Hehehe! This is the best bit! Explaining how it was done etc... lol. I should make you buy the DVD!!! Not that there is one...
The tracking shot around the house was just lucky that it worked. It is all one shot, through to Simon holding the box but sadly he was laughing and saying his line, so we took another shot so NOW it doesn't QUITE seem like one whole shot (which again is a shame because that was the whole point of it). Still, it took far too many times to shoot that one shot so I've left it at that for now!
There is really no story. Our stimulus' were a knife and a pocket radio. The radio never came into it (though it was going too) and the knife... Well, Simon managed a storyline out of it somehow lol.
It's meant to be a no-brainer. The basic story is; Don McClane (Simon) is pissed off with Weir (Olli B) who has, presumably, skanked him up - in other words, shit drugs for a lot of money. Weir owns an entire village or something and McClane goes to his house to find him and get his money back. Weir, the two hooded figures and the guy in pink (Birky, lol) are - I guess, all expecting McClane!
I was more anxious to try out camera shots than make something with story, this time round. There's no sound because I take all of that out in the editing suite, to later replace with atmos and so forth. I left in the lines of dialogue for now, though they'll probably be dubbed and changed.
It's shot on mini-DV, crappy little Panasonic NV-DS27 - but I love pushing this camera to its limits. I do with all cameras. Thats why I keep breaking them, I guess. [img]tongue.gif[/img] I was going to fly with Birky out of the 2nd storey window too, but, he only wanted to do 2 jumps, that covered the high and the low angle but not the third angle I was after most [img]biggrin.gif[/img] lol. I upped the "levels" in Premiere because I like the crisper touch it gives the colours. Much more defined and takes that DV camera edge away from it for me (and you've got to remember the WMV does absolutley NO justice to its tv-screen debut).
But yeah. Some nice-ish looking shots, without needing to take my dolly or crane out with me. No storyboards, etc.
NO offence taken btw [img]tongue.gif[/img] I encourage you to post your movies if you can! Take on the constructive criticism & ignore the sarky remarks. Simple! [img]wink.gif[/img]
PS - I host my files at my website, Screen 7, which is hosted by Adventure Developers.
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