UTK 2008 Fall Film Project

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Chapter 2 - "Kidnapped"

Voting ended 9/29/2008

Chapter 2 - "Kidnapped"

Detective Seabird is assigned the Kevin Woodland case

Credits

  • Bill Piper - Detective Seabird
  • John Mallick - Chief of Police
  • Josh Richard - Camera

Scoring

Weighted Community Vote Weighted Judges' Vote Total Score
7.5%
+
10.0%
=
17.5%

Judges' Votes

Nice effort. The most ambitious entry. Bad acting. A good chuckle. Phony jeopardy, but a good cliffhanger. Solid.



Comments

9/25/2008 at 3:57 a.m. by JakusB

Hehey! Look, a story with a plot! That ACTUALLY GOES SOMEWHERE! I thought I'd never see it. Although your boss's acting wasn't quite top notch. Good stuff though...

9/25/2008 at 7:23 a.m. by natejones

Oh, Mallick... haha "Seabird" is just a funny name.

9/25/2008 at 12:34 p.m. by killerrobotninja

Favorite! And not just because of JoshUTK's involvement.

9/25/2008 at 12:37 p.m. by fiercedeityys

It's the only one with an actual storyline, so it gets my vote!

9/25/2008 at 12:48 p.m. by FroggyKiller

I agree, the acting wasn't terribly strong, but the flow generally held together and the clip definitely invites your attention to stay with it into the next chapter. Overall, a nice piece of work to share!

9/25/2008 at 11:26 p.m. by Billy_Miller

These cuts flowed together really well guys. The plot is pretty standard, though no ones ever done it with a unicycle joke. Everything was flowing really smooth until the unicycle joke, but it picked right back up after it. And all this and a lot of plot put into just two min. is great. I like the name too "Detective Seabird" sounds like a bad ass. It left me wondering what will happen next, truly in the rootclip spirit.

9/26/2008 at 7:27 a.m. by CoreeKee

Best of the bunch to continue the story line.

9/27/2008 at 7:02 p.m. by SMRG

I genuinely liked this one! You've developed tension between two characters and did a nice job of showing the stress Seabird's under in the quick scene where he's jotting down notes (like the camera angles there, too--accentuated the stress for me). Although you could have probably left it at what--the 1:15-ish point?--it was neat that you got him into the vehicle and connected with the kidnappers again.

I loved the newspaper prop in the beginning, the holster rig and additional props. You thought about giving some depth and detail to the setting, and that's cool.

Nice cliffhanger at the end, too. Good work! I hope to see more from you guys!

9/28/2008 at 5:22 p.m. by rawrawtm

good video work, but what happened with the other characters in this story? I would've liked for it to have continued from where it had left off, too far of a jump ahead and ends in the same place as the first one.

9/28/2008 at 6:32 p.m. by JoeBloe

What happened to the sweatshirt guy on the bench? Would've liked further info on that, but I do like the creativity.

9/28/2008 at 6:53 p.m. by Robert_Twilley

Nice effort. The most ambitious entry. Bad acting. A good chuckle. Phony jeopardy, but a good cliffhanger. Solid.

9/28/2008 at 8:12 p.m. by webbyguy

I liked this one the best, minus the unicycle. Developed well. Shot well.

9/28/2008 at 8:38 p.m. by Bob_Legg

Also one of my top picks. Very clean. Just didn't have the 'curb appeal' of some of the other ideas. Although I'm glad you don't smoke, it's impossible to pretend to if you don't. Jarring cut to outside at the beginning. There is potential here.

9/29/2008 at 1:04 p.m. by amy56

This was just ok. Plot a bit lame...but not hopeless.

9/30/2008 at 12:59 p.m. by mhutchin

another crappy movie by Josh Richard

9/30/2008 at 8:34 p.m. by scottmurphy

Josh Richard is the reason this took third.

10/3/2008 at 8:58 a.m. by SeekFirstProductions

Hey Bill, what happened to the flash backs in that sequence that goes something like "steak outs" "interigation techniques"?

That would have made it even better!

But yeah, I would have reshot the lines where the boss messed them up...perhaps you were "against the clock?"

good job though, I liked how it ended!