The Giver

Buffalob07 · Post by **Buffalob07** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:29 am

ASAP Films has just completed a new video called The Giver. It's based on the book by Lois Lowery. It was a project done for an English class, so it wasn't a major endeavor or anything. But I figured I'd post it and let people comment, and tell us what they think. Thanks!
http://www.asapfilms.com/videos/giver1.wmv

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:52 am

I hope you got a freaking A for that. Very nice, didn't understand it, but I thoroughly loved it. I liked the imagery, I liked that music score with it, I liked the VO.

Very nice work man, very nice work.

Bodysnatcher · Post by **Bodysnatcher** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:04 am

Outstanding! that was very well done indeed! as Nova said, hope you got top marks!!

Buffalob07 · Post by **Buffalob07** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:08 am

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it. My friend Sam is actually the one who made the video, and pretty much does everything. I don't know if you guys know about our website or not, but if you feel like checking out the other stuff, it's www.asapfilms.com there's tons of other videos as well, so if you're ever bored....

ChemicalShamanII · Post by **ChemicalShamanII** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:40 am

Wow, as always im really blown away by your work.

Amazing stuff, im impressed by everything asap has released thus far.

As a side note, the girl used in this film....... really beautiful. What an incredible smile. Just thought i'd comment on that.

Great stuff man, keep up the good work asap guys.

CS

Kentertainment · Post by **Kentertainment** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:05 am

I didn't understand it but I still thought it was brilliant! If was just perfectly made and for some reason...inspiring.

Bodysnatcher · Post by **Bodysnatcher** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:12 pm

There is a lot to be said to taking an established book and converting it to the screen. any other projects in the pipe line ASAP?

XhuntedoverlordX · Post by **XhuntedoverlordX** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:26 pm

Hey, great job on this. I showed this to my mom who is an elementary school teacher. Her class just finished reading The Giver, she was wondering if it was okay with you to use this in the classroom.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:07 pm

How did he get the music, did he buy it or make it?

Mr.Anderson · Post by **Mr.Anderson** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:01 pm

Damn. That was fantastic. Really makes me want to read the book now, even though ive never heard of it. The direction couldnt have been better. Great work. And yes i agree, the girl was gorgeous.

asapfilms · Post by **asapfilms** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:23 pm

Hey everyone, wow James (buffalob07) there is a lot of good feedback on the video (and my girlfriend)!!! Im glad everyone seemed to like it. As for the teacher question, by all means, feel free to show it in your moms class, no problem! This video is one of the ones I am sending into an annual film festival (Young Cuts). Anyways, thanks for the awesome feedback everyone, and yes, Jessi is beautiful!

snowfunmagee · Post by **snowfunmagee** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:00 am

haha..i was the girl in the movie. YAY! I hope you all liked The Giver movie. I thought my part was pretty weird though. lol

Gino · Post by **Gino** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:59 am

very well done. didn't make any sense to me but i still enjoyed it. I dont think i want to know how you got that dead cat though.
what state do you live in?

Buffalob07 · Post by **Buffalob07** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:50 am

We live in NY, close to Rochester.

ChemicalShamanII · Post by **ChemicalShamanII** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:29 pm

DEDFX wrote:How did he get the music, did he buy it or make it?

Learn to read credits. They're there for a reason.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:13 pm

...... so did he make it or not.

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:07 pm

No, it tells you that in the credits, if I remember a few of them were from gladiator.

ctbullet · Post by **ctbullet** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:54 pm

wicked dude

was that a real dead cat, i thought you must be pretty sick to get a close up of a dead cats gob, only bad comment, other than that sweet work

might aswell comment on the girl also....wow.....damm you

Mr.Anderson · Post by **Mr.Anderson** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:38 am

hey great, theres actually a girl on this site now! Bout time. Jessi, feel free to put any input into anyones script with female dialogue. I wont name names but...could use changes. lol. And yes, the music was good. Cant go wrong with Hans Zimmer. I've been meaning to pick up the orchestral soundtrack to The Last Samurai. He did Tears of the Sun as well, probably another good soundtrack.

snowfunmagee · Post by **snowfunmagee** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:30 pm

Gino wrote:very well done. didn't make any sense to me but i still enjoyed it. I dont think i want to know how you got that dead cat though.
what state do you live in?

the cat was actually found on the side of the road by sam's house..but the kitty took its revenge from us filming it and the camera used to film later broke. oops....

asapfilms · Post by **asapfilms** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:38 pm

The soundtrack is really important but Im surprised that it came out so well... I put it together last minute the morning it was due... Anyways, I am going through that video and fixing the audio levels for some of the voice overs and also shortening it a little. Either that or I am going to add more voice overs and try to give a better background to the story so that people know more of what's going on... Anyways thanks for the feedback! Always love feedback.
As for the dead cat. I originally went to www.rotten.com and got a ton of terrible disgusting pictures that I was going to put into a montage for that scene but I got so freaked out by the pictures that I couldn't use them... Instead, I noticed a dead cat on the way home one day and just decided to get a few shots of it... It wasnt as freaky as the first montage but it worked...

CaptainAmerica · Post by **CaptainAmerica** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:44 pm

I liked it, but I didn't like the baby thing going on. It was really good though nice job.

SgtPadrino · Post by **SgtPadrino** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:03 pm

Thought it was really damn good. Never thought you could mix Equlibrium and V for Vendetta so well on such a tight budget

jackbauer24 · Post by **jackbauer24** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:44 am

that was really good. i read the book a few years ago and so i sort of understood it. but for some reason it stopped working when Jonas was on top of the mountain with his hands up.

And i have a question. in that scene (right before the dead cat) it shows the road and water (i think it is) being sprayed really fast. i didnt really get that. did you just take a hose and spray water and FF it?

overall it was excellent. i really liked the part when he first takes the pill and you see the girls reflection. it was cool

asapfilms · Post by **asapfilms** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:43 pm

Thanks for your feedback! The road scene was more a spur of the moment thing. But there was no trick to it. Basically it was just a windy day and the little bit of snow that was falling started blowing down the road. It just looked cool so I filmed it.
You guys can see more of our stuff on www.asapfilms.com
thanks
Sam

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