“MAX” - Short movie filmed with Canon 7D

[joakim_hansson]

If you don't anything serious to say with your story then easiest and common way of movie formula(e) is:

JUST GET NEUROTIC, TORTURE OR BE TORTURED

to move your action in a film...

So that's exactly how it happened here:

And even you can destroy that beautiful old car at the end of the film to get an effect without any certain meaning.

For what "heaven's sake"?

To gain a sort of absurdity?

Not so in any right direction of that...

It could be more honest and much better "effect" to shoot a short classic play from "Théâtre de l'Absurde" writers like a

Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Fernando Arrabal, and Edward Albee...

I could remind the latest movie that shot on Harold Pinter's script:

"Sleuth" directed by Kenneth Branagh

and played by Michael Caine and Jude Law.

That was a masterpiece full of absurdity, shocking, excellent dialog, great acting, directing, cinematography, lighting, editing, interior design, production, etc,...

There is a certain great idea standing behind in this Pinter's script...but here hardly you can find any idea behind except JUST GET NEUROTIC, TORTURE OR BE TORTURED...

Also you don't need 7D to shoot a sort of movies like this in Vimeo site...

Just my "deux baguette" from Eric Kayser.

Still waiting to see what you can do with a camera, except for tests... By the sound of your criticism here you must truly be a master in filmmaking.

 

[joakim_hansson]

Nice work Jean-michel! 1000€ goes a long way sometimes. Was worried about the Citroen SM in the end though! ;D

 

[Christopher Pollock]

very nice short film. well done.

 

[a kines]

I really liked it. I am no camera operator, mostly an editor and post super, it held up as a short nicely and your lead is a good asshole who made some nice physicality choices.

Would it be too petty to mention that some of your subtitles could use some copy editing?
Par example:
7:14 "the doe" i think should be "the dough" unless I am missing something.
7:45 should be "But, you've got to be joking"

There are others but I don't know if you want, or are able to open up that can of worms (a delightful english phrase, mais oui?)

 

[jean-michel tari]

I really liked it. I am no camera operator, mostly an editor and post super, it held up as a short nicely and your lead is a good asshole who made some nice physicality choices.

Would it be too petty to mention that some of your subtitles could use some copy editing?
Par example:
7:14 "the doe" i think should be "the dough" unless I am missing something.
7:45 should be "But, you've got to be joking"

There are others but I don't know if you want, or are able to open up that can of worms (a delightful english phrase, mais oui?)

Hi,
if there are some others mistakes, don't hesitate to tell me. A lot of people asked me to presente my work at some festival. So perhaps I will do it and it will be definitively better without any more spelling mistake.
By the way, I'm sorry about that guys...

 

[Charles X]

Great stuff !!

really liked the color grading - did you shoot with contrast / sharpness all the way down?

interesting / unusual ending.

Also what microphone was used for main audio ?


Looking forward to more of your work!