Chapter 3 - "Rose petal?"
There are more secrets at Ben's workplace than he could have imagined...
Credits
- Written and directed - Eivind Lie Nitter and Ingvill Sunnby
- Camera work - Ingvill Sunnby and Eivind Lie Nitter
- Editing and grading - Eivind Lie Nitter
- Ben - Johan Karlseng
- Angie - Lena Sunnby
- Mike - Amund Lie Nitter
- Tom - Ingolf Nistad
- Interloper and Machi - (incompetech.com)
Scoring
Judges' Votes
I love this submission for both the cinematic quality and story direction. The Nikon D90 performed well for you! Audio, lighting, location choices and acting were all done well. I love the quirky woman added to the story...she gave your two main characters a run for their money. I especially like the intro. scene with her. Great camera work throughout. Good choice of music for bed. You grasp the art of subtlety. Nice cuts, too.
This storyline really opens it up for the next round--I hope the next contenders can do it justice!
Good luck in the final round!
Excellent production values here! You guys definitely deserve a win. This adds a whole new level to the story, very nicely done. Shot with a D90? Amazing!
Great production and interesting continuation of the story.
Great cinematic quality. Nice camera shots. I liked the hint of comedy the actors brought to the characters. Oh, and "Rose Petal" is brilliant! VERY open ended which is important for the contest. GOOD JOB!!!
Comments
Wow! Very, very impressive! The color and DOF was simply incredible. The cinematography showed a high level of understanding. You guys are certainly a force to be reckoned with! The story had a little bit of a quirky twist, but I can live with it winning. Its nice to see new, professional looking contenders! Good luck to you guys!
Excellent job, guys! I like that a weird direction you've taken it in, and your production values are superb! :D
What camera are you guys using? HVX-200?
Thank you. We actually used Nikon D90, a still image camera with movie function. To find out
...to find out more visit Nikons website.
http://chsvimg.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/d90/en/d-movie/
Hmm... oh great, now I have all sorts of other questions. First off, mic. Does it have a mic input? Can you still use a boom with it? And what about more detailed controls, like shutter speed? I'm surprised at the level of images it makes, but I still feel like a device dedicated to what it does (record video) is better than one that it is jumping ship. The nice part about the D90 is, it essentially has a 35mm adapter built into it, for less than the cost of just the adapter itself, let alone the camera. Last question, what does it record on to? If its little SD cards, it seems like it would have to go through some nasty compressing. I can't imagine it shoots on tape or P2 cards. Enlighten me please!
Hi, interesting questions.
The D90 does not have an input for external mic, but has a lousy internal mic. Because of that, we recorded sound separately on a hardisk recorder (Zoom H4).
About the shutter speed: I think it just has one shutter speed, and thats the same as the framerate (24fps which the d90 uses for 1080p), although im not 100% shure of that.
I hope in the future they will make better still-image cameras which are more designed for video recording. What is great with the D90 is the shallow depth of field and the large CMOS censor that gives more of a film-feeling. And that you can use different objectives is exiting. I have never tried the "big brother" Canon Mark II 5d camera, but i get the impression that it is much better than D90 when it comes to video (and more expensive too).
And to your last question: yes, it records on to SD cards formated in motion-JPEG (that is compared with mpeg2 only easier to work with in the editing process), so yeah, quite hard compression on this one... And you are limited to 5 minutes in recording mode at the time (this is because the CMOS censor gets to hot)
Hey, thanks for the nice words! It was a lot of fun to make :)
The D90 is really cool, but it has no manual controls in video mode, so you're essentially forced to work a bit with it to get a clean image (what shutter and ISO it ends up at is a bit of a guess each time). But as you say, JakusB, it's essentially a cheap 35mm adapter with camera included. I wouldn't use the D90 for everything, not by a far stretch, but for something like this, it worked really well!
first class work, mates! The picture is amazing, the acting is great, and the story is taking it out of the somewhat cliched story line into interesting new territory. Glad to have you fellas on the site!
Eivind, what did you go with for compression settings? It is by far the cleanest picture I've seen through the rootclip player.
Best story direction, acting, and production values of the entries this round. You guys got my vote! :D
Really, really nice entry! :>
The cinematography was exceptional and the plot direction, while a little hard to follow, is a welcome and creative twist I feared we wouldn't get. Using the Zoom was a good idea, although it obviously has its limitations still; getting better sound will keep the audio from weighing down your polished visual. The acting came and went, but I really liked the Angie character.
Just to be obnoxious, check the eyelines after the door opens to reveal Ben at the end. ;)
Over-all, monster entry and a clever, enjoyable direction for the story. Super to have you on the site! Best of luck. :>
Welcome! Nice work! I like where the story could go from here! Exclamation points!
Hey, more thanks!
We didn't really have any limitations with the Zoom (used a shotgun mic and a wireless lav mic with it), the slight audio problems is just due to lack of total focus on the audio. Oh well! And yeah, annoying with the eyelines. Had a couple of takes where the eyelines were better, but chose funnier acting over the more correct picture :)
This is excellent! I'm glad we had ideas to twist the story away from gun play. I used only woodend stakes in mine. hehe. I'm already thinking of things to write next from this as I believe this is the winner here. Great work. The D90 has made a little following in the Indie Filmmaker community and you can easily see why here. I can see it's quality values along with it being less intimidating to actors compared to a video camera. You can't beat the look for the price. I have a feeling this camera along with the Canon 5D Mark II is what changed the Scarlet Red design late in its design phase... least that is my opinion. The Scarlet will galvanize indie filmmakers if you ask me. Anyway I think the sound quality was top notch. The lighting was great... I responded to you about the lighter on your comment... and your actors were great!
I do favor my story but only because I seem to gravitate towards darker subjects but I'm already writng ideas for the next chapter based off of this. ;) That being said I have no choice but to vote this over my execution. Good job and good luck.
Oh and I forgot two words... "Citizen Kane". Hehe.
Ha ha, funny that you saw the rosebud link to citizen cane!
Nice one =)
"The story had a little bit of a quirky twist, but I can live with it winning."
Thank God it meets JakusB's standards. Rest easy everyone! He's satisfied!
Heh, props to whoever took the time to create a Morgan Freeman account... And I'm more than satisfied with this submission, I thought it was quite good. I just thought the story was a little unexpected.
morgan freeman? isnt that that one guy