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    Overnight

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    Posted

    I wanted to post one more of my trailers.

    This is a year old.

    If you have seen 1408 you will see a little similarity. Only in the fact that I stay in the house to see if it's haunted. However I get paid and am not trapped like in 1408. That's a great movie though.

    Feel free to leave me any feedback.

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=20256166

    On a side note, yes the office was used in Twisted Metal. It's hard to find offices. And the house was used in Crawler.

    Twisted Metal Movie

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    Wow, buddy-I have just read this whole thread. Stop fixating on the Joker/Sweet Tooth thing. If you weren't so defensive, people probably wouldn't be riding you so much about it.

    I don't think everyone is saying you copied Heath Ledger's Joker-admittedly some are, but as other people have said, the internet is full of critics, not neccessarily all of them will seem rational to you. The fact of the matter is, even without copying the character, having a psychotic clown character, lanky, grungily dressed with a knife you should be expecting these sort of comments.

    In my personal opinion, Twisted Metal without a budget is a terrible choice if you don't want to do lots of car based action scenes, just because the story is not really that significant other than providing an excuse for OTT destruction derbys and car fights. It'd be like making an F Zero movie without futuristic cars, except you don't have the luxury of a scifi world to fall back on.

    I mean, sure you can still make something, but how pointful is it at that point to use a known license rather than aim for something similarly themed, yet original?

    The potential is there, I'm guessing something along the lines of:

    beginning: escape from institute

    middle: meeting Calypso, promise of wish on some condition involving conflict

    ending: Sweet Tooth's wish coming true ( I can't remember his actual game ending)

    I doubt it's anything ground breaking, but if it was that easy to make a good video game adaptation, I'm sure they'd have a better rep in Hollywood, letalone the indie film community.

    I'm sure your film is passable, but I'm gonna have to agree with people that the snippets of acting in the trailer are not really respectable and that if the whole film is like that I would feel pained to sit through it.

    I don't think anyone's saying making a film is easy, but clearly you posted this in the hope of praise and were upset to be met with criticism and in fairness I think a lot of people would. But know your audience-I mean, come on, internet forums are anything but forgiving.

    There's some harshness in this thread, but there are also more than a few kernels of truth. Take it on board and know that this is part of the learning process, who knows your future projects could be great.

    Also, do not try to get all high and mighty with 'awards' and ask what films I've made or what my qualifications are. If you must know, I do Film Studies (as in analysing them, not making them) at university and am on course for a 1st degree, but I think that's irrelevant here beyond the fact that I played the Twisted Metal games back in the day, am an avid gamer and film lover/appreciator.

    If it really does just feel like I'm rubbing salt in the wound, just take the fact that I've wished you luck for future projects, recognised some of the potential merits of your film in spite of the flaws and leave this thread with a little dignity.

    i'm not trying to get high and mighty pal. i posted my experiences so people would know i have some. i hope you don't really think i wanted praise cause you are sadly mistaken. i hate my work as do most film makers. i saw an interview with george lucus who said he won't even watch his star wars films. just as an example.

    for most of what you said i have no problem hearing. but for the fourth or fifth time i do know how to take criticism. i have been doing this for a decade now. yes only the past couple years has my film making been serious. but i have been hearing about problems with my films for ten years. and i don't care what you do. i didn't ask.

    all i wanted was to post a fan film. that's it. excuse me for living.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

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    Hey, I'm just curious - what type of sound gear are you using? It sounds like onboard camera audio in the Crawlers trailer.

    One of the things that makes amature productions obviously amature is poor sound recording. It's really sticks out to me. Imagine if Cloverfield (shot in an amature style that was cool) actually used onboard camera mics. Blagh! I think lofi/cinema verite style audio contributes much more to that cheesy feeling than amature video will.

    I shoot and edit news-esque video (usually at trade conventions and training events) for some websites and the toughest part to learn and what takes the most thought and planning on site is the best way to record audio. The video is generally not much more than pointing and shooting, but for the audio I have to consider things like, should I use the shotgun mic with camera-mounted preamp, should I use the wireless lav system, or should I just get ambient noise with the onboard mic? Which way should I point to minimize background noise and reverb?

    Then there's post production compression, noise reduction, normalization, EQing so that voices are audible but not peaking, etc.

    It's a lot to learn and a lot of money to spend. Getting outfitted with a variety of decent audio equipment is likely more money than a good camera will be unfortunately, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

    no i use a boom mic. audio technica. and of course i post edit all audio with soundtrack pro and soundbooth.

    Twisted Metal Movie

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    Posted

    dude.

    i swear to god, this is the fucking final time i'm saying it, drop the sweet tooth=joker shit.

    I HAVE FUCKING HEARD YOU. I DID WHAT YOU SAID AND LISTENED TO YOU SAY IT TWICE OR THREE TIMES ALONG WITH OTHERS SAYING IT. IT'S YOUR OPINION AND THAT'S FINE. I'M DONE DISCUSSING THAT. SO LET IT GO. I GOT IT!

    FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW:

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER.

    SWEET TOOTH IS A RIP OF JOKER!!!!!

    that is not criticism. honestly it's not. it's like saying i want you to tell me what you think of pepsi. and you respond by saying it tastes like coca-cola. you can think that but that doesn't say anything at all about pepsi. i respect your opinions. and i understand you dislike my movie(s).

    i'm not trying to be a dick. but i know, sweet tooth is a rip of joker, i heard. you annoyed yet? cause read the last four pages. that's all you've all been talking about!

    I watched your other clip. It was better, and I'll admit, if plagiariazied then I don't know what from.

    what? do you seriously think all my work is stolen now?

    If you intend to direct movies for a living, then this is something you need to get used to.

    are you even reading my posts?

    when did i say i was a good director? i mean i didn't even direct twisted metal.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Personally, I would've expected cars to be armored up and/or have some type of anti-missile guidance device. Or you could just use rockets, which aren't as accurate. Mounted machine guns would pretty much be standard operating procedure, and you could throw in things like flamethrowers, grenades and molitov's, and whatever else you feeling like hurling at a car. Check out "Road Warrior"...

    Vehicles would essentially be designed for, and to endure combat. Again with $1,000, not exactly something that's easy to present.

    true. yes.

    i see. i'll just let it go.

    don't call me stupid frog.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

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    Pocketman, I think part of the problem is that you created some expectation with your initial post by exaggerating the scope of your experience and abilities.

    You admit you're still in film school, but you want to make a movie that would be almost impossible to live up to anyone's expectations for $1000, unless something miraculous happened, or you happen to have access to a bunch of dune buggies with machine guns on them already (which if you lived in a junkyard and were good with parts, might've been the case).

    Announcing you won awards, had actors listed on IMDB, and had a top special effects team; while showing your enthusiasm for your project, probably didn't help shape people's expectations, to what you could realistically accomplish. It especially didn't help that you said you wanted to generate some interest in the film, because that makes it sound almost like you're more experienced beyond film school.

    If you're serious as a filmmaker, you should take this thread as a learning experience(and I'm not saying it's that easy), on how or how not to promote a project. You say you don't feel the trailer is representative of the final project, so don't release it. But at the same time, you're enthusiastic and want to share your work with people, which is great, but you got to understand when and how to do it.

    If you presented this project as just a 'film student' project with a $1,000 budget, and "yeah, it ain't perfect", you might've had a somewhat warmer response.

    i understand what you are saying. the ONLY reason i even posted anything here was because this is OCRemix. the video game music remix site. i just assumed everyone would understand that i'm a film student and it wasn't suppose to be amazing. and my top special effects team is also just students.

    And for that I have myself and two other BA grad students who are excellent CGI artists.

    and i'm gonna take a moment to explain this:

    how would you do the twisted metal tournament car combat part?

    there is no way to do it and have it be realistic. you pick up weapons by running them over. in the game you can get hit with with missiles several times, and then your vehicle catches fire, you get hit a few more times and you blow up. then you start over fresh as if you never died. everyone else still has damage. in real life if your car gets hit with an explosive you are pretty much screwed. that's all it would most likely take. one. so we went about doing this differently. the movie takes place before twisted metal. and we set up a different kind of car combat. if there were 6 cars with missiles firing at each other it would last about 3 or 4 seconds. maybe. so that's why we don't have awesome vehicles with missiles set up on their sides. and we decided if your car was on fire you would get out. thus hand to hand fighting came into the picture.

    we had been planning a sequel, Twisted Metal: Black. and have it more like the actual game. but i don't know if we'll go through with it.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Should you ever decide to release a quality film, this one is gonna haunt you if you don't.

    Why don't you take a look at this: a movie i wrote, claim all originally for, and had less than half the budget for twisted metal. go ahead, i dare you. tell me this looks like shit. or i ripped off something.

    Oh and:

    You need to take criticism instead of thinking you are a good director and all the problems are everyone else's fault. I don't know the first thing about movies.

    when did i say i was a good director? i mean i didn't even direct twisted metal. and if you don't know anything about movies then you really shouldn't be saying anything.

    call it a fan made flick.

    i don't know what else you would call it......

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Dude stop being an asshole. He's in film school. He's making some movie projects. I don't think he intends this to be shown at theaters around the country and charge people for it. :|

    thank you!!!!!!! ya if i wanted to get the shit sued out of me i would mass produce this and charge. wtf? did i ever say i was gonna show this in a theater or sell it on dvd? no i believe i said upload.... but you all took it as HE STOLE JOKER. and again, i don't own twisted metal, or sony.

    ONCE AGAIN I'VE HEARD THAT YOU THINK I RIPPED THE DARK KNIGHT. GO POST SOMEWHERE ELSE.

    cerrax, you had a couple good points. and i like getting criticism like that. but saying i ripped joker will not help my film making.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    No, no, no. Your argument is flawed. There is a difference between "not original" and "plagiarism."

    You didn't make a Twisted Metal movie. You're making The Dark Knight, albeit, poorly, and slapping the title "TWISTED METAL" on it.

    Please, go to a nearby community college, find a professor who teaches Contemporary Cinema. Show him/her your trailer. Show them your movie. They'll say the same thing back to you. It's too easy to make yourself the laughing stock of the internet. Go do it the public eye

    So come and do it! MAKE YOUR ENTRANCE! We're waiting. Prove us wrong.

    my argument is flawed you say? no offense, and i'm sure you will pull out your dictionary for more "terms", but you can't even argue having not seen the film. i mean how can you? first of all can you prove i plagiarized? no. you haven't seen it. you know nothing about my film other than the 67 seconds i uploaded. second, what did anything in the trailer even have to do with The Dark Knight? anything? or just how i "looked"? have you seen The Dark Knight? if i had not used music from The Dark Knight in that trailer would you think all this still? are you aware that i know i used music from The Dark Knight in that trailer? i actually thought it was funny. third, i had 4 "professors" who have real film experience helping us in many of the scenes. did you read my first post? they have seen both trailers and the cut film. they didn't say anything you said. funny huh? fourth, what is it you want? me to admit i ripped off The Dark Knight? or joker? or what? do you have to always be right? is it something like that? cause if that will make you shut up i'll do it. and anyone out there who believes me, which is all but you and a few others here, thank you. i don't know what you want me to say. but since you know everything you can just put words in my mouth. sound good?

    words in/into someone's mouth

    to tell someone what you think they mean or want to say.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Why so serious, POCKETMAN!?

    Plagiarists will be the last to admit their lack of any original work. Bad artists don't listen to constructive criticism. A stubborn person blames everyone else for his/her failings and won't try to improve his/herself. POCKETMAN, you've demonstrated all of these actions. Your lack of any quality in any aspect of your life leaks into the grammar and punctuation in your posts. I'd say this is unintentional, but a cry for help is much more believable when it's written with crayon and backwards "R"s.

    This could only be said if you've never actually seen Death Race 2000 (1975). Violence isn't as creative and cynical today as it was in the bleak 70s.

    it's twisted metal. of course it's not original. i don't deserve credit for coming up with it. and i don't recall blaming anyone.... and what would i blame them for?

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    In reality, the product isn't done, and we jerks are just scapegoats.

    edit: Oops my bad. I just remembered that he won two awards.

    dude you are on crack. why don't you think it's done? are you aware youtube videos can only be 10 minutes long? how do you propose i upload it?

    and about the awards, shove it up your ass. at least i don't spend my day sitting around trying to bring down someone's hard work. i get it. and we've all heard you. find another thread and post your shitty comments there.

    Twisted Metal Movie

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    My ass eagerly awaits getting laughed off when you release the final product. Please don't let it down.

    i don't know how many times i have to fucking say it. the final product is done.

    and i'll do you all a favor and not post it here.

    you are welcome.

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