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AvatarJustin
Reviewed on October 24th, 2009

Ha, you guys! Breakin' the rules!!! Jeremy is hilarious with that knife. Hilarious and SCARY. You guys have some great bad acting, haha. I love puns. Haha - swimming pools! This could have used some text overlays on the screen to make it feel more informercially. Anyway, love to see fun LW entries made just for the heck of it.

Camera quality on this is pretty good. I especially like the handheld over the shoulder shot ... but I had to re-render this and fix up the aspect ratio for you since it was screwy. <3 u guyz

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

Sorry, I don't know how I got the aspect ratio wrong. I will try to upload my next one early so I can fix it if I get it wrong. Thanx for doing that.

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

My film, so obviously perfect. HA. J/k, not even close. For starters, my focus is off on most of the scenes. I don't usually make this mistake when I am behind the camera, but that's not really an excuse, since I still set up all the shots. I think that beginning shot could have been broken up with another shot. Maybe something different and longer when she mentioned "messed up by your kids" The close ups of Heather looked blown out. That is because the back lighting was too bright and I had to jack up the gamma to light her face. Believe me, it looks better than it did. I don' think the cut to Kyle's "portrait" pumpkin was held long enough to really get across the point that it was just some shitty generic pumpkin face that looked nothing like him. I considered putting more titles on this, but wound up being lazy with that part. This movie was primarily training for me. Heather was nice enough to come down and teach me some of the basics with Final Cut Pro on her giant new iMac. I figured shooting something simple for this fight would be perfect for that. I blew the time limit on purpose. I could have maybe trimmed it to fit, but even then, the while premise didn't come across as funny as it did in my brain. I think it turned out to be a mildly fun little LW, though.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the refrigerator noise. Louder from one scene to the next. Could have been fixed by adding some into the quieter part. Again, was being lazy.

AvatarTheCoveShorts
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

Great acting? I dont know, you all seamed a little too bad to be that good. Liked the idea, just wish you would have spent more editing time, maybe added some cheesy graphics/titles. I also thought the best part was your face and reactions, but it was all from far away. I think close ups of you making faces, looking at the lady and stabbing the pumpkin would have been a lot funnier.

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

Yeah, that's something I noticed when we were editing, was that I totally forgot to shoot some close ups of my face. I would have went back and filmed them if I had more time. I was editing on her computer and she had to leave. We were real pressed for time. Heather HATES being in front of the camera, but I forced her to be. HAHA.

AvatarAlasdair
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

SWIMMING POOLS

I think you had an awesome concept, but the subject matter lent more to over the top fast talking and acting. I think "bad acting" is a bit overdone. that "it's just like looking into a mirror" would have been hilarious if it wasn't delivered the way it was!!

I still think the concept of carving a swimming pool into a pumpkin is hilarious though. and that jack o lantern pun was good too

i enjoyed rewatching it!!

AvatarAlasdair
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

whoops i posted my review as a reply instead of a review so I'm repostin so you know you got a review!!!

AvatarAlasdair
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

GODDAMNIT

AvatarAlasdair
Reviewed on October 26th, 2009

whoops i posted my review as a reply instead of a review so I'm repostin so you know you got a review!!!

AvatarJames
Reviewed on October 27th, 2009

Ah, I just love cheesy acting. It just adds so much to a thing like this. I love that this feels like a local commercial, in a way. Those are always terrible. Swimming pools! Hahahaha, love it! Too bad it really couldn't have been cut down to 30 seconds, I think that you might have been able to pull it off, but it just wouldn't have been as good.

AvatarDavidSegerAOK
Reviewed on October 28th, 2009

TOO LONG CARL. TOO LONG!

BUT GOOD. I love it when you play a retard.

AvatarHLR II
Reviewed on October 29th, 2009

I did what the director told me to. Enough said. *cringe* I HATE BEING ON CAMERA.

My favorite part by far is Kyle's line (maybe because i knew the whole script - cause i was in it.) Thank you Jeremy for being patient with my "oh MY GOD i have to do this AGAIN!!" You'd think that me directing so many videos would have me know what the actor has to go through -- i think it was well deserved considering what i've made some of my people have gone through. I know meagan woulda gotten a kick being there. Overal, i think it was pretty healthy for me to be in front of the camera.

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING JEREMY -- we will do this again sometime - with Meagan.

-Heather

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