MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

the stunts, physical effects & props forum is exempt of computer based FX.

oh I just realized there's a DVD, VCD & SVCD Creation forum... can any mod move this to there?

heh, I watched, and I loved. 1hour download? it took me less than 30minutes! pros and cons: con(s): I didn't understand what both daddy longlegs and the black hare were saying most of the time, and it's somewhat pretentious(but heh, I guess I can't rant much about that one!:wink:) also, the cg could...

Heeey, how z'it goin'? I've been trying to burn my "Le Jardinier" short on VCD, so it can be played with dvd players(I don't have a dvd burner, unfortunately) and it seemed to work pretty well. when I placed the vcd in my dvd player, I was horrified to see that Nero had compressed in durat...

well, I know where to get the stuff(every drug dealers in my town are around 3 spots; the highschool, the shopping mall and the bus station), but with a price of about 10$ a gram, and seeing that I need about 5oz, it would cost me 1000$ at least. so I think I won't go for the real deal! it's for a m...

Heeeeeeey, everybody! I need an idea for a prop. In a movie i'll do pretty soon(if I can get my actors ) I need pot. LOTS of it. and not only loose leaves, that would be too easy ! I need buds. How can I do fake cannabis-sativa buds?

stop that, man! rhys will get a hard on!

nah, just kidding. I don't let it show, but I'm sure i'm worst than rhys.

Have you seen Hostel? Because if you havent....you should. That movie would be your wetdream. But personally (heres my sick side coming out) i thought they could have made it gorier. ya know what, I totally approve. it has a reputation of being ultra gory built around it, but when I saw it, I was t...

cardboard boxes break less easily than those big inflatable mattresses they use in hollywood.. in fact, for the untrained one, they can be even safer than those mattresses.

heh, he's right, for a big glass o' fresh beer, i'm sure you can easily find someone if you're at the right place at the right moment... that is, if you're of a legal age to get into a bar!

argh... to READ it, it hurts! i've got shivers.... i've once torn off half of a nail, it was sooooooooooo painfull!

BUT NONE OF IT IS GOOD ENOUGH! I do not like watching it erm... it's quite oxymoronic, I must say! head decapotations a little wet water, with that? hehehe... just messing with ya :) nooow rhys, real gore will never be enough for you. reality isn't so much gory; they all juice it up in movies; so e...

I kinda like it, in fact; it has that "The Man in the Iron Mask" look; of course, too clean. and to boxy. what would be cool is mixing it with metal, burlap and leather, so it gets really medieval looking... rhys-> it's an amateur/low budget movie community. that's why all the people here ...

mickar->Nope(well I don't think so), all the music I used is royalty free, so unless silent hill 3's soundtrack is royalty free and you can find the music on the internet, there's no chance I used it. Jperson-> it's goal isn't to scare very much, I wanted it to make people feel a little uneasy, dist...

it would be much more simpler using cg; with a good raytracer, I'm sure you could get great results.

Jperson-> it isn't supposed to be an old movie, it's supposed to be situated in the 90's. Lawriejaffa-> I loved your critic, seriously. Concise, direct, with a touch of tact without overuse, that's the kind of critic I like. Content wise, I agree with a lot of it, but for the ridiculous look, I know...

i'll try to make the end titles a little bit longer... for the bloody clothing, it was an easily explanable continuity problem; we had to reshoot the scene where he smashe her with a rock and pierces her with a hook about 5 times, and with blood spurting on him at each time, he became pretty bloody ...

Howdy! I've been looking for a sound effect I saw at many places, but I just don't know what it is! maybe you could help me identify what instrument/objects produces this sound? The sound i'm looking for is the creaky, screechy effect that is heard at 41 seconds in the song "Mein Teil" fro...

Thanks! i'm glad you liked it! however, it's strange that you didn't like the gardener(if it's what "Hammy" means, I'm only a young, french boy with limited vocabulary!) because he's exactly how I wanted. I imagined a cross between Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and the character played by...

Djokicko-> The lady's presence is explained in the story, and I must say I had lots of problems with her! Those shots were the best I had. And at one point(after he cuts the arm and goes away with it, there is a short fading that I put there to hide that) my "dead body" lifted her head and...

I finally finished my first "real" short. (I've been fooling around with my camcorder, but never started anything serious). It has been shot in one day(yesterday) and I started the post production as soon as I could. It is based on a short story I wrote a few weeks ago. This is the "e...

I liked it, very good! but I think it looks kindof flat... and maybe you could play around with color balance/luminosity/contrast to make the explosion fit the building a little better?

I liked it, actually! somewhat repetitive, but reminds me of the music on fulci's movies. very old school. continue making music, you're good!

I could tear apart everyone's work here quite easily Could you? Good critiques take time, with evidence and analysis... only SLAGGING off works with no articulation, that is 'easy' for this, I must say I quite disagree on this. I am no critic, but personnally, I think it is hard to push up the qual...

Bloodymess: I guess you didnt get what I was saying. I dont want it as much for a movie prop, its for other uses...thats why i cant photoshop my own. Kentertainment: before i could have my sister get me stuff, but she is going to college so thats why i want this, and of course i need it for a movie...