Looks good. The lighting was great during the night scenes and I like the animated transitions and sound effects. I had a little trouble hearing the dialogue especially during the phone conversation, but the sound effects were spot on. And I enjoyed it overall. Heh. Too bad you had to cut the Catwoman bit for the Wizard cut. My biggest regret is cutting Henny Youngman and a Mexican super hero out of mine.
I'll check out some of your Hal Williams saga as time permits.
Alex.
Thanks for the input Alex. The lighting was very difficult for the night scenes. Especially when dealing with cameras that weren't the best in low light settings. Dan did an excellent job with the sound effects and editing. It was a bummer we had to cut the Catwoman bit. After watching the Catwoman movie, I was so pissed it was nothing what it should have bee, that I had to throw that bit in there. There were some audio clips that we just could get the sound boosted up enough on...such as the Nightwing/Dick conversation. We were bummed about that...but oh well....live and learn.
mavic19 - sorry about the delayed response, but I had a major computer meltdown on Friday and I just got back up and running.
I watched the Wizard cut twice and the Director's Cut a few times. First off I just want to say great job! I thought your short was pretty funny and there were a couple spots that I laughed outloud (each time I watched it). Dan(?) did a wonderful job as Batman, he cracked me up. Probably the funniest part IMO is when the camera pushes in at the start when he is on the phone and he says, "No." I also really like it when the crook asks him who he is and he says, "I'm Batman." His body language was great. Dan, if you are reading this - great job man! I liked the fact that all the superheroes were lazy and Batman sits around in a got Playboy? shirt🙂 The concept was great.
In addition, your costume designer did a wonderful job and the graphics between clips were top notch.
The audio for the Nightwing clip was tough to understand and I'm wondering if you guys purposely mispelled Halle Berry (not Barry) in the cut Catwoman scene? I liked the am not, are too scene, but I agree with Scoobless, one (or two) too many - are not, am toos. (Things are usually funniest in 3's, more than that and you lose something). I thought Robin got shot, but wasn't really sure until I watched the Director's Cut - I thought that should have been a little more obvious in the short version.
You did a great job of lighting the scenes - esp. with such cheap cameras - I commend you there. I liked the bring Adam West thing in, but ended up getting Bat Hombre (great costume there). When Batman eggs on the crook with "chicken, bock" that was good. I also enjoyed the fact that he rides around on a crappy little bike. Wish there was more Harley and Joker (but it was a nice cameo regardless).
Watched the first "Hal Williams" - I'm not a big fan of one location, two people talking shorts - so I didn't dig it all that much - but I'm guessing it was a good exercise for filmmaking. I did like Batfollies enough to give "Hal" at least one more chance, I'll take a look at part two and see if I want to watch all of them.
Keep up the great work! Good luck in the Wizard contest, I think you have a legitimate chance of getting screened in Chicago. Hopefully someone will hear soon🙂
BTW - saw that Dan went to Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande. My in-laws have a cabin in Joseph - small world.
Just got done watching 3 and 4 - yes, I couldn't stop watching - I had to see what Hal did next. 3 - great job on opening titles - something different - hadn't seen that before. $800 to rent a house? Damn, I need to move to Boise🙂 The best part IMO was the very end about the devil roommate being killed by the air gun (good thing I watched the first one) - and then cut to "I'm Blue" and the devil dancing around. Kinda creepy, but pretty damn funny. You guys do a great job picking the music and you did a good job in 4 with the special effects.
Keep up the great work!
Hey, this is Dan. You probably won't see me doing a lot of posts, Gary's kinda the voice of out company. Anyways, thanks for the feedback, it's good to hear you enjoyed our movies, and thanks for the compliment on me being Batman, it was definately fun. You're actually the first person to give us feedback on the Hal Williams films we've had, I don't think too many people have watched those yet.
Also, I did manage to watch your film and there were some funny scenes and it was a pretty good premise as well. I'd have to say my favorite part was the Amazing Race with the Flash and Supergirl. You film reminded me of a show called Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. They had a segment similar, it was the Real World: Super Hero edition. It came out in the middle of April sometime and thought that was kinda funny that two different people had a similar idea of putting superhero's into reality tv settings. Anyways, best of luck to ya in the Wizard Contest.
Dan, you are welcome for the feedback - I love to see what other filmmakers are putting together these days. Yes, great job playing Batman! You cracked me up.
Thanks for watching my short and giving me some feedback. Yes, I have seen a few shorts that have Real World: Super Hero Edition - but I thought mine was a bit different because it was all Reality TV, not just one show. I haven't seen the Robot Chicken one though - hmmm - since it is a real production, I'm guessing it was pretty funny🙂 Thanks again.
Thanks for the in-depth review diestler! We do appreciate that. We also appreciate that you gave feedback on the Hal Williams. Yes, part 1 is kind of slow, but once you get past it, things start picking up in terms of pacing. The Hal shorts are very fun to film and don't cost a dime to produce. As to what program we used to animate the orange, we used Adobe Effects 6.5. Basically, I sat in front of the camera and held as still as possible to do the oranges dialogue, then Dan cut out my mouth and tracked the movements on the orange with some great job in masking. We were initially going to use my eyes as well, but decided it was too time involved...so went with the black dots instead. But I feel they add character. Again, thanks for the feedback! I got to get back to work now, but I shall return!
No problems on the feedback, I know I like to get honest feedback, so I like to give it as well. I figured you used AE for the effects, but just wanted to make sure. I'm glad you went with the black dots for the eyes and eyebrows - it definitely made it look much cooler and helped define that character. Keep up the good work - I too have to get back to work🙁