A long ride to get to the crux of the matter....and why is this information buried? The plot didn't seem to explain this. This seems more like a set up to fire a pistol than it does to explain an "unearthed" object.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I understand the confusion there, but I wanted the whole thing to seem mysterious, even if a few questions were left unanswered. I'm hoping to make more shorts on the subject to go more in-depth with the plot.
I liked this a lot. If done differently, it might have seemed generic to me, but I just love the way it was done. The cinematography, the lack of music for the most part. It was all unsettling in a good way. And it is an intriguing premise.
I'm not sure why he was burying that picture in the beginning, and it was a pretty big coincidence that he happened on the buried map, though.
Other than that, kudos.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it!
If you notice, he puts his dead dog into the whole in the black bag. He throws the picture in in a loving way.
The vignette effect adds a nice touch to this film. The shot with the crow bar to the head is awesome!
Hurray for silent films!
I liked the blur of the film except for at the begining, i felt it was intrusive and annoyed me, i still think you should have it because it gives the film its feel, just less blur if you know what i mean.
I thought the shot of the crowbar being picket up was bad compared to the rest of your shots, it was held for too long and i noticed the cut in to it. It also confused me because i thought it was the main character picking it up at first, so introduce the second character before that shot.
Loved your idea about the creator hunting down the clones but i had kinda guessed it from the small pic in the table scene (proberly because ive recently watched moon).
Cool entry
Thanks for the feedback!
I understand your view on the blur.
And I'm not particularly happy with the crowbar shot myself but we had a deadline and my actor had things to do so we didn't have time to reshoot something :(
Thanks for the compliments!
Nice - I was confused at first but the ending surprised - good job.
After watching this one I wanted to watch it again..very cool and totally liked the idea..Ending was hot with the list.
Really enjoyed your plot. Love the idea. Hopefully you will be able to do more with it and make a larger storyline. We ran into some issues with ours as well like deadline and being too lengthy (Our Dear Friend Vernon). Ended up having to cut a lot out for the sake of time and doing a lot of improv, not sticking to the original script. But I'm hoping Brett will want to put this on his Youtube channel and do a re-write for a sequel so people will find out "what's in the box?" Of course, it won't be what we originally had in the box...which was a fist hitting me in the face for being an asshole and selfish, haha.
The ending caught me by surprise. I imagine this being an opening to a bigger plot, and I hope you develop more on this. Even though no music, the piece still worked
Yay! Excited to watch a Red Handed Rejects piece! Great audio on this, great atmosphere. Something about this touched me as Speilburg-ian. Which is good. What camera was this? Still the HV? Maybe with an adapter? Some real bad vignetting in the scene where he gets out of the car -shoulda fixed that.
The footsteps sounds are a bit overdone, should have recreated it with real footsteps. Anyone can step! Easy sound to make yoruself.
CLONES! Sweet. I like the quiet understatedness of it all. Ouch. Smacked in the head. Brutal. Feel that smack could have been executed better - made to look more brutal or shot differently.
2:24 - more vignetting!
Ouch the gunshot made me jump!
Oh snap. Friggin clones!!!!
Music at 2:56 is WAY TOO LOUD! MY headphones are buzzing. You should fix up those levels SONnnn.
LOVED this though, overall. Besides the ear blasting music at the end. Great simple concept. Smart concept. Fucking awesome. I liked it more than your last piece, I think. You tackled it very well, and the characters were doing things that I could believe for their age. A+!
Thanks Justin! I would have redone the footsteps but I really just didn't have the time.
And as for the vignette . . . I kind of wanted it haha. For me in the certain shots I used it, I wanted that uncomfortable feeling and closed-in-ness that the character was feeling. I guess it's a preference.
Thanks for all of the kind words! I'm really glad you liked it because I put a ton of time into it.
-Ethan
Justin,
I agree about the music at the end but i think that the Red Handed Rejects were going for an effect like at the end of Inception to give that vertigo feeling
Cheers Mill-Inium
A very fun and interesting tale with a good twist. A well acted and shot film. I'd see it as a full film.
Definitely a great idea going here and well shot. I love the color and the blurs you had going on. I would like to know why the info was buried, but the rest of the story was great!
| 1st. | IDFUN Productions (34 votes) |
| 2nd. | PeridotFilms (28 votes) |
| 3rd. | Film Sauce (21 votes) |
| 4th. | ABZ Films (17 votes) |
| 5th. | TheHighlad (15 votes) |
| 6th. | Seaichfilms (12 votes) |
| 7th. | Glossy Finish Pictures (7 votes) |
| 8th. | Flycamstudios (4 votes) |
| 9th. | Dutch Lake (4 votes) |
| 1st. | lightly toasted (36 votes) |
| 2nd. | INDY GUERRILLA FILMS (27 votes) |
| 3rd. | BCTV (13 votes) |