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New Short Film: Three Years Later

post #1 of 6
7/20/09 at 5:20am
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During a short time back home in New England, I came to the realization that I hadn't directed anything in three years, and so I decided to remedy this. I was videotaping a buddy's wedding with a borrowed GL-2 anyways, so I stayed up all night with the carousers and then instead of going to sleep spent the next day stumbling around in a mad film-fever shooting this with two friends. It was shot in a day, with no money, crew, etc, but I'm pretty happy with it. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBuQS...e=channel_page
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post #2 of 6
7/20/09 at 1:41pm
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Bump you assholes!
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post #3 of 6
7/20/09 at 3:50pm
I watched it, I just didn't really have any comment. I didn't see The Supermarket (is that available online somewhere?) so I really didn't know what was going on. I'm guessing it's about how the town has changed or how the characters have changed, but it lacks the context needed to stand on it's own as a short.
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post #4 of 6
7/20/09 at 5:42pm
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Damnit, I was hoping it wouldn't require much context and that the images would speak for themselves. To boil it down it's just supposed to be about someone returning to their hometown after a long period of absence, seeing how the place has begun to seriously change in that time, and how the original population is disappearing.
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post #5 of 6
7/22/09 at 1:38pm
I sort of watched, that is I tried but my computer is apparently so obsolete that youtube videos are beyond it, so what I saw was pretty much a slide show of still images set to music. So all I can really say is that the music fit the images and that some of the images were cool (liked the one from under the truck as the two guys were looking out over the lake.)

I sort of agree with Patrick in that there would be a shot of driving past houses then a shot of the 2 guys looking sad about what they are seeing, but I wasn't really sure what was different that was making them sad. was it that it used to be a small blue collar community and now there are big white collar houses? That's what I thought at first but then when the supermarket was closed I didn't get why fancier houses equaled a supermarket shutting down. So maybe the houses thing is was just coloured by how shitty my neighbourhood looks in comparison.
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post #6 of 6
7/23/09 at 3:41am
I got what was going on and dug it. Good job. I have definitely had similar experiences so it struck a chord.

I don't like that you used the Jesse James music and then the Werckmeister Harmonies music. I think it would have been more powerful if you used less recognizable music. It distracted me from the images. Upon first viewing I felt if I had watched a black screen with that music I would've felt the same way at the end. I watched it couple more times and I believe you definitely have something there... but the music is just too much for me.

Seems to be a popular thing to do... someone sent me this recently and it uses the same two songs plus a couple more. http://listenup.org/screeningroom/vi...b21179d23afb74

Great music... but seems lazy and pretty much a huge slap in the face to some great movies. I know Bela Tarr works really hard on his music with Vig Mihaly... says he sometimes spends more time on it than filming. So to me it is kind of like dropping a scene from Werckmeister into your movie.

Not trying to be mean or anything... your movie is good and would work great without it.
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