New to the forum (just found it last night actually), thought I'd introduce myself and my failed little movie. Tech Support, a very, very low budget comedy directed/co-produced/co-written by myself. It's a full-length feature (should time out to be about 90 minutes or so) I've been posting scene by scene for a couple months, and now I'm up to just under an hour of footage on the site. I figured I'd hand out the link and see if I couldn't get some feedback or criticism on it. (Word of caution, R-rated content)
I know, it's not the best packaging method, the site is an old web-dump of mine so that means you have to go there and download a large sized, med-res files. I'm hazy on the whole streaming process, but the conns got a pretty kickass download speed (averages about 300k on most cable modems). So I hope you'll bear with the burden of having to right click a file and waiting forty-five seconds for it to download until I can resolve the issue. I'm serious, my prayers are with you as we speak; this problem will be fixed I swear.
Okay, now I should probably explain a little about the production and the overall quality of the flick before we get to far and you realize how awful it is. This was the first movie for everyone involved, and not just in the sense that this was the first time we'd ever done a full length feature; this was the first time we ever worked on a film, period. I'd been living in LA for a year, just dropped out of college (don't worry, I'm back in now), and had a miserable time trying to sell a script with no salesmanship or networking abilities whatsoever. Instead, I decided over the summer to head up to Fresno, CA, my hometown, rent an office and shoot it myself with a bunch of friends and local actors. Which is pretty much what I did, end of story. You know, except for having to shoot it about three times, and the camera getting stolen, and somebody setting fire to the set... Just the kind of magical cr** that can only happen on a movie set.
I made up the majority of the crew myself, save for whoever I could coax into holding the boom that day, so don't expect Zsigmond-level work behind the camera. I'm no autuer, and one of the first things I learned about filmmaking from my experience was Robert Rodriguez is talking out of his a** when he says you can shoot a movie by yourself. You need help, you need people who know what they're doing. I wasn't those people. Quality suffers accordingly, there's not much I can do about it now a whole year later. Likewise the editting in the first ten or so scenes is a little rough, I was just learning how to put stuff together at those stages, but I plan to go back and retouch them after I finish with the initial run of the film.
Anyways, I really hope you enjoy it, despite my depricating view on it, and look forward to any feedback you might be kind enough to send my way.
Tech Support: The Movie
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RE: Tech Support: The Movie
Welcome to matthawkins, the place where amature filmmakers meet to learn from each other. Ooh! Its R-rated! Does that mean its an awesome action/horror or a porn? Awesome. Whats the movie about anyway? And its ur first movie... ever. Wow, i hope it turns out well for u.
Hide or fight for your life?
Thanks for the welcome, flick's not rated of course, but I'm flagging it R for some choice language (check scene 16 for an example of how choice) and I guess you could say partial nudity (pictures of hardcore pornography on a cubicle wall that magically appear and disappear. Some would call that a continuity issue, I blame ghosts).
As for the movie itself, I dread to use the summation made by one of the producers ("Animal House meets Office Space") because, I mean, come on, how lame is that? So instead I'll try and do this off the top of my head. It's a comedy about five guys that work the graveyard shift at a technical support call-center. At one time it was an intense and gritty look into the nihilism under intense workplace duress, but after many rewrites and the addition of two new writers (Casper Cochron and Chris Uhrle, producer/actors/co-writers on the film), it become a long series of episodic vignettes of this cartoonishly surreal office and it's slacker inhabitants whose way of life is threatened when their corporate office sends in a bitter ex-coworker to evaluate their performance. From there it's just a springboard to a bunch of dick and fart jokes and lame esoteric nerd references.
P.S. I shot it a year ago, so it turned out, eh... Not so well. Not really sure what I'm going to do with it at this point, just figured I'd put on the internet for free because there's no way in good conscience that I could charge people to watch it. I might try shopping it to some D2D markets when I put together a nicer cut.
As for the movie itself, I dread to use the summation made by one of the producers ("Animal House meets Office Space") because, I mean, come on, how lame is that? So instead I'll try and do this off the top of my head. It's a comedy about five guys that work the graveyard shift at a technical support call-center. At one time it was an intense and gritty look into the nihilism under intense workplace duress, but after many rewrites and the addition of two new writers (Casper Cochron and Chris Uhrle, producer/actors/co-writers on the film), it become a long series of episodic vignettes of this cartoonishly surreal office and it's slacker inhabitants whose way of life is threatened when their corporate office sends in a bitter ex-coworker to evaluate their performance. From there it's just a springboard to a bunch of dick and fart jokes and lame esoteric nerd references.
P.S. I shot it a year ago, so it turned out, eh... Not so well. Not really sure what I'm going to do with it at this point, just figured I'd put on the internet for free because there's no way in good conscience that I could charge people to watch it. I might try shopping it to some D2D markets when I put together a nicer cut.
I've only watched the first two scenes but...
The sound needed to be much louder, I had to turn my speakers up alot to hear you. The computer monitor was fuzzy, maybe put video of a monitor over the footage? Also it was backwards, usually the guy calling tech support gets p*** off at the guy who doesn't speak english that well, lol. I liked your scenery though, do you actually work at a tech support? If i did I'd go crazy in a cubicle all day explainging easy stuff to stupid people.
The guy ripping the bong in the background was pretty funny, when you did the flashback scene they were wearing the same shirts though. It reminded me of a kevin smith movie, but more like Office Space.
The sound needed to be much louder, I had to turn my speakers up alot to hear you. The computer monitor was fuzzy, maybe put video of a monitor over the footage? Also it was backwards, usually the guy calling tech support gets p*** off at the guy who doesn't speak english that well, lol. I liked your scenery though, do you actually work at a tech support? If i did I'd go crazy in a cubicle all day explainging easy stuff to stupid people.
The guy ripping the bong in the background was pretty funny, when you did the flashback scene they were wearing the same shirts though. It reminded me of a kevin smith movie, but more like Office Space.
Yeah, the sound is pooched in a couple of the first few scenes (like I said, no sound man), and I didn't figure out how to raise the levels until I was one about scene 9. That's one of the smaller tweaks I plan for the re-edits of those first scenes.
But yes, I worked tech support on the graveyard shift for a national home-networking company (whose name rhymes with E-Dink), and I hated everyone minute of it. So God bless those countries like India, Pakistan and Turkey, and their outsourced work-ethic; they've taken one of the worst jobs off our hands.
By the way. thanks for thinking it was a little funny.
But yes, I worked tech support on the graveyard shift for a national home-networking company (whose name rhymes with E-Dink), and I hated everyone minute of it. So God bless those countries like India, Pakistan and Turkey, and their outsourced work-ethic; they've taken one of the worst jobs off our hands.
By the way. thanks for thinking it was a little funny.