AAhhhahah this was rediculous and awesome all at once!! My Goodnesss I loved it. Everything was great - well-acted cheesiness and sillyness that was appropriate. Awesome ending. Creepy post-ending. Only two little quips - audio quips - the music cuts were noticable to me and a couple of the audio dubs didn\'t fool me. But otherwise hell friggin yeah!
OK this was a much much better entry than your Christmas filmfight. The sound was much better, more of the scenes were well lit, and the voiceover was blended in well. I also liked the use of the "Dawson's Creek" and "Kiss Me" music, made it feel like one of those teen angst movies. I also liked the sipping of the sodas in the diner.
It looked like there were some problems matching some of the voices to the actors during the scene where they are sitting at the table.
I know you like it, but never use the dramatic zoom back and forth again, it just doesn't work. And I saw two of the actors smile and try to contain themselves from laughing. Other than that I would say this is definitely your best entry to date besides the "Satan Duck" one which is still my favorite.
This is the first one I\'ve felt inclined to comment about this week...my comment? Wow.
Danielle, your films make me uncomfortable. Does that make me a unenlightened unaccepting human being? I dunno. I\'ll ask my psychiatrist.
Cut it tighter. Justin was right in lightweighting this. You\'re getting better, though. And by my count this has gotten more views than any other film. Probably the bra screencap. This had some really nice shots and some really silly shots, which is actually a great formula. Cut it tighter is my best piece of advice. You have the voice overs working for you in aiding in speeding the whole thing up. You don\'t have to use all your footage. The voice over kind of slapped me in the face a bit, too. It needs to be balanced a bit better with the other audio elements. The dubbing was bad, but who cares. We dubbed half our audio and I feel that\'s one of its strongest factors.
Keep trying. You\'re like a young horny Sophia Coppola with a band dork sensability.
Is she talking to herself outside? Some of the shots seemed very odd... The ending, though, was clever and well worth it. Simple and sweet, and good trailer-like build up to it.
Holy hotness your lead actress is HOT! But a shitty actress. ALl your actors were smiling. Lame. Breaking characters is shit. Bad direction. BAD framing and camerawork. Volume of the voices was great and audio composition was good. But your audio didn\'t match the mouths at all. Was this all looped? It was. Maybe. NO NO NO do NOT zooom in and out recklessly. If you are doing film i\'ll tell you when to zoom. NEVER. they truck in in movies. If you are zoomed in it\'s only to hold a close up. Wast of a hot lead actress... this was a good concept. ANd don\'t look at the audience! That\'s lame. I know they do it sometimes, but stick to the rules until you get all the other shit down.
-JULES!
I had a lot of fun making this filmfight. We could have probably done a little better on the audio, but we thought it was supreme. I apologize for exposing my hairy bologne chest and hope that does not skew our voting turn out d=-\\.
haha...very funny entry. one of my favorites this week. funny joke, funny ending. i liked how he had sex with you anyway. hehe... good take on the theme. the zoom in/zoom out thing got old and it could have been trimmed down a lot. the quality was pretty awesome for the most part, but some shots needed better lighting. the "other" girl's VO was not very in sync. i liked the narrators VO a lot. really sounded "hollywood" ...great job!!!
I loved it! Your stuff is still rough around the edges, but rough or not, you\'ve got really great ideas. I\'d like to see you team up with a more experienced FFer. I think something cool would come out of that. OOO! I have a brother in Glendale! I smell a collaboration next time I go visit him!
Don\'t Ask! one of the most suprising videos this week! I found it hilarious! I\'m gonna\' review it as i\'m watching... The talking continues a little long. the spoon or whatever looks like it hits twice. You coulda\' tightend up that editing. Real nice acting. But, horrible v/os. Even good acting from Dida.! I love the shots of the door opening on different people. Especiall yhr uni-bomber. If you wanted Dida to play a guy, you shouldn\'t\'ve shown her boobs so much! haha. I love the \"FUcking hot man\" line. I lol every time. I don\'t even think I could cut a trailer like this. I was so proud. That music. Worked perfect. That zoom in thing is like your signature or something. I like the creepy ending. Very funny video. Very inventive. Gonna\' be some tough competition.
Such a risque project.
Chris and I were a bit reluctant about the "sex" scene, but I beleive it went well.
I'm certain we've improved in our film work in this one. I know the VOs are off cue. But I think that it adds some humour to it. Also we got a bit lazy after filming and editing for two days straight. Oh well, maybe if we had more time we could have prefected it.
I would also like to add about acting. My two best friends Dida and Chris are in this film and they have no acting experience what so ever, but they have truely impressed me and I can see them improving drastically in later films. They are so great to work with and pure geniuses! So i would expect the acting in our later films to be much better and more serious.
I'm glad that a lot of you liked it! Thank you!
Okay, I\'m going to start with the things I liked, and move to the things that you need to work on.
Things I liked - The music. I felt like I was watching a bad teen movie from the late 1990\'s and I loved EVERY second of it!!! Your Pete Townshend choice was a little dated, but I love that song, so I can\'t complain. Your shots are looking better and better with each submission, and I can actually follow your movies now... that\'s a HUGE step in the right direction.
Things that need improvement - I don\'t like your editing. It\'s WAY too slow. If you\'re going to do the cheesy \"in and out\" zoom\'s, just do one of those crazy Kubrick zooms, add a funny sound effect and be done with it. I get the point. Also, the acting. The main girl was decent, but everyone else... I don\'t know... the doctor, the best friend, and Chris... they just didn\'t seem real to me, but you know, we can\'t expect these kids to be Bobbie DeNiro.
You\'re getting a lot better, so keep it up!!! I look forward to seeing more.
Dont Ask - Acting Review
Give your film a pat on the back, for starting in LW and moving up to HW, also for having the most veiws!
Ok, i think i read in the forums that you said your acting was suppost to be cheesy. Well there is a difference between cheesy and bad. The only actor, or i should say actress that was pulling off the \"cheesy\" acting was the main girl. As for the guy, he has great screen presence. For him i would suggest try acting in front of a mirror, making faces, acting like your fav actor or whatever. It will build charisma, and will make it easier for him to say his lines when he is in front of the camera. Trust me, it will work. And im guessing the other actress in the film had an accent? I really couldnt tell. It seemed like she was hiding her face in the one shot. Was this because she was playing more than one part? I say keep doing what your doing, before long you guys will have a style all your own!
Dustin
some poorly filmed segments- like the begining. you overdubbed the voices in the table convo scene? im sure there was a reason, but it looked dumb. i laughed at the totally southpark-esque \"came a fucking hot man\". and kiss me is an awesome song. at the end it looks like your spitting out cum- and the guy smiling and shrugging backs up my theory. but i can\'t be sure if thats the real joke. anyway, ya\'ll show improvement and this is probably the best video i\'ve seen from you.
Danielle - your movies have gotten so much better.. they have alot more substance. I laughed at alot of this with the music (perfect).. the \"FUCKING HOT MAN\" comment was great...the dubbing sucked... but you know it could have been better. The punchline was great - it was unpredictable (the audience witht he cell phone)..
Try using lighting or having your areas better lit... you couldn\'t see how FUCKING hot the man was (for his intro shot).... good acting on the death scene... zooms were cheesy.
This definately deserved HW...
It\'s cool that you have alot of friends that are willing to get into filmfights - keep them coming! It\'s good to have another female filmfighter ;)
i wasnt really trying to hide my face in the table shot, it just came out looking taht way. as for the lighting, we really tried to do a better job at that but it seems that lighting is a weakpoint in our films. the accent is a dutch one which has caused some people to have a hard time understanding me, haha. and lastly, i want to thank danielle and chris for not yelling at me for my not so great acting skills, which i hope to improve upon in future films.
hahaha...Im watchin old school battles and came across this...awesome ending..totally enjoyed.
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