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roygbivcore -- i;ll bring you a copy when we do that show out yer way -- how is that coming anyways? - 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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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The gentle soul of redrum strikes again |
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His avatar is a smahing pumpkins logo. That is hilarious! I would rather watch camwhores on the youtube too! |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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this thread has my name written all over it |
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nice avatar!! |
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