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never heard of it! checked out the season 2 trailer... i like patton! he can be subversive lol sorry not sorry: i CANT STAND the phony cgi dragon/cartoon stuff!!! why not use a PRACTICAL puppet and embellish it with cgi??? W H Y

imagine the cost of this short if i did everything the hollywood way. whats the cost of renting a bus and closing a street? $30k + for that shot

oh wow thank you so much @Jimmy G. im so glad you HEARD it! lol yeah thats something i should point out – all my shots (with NO audio) seemed lifeless and SHIITY and DEAD until i started adding sound, and then the film CAME ALIVE this is my first attempt at sound design, and truth be told... i wasnt gonna do it, someone else was ? this girl i found online, we talked about it at LENGTH, over months and months, and when it came time to actually do it.... she just didnt come thru. she made nothing. it was too much for her i guess. so, i was expecting to see some stuff finished at a certain point, i find out shes done NOTHING, and i was like... *drinks a beer* FUCK IT ILL DO IT MYSELF ? and in two days i was like.... damn i love sound design this stuff is amazin ? i used all kinds of weird sounds, thats a huge part of the fun~! theres everything from gunshots to deep space noises from NASA. theres even a pine jay squawking at the end lol oh @kye i thought of one thing i did brilliantly: the shot of the girl working at "walmart". i designed a badge, printed it, bought a clip-on badge holder, bought the blue vest online, had her walk in walmart with me, shot some footage for a few minutes, and walked out. how do ya like that for stealing shots ?

thank you! lol exactly i hear ya. i basically decided that since so much of this short is about sleep, i wanted to show that my way, insofar as not like this although shows get away with this shit all the time, and i understand why, im not an idiot, people want to see the actors faces ? but this doesnt feel dark to me, sleepy dark time feels (a) dark and (b) low contrast so i went with that. in the first shot, i wanted the young man to wake up ~in the dark~. he cant sleep. so, that being said, this IS supposed to be dark af, darker than anyone goes on almost anything i just saved the above .png screengrab from quicktime, put it online, and tumblr compressed it, but look how much you can still pull out of it this image gives you an idea of what the original exposure looked like. i would post stuff from my resolve file, but after imac broke its gonna take a couple days to put that timeline back together again, but u guys have inspired me im totally gonna do it...! your assumption is correct~! yes, i said to myself, Self, what is 5d3 raw GOOD at? well, COLOR. DEEP, RICH color. its good at... looking kinda filmic, way more lo-fi and analog compared to say, a gh5, right? totally different look. so that was my idea: make it look like that, to exploit the strengths of what ml raw is good at, and avoiding its weaknesses whenever possible in my shots. that was kinda the plan liike i said, you guys might be somewhat interested in what i did with the color creatively, so when i get the resolve project back together ill post some stuff. i mean, a lot of how this looks is the grade u know in general tho, i simply exposed for the highlights i wanted, and ALL the dark shots have been graded down in post, some WAY down, to avoid the noise of high ISOs. that worked – i did zero denoising in post, and i shot up to ISO 6400. yes. that exposure looks like absolute shit, with all the noise youd expect from ml raw at that iso, but like i said i reduced the exposure SO much that all that just disappeared~! lol i kno it sounds crazy but i did some tests before hand and it worked fine, and it allowed me to shoot the whole thing with practical/natural lighting~! ☺️ oh, i have a great answer for this – the actor in the first shot posted an even less finished version online EVERYWHERE – and called it a "trailer" for his own movie. he knew i was furious, wouldnt answer my calls or messages, and i had to do like 6 dmca things against him. sooooo he can go fuck himself SO MUCH. i mean where do i even start? the main thing is that doing ALLLLLLL this by yourself, with NO ONE TO HELP YOU AT ALL ON "SET"... is insane? its too hard, you start to fall apart, forget things, cant think straight, etc. its a surreal level of stress... sooo i wouldnt do that again without at least ONE person to be a general PA/script supervisor. that was a bad idea and im ~lucky~ things turned out the way they did, but again all this is much easier said that done when you have ~no money~ my main epiphany about making this lil thing is that JUST DOING IT has been SO empowering to me, because NOW I FEEL LIKE A FILMMAKER. i can be a shitty filmmaker, a lil baby filmmaker, but im sure af not an imaginary filmmaker. not anymore! and you CANT make a second film until you make a first film~! so my SECOND and THIRD films are already in development! wow!!! amazin @ Zach the OTHER thing is the process, that you just need to complete to see as a whole: from start to finish, writing, storyboards, casting, locations, etc etc, post, color, vfx, sound....... i see the gestalt of it now, and thats huge. hard to explain, i just "get" it, so im rlly looking forward to doing better in the future that would be the above post, talking about ISOs and so on... ill pull some shots from the actual grade tho, might be fun~! will do soon! nothing else worked brilliantly. everything else ~kinda~ worked pretty good lol. oh, one thing: i literally shot this in 2.39 to (A) save data and (b) hide my feet in the first shot, i kid you not ?

aww, thank you so much @Django... i really appreciate it that you recognize what i was going for but of course! what can i say tho...? i dunno where to start? ask me anything...!

OMG the last shot of my short was ~literally~ captured seconds before security showed up and stopped us!!! ? ? ? i was so pissed, i was like "ill just redo this shot somewhere else", and then i got the footage home, and i was like.... hey thisll work ? ? ? ? ? ?

i take that as a huge compliment, thank you so much @mercer, im so glad you watched it. and yeah, watch it on a tv~! ?

omg ?

guys, i dont think u get how a camera *works*, still the gnomes are scared of the light, they hate it. so they run around painting the pictures while the shutter is open, because theyre basically slaves anyway, if you take off your lens, you wont see them. they hide

i told u ??????

interesting info all i know is this looks pretty darn good

tysm!!! yeah, im from SD but i moved a couple years ago, but being that its the place im most familiar with besides LA, i decided to shoot it all there~! @Jonesy Jones is from the hood too! [warning: the golden west hotel is like arkham asylum ? and the horton plaza parking structure security guards are REALLY humorless ?] lol thank you. i hear ya. @Snowfun @thebrothersthre3 heres a thing: one scene is out of order like honey bunny and pumpkin at the beginning of pulp fiction, where youre getting a glimpse of the last scene, theres one part that isnt chronological: the part when the girl finds the red book in the hallway happens AFTER the following scene where the young man tears a page out of that same red book. he presumably drops it, and she finds it – its his journal. so she reads it, or something, and learns how to meet him "out of body" on the roof. hes been taking notes on his experiences previously, the young man goes to the old man with a pen, and tears a piece of paper out of his journal, because they have communicated about this astral projection phenomenon. the young man wants the old man to write something arbitrary – it could be anything – to see if he can subsequently "read" it at night, (which is a thing that i dont believe in called 'remote viewing' lol. the CIA did have some psychic spies tho... ?) so the film goes like this: (1) the young mans day (2) the womans day (3) the old mans day (4) the meeting on the roof BUT 2 and 3 would have to be switched to make it chronological maybe that helps a bit ? naww, dont say that about yourself~! ive made plenty of stuff that turned out to be a complete disaster, thats why im getting better~!!! ? my biggest reflection on making this film is that it was a TRANSFORMATIVE experience for me because you just dont GET the whole filmmaking process until you DO it. you might have a strong intellectual understanding of it, but much like being in a NASA swimming pool it is not the same as being an actual astronaut in outer space lol. we learn by doing! at least i do. seeing the process as a whole was eye opening in an indescribable way for me, hard to explain, but you guys know what i mean~! ?

actually, youre all wrong. a digital camera is a lightproof box that houses a tremendous number of little creatures that paint the pictures – theyre kind of a cross between the so-called dmt "machine elves" and the south park underpants gnomes anyway, thats the amount of bits that your camera has. the more bits (gnomes) it has, the more expensive it is, and then the gnomes can draw faster, better pictures. its p simple really

looool web was a lil cranky but i turned on fox news and then he calmed down. wouldnt take my money! stand up guy

man... thank you so much for saying that my whole idea was ~dark and low contrast, really saturated~ and my 7GB prores render looks GREAT...! but it gets m u r d e r e d on youtube. this is not the best quality upload due to this file in particular, but i did tests and......... its rough on mobile its exponentially worse. 1080p on the youtube app is not equal to 1080p desktop, and its PARTICULARLY destructive to all the ~pretty dark shots~ that i actually succeeded in making, *not that you can tell* from this upload~! tbh that was sooo frustrating to me, thats a big part of why i was like "i haveta take a lil break from this" ? anyway, thats amazin that you totally saw what i was goin for thru it all... makes my day! tysm edit: see, lookit this low res png screen grab on tumblr... STILL SOOOoooooo much better smh. i mean the ridiculous banding isnt there u kno

thank you so much guys!!! lol no one rlly does http://lmgtfy.com/?q=322 seriously tho, HUGE shoutout to you guys on here who have helped me SO much, with this project and others, not gonna name names, you know who you are~!

wow!!! thank you so much shaun!!! like zero ppl have seen it so that rlly means a lot, thank you ☺️

ok so in the spirit of eoshd togetherness I have decided to share this video to see what u guys think. maybe it will inspire zach ☺️ let me explain: i made this short at the end of last year, but I never completed the edit/fx/etc 100%. Got busy with other stuff, and I was working up my gumption to come back to it with a fresh eye. then my iMac broke, and I have a new ‘puter on the way, but I’m anticipating the nightmare of opening resolve and Siri saying ERROR: NO MEDIA FOUND, because my files, ALTHOUGH BACKED UP, are super disorganized, there might be a few things missing, but at the very least it’ll be a big pain in the ass to relink everything to get going on this again aannnyyyway I always feel bad for posting literally zero videos but numerous dog pics and I was like Screw it, its not perfect, but here ya go. this is not the best file, its the one I had in icloud, there could be a better render, etc etc, and its getting murdered by youtube compression, but my first reaction watching it after not messing with it for a few months was…. …Hey~! Its not too bad! ☺️ not bad for a first film i made all by myself! imagine if I had a crew, a budget… ? so, if youd like to see, pls check it out, and if you have any helpful feedback that involves changing/adding things, that’s great, but I do NOT have access to the actors/locations any more and there is almost no chance of me shooting additional footage, so as long as suggestions don’t involve me spending any more money on this project, I’m all in ? at best, I think this is a cool example of what one person can do with a 5d3 in 2019 with no budget, crew, or resources whatsoever... as indie as it gets lolol

fascinating yes, the ipad's "file system", or the lack thereof, amazes me in many ways, but i have to think its going to be "improved" because osx has become SO much more like mac os in recent years. the irony is that in doing so it has become SUPER complex compared to its origin, with all kinds of gestures and options, and i LIKE those things, but as an ex appl store employee i can tell ya that all that stuff makes ios way too hard for grandma... so i think that osx is headed for something of an overhaul... if it were kind of rebuilt from the ground up that would be amazing, but that refresh might come in another 5-10 years ? or never ? soooo many ppl use one, thats why im trying to embrace it~! making an actual pro level *thing* on my ipad recently was... kind of astonishing. i was like ? ...but its so thin and portable~! ??

when youre spending that canon money, could you give me one of those jobs where you dont have to go like on the sopranos? thanks buddy

ive been scared to even watch a "NEW CUT PAGE" video cuz im dumb about technical stuff, but THIS is AWESOME, nice and simple, first one i clicked on, thanks @kye ? dude. its dope. makes total sense. the multiple zoom levels that you see at once is smart af

well guys its 2019, so according to tim cook you shouldve all abandoned your useless desktops by now amazingly, i am using my first gen ipad pro for actual work for the first time ever – meaning, in my mind, that im spending TONS of time on it. 8hrs a day, which God knows ive never done before im using Procreate, an AWESOME app for drawing and art stuff with Apple Pencil™©® the adobe cc apps continue to absolutely suck. the long promised ipad photoshop is coming "soon"... well my book will be done by then. so. what i wanna know is, WHO here is using an ipad or other mobile device/tablet for actual WORK of any kind? video, photo, design/etc...? anybody? and if so recommend me some apps ?

i love my samsung note, but they do have a history with catching on fire ?

dont be down! screw them! fwiw, i dont know ONE single person who has ever brought up dpreview to me in real life. not one time, ever ?

dpreview has zero jasper pictures so... also, many of those folks are complete idiots