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AlexK
03-31-2003, 09:00 PM
This is my solo project at "THE GERMAN FILM SCHOOL". That is a project where you are to produce the whole movie within one year. Well, I think I used about four months of that time. The rest must have somehow disappeared! I swear. :D
Planned as a parody on "Final Fantasy", it ended up as a clone of a "Final Fantasy"-Trailer with too little parody in it. :hmm:

But check it out for yourself! And don't forget to give some good critiques.



Ludicrous Fantasy 3,28MB DivX5.03 (http://www.babylondreams.com/html/downloads/LudicrousFantasy.avi)


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Ls3D
03-31-2003, 09:18 PM
Well it is as you described. And I'm sure you learned something from having produced it.

What are those things that appear way to quick and look like teeth running? How did you shoot the below water sequence?

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stephen2002
03-31-2003, 11:02 PM
humm...yup, it seems to be about the same, but not quite as good :hmm:

Since it isn't funny...I don't really like seeing such a CG masterpice taken apart in this fashion because it really is just a replica with different titles...

I hoped you leared something. Nice job with the underwater shot.
beta
03-31-2003, 11:12 PM
Originally posted by stephen2002
humm...yup, it seems to be about the same, but not quite as good :hmm:

Since it isn't funny...I don't really like seeing such a CG masterpice taken apart in this fashion because it really is just a replica with different titles...

I hoped you leared something. Nice job with the underwater shot.


ff:sw is a CG MASTERPIECE, but as far as a film is concered it is complete rubbish. it is a really abstracted version of the movie alien. you can put it in alien and it would be the same movie. if you can't see it being that abstracted then i can't help you. it's as if sam keith (the maxx comic series & mtv show) or tim burton wrote it. along those lines (kind of). the falling action is long and drawn out. so is the rising action up to the climax. cinematography is good too, but im bashing it strictly from a STORY stand point. ya know no matter if the movie is cg or not if there is no story there is no movie.:shrug:
AlexK
04-01-2003, 07:16 PM
Well, thanks so far. I am not sure if that was any positive reaction at all, but ok. :shrug:


Of course it is just a copy, because that's what is was ment to be in the beginning. At first there was the idea of how close I, as a single person, could get to something a whole house has done in a respectable quality. (@ stephen: So if you say it looks like a replica, then that's actually a quite good critique. ;) (Yes, I read your first line))
From there the idea of a parody developed and I am quite sad that this part doesn't comunicate at all for some reasons.

The underwater shot was kind of easy, because for a lack of options I just filmed it horizontally with the actress laying on a blue mat. Kind of hard to key though, because the mat couldn't be lit according to the light situation so it was nearly black.

The teethy things are meat grinders and yes they are way to short. This is the part that suffered most. There was second longer shot, that didn't make it because of time reasons, so the whole thing doesn't work at all. :annoyed:
The reason for the meat grinders is that they look like the original aliens with their one oversized arm and therefore make a perfect cartoony replacement. It was the idea of one of my teachers and I thought it would be quite funny.


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