Muzman on 15/6/2010 at 07:14
Quote Posted by witherflower
That was pretty darn good. I was on the edge of my seat all the way through, actually. And the comedy relief was well executed too. Well directed and performed by the actors, especially the lead girl. With better lighting it would truly shine imo. Good work! Would see it again, absolutly.:thumb:
Quote Posted by PigLick
that was really good, could have been a little tighter though.
Ahh you're too kind. It suffers from the same problem as the Phantom Menace actually; all the bits tie together in such a way that it all needs to be there, so when some of it doesn't work very well you're stuck with it. And then you're shooting for continuity.... If everything isn't blocked and timed to perfection things start to get slack. And it's a comedy of sorts too.
I'd be curious to know where the lighting was bad. I mean, I know it's bad in several places it just varies as to where people find it.
The actors are very good generally. Any fault with their performance can be aimed squarely at me really. Although Rachel doesn't do phone acting very well (which isn't easy) and she's incapable of getting enough rage to yell at Dave/Jeremy properly. She's just too damn nice to the core really. It's a bummer as they're the things that you really see first and it takes the shine off everything else, which was generally great. She actually 'got' the film better than most of the crew.
Anyway I could tell interminable tales about this one (that house was going to be demolished. It was completely empty. It also had more walls, fewer doorways and a smaller bathroom before we got to it. I wonder if you can spot the scenes where it cuts between day and night shoots...
PigLick on 16/6/2010 at 03:05
ok finally got around to listening to some recently posted stuff.
Fingernail - sound quality much better, I felt the song Boston Marriage was a little meandering, lost interest a little. Still totally reminds me of the Smiths, and for some reason the band Pulp.
Frozenman - I like little bits of this, but there isnt enough content, or meat for my tastes, I would like to hear more melodic and riffs, hooks and things like that. Just my opinion, of course.
Polytourist - godamm this is good, very nice crisp, clean production. Are you using a drum machine, cos thats what it sounds like, there are some things you can do to make a drum machine sound a little more organic. What I have listened to gives me a real easyrider John Mayer sort of vibe. Cruisy, with a bit of groove. Great guitar tones, I really like the 2nd track "Breathing Beautifully".
Is this a solo effort?
also more of you should watch Muzmans short film, no one has posted anything of this quality before (cept for me of course)
Fingernail on 16/6/2010 at 14:11
Quote Posted by PigLick
ok finally got around to listening to some recently posted stuff.
Fingernail - sound quality much better, I felt the song Boston Marriage was a little meandering, lost interest a little. Still totally reminds me of the Smiths, and for some reason the band Pulp.
Yeah, that in particular is hardly my A-game, just messing around really.
Also you can hear me chewing as much scenery as possible in a cover of Delilah, made famous by Tom Jones. I couldn't tell you what possessed me: (
http://fingernail1.bandcamp.com/track/delilah)
Shakey-Lo on 21/6/2010 at 14:58
Woah Muzman. I saw that video on the Brains? website. That is fucking odd to run into a fellow Perth filmmaker on TTLG of all places. Were you by any chance at the Empyrean on Wednesday night?
Reason I'm in this thread is I just finished editing my latest showreel:
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http://vimeo.com/12723968)
Nothing too flashy in there, just my old student films updated to include recent stuff I've shot on my 5D, which is all available light stuff. Ungraded too as post is not finished. Hope to get some funding soon and make a proper film with lights and dollies and shit.
PigLick on 21/6/2010 at 23:38
Pity you didnt make it when we met up a few weeks ago :(
Muzman on 24/6/2010 at 06:16
Quote Posted by Shakey-Lo
Woah Muzman. I saw that video on the Brains? website. That is fucking odd to run into a fellow Perth filmmaker on TTLG of all places. Were you by any chance at the Empyrean on Wednesday night?
No, Debbie didn't invite me :( I've helped with their stuff and everything.
No, really it's organised on facebook and things so I don't usually hear about it. Stuart was there apparently (although I'm not sure if he meant the last one or some previous).
Anyway, looks cool. Excellent elephant effects there too. Are any of these films floating around?
Sombras on 24/6/2010 at 15:44
This thread kick ass. I just checked out Piglick and Fingernail's music and had a blast! Thanks, guys.
OK, here goes. Here's some stuff I've done recently in my home "studio" (read: edge of the couch after wife and daughter are in bed). Some of it's tongue-in-cheek, some's more serious, and some was just for the pure stupid fun of it. All of it is really just me wondering if I can half-way pull it off. My recording equipment's crap, and I'm still figuring out how to use it to best advantage, thus the quite variable recording quality and volume.
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http://www.box.net/shared/vv9skmgdy2)
Pink Moon (Nick Drake)(
http://www.box.net/shared/k106f35mgb)
No Idea--about an old friend
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http://www.box.net/shared/d2o2l84tm3)
Fireflies--for my daughter who likes to watch the fireflies outside the window
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http://www.box.net/shared/2elg3603yq)
Original G--my first foray into open G tuning, live without a metronome (eeesh)
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http://www.box.net/shared/b7c4fpon7x)
Obscured By Clouds (Pink Floyd)--stupid fun category
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http://www.box.net/shared/u4qiqx6ct0)
Cheshire Grin--about working with assholes. NO IDEA why it came out so bassy.
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http://www.box.net/shared/1ulg5f7o8b)
One Of These Days (Pink Floyd)--more in the stupid fun category. Acid-rock original meets 80's pop and Kool and the Gang at a twink-fest gay bar...
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http://www.box.net/shared/u41mvur7tx)
Al Cumplir Los Cinco--for my son on his birthday. Fucking new strings.
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http://www.box.net/shared/kd82k50e6f)
Over The Hill--a fateful trip to Santa Cruz
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http://www.box.net/shared/m7akaxakos)
Spare Tape And Extra Time--started as an exercise in making standard tuning sound like open tuning, but turned into an extended 10-minute Comfortably Numb-esque vomit fest. Ended up throwing in everything but the kitchen sink. Useful to me as an occasional soundbed for internet browsing, but it sure was fun.
PigLick on 25/6/2010 at 05:16
some of those links dont work my man. The ones that do I like though, nice smoky low key vocals. Man I need to get some better mics cos my guitar tones that I am recording are shit at the moment, unlike yours.
Sombras on 25/6/2010 at 09:36
Quote Posted by PigLick
some of those links dont work my man.
Huh, no clue what happened to those links, but they're working now after cutting-and-pasting the very same URLs.
Thanks for listening, man. I had to resort to "cheating" a little with the acoustic. I couldn't get stable volumes with just the cheap recorder mics, so I ended up installing a K&K pickup with an in-guitar mic through a K&K preamp straight into the board. That helped a lot.
