Throwing myself to the dogs

[GingeUK]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XJpprHXSm8"]YouTube - The Book[/ame]

Obviously it is no masterpiece but I am rather pleased with it considering the time restraints and resources I had (only had locations and camera for one day which is why some lighting problems feature here and there)

Couple of things to note:

The lead actor had glandular fever and was running around Portsmouth in sub zero temperatures (I am cruel ) and the score was actually written specifically for this film.

Yes I know I 'crossed the line' in one particular shot but I felt it needed to be put in the film in order to give it a greater sense of speed and need.

The reason he doesn't use the car to get to the library is because if you live in Portsmouth you will know how hard it is to get good parking around here and that it would take too long for him to drive around looking for a space when the library is meant to be so close to the building he is in.

EDIT: Be cruel, but be kind [img]tongue.gif[/img]

EDIT EDIT: The film is not as actually dark as it appears on the website.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ February 13, 2006 01:44 PM: Message edited by: GingeUK ]</font>

[emjen]

watched without sound/music but here's what I thought of it.

It was OK. Like you said, certainly wasn't genius, and I didn't like the stillness (the tripod feeling, but thats entirely personal) and the ending didn't really made me laugh.

The shots were OK however, and fuck crossing the line, that's a rule from the 50's. We're in the MTV era now, there's only circles. So, it's a pretty generic movie, but OK generic at that.

[somedeadguy]

I enjoyed it. I'm no critic, however; I didn't even know that there was a line you couldn't cross. I looked it up, and realized that I've been doing it all wrong this whole time!

I like how I do stuff though! Not crossing the line seems boring to me. That's why I'm glad I can't afford to go to Film School. I'd probably end up avoiding imaginary lines.

[eddie123456789]

Considering you just rattled that off in a day I thought it was pretty good although rather unspectacular and predictable.

I thought it had all the essentials of a good narrative (I actually watched it with the sound down - which can be a good test), and it was a well paced, if not a particularly interesting story.

As far as crossing the line, it hardly matters here, since its a part of the 'running montage' so I wouldnt have noticed had you not mentioned it -
try crossing the line in a static dialog scene and you will soon realise why the rule is there.