UTK 2008 Fall Film Project

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Chapter 3 - "Spirit Casing"

Voting ended 10/13/2008

Chapter 3 - "Spirit Casing"

Scoring

Weighted Community Vote Weighted Judges' Vote Total Score
5.2%
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10.0%
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15.2%

Judges' Votes

Way to go this time guys. It was odd and I had no idea what was going on. A step into the strange is always nice. I think its common place now for Television shows to start going somewhere and not really know where they are going to end up. I have to figure writing a continuing plot by the seat of your pants is extremely hard to do. Rootclip is all about just that. You all went in a very odd direction with this and I am interested in seeing how you write yourself to the next point. I'm even more interested in seeing, if you win, if the other groups can write there way to the next point with the introduction of something very unexpected. The editing is very nice, but be sure that plot can be sustained for more than two minutes without the need of something so visually shocking at the end of each scene. Great job this week, 1,000 million billion points for not being afraid to be the odd ball out.



Comments

10/9/2008 at 3:39 a.m. by JakusB

Woah, definitely an expected ending there. Good stuff.

10/9/2008 at 4:47 a.m. by Praxis

Sick lighting, not sure how it advances the storyline though. And how did Mark not see the guy when he came in?

10/9/2008 at 9:29 a.m. by killerrobotninja

super creepy... very interesting.

10/9/2008 at 10:36 a.m. by JakusB

unexpected

10/9/2008 at 1:13 p.m. by esotericsean

Set aside, this is a great entry (one of the best).

But following along the story, it does not. Mark, the main character, needs to stay the same across chapters and here he does not. No, not because he's suddenly asian - that's fine (performance over continuity), but because in the winning second entry he's cynical to what just happened and here he fits right into this creepy scene, expecting that he was walking into something bad.

Other than that, excellent entry!

10/9/2008 at 1:51 p.m. by killerrobotninja

@ esotericsean

I disagree, I think it's completely plausible that his attitude towards the situation would change as he actually entered the room, and his surroundings were not what he expected them to be. Plus I can only assume he sees the wheelchair-clad man in the room. So he gets a little nervous, and realizes he SHOULD have seen it coming. Seems in character to me.

10/9/2008 at 5:33 p.m. by bosox2005utk

great job guys.

jorel, your soundtrack is awesome!

that last 'scene' gives me chills!

10/12/2008 at 1:47 p.m. by Foutch

I really like the camera work (rack focus from gun to face), and good job with the editing guys (girl as a ghost at the end).

10/12/2008 at 8:52 p.m. by tuxedo

A little weak at first but from about halfway on it ROCKED. Great acting and editing.

10/12/2008 at 9:47 p.m. by Mangafan311

at fifty seconds in is that a boom mic operator shadow on the wall? I think this is really creepy.

10/13/2008 at 9:13 a.m. by cadillacman

super creepy, great ending.

10/13/2008 at 10:19 a.m. by Bob_Legg

Some wonderful work here. Loved the rack focus in the first couple of shots. Nicely staged to begin with. Then you lost me. With your actor off camera, there is no reason not to re-do the audio until it is understandable. Story also takes us off into uncharted paths (not sure how it relates to identity theft).

10/23/2008 at 9:36 a.m. by IofHorus

This was garbage It had nothing to do with the story. completely random!