Topic: Frozen Heat: A Hollywood Heist Story
A mockumentary about a director intentionally sabotaging a film production. Teague gets a special thanks credit for helping me out with the director's dialogue at the end.
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Frozen Heat: A Hollywood Heist Story
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- Teague
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Re: Frozen Heat: A Hollywood Heist Story
This is actually a lot of fun, I love the critic guy and he's very believable, and the grid in Gallow's movie cracks me the fuck up. It's about fifteen minutes too long, in my opinion - the easiest bits to watch were the reviewer, and the producer with the beard.
My only notes so far are related to frame composition (the interviews are all rather squared off, which makes a bit more sense as they're talking to camera and not an interviewer, but it looks a little plain) and audio. The audio is listenable, but onboard mics are always kinda crappy in small rooms like these, and the echo is unavoidable.
Buy one of these (or something similar) and an XLR cable, and then save money on the boom itself by using a paint roller and extension handle from Home Depot. For lighting, the cheapest and best solution is generally avoiding existing room light (or sunlight coming trough windows) and lighting up the dark set with chinese lanterns, which are those paper ball diffusers you can buy at Pier 1 or World Market for like ten bucks. The bigger the better, because bigger ones can hold more lights and actually light half a room on their own. Small ones are good for detail lighting.
On the whole, very enjoyable. Good stuff. It also reminds me (pleasantly) of this short film Trey made, with minor help from myself and other random folks connected to us, a couple years ago.
Teague Chrystie
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I have a tendency to fix your typos.
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More thoughts on the technical side. (No offense, obviously, just thoughts.) When you have to use onboard mics (well, always, but onboard mics are no exception) you should record about thirty seconds of audio for each room you film in. Nobody talking, just "silence," getting a nice clean recording of the ambient sound.
That's useful for two reasons. One, if you have two angles in a room and one is considerably louder than the other (in the first movie portion of the short, the shot of the guy is relatively quiet in noise compared to the shot of the girl) you have the ability to use a loop of the room tone from the girl's angle over all of the shots of the guy. Then both are noisy, but *equally* noisy, which is preferable to the noise being obviously louder in one angle. The second reason room tone is useful is that with audio editing software (like the free, awesome Audacity) you can use the room noise as a sample, and then with that sampled informaton remove that same sound from your footage, resulting in nothing but dialogue and little or no background noise.
Room tone allows you to either be consistently loud, or consistently silent, but either way it allows you to be consistent.
Teague Chrystie
I have a tendency to fix your typos.
I have a tendency to fix your typos.
Re: Frozen Heat: A Hollywood Heist Story
in a room its called room tone, outside, its called wildtrack. This ends my nitpicking.
Eddie Doty
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In a jungle, it's called jungle fever. And in the ocean, it's called ocean notion.
Just helping out.
/currently contemplating recording an ocean notion for my nearly-finished Asylum screenplay called 10 Tentacles for Sister Sarah *
* It's neo-western sea monster nunsploitation
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One of the film professors on campus asked me to submit something to the yearly festival about a week ago. With no good ideas and a lack of time, I decided to just pick something from my personal portfolio. Out of the handful of stuff I've shot, I still consider the opening to this to be my favorite of the bunch. The festival rules specify a constraint of 5 minutes so I chopped down this entire video to just the opening 30 seconds of the TV show credits. Not much has changed but I tweaked the cast fonts and added a production stamp to the beginning of the video. It now reads as a reel somebody found laying around in the archives of a studio rather than a mockumentary. I put it up on YouTube but that shit kills standard definition quality, so if you wanna see it as I intended, just click the mediafire link.
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