First Submitted 60 Second Movie now Online!

**machead** · December 21st, 2002, 10:17 PM

In a well edited film you do not notice the editing.

I feel it bizaar that Miker preaches to us mear mortals the art of editing. Just pull your film OFF the web site it does not work as a 60 second short. You've made a mistake and except it, don't justify it. I'm not just a critic I'm a viewer, you make it sound like you need a double first in law from Cambridge to understand your film(or more likely a mind reader), if so continue to make your films for a very very very minority audience, who may understand it, but all the same maynot still enjoy it.

I have not seen any George A. Romero films Despin and unlikely to see any. I have expressed my opinion and you have expressed yours, I don't expect you to like what I like. I think we understand the editing process though.

Phaethon diffuse glow is an aesthetic that's like saying I liked the film because the lead star was very attractive, and as for wanting to see the completed film i beleive you just did.

I think its great that Miker is pioneerrinng his own film genre. I will refer to it as 'Film Miker Noir' from now on. And to think I thought you were a technical geek.

**skysandstars** · December 23rd, 2002, 06:02 AM

despite the editing though...with the plot and such,it's not exactly bad for a movie to not make sense. like miker said earlier, it allows an interpretation on any basis. kind of like when you go to a therapists office and he holds out those little cards with pictures on them and asks ,"what do you think?" or "what do you see?"...some filmmakers or artists are more concerned with metaphors and imagery, which in some cases give a piece a more in depth feel

eddie · December 23rd, 2002, 09:07 AM

What are you all on about?
It seems perfectly well edited to me, although I
have seen the original (full length) before - so perhaps that helps to understand it. This is a well cut down version of that story. Incidently the full version doesnt explain much more.

Its short and distinct, although I think the full (10 min?) version is better - it has more time to create an atmosphere, it does retain the sinister edge of the full thing.
Of course something written as a 60s peice is likely to be better than something written as a 10 min peice and then cut down.

Anyway at least people are talking about it. I dont see many other people posting their work up to be seen. Perhaps this forum is full of movie watchers and self styled critics with too much time on their hands rather than film makers.

blah blah blah

**60secondmovies** · December 26th, 2002, 02:22 AM

Wow, a heated discussion! As long as it gets hits to our site, any publicity is good publicity. [img]smile.gif[/img]

We accepted Mike's movie because we felt it was a nice departure from our current films. It added a nice variety to the lineup. It was darker, more menacing, sureal, and open.

Our films may be more cut and dry, with the explosions and 10 second countdowns... Perhaps we are that other 95% of filmmakers. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Anyway, it's causing a discussion, and what else could we, or a filmmaker, ask for? That's why we uploaded it, and that's why we're gonna keep it on the site. I hope this discussion spawns more submissions to our site - they're always welcome!

Beau (and Casey)

**GREATwarEAGLE** · January 5th, 2004, 06:04 PM

"extendng a moment/time"

AMERICAN BEAUTY
does this - they show the same event, with quick cuts, happening more than once in the fantasies Spacey has of whats-her-face.

THE OMEN
When Gregory Peck's friend is decapitated by the truck going in reverse with the sheet of glass. As it happens, they cut to several different angles, repeating the decapitation.

**Patriarch** · January 5th, 2004, 06:25 PM

For the record the site Url is now

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**miker** · January 5th, 2004, 08:58 PM

Originally posted by GREATwarEAGLE:
"extendng a moment/time"

AMERICAN BEAUTY
does this - they show the same event, with quick cuts, happening more than once in the fantasies Spacey has of whats-her-face.

THE OMEN
When Gregory Peck's friend is decapitated by the truck going in reverse with the sheet of glass. As it happens, they cut to several different angles, repeating the decapitation.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">My original comment refers to doing this unintentionally ... a bad cut. You can lose frames (compress time) and ppl generally won't notice - but if time is repeated, ppl will notice because the edit will jar. So it's something that can be used sparingly for sure, so long as it is intentional. Intential expansion of time usually involves more than 3 frames, whereas a bad jarring cut will be noticable with 3 frames, sometimes less. 3 frames because the bad cut was probably unintential.