handmadesoap (Level 14)

Maggie Q

@organicalistic_:  
  
 ECU - an extreme close up. Dont really know the effect you mean :S 

Please watch my new short film that i made throughout Christmas and tell me what you think :) 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viD7LSKxMdE  
 
Here's the link to my old thread which has my previous short film: (again tell me what you think)
 http://www.screened.com/forums/general-discussion/8/my-short-film/9322/ 
 
Enjoy :)  
 
(PS. I do prefer my older one, but this one i learned a lot more from)

@dr_sarcasmic said:

" I liked it over all.  I sort of felt like it was a commercial with the music and the attention to the phone (kept waiting to hear an announcer tell me about the latest HTC etc) but that isn't a bad thing.  For it being 2 minutes you told a story that had a beginning middle and end.  Loved the way you did the breakfast scene though a grease fire would have fit nicely.  Do you have many more of these that you've done?  I'd love to watch more of your work (as an aspiring film maker myself). "

 
Thanks :) 
 
Err no that was my first film... i have written others and im planning to film one in december during christmas hols.  As soon as they are done, ill post them up. :)
 
The camera that was used was like a Canon 2ti i believe, but the dude spend like 1.3k on the camera (practically all his student loan and more) 
 
If you wanna be a film maker, just make them - they can be good or crap, but the more hours you spend learning the better you will become. To be fair, film making has taken over my life,  
i spend my entire lectures and tutorials just designing story boards for random ideas i have in my head - like where id put the camera and why.... I also do random shit like, ill hear a song on shuffle on my ipod and ill think OMG, this would totally work at the intro of a film, then ill try and design a story board around it. 
 I've tried twice to change my course to film making, but apparently its full :(   But its not going to stop me 
 
Im also hoping to get a internship at any company where i live (manchester) just so i get more experience, i dont mind not being paid because im not looking for money just experience. 
 
So to sum up, just film, film and film  and read up. When i havent been filming, ive just been making storyboards to films i want to make and reading up on all the technical aspects of film. 

 

Basically, we needed to make the film short and have it filmed within 1-2 hours. But i spent almost 4-5 hours planning and doing the story boards (if you cant draw like myself, they take a ridiculously long time even for a film that is 2 mins long) 

We were mainly just experimenting with different shots, but we had the general idea that we wanted to keep with close ups or extreme close ups. We also originally wanted it to start of slow, start to increase the speed of the cuts so that its really quick, then slow down at the end. 

Basically, the ending symbolizes that even though lots of stuff has gone wrong or is going wrong (we planned for the dude to get fired from his job, almost get hit by a car - the car bit that we filmed didn't look realistic enough) that there is always the future to look forward to (really corny, but we were using a basic idea) 

And  this was my first film  
 
As for the rainbow, it was affect effects i believe - but i would have to ask the editor to get a defo answer 

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day :P
 
Or for a proper answer, - its a bit of a goof 

Thanks :) 
 
Basically, the phone bit was me being dumped by girlfriend , but due to the sun and the fact we didnt really want to get the camera in the reflection made it hard to get a good shot  
 
And the bag is cool as well :)

Could you please watch my short that i made?  Its only 2 mins long  
 
I was creative (design,storyboarding,idea) director and the actor 
 
Any good or bad points please :) 
 
The one that i know of is that you cant really see the text when its a close up.. but ahhh well  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImHbFtzICs&feature=youtube_gdata_player     
ENJOY :) 

Tom Berenger? 
 
He was pretty ace in platoon - kinda all went down hill from there - but came back in Inception
 
Robert Downey Jr? 
 
had his time when he did shite roles - although he seems to back which is good (:   
 
 Val Kilmer?
 
Had vanished until i saw him in kiss kiss bang bang with quite a bit of weight  
 
Wesley Snipes? 
 
Dont know, whether he had the talent in the first place - other than im a angry guy with a mission/point to prove

Phantom Menace - Twice 
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Twice 
Inception - Twice 

I wont lie, its fucking amazing - I spent ages trying to find  the DVD and when i got it, i wasnt dissapointed.... 
 
Brad Pitt is quite awesome in it  
 
And imo its Terry's best work after Fear and Loathing, if not on par with it  

Welcome all, to the fucking best movie website evaaaaaar 
 

Fight Club  
Fear and Loathing 
Trainspotting 
Sin City 
 
I want before term starts: 
-Lost in Translation 
-Bad Boys 1

@JokerSmilez said:

" Back in high school, my friends and I once had a debate about who was the greatest action hero star, so we decided to try and work it out "scientifically". Being the nerds we were/are, we made out a big list, which included all the action movies the star had made. We gave each of the actors "stats" and had them duke it out with a quasi-Dungeons & Dragons style roleplaying battle. 
 
We made a big tournament style bracket and gave each star one single-use "power/special move" from each of their movies. Despite a few early upsets, Sir Arnold unsurprisingly took home the championship.  So, to answer the question: Arnold vs. anyone else you can name? Arnold wins. "

Arnold vs Chuck Norris 
 
Mind=Blown  
 
Whoever wins. 
The planet gets blown up.

Iron Man 2, for the reason that i havent seen it as of yet 
 
Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li 
OR 
Joysticks 
 
(I have no idea how to do the cool film linkage you all manage to do) :(

The Last Airbender  
 
No amount of Megan Fox will stop me from pulling my eyes out everytime i see Hex with that wierd ass scar. 
 
Donkey Punch or Saw (any)

Ive written quite a few and im in the process of filming them :)  
 
Every filmmaker has gotta start somewhere :P