'Ello mates and maties,
Me and my cohorts finished another commercial for Glory Hill Life Insurance, which you can enjoy at
http://media.frozenphoenixproductions.com/gloryhill3.mov

Cheerio!

That rocks! great cinematography and music, too.

Very nice. I'm consistently impressed, Ben. I especially like the flashlight bit.

How many of these are you planning to make?

I liked it. Good idea. Good choice for the music, though it sort of anticipates there's going to be something funny and/or somewhat unexpected at the end.
The last outdoor shot was two or three seconds too long for me, but I guess it's entirely personal.
I felt that the piece had a consistent rhythm, in terms of editing, and that scene stopped that natural flow. But maybe that's exactly what you were going for.
Still, very good.

E.

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Originally posted by E.D.M.:
The last outdoor shot was two or three seconds too long for me, but I guess it's entirely personal.
I felt that the piece had a consistent rhythm, in terms of editing, and that scene stopped that natural flow.

That's actually very much how I feel. However there was a certain desire among us to match up the music with what's going on. We had to make that scene longer so the music does what we wanted it to do when he turns to go inside. I'll probably rearrange some things to even it all out.

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Originally posted by Harris:
How many of these are you planning to make?

As many as we can until the idea wears out. This was for a class in school so we did have to make it for a grade, which was definately a motivation to get it done. I don't think we'll be making much more since the class involves a lot of my time and I'm really not a good multitasker.


Thanks for comments! I'm glad you all enjoyed it. Hopefully we'll get an A for the project.

That was very funny! I also noticed that you used your 35mm adapter on that flashlight scene.

Well done, the A is in the bag!

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I'll probably rearrange some things to even it all out.

Well, I think it was you who suggested on another thread to use a screeching record... This could be an effective way to avoid an akward edit in the music.

E.

Unfortunately the song is too easy-going and laid back for the screech sound effect to have the right comedic value. A song has to have momentum if you use the vinyl scratch effect, otherwise it's like putting the brakes on a parked car.

What I really like about the song though is that it fits the atmosphere so well--but more than that, Scott Joplin's "The Easy Winners" was written in 1905 and is under public domain now Makes us indie filmmakers a happy crew.

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