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Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:01 pm

Forgotten is back online thanks to Film Fanatic and shall soon be up in the Film Gallery, in the mean time check it out.

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chchaisson1 · Post by **chchaisson1** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:16 pm

Yes!!!! Finally, I get to see it!

Thank you.

downloading...

P.S. How did you get rid of those Tripod ads on your site?

ct_bullet · Post by **ct_bullet** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:37 pm

yeh, woooo, i've been looking forward to seeing this, i hope you don't mind, but i'm going to take your ideas lol, well the creative side anyway, i've got all the ideas just struggeling figureing how to do them, hopefully this will help

thanks very much in advance

Spike_P_2 · Post by **Spike_P_2** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:44 pm

i give two thumbs up and a great deal of pats on the back to you and your actors. i loved it and i am not too big on war films. keep up the really good work. i liked it and i might watch it five more times this week, lol.

film fanatic · Post by **film fanatic** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:36 pm

Thank me for hosting it.. I like praise

chchaisson1 · Post by **chchaisson1** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:53 pm

Yes. Thank you Fanatic of Films for hosting the film.

It was great! I especially like the ending.

ct_bullet · Post by **ct_bullet** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:44 pm

it was great, i would like to see more people getting killed because i thought you had good techniques, maybe i'm just sick but anyways, yeh i also thought your actors were really talented

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:38 am

I really liked it, except: the dialoge seemed somewhat forced, and the frame fade into frame thing in the middle of battle scenes bugged the cr** out of me! I was really getting into the battles, then it would start lagging, like playing CoD online then someone with dail up comes on; it looks good in trailers but not in a movie. But the ambient sounds you put in were great, it really felt like your in the heat of the battle, and the mortor sounds were good too, are they from MoHAA?

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:46 am

Well, thanks for all the feedback and yes, some of the sound effects were from MOHAA.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:11 am

What did you use to record that, the debris from the mortors were rumbling my subwoofer!

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:51 am

Mortar sound effects I got from BOB.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:58 am

What episode and what did you use to record?

2nd_Recon · Post by **2nd_Recon** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:01 am

Very good work. I too was wondering about your technique for getting both ambient sounds and the mortars. Also the sound from the clip on the Garand ejecting itself

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:02 am

All the BOB SFX are from a pack that Deadlogic sent me, I know no further information.

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:34 am

Bravo! Very cool! And nice to see a movie on here that can strike an emotional chord

Nice work with the colourisation (dunno if that's a word... and even if it is, it'd be 'colorization' for you US folk.....aaaaanyway), very cool

Only bad thing about it was the uber shakey camera at times! Wasn't too bad though.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:46 am

Thanks alot Orny! I'll post my 10 minute Film Festival Project soon.

DarkElastic · Post by **DarkElastic** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:15 pm

I havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t been able to listen to all of it yet, as IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m at work, but the parts I did hear seemed really well scripted. As I have an interest in World War 2, and the fact that I liked 'Saving Private Ryan', and 'Band of Brothers' I have a few comments which I hope will help you if you make another WW2 based film. They are:

Criticism -

1) It started off slow. Films these days tend to have an opening scene that grabs your attention straight away. (Saving Private Ryan had the Normandy Landings)
2) Your actors are good, but they don't seem to me as soldiers. They don't move like they are trained, and they don't fight like they are trained. Two things in particular - they like to stand out in the open and talk, even when they are in German infested areas, when they march they are bunched together making it easier for Germans to pick them all off, and on 14 mins. when they see the German guard, the commanding officer should have them off the path and under cover straight away.
3) On explosions near them I would recommend showering with dirt.
4) Some guy in T-shirt in background on 08:20 mins.
5) Shame about wind. Makes it seem like a thunderstorm is coming.
6) Black point on 23.30 seemed to last that bit too long.

What I liked:

1) You seem to have got the music, acting, and words (or none at all) right in certain scenes that capture the sadness of the scene well.
2) Nice short silhouetted shots.
3) Gun firing looked good, flashes well placed.
4) Great props.
5) Liked explosions of dirt from mortars and bullets - would recommend more.
5) The photograph in the frame was a nice shot to focus on.
6) I liked how the grandchild changed his mind about chucking his grandad's war gear away.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:37 pm

One more thing: what did you use for the grass being shot up from the Mg-42 or 38?

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:52 pm

It was dirt, and we threw it from off the camera.

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:24 am

I'd love to remake Forgotten, just for fun, that'd be kool. But I have absolutely NO war film props.

...downloading...

I've got some pretty good ideas for bullet hits aswell, tie some fishing line or thread to a few branches of a plant, pull them, it would look pretty kool.

BTW my gunshots are gonna be alot different from wut they usually are, mostly smoke, bullet casings, and a transparent orange flash here and there. For the smoke, I'm gonna film an airsoft gun shooting flour on a black-screen. For the flashes im just gonna use some fire-crackers in a PVC pipe on a black-screen. It should look pretty sweet.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:50 am

You could just use the dirt hits from Det. Films, that's what I'm using.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:23 am

Eh, they don't look as good. Superimposing them is kinda cheesy.

mercenary123 · Post by **mercenary123** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:38 am

that's wut im gonna do though, i can make that stuff look damn good! I'm gonna use a powerful fire-cracker w/ a packet of flour or dirt, and use that, should look good.

maj_barnes · Post by **maj_barnes** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:32 pm

You sure do like "damn good" things, lol.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:12 pm

ct_bullet wrote:it was great, i would like to see more people getting killed because i thought you had good techniques, maybe i'm just sick but anyways, yeh i also thought your actors were really talented

Well it was for more of a drama then an action ( I'm guessing , correct me if i'm wrong gyro ) but none the less great film. Glad to see you got some hosting on this.

In response to :

1) It started off slow. Films these days tend to have an opening scene that grabs your attention straight away. (Saving Private Ryan had the Normandy Landings)
2) Your actors are good, but they don't seem to me as soldiers. They don't move like they are trained, and they don't fight like they are trained. Two things in particular - they like to stand out in the open and talk, even when they are in German infested areas, when they march they are bunched together making it easier for Germans to pick them all off, and on 14 mins. when they see the German guard, the commanding officer should have them off the path and under cover straight away.
3) On explosions near them I would recommend showering with dirt.
4) Some guy in T-shirt in background on 08:20 mins.
5) Shame about wind. Makes it seem like a thunderstorm is coming.
6) Black point on 23.30 seemed to last that bit too long.

1) Well yeah, but thats what makes his film different? Nothings wrong with a slow dramatic opening.
2) True. Another thing, he is using friends as actors, and they are all around 16 or such, and obviously not all of the army was that young on either side, which subtracts realism.
3) Good suggestion.
4) I'll have to check on that one. I'll edit this later.
5) Yeah.. recommend using a windshield next time
6t) Again, i'd have to check.

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