I was interested in this movie not only because of the powerful message this Movie brings but it is because of Jon Chaffin my favorite Actor because he was in my first favorite show The Haves and the Have Nots. ❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😘
Audiobook is amazing with the cool sound effects. Loving it. LaDarrion you are a true gift and I mean that. Taking the reins and doing what many black authors haven’t done. I’m looking forward to more creative stories from you. I hope you get through LaDarrion. I am serious.
Just left Tik Tok. I like young adult fantasy stories I listen to him all the time on audible there's not enough black ones out there Good luck to you and congratulations
I remember watching this a few years ago and was so excited. Just now starting the audio book for whatever reason I didn’t connect the two. As I’m listening I’m like I’ve seen this some where before. ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ I pray this film materializes for you and I pray for upmost success on your book! Can’t wait for more!
I came here because I read about the release of the book. I followed up on it, and found the short film. Overall, I'd give it a thumbs up. Impressive in a lot of ways. The description of the book made me think 'black Harry Potter', so the line "Hogwarts but for niggas" made me laugh. The collegiate setting distinguishes it a bit from Potter, but not as much as the overall tone. It feels less like a story about people in their late teens aimed at earlier teens, and more like a story aimed at adults. The feel is great. The acting, the camerawork, the lighting, the framing, the editing, the music are all really, really good. Good enough that it really easy to forget how low the budget is, and seeing a special effect is jarring. When two people are interacting it looks like it could be on television... and then someone's doing magic, and it reminds you that this is a small-scale short film on RU-vid. Throw a good budget at this team and I bet you'd see some real magic. The bad is that it's obviously incomplete. I assume the soon-to-be released novel is a semi-complete story (semi-complete in that it's obviously going to be the first of a series, since that's just the nature of the fiction business these days), but this film is not an entire story. It feels like a two-hour movie that was cut down to one hour, then cut in half. Even though this sort of thing isn't really my speed (I'm a SF fan, fantasy is more of a sometimes thing for me), this was really well made. While this was uploaded three years before I watched it, the scene with the main character and the love interest reminded me of a similar scene in the Apple TV show Monarch - on that series we're shown a romantic past between two characters with almost no buildup and expected to care and it doesn't land at all. But here, it does. The backstory between the male and female leads, the acting, the music, the whole thing manages to sell the emotions and the relationships of the characters better than a multimillion dollar project on a major streamer. This isn't the sort of show I'd watch if I saw it on Netflix or something, but the team who made this did an incredible job (apart from the budget-limited SFX). Excellent work.
Omg this answers so much And makes so many more painful questions can't wait for book two!!! Also I think you should release a short story on what happened with Alexis after she got adopted. Please do I want to know
I love the concept of this. I am unsure the other storyline is clear. For a short, it needs focus. Are you going to present a coming of age story ? An exploration of a school for gifted students ? or This complex web of short ideas you don't have time to tell? This has promise but it is disjointed. The best story includes how he got his powers, his bond with his brother and him fitting into the school where he is an outsider. That is the MONEY storyline. That struggle can sell this as a franchise. But the entire cop storyline takes away from what people want to see. Overall, it kept my attention and made me want to see more.
