The Expendables
Genre: AnyRules: You know that AMAZING ACTION movie coming out? Called "The Expendables"? We want your take on the TITLE of the movie; what else or who else is expendable? No action allowed.
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This is my film! We shot it sort of last-second when we were vacationing in Paris. I was debating subtitling the whole thing, but I think it's pretty understandable. It's a silly thing, I don't know if it's a comedy movie or what it is ... that's up to you, I guess!
I was so pumped to see this after you told me you shot it in France. Your locations were terrific as we are able to get a nice image of a place that most of us film fighters probably have not seen. My favorite location was the car garage however. You got some beautiful shots under the odd lights of the ceiling and I like how the backdrop disappears in frame as your actor is in silhouette. How did you find French actors? They did an awesome job! The antagonist is freaky! I love the shot selection in the movie as you stick to your excess of close ups but like I said for Procoverage, I would rather not see zooms as they are disengaging. I’m glad you subtitled this, it was tough understanding the actors at times. I’m not convinced that you put as much time into this movie as you do with most of your others as it seems like you had the idea of it one minute and shot it the next. The music is terrific! I don’t know if you did this purposely, but the costuming was great (white against black). Even though the locations were great, I think it would have been nice to have incorporated more of the city into the film. An establishing shot from a high point of the entire city would have been gorgeous and well worth it if possible. I also like the pace of this movie especially at the end when the bike crashes. The best part of all your films is always the editing and here you did a great job again of cutting from shot to shot.
This is great, what equipment did you shoot this on?
This was just shot on my little HV30! I wanted to use my 35mm adapter but it kinda fell apart and I was missing the right tools to put it together again, hehe
Oh i thought so, because i knew you had an HV30, but this looks really great,
I'm saving for an HV30 right now... still 300 left
euros
I really like the color scheme you used. The music you used is great. Love French films, bytheway! Amusing plot. Very good shot selection.
But my problem was that I feel this is way too fast paced. It feels like a trailer. I allowed my film to run over the limit and took the consequences of that just to avoid this. It feels like your story is crammed into the project's length. I think for a detective mystery it might have been better to have had a longer time limit.
Anyway, enjoyed this one a bunch. Nice job.
'tis a good point, but i think justin made the time limit so short to make it more challenging (the film fights way) but i kind of agree that a longer limit would have been more appropiate :-)
yeah... the main reason I didn't make this fight was the time limit, I just couldn't come with anything short and original and I didn't felt like being lighweighted
One thing I had a problem with was the semi-chasing scene towards the end. The scene was great and the shots were nice and fast paced but the song selection seemed very out of place. Just the instrument change threw me off from a violin/piano filled soundtrack to upbeat guitar riffs and drums. I understand that it's a chase scene and an upbeat song is right for it but I guess this also ties into the film being very short making things (or music in this case) feel rushed like CharmingNewSociety mentioned.
Overall it was a nice film. Was the Rode VideoMic used in this one too?
-Chris
Very good point! The music change is a bit abrupt - the ending scene was kind of frantic while filming it as well and I didn't have the footage I needed to make the transition from 'talking' to 'chasing' very well. I tried a couple different tracks and may have just picked the wrong one.
And yeah - used the Rode on this - literally just holding it in my spare hand so I could get it really close to the actor's mouths, haha. Pretty ghetttoooo.
really?
I was thinking of buying the rode with my HV30, but do you really have to keep it that close for good audio? because i've heard it's quite good at a distance. I also might make myself a boom pole
The closer the better, when it comes to audio!
as long as you don't put the mic in your mouth.
but no really... how is the audio at a normal distance mounted on the camera with the videomic?
Beautiful locations. Very strong acting. Your villain reminds of a french Joker...
Totally, I think he took a little inspiration from that
Oh, snap! A European setting! I giggles at "You stupid fuck." Sweet stache. That scooter is hardcore. Beautiful picture.
Beautiful location - you can't beat Europe. Well shot. The main character acts his part so well, that it doesn't matter that he has such a heavy accent. I didn't need the subtitles. Excellent film for last-second shoot.
"Predatory Partner"
by Random Axe Entertainment
Genre: Any
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Predatory Partner
by Random Axe Entertainment
When a young man won't sell his shares to his partner, she finds another way to get it.
2,190 views16 reviews29 votes
Smack Talk!
"Woo Hoo! Thank you to all of you who voted for our film. We are really excited as well as surprised by the win. With all the obstacles we faced in this fight we feared it wouldn't be as greatly acceptedd as it turned out to be.
We are very happy that we were able to fight our way up, with your help, from Middleweights to this. We are looking forward to the coming fights and hope we can continue producing quality films for your entertainment. Thanks for the compitition and we hope you all keep bringing it.
Special Thank You's: Audra - for helping on such short notice. Everyone who said we needed to be bumped up a weight class. Jake- For overseeing the whole operation in Justin's absence.
"That's a Wrap".
Random Axe Entertainment "
RandomAxeMedford, OR
Due August 1
01:00 max
