What ya think fellow boardies?

father_ted9t9

Howya all, Over the weekend myself and a mate were bored so we decided to throw tgether a short film. It took us 4 hours to shoot, edit and produce in total! We are going to do a prequal and sequal if there is enough interest out there to see them!Have a look and let us know what ya think.

All comments and suggestions appreciated

ft9t9

www.blueflametv.com/movies/4_Hours.mov

We shot the whole film on Canon XL1, and edited it on Avid Xpress pro

magick

i loved it ! kinda like resident evil/28 days later irish edition!

monkeyfudge

Yep.

Some very nice editing.

Agent Orange

Nice one... how did you get it the film look? Is it built in to your editing suite?

Zombrex

father_ted9t9 wrote:

Have a look and let us know what ya think.

Very nice. Its the editing that makes it. So many shorts are just one long camera shot just shooting what ever is happening in front of the camera for one scene, then move on to the next. You guys managed to put a great sense of speed and the illusion on multiple cameras into the short

Very nice. If you extend it one to a few minutes witha bit of a story you should consider entering it in some of the short film festivals such as the Kerry FF

lostexpectation

now use that talent to come up with a more original idea

aidan_walsh

Very nice, well done. Definately try to flesh it out a bit with some storyline.

No true zombie ever ran, dammit!

Karl Hungus

That is extremely impressive. Honestly, good job.

missingtime

Well done. In college so I had to listen with no sound but nice one!!

Supercell

father_ted9t9 wrote:

Howya all, Over the weekend myself and a mate were bored so we decided to throw tgether a short film. It took us 4 hours to shoot, edit and produce in total! We are going to do a prequal and sequal if there is enough interest out there to see them!Have a look and let us know what ya think.

All comments and suggestions appreciated

ft9t9

www.blueflametv.com/movies/4_Hours.mov

We shot the whole film on Canon XL1, and edited it on Avid Xpress pro

Nice one lads..lets be seeing more of yer cinematic goodness soon

Franky Boy

Good Job mate!
That was really nice editing!

Banner

Hi Lads, Cheers for all the positive comments. Ted and myself hope to do another one in the very near future. Will post as soon as it's ready. Will probably take longer than 4 hours this time.
Banner

father_ted9t9

Yep, cheers for comments lads, and welcome banner to the wonderful world of boards. going to try get as many hits to the movie as possible so if you can send link to any other people you know to view, would be great also.
Cheers again

RuggieBear

another thumbs up from me

although my girlfriend reckons you have too much time on your hands

father_ted9t9

Ah we filmed it while one of the lads went to the off license for beer!:P

monkeyfudge

Don't forget we have a film production forum on boards.

And we still hope to get a boards.ie film festival up and running this year. We were trying to get one going before Christmas but we didn't have enough entries to make it worthwhile.

father_ted9t9

Sorry Monkeyfudge, Can you move this to the Film Production thread please?

monkeyfudge

Only Karl there or one of the other Film mods can move it from here.

CyberGhost

wow, impressive!

father_ted9t9

Cheers again! We plan to do a series of them all roughly same duration, and then compile them all to make a short film. Should have a website up and running over the next few days and then we are thinkin about entering them in a few film festivals! When we need a load of zombies ill be back here asking ya's all to help out! We have a few very freaky ideas to include...

mike65

Very slick if limited location-wise! Did you scare any punters parking thier Puntos?

Mike.

Banner

Just a few people taking out their shopping and a cat.
By the way would anyone know where we can get our hands on replica automatic weapons? Squib fest!!!!

Peteee

father_ted9t9 wrote:

It took us 4 hours to shoot, edit and produce in total!

4 hours! Is that all!

Wow, that was brilliant! More, more!

Kingp35

Yeah top stuff lads. Great editing, looks very professional. Ill be sure to send the link around!

spiderlegs

Very impressive.

father_ted9t9

Hi Guys, unfortunatly due to the level of hits we got
we have used all of our monthly 20gig bandwith in 3 days! I will try get it back up asap!! Sorry about delay

father_ted9t9

Ok The vid can be temporarily viewed here, although it is not in 16x9 but n 4x3 resolution!

http://www.dropshots.com/durtyproductions

ixoy

Nice work there. I'm going to move it to the Film Production board now as requested!

stupefly

The editing was great, as has already been said a lot! We do editing and stuff in college, and I know that no one in my year could do that!

AARRRGH

That was slick!! I really enjoyed that. Congrats!!!

Devinho

Looks great!

How did you get the rights to the Aphex Twin choon? :-)

moonboy

nice cinematography/grading.
and not to take away from my point but carparks always look so damn sweet.
just stop making zombie movies..too many of em..
nice one.

father_ted9t9

moonboy wrote:

nice cinematography/grading.
and not to take away from my point but carparks always look so damn sweet.
just stop making zombie movies..too many of em..
nice one.

Cheers Everyone, But ya can never have too many zombie movies!! And besides this is an Irish Zombie flick too!!

We have just finished filming 2 hours, which is another of the set of 6 shorts, connected for this story, and it should be up on sat or sunday coming!

moonboy

father_ted9t9 wrote:

Cheers Everyone, But ya can never have too many zombie movies!! And besides this is an Irish Zombie flick too!!

We have just finished filming 2 hours, which is another of the set of 6 shorts, connected for this story, and it should be up on sat or sunday coming!

hello?
dead meat? the film board greenlighted feature by conor mc mahon??
plus ive seen at least 4 or 5 grad films with zombie things..
good luck dude

Miguel_Sanchez

moonboy wrote:

hello?
dead meat? the film board greenlighted feature by conor mc mahon??
plus ive seen at least 4 or 5 grad films with zombie things..
good luck dude

Boy Eats Girl too.

Everyone loves zombies but there are far too many films made with them now. They are a staple for student films. Also - there really wasn't anything about yours that set it out as an Irish zombie movie, was there? It could have been set anywhere, in any carpark.

Having said that it was fairly well put together. So well done.

father_ted9t9

moonboy wrote:

hello?
dead meat? the film board greenlighted feature by conor mc mahon??
plus ive seen at least 4 or 5 grad films with zombie things..
good luck dude

I Never said it was the only irish zombie move if you would like to check again, also is there only one gangster film out there? Is ther only one action film out there...i think not. Also there is a story attached to our one to put an irish slant on it and it will be revealed as the other shorts are made..patience patience!

Also We are not college students making the film, we all have expertise in Television and film production, and the point of the shorts is also to show that stuff can be done with no budget and using cameras and editing software at home.:)

even if people think there are too many zombie movies, does the fact that there are loads being made not say something? it says that they are popular and always will be, and the large amount of hits and downloads of our video on the first few days prove's this again. If the story line is good thats all that matters

Miguel_Sanchez

Fair play.

All you've got to do now is prove it.

BlitzKrieg

Its good, editing and visual effects are well done, for something put together in 4 hours it really is an excellent showcase of your groups abilities to get stuff done (i've seen people take a week to get the same amount of work done.)


if i had one gripe, its something someone mentioned up above...which is the sound.

First the music weakens the work you did yourself by using a commercial group.

Secondly it weakened the film itself as it wasnt needed, I dont know if it was in the song (dont listen to aphex twins) but i assume the interference sounds were your own. More of that and natural sounds (footsteps, the sound of the zombies, blood, the lights etc) create a better atmosphere and show of your ability in sound editing aswell.

Apart from that showcase your editing and camerawork some more and i doubt you will have any problem getting hired.

father_ted9t9

thanks blitz, i already am working in the industry, along with the other guys, so this is just a bit of craic and fun really!

Zillah

Just throwing in another "nice job well done". Loved it.

smack_monkey

That was cool, and thoroughly impressive for four hours work start to finish. Your collective experience shines through. Reminded me of the Dawn of the Dead remake as opposed to 28 Days Later. Gotta love zombies.

Can I ask if you graded much? Or was a lot of the look due to the lighting in the car park?

kjt

Just wondering if you have the link for this anywhere else?
Sounds like it's a good watch

father_ted9t9

Thanks for all the positive comments, we graded it a fair bit using Colour corector in Avid xpress and also using the deinterlace filter.

it can be seen low res at http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?userid=66848&cdate=20030124&ctime=003148

and also part 2 of the series has been filmed and rough edited, although both myself and the co producer are up to our necks in work at the moment so we havent finished it yet. Coming soon!

nubbintom

Thats pretty cool, looks very good what you shoot on?

father_ted9t9

Canon xl1 nubbintom

shnaek

Nice work. I can't believe ye did it in 4 hours. Moves at a nice fast pace too. I look forward to seeing the rest of the shorts.