“Unprofessional” - Short Film | RED Helium 8k S35 

Thanks for your help bro! 🤙🏽 Andrew was certainly born for the role 😏

And here I was thinking to myself…nice lighting! 😂 well what do you know.

I couldn’t agree more. All of the pieces coming together in utmost synchronicity make everything come together. Above all though, STORY is KING!

@@drew.schettler Absolutely! Story is the foundation on which your entire project has to be built on. I’m currently in process of writing the storyline of my first ever short film and while finding ideas and inspiration on the internet, especially on ShotDeck, Vimeo and RU-vid, I stumbled across this one. Actually RU-vid algorithm recommended this short film to me since I’ve been searching for more of the short films created by smaller crews or just by one man banding (which I think my route would be).

Yea man! Loved having you help out with this project!!

Thanks for the feedback man. I get where you're coming from and all your input sounds good if I were writing a feature film, but short films are a genre in their own right. I intentionally wrote it with an ambiguous back story for the character to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks with their own perspective. That is the beauty of short films! Had I made this a feature might be a different story, literally. The one thing I would change if I had the time would be to include an opening scene of him in his boss' office explaining why he's being let go and in that dialogue include some backstory for context. That would have been interesting. Originally I made this film for a contest that had to be 3 min so maybe subconsciously I thought of trimming out as many back story scenes to make a short cut. Thanks for the feedback!

@@drew.schettler An ambiguous backstory is one thing, but that is different from leaving out essential context about the character that pertains to the story we are experiencing, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, you can omit his backstory because the film will still make sense. Who's the main character? What is their goal? see them relentlessly pursue it, why is that their goal? what's at stake if they don't achieve their goal? ...and why? why should we care about those stakes? that last one is the one 95% of short films miss, let me know why, on an emotional level, why the stakes for this character will be so bad for them so I can really empathise, get my emotions involved with this guy's plight. The problem is, like I mentioned, you haven't set up any stakes, so there's no urgency or tension. Stakes are essential because they drive the story, it's why their doing what they're doing in the story. Implying them makes the stakes vague and lack lustre, show us the worst thing that is going to happen. Honestly, when he took the job, I just thought he was doing it out of boredom, nothing else to do. Is that more powerful than him, say, losing his apartment or his beloved car? ...be clear and specific. Vague stories bore the viewer. They'll think, "why am I supposed to care?" You can do it in 7 minutes. Trust me, you can. I was taught how to do it in 4 for 2 years. I wrote about 200 shorts and had them reviewed by professionals (not to brag, it's not like I was discovered as this great writer, I paid to be taught, was as average as they come), where it had all the essential context I mentioned and a character that relentlessly pursued their goal on a visceral level, stakes that were meaningful and one in which the reader experienced. It’s all about scaling it down to a story that fits the time frame. It can be done. when you write and shoot a movie, you have produced a plot through certain scenes and pieces of context. When someone watches that film, they may not necessarily experience the same film you intended, and the reason is, for one of a few reasons, you omit certain pieces of essential context and assume people will fill in the gaps. That “fill in the gaps” can work in certain other ways, like with horror where you don’t show something and your mind can make up something much worse, or to make a character more intimidating, like with Anton Chigurh or Michael Myers, but for essential pieces of context that tell the story, it’s not going to help your film, because the viewer will just assume this character and story isn’t as thought out as others and it won’t be as impactful as it could of been, they won’t have a clear scale of how impactful that piece of context is and will just move on. Yeah, you can imply certain pieces of context, but it won’t be as impactful compared to viscerally experiencing that context. What’s more impactful, asking you to remember when you cut your hand once, or you cutting your hand and seeing and experiencing how bad it was? When your character is caught by the police and will likely go to prison, why should that matter to me as the viewer? In a constructive tone: why should i care? That’s missing. You need that and you can do it, as I’ve said, I did it in 4 page scripts and I read other people do it and be impacted by it. You just need all that essential context for people to care. While I did enjoy your film and it was shot REALLY well, it just didn’t impact me because I wasn’t given a reason to. You could omit the radio lottery scene, microwave scene, the burning his tongue, the hammer into the wall (even though it is interesting) and use that time to deliver and potentially show essential context. You could use a quick fb to show him and his partner’s happiness and live were in the apartment and it’s his only physical embodiment of her. Yeah, maybe you could have shown him being fired and get some context out in that scene through a conflict, him trying to keep his job. Good idea.

@@richardadesmond Thanks for the comments, appreciate the feedback.

🤙🏽💪🏼 thank you! Get ready for the BTS breakdown coming this week.

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You bet! 🤙🏽 the team pulled off a spectacular! Couldn’t have done it without them.

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May need to make a Part 2. But be on the lookout next week for Part 1 of our BTS breakdown of this film.

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Passion projects are expensive to pull off lol. But with time, there’s more to come! 🤙🏽

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Loved the film Andrew, looked very high end. And the acting was as great as the man playing it 😂 love ya man - the Dominican

Yeah man. You did a fantastic job! Absolute gold! You were born to act. 😎🤙🏽

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Andrew did a phenomenal job acting!

@@drew.schettler Truly and the cinematic part is also awesome!!! It gives me kind of a Gilligan vibe :)

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Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, may need to come out with Part 2

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@@drew.schettler My pleasure, man! If you need help with anything like BTS, First AC, or even if I could shadow and learn your ways, I would be a happy camper. ;)

Andrews performance is impeccable!

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Haha! Yeah, Andrews performance was phenomenal and hilarious

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BTS video coming this week of the film.

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@@drew.schettler When I saw this a month ago I was DED. It's fantastic Drew. When Matti said you won, I was like "Oh if Drew applied with "Unprofessional" of COURSE he won." LOL.. I was too busy with the day job to get what I wanted done or even started in time, but at this point it's almost ready to go up. We shot in December, and since I've cut and color graded it, now wrapping I'm up sound design. So many new skills to learn and develop...

That's awesome man! Can't wait to see it.@@die_dunkelheit

A few different focal lengths with the Dulens Apo min prime set - the 31mm, 43mm, 58mm, and 85mm

🤔 Maybe there’s room to make it a feature in the future.

@@drew.schettler i would definetely watch it 🙂

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Hey man, great question! I love the detail you've put into this. It actually wouldn't be breaking the 180 rule unless I had a shot on the opposite side of the car (near the driver side facing towards the passenger side). In any case the 180 line exists to help your audience orient themselves in the scene without "actually being there."

@@drew.schettler Ohhh! I see it now, it makes so much sense. Thank you.

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Upload was only in 4K it was shot on the Red Helium in 8K

Budget was… $1,500 more to come on this 😏