My new ( but not so new ) short film.The Brandon Brady Story

[David M. Leugers]

Supa_ate_sixteen

Congradulations on a very well done movie. Very funny! It is hard to do good comedy on the obvious crass type of humor subject. You conquered by the craftsmanship of your crew and the originality of the script. I think it is much funnier than anything I have seen on Saturday night live lately.
It shows how good S-8mm can look when transferred properly and the sound quality was superb. Can you give us some more info on the shooting techniques especially the sound? Don't be too hard on Kill Yourself or whatever its name is, I bet humorous beer commercials are not too funny to an alcoholic.

Tell me how I can buy a copy for $10.

David

[supa_ate_sixteen]

Hello and thank you for the kind comments.

I have two pieces of equipment that made up the film, a Nizo 6080 and a portable DS-8 DAT walkman. A cheap shotgun mic and a slate were also used. I used a head and tail slate for each piece of sync dialouge.

Clap your hands, slate it, or some kind of reference before the take began.

Action is called.

Then a tail slate of some sort as end reference.

I transferred sound from DAT to CD and the Super 8 to Mini DV via Rogers excellent service. This internet copy doesn't do the registration on the DV 8 justice. Sound was synced using the visual and audible slates marked in Final Cut Pro. The nizo is good because its quiet and that made most of the shooting pretty easy. I have two Nizos now and the only reason I am saving the 6080 is because its so darn quiet and it holds pretty accurate sync with freshly charged batteries. Anytime sync was lost I made adjustments in Final Cut.

Copies can be obtained by emailing me: plattino@mac.com

I just shipped two copies today.

[mattias]

i loved it. technically brilliant, with good acting in a good story. that said i have some critisism too. being an editor by profession myself i couldn't help noticing a few things. i don't know if you'd consider re-editing it or if it's really finished already, but here goes:

it was a bit too long, and it suffers from the common too much too soon problem. you "get it" almost immediately and then you're pretty much just waiting for it to end. sure, it's a very pleasant wait with a big smile on your face, but it's still waiting. making the film a minute or so shorter, while moving the "informational" scenes towards the end would make this film really, really excellent imho. you could also work with the pacing and keep the more "intense" scenes at the end as well, to get an accelerated motion in the film, which i think would suit the subject matter. :-)

/matt

[Guest]

Excellent criticism Mattias,

I support your thoughts all the way. In fact I felt the exact same thing. The movie is a one line joke that can't possibly hold many audiences attention for over ten minutes. The film was actually really cut down to 9 minutes and it flows much much better. Unfortunately this wasn't decided till after 100 copies were made. I'll see if I can get a 9 minute version up here. I figured I should post the version people would be buying. I really like the 9 minute version for its flow, but it also loses some of my favorite parts of the 12 minute version because they took up too much screen space. Stuff that ended up getting cut was the video store interview and the knock at the door of the tee shirt salesmans house. I couldn't agree more with your thoughts. If people are interested I could post a higher rez version of the 9 minute piece and see what peoples thoughts are on the difference in flow and humor.

Aaron

[supa_ate_sixteen]

that was me by the way.

[Arnie]

Wow! Excellent job! That was great. I love to see Super 8 used to tell a story. There's tons of "test shots" and stuff, but rarely do I see a full story presented in this medium. I'm working on a 10 minute claymation right now which I hope to have finished in April or May. Thanks so much for letting us see this! It was wonderful.

Arnie.

[tfunch24 being lazy]

I have a slow connection so I had to wait for the tape to come from Aaron (which arrived yesterday--I'd thought I'd have to wait until after Christmas to receive it. Thanks!) Anyway, great film and it looks awesome at full image quality--Roger Evans (or, perhaps more precisely, Annette Evans) has done it again!

I do agree with some of the criticisms here--mainly, you get the joke within a minute and it's a eleven minute wait until the end, but it's still a good short. Congratulations, Aaron.

Is this the uncut or cut version of the movie?

Tom

[kill yourself]

umm....what i wrote before was a joke, sorry (!)

[Guest]

Obviously Not Funny!

[supa_ate_sixteen]

What I am selling and showing here on the website is the twelve minute uncut (but obviously edited) version. I am willing to post the 9 minute version if people are interested. Roger suggested I post a high quality copy and try to flood it over the Internet in hopes it will find its audience (and possible future producers) that way. I am still trying to get rid of these copies to fund another movie. I actually recently finished something new but might try some festivals before the net. It's shot on 16mm so I don't know if the Shooting 8mm website is an audience for it anyhoo.

Thanks for all your comments, kind and crtical. How does one improve their filmmaking without both sides of the spectrum, right?

Please email me at plattino@mac.com if your interested in obtaining a copy of the film.

[studiocarter]

My copy arrived today. Indeed, a nice presentation in the white dust jacket and shrink wrapped. The VHS played nicely and super 8 looks great, I especially liked the sound.

This has inspired me to get a roll out of the frig.

Michael