Our new Super 8 shortfilm

Post by **jukkasil** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:05 am

Here is our new shortfilm named "The mystery of missing sink" in mpg1-format:

http://www.sorb-i-tol.com/THE_MYSTERY_O ... G_SINK.MPG

(Just download it to your harddrive by using the right button of your mouse)

Total playtime is 2 min 57 seconds. We shot it with Canon 1014 XL-S and Kodachrome 40 film stock and transfered to digital with Workprinter by myself. We edited footage with Premiere.

Post by DC » Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:31 pm

Well that was an interesting, if a bit bizarre film ;)

Can I ask how you lit the film? As you know K40 needs tons of light, and there wasn't much under exposure.

I guess the morale of the story is: do more washing up! lol

Post by **jukkasil** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:25 pm

DC wrote: Can I ask how you lit the film? As you know K40 needs tons of light, and there wasn't much under exposure.

We used couple halogens (1 kW and 500 W ones) to light scenes. We shot footage during Summer sunny days, that's why I used also 85 filter inside shooting. Unfortunately it made footage a bit yellow, cause practically the main light came from these halogens. Personally I think that look fits the main story very nice anyway.

Post by **unxetas** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:30 pm

hahahah what else can I say? I also thought the orange color fits the overall "theme".. I thought it was really funny

Post by **jimmyking** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:35 pm

Great story!
I liked the tortillas :lol:

Post by **MovieMaker** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:43 pm

Thanks for making me hungry...

Bizarre short - I liked it!

MovieMaker

Post by **sunrise** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:47 pm

Very classy!

The yellow tone gives a certain nordic 70's feel to it. Nice.

michael

Post by **studiocarter** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:12 am

Great job, thanks for posting that. What a great example of how to use Super8mm film with PCs and the internet. Fantastic. Can a feature film be far behind?

Michael C

YouTube · Post by **Andreas Wideroe** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:10 pm

Jukka, that was a great short film. It was funny and the sound fx and music were excellent. It both made me laugh (at the end) and HUNGRY!!! Yummy - good food... The look was nice I think.

Post by **T-Scan** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:15 am

Awsome! I personally wanted to hurl while watching but thats a good sign. I liked the way the K-40 looked with the filter as well.

Post by **jukkasil** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:52 am

Thank you guys for your nice feedback!

We did this shortfilm for Schmalfilm Nomos competition. Anyway we didn't succeed in that one, but great thing is we got impulse to do it by that way.

I received yesterday our material back from Schmalfilm with DVD including "26 best films from competition". One thing I cannot understand 100%:ly: In 26 of these films there are many technically and storywise totally poor quality "load and shoot" stuff. Also some of these are without soundtrack/sound effects track, but where is our film? We didn't get any feedback from their side about our shortfilm too, which is sad.

Perhaps the reason is culturical thing, cause we are from Finland. And we did digital editing sending our short to them in DVD and mini-dv in digital format, not edited Super 8 film. Also all films in that DVD seems to be from german talking area and maybe they want basically support Super 8 shooting in Germany (you'll get that idea watching these films) with this competition.

I'm not bitter, I just wonder the whole idea behind the competition.

About our short:

Anyway we have sent this film to other competition and film festivals etc. I hope we'll get more feedback from these ones. And anyway it's great to work with Super 8 (and also 16 mm) and make some little and also bigger projects. All competition things sucks (I have allways thought that way), but great thing about competitions are: you get the impulse and schedule to complete your work.

Post by **avortex** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:53 pm

Very nice to see your short, Jukka!!

Don't worry about competitions, I've been a jury many times and I can guarantee you that the results (mixing people in the jury with very different tastes) are often very unpleasant.

Keep up the good work!