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AvatarJustin
Reviewed on May 31st, 2009

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!

AvatarPlatt22
Reviewed on May 31st, 2009

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.

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

The \"Hello Detective\" was Justin\'s voice. I know this because I\'m a detective.

AvatarBryan Fox
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

Good movie. I\'ll save all my comments for the review show my group\'s cooking up.

AvatarOetam
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

This is great, what equipment did you shoot this on?

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

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

AvatarCharmingNewSociety
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

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.

AvatarPlatt22
Reviewed on June 1st, 2009

'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 :-)

Avatarcurlyfries
Reviewed on June 2nd, 2009

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

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on June 2nd, 2009

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.

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on June 3rd, 2009

Beautiful locations. Very strong acting. Your villain reminds of a french Joker...

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on June 3rd, 2009

Totally, I think he took a little inspiration from that

AvatarOetam
Reviewed on June 4th, 2009

where did you get the actors from?

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on June 5th, 2009

They're friends from the internet!

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on June 6th, 2009

Oh, snap! A European setting! I giggles at \"You stupid fuck.\" Sweet stache. That scooter is hardcore. Beautiful picture.

AvatarBryan Fox
Reviewed on June 12th, 2009

My review show is up. http://vimeo.com/5109336

AvatarWatermanFilm
Reviewed on June 15th, 2009

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.

Avatarviperacing1
Reviewed on June 17th, 2009

I really liked this one. Wasnt really film noir but really good non the less. Only problem i had was that it felt like a trailer rather than a short story. Great though.

AvatarMAS Productions
Reviewed on April 1st, 2010

good shots

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