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Max Hall

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  1. I thought you guys might enjoy this little Spider-Man video I made. It takes a more realistic approach in exploring what would ACTUALLY happen if you got bitten by a radioactive spider ? As a big Spider-Man fan, it was fun to recreate some scenes from all the movies in between the comedy. Not necessarily my best cinematography, but wasn't trying to win any academy awards with this one. Just wanted to whip out a quick vid to celebrate the new Spider-Man movie.

    Check it out at the link below and let me know what you think!

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0tahgIcg18&feature=emb_title

  2. On 4/14/2021 at 1:39 AM, Raymond Zananiri said:

    Nice contrast and nice deep blacks for a change. Everything I see nowadays is flat and muddy. 

    Beautiful work overall !!

    Much appreciated! Thanks for watching and commenting. That’s definitely my style - I like to push the contrast when it makes sense. Glad you dig it!

  3. 18 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

    Yea it worked, tho IDK about killing the cat. Looked good. The only thing I would have done differently cinematography wise is probably that light on the black woman. I would have balanced everything in that scene for daylight and let the shadows happen more naturally. It was the only part that took me out of the story. Otherwise, it worked well. 

    Thanks for the feedback. Agreed about the lighting. I was disappointed about that in that scene. Glad to hear you thought it worked!

  4. On 10/18/2019 at 6:02 PM, Max Field said:

    The concept you had for this 1 minute short is very strong, the issues were in the technical realism:

    -Frame rate was way too high for an online video call
    -Digital distortions blatantly looked like filters
    -The ADR was recorded too close to the mic and failed to match the distance
    -SFX had similar issue
    -No one would try to pick up their phone and frame it on the face perfectly in the middle of an assault
    -No one would say "please" when telling someone to get out of their house
    -Acting in general, but we don't all have the budget for Robert Downy Jr.

    I bullet point these out because if you nailed the realism this would be doing millions online and winning awards at many festivals. You had the right idea, executing it is part 2.

    Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated. Glad you dug the concept.

  5. On 10/18/2019 at 4:26 PM, Phillip Mosness said:

    Hello,

    It's amazing what you can do in 60 seconds, huh?

    The only critiques I could offer is that it might be more natural for the camera/phone to fall at a more awkward angle  at :21, and there's not much motivating your lead male to pick up the camera at :35. Perhaps it could get kicked into the next position during the struggle. 

    And I can't think of why a guy would drop his gun to punch a guy on the ground.  

    Still, nice job!

    Good feedback! The idea with the gun was that the intruder was going to try to get the guy to tell him where the ring is before shooting him. Thanks for watching!

  6. This is a one minute short film, shot on an iPhone. I chose to shoot on an iPhone for the sake of the story, and it turned out to be an interesting experiment. Visually, the film is comprised of two uninterrupted shots that play simultaneously - which was another interesting challenge.

    I'd love to hear how this little film comes across to you guys. Do you think it works? Positive or negative feedback is welcome. Thanks for watching!

     

  7. On 6/28/2019 at 11:07 AM, David Mawson said:

    You were experimenting and knew it. Taking risks is a good thing as long as you're smart enough to look hard at the results afterwards.

    I think the bottom line here is that for every image you put on screen you have to ask "Why do people want to see this? How does it make them feel? Why are they going to keep watching?" With "Hey Boy" the director immediately opens a question in the viewer's mind: what's the connection between the group in the foreground and the protagonist? And creates a sense of threat. That's two compelling narrative points in the first 8 seconds. Those carry you through until the huge WTF at 40 seconds, then empathy and the curiosity already created - plus three excellent performances shot close-up - carry you the rest of the way. 

    True that! Totally agree.

  8. 2 hours ago, David Mawson said:

    No. Because it was 1 minute 42 seconds before I noticed a zoom and I'd normally have given up after 20 seconds. Also the zoom seemed completely unmotivated, which itself is a bad thing. And to be honest, even if you'd started close and then pulled out, I don't think it would have helped. People don't want to squint at dancing ants. The point of a video is that something interesting happens on screen -

     

    I’m sorry you were as unimpressed as you were, but thanks for watching. If you download the song, I’ll promise to motivate my camera movements next time!

  9. 22 hours ago, Bob Speziale said:

    I watched it full screen and I agree the figures look too small. I think in a music video the personality of the performers is important. I think you would have been better off doing close up shots in several takes and cut them together. The performance is good but I found myself concentrating on who were the clones, so I lost sight of the music.

    Thanks for your thoughts! That’s good feedback.

  10. On 6/26/2019 at 12:01 PM, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said:

    Very nice, although didn't like the lines on the side of frame. I am an archivist. Lots of my film is naturally distressed. I try to make it look better and not worse. But that is just me. Maybe kids like it.

    Sound is very good. No expert on cloning, but looks good to me. 

    Good luck!

    Thanks for watching! Yeah, we chose to make the footage look worse as the video went on. That was a thematic choice we made to reflect the ideas in the song lyrics. For a film archivist, I’m sure that was tough to see!

  11. On 6/26/2019 at 3:22 PM, David Mawson said:

    Completely doesn't work. If you look at the frame as a whole for then your brain just registers tiny figures doing stuff repetitively. If you try to look at any particular figure, it's too small. The impression is more of a screensaver than narrative content.

    Yeah, that turned out to be a consequence of this effect. Do you think the zooming in helped to mitigate that? The hope was that, by the time the full 4 minutes are over, the viewer has had enough time to become familiar with what they’re seeing.

  12. On 5/5/2019 at 8:55 PM, Daniel D. Teoli Jr. said:

    I like shooting people, but I don't like dealing with / talking with people. So that limits me with people vids. I do lots of candid work with still photos, but that is about it. Maybe I can get into candid video work. I'd like to try that M43 Pocket cam someday. 

    Ha, nice! Understandable. It can be tough to constantly communicate when you’re doing this stuff. I only do narrative films as of right now, so my next video will be a short film from one of the scripts I’ve written.

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