These guys inspired me to start doing some VFX shots in my basement with my 2 young sons. Its amazing how good $25 worth of styrofoam and cardboard can look with a bit of effort. Thanks guys.
OMG! Fantastic! How you guys don't yet have a million subs, is a mystery to me. Your content is not only funny as hell, but very informative. Keep doing what you do! 👍👍
That's how you have to do it, with passion, creativity, ideas, abstract thinking, an understanding of impact and implementation with the available options. I might have done it the same way, but I didn't! Great work and thank you for sharing your work and experiences! Gold! 😘
Guys, ya'll are the BEST! New Age G.O.A.Ts of indie filmmaking without a doubt! I am enjoying this detailed insight into the BTS so much. Never stop making this content for every single project you guys do. A humble request from your die-hard fan.
Oh he's a big time Liverpool fan! I'm not into sports at all but he keeps telling me all the new info on Liverpool as if I'm interested. I never watched a game in my life but I still know that Jurgen Klopp is about to leave and that they acquired that Endo guy recently... I don't even know who these people are, haha 😂😂😂
@sliceoflifefilm haha! When I’m talking football to people I always see the light leave their eyes about two sentences in. Dino and I are kindred spirits
given how good and stylized the shots look in this video, i'm almost a little sad that the film itself is black and white. i really love the look of the color shots here.
Ok, as always, I learn something new from you guys. From now on, I will be stealing the "Poor Man's Mandalorian Techique" to describe this process. lol
This was awesome to see all the tricks and clever ways to enhance the story! I know you had great storyboards and knew your shots, but did you do any new inserts after watching your footage? How many would you say are planned from the beginning and how many are realized during shooting/editing? Thanks!
Oh absolutely, we added a lot of new shots. Let's say that we storyboarded 100% of live action shots, 50% of inserts, and 50% of miniature shots. So basically we "invented" a lot of new inserts and miniature shots as the film developed in the editing. For example we drew just one or two shots of the guy working in the warehouse, to establish his work day. But then in the editing we find a cool piece of music that fits, and decide to turn it into a nice little scene, and we shoot some more inserts, like a typewriter, close up of paper etc.. stuff like that. Basically adding to scenes to make them richer.
@@sliceoflifefilm I assumed you guys would have come up with new shots and extras! Love this series, I do toy photography and am trying to glean all sorts of great info as I am wanting to make a new "comic" style short movie. Thanks for all the content you share!
Awesoms work! But it's so much additional effort to re-create / miniaturize each scene for inserts. For some of these, would it have been easier to capture the insert on the set, for a few additional minutes after finishing principal photography for the scene?
Unfortunately it's never just a few minutes. The light you do for the wide shot never works for an insert, there's always something to tweak. And the moment you need to move light and camera and you need to coordinate 15 people (as it is on bigger sets), you lose 30 min easily. And on every filming day you are always an hour behind schedule anyway, so there's just no time to spare. Of course, you can schedule inserts too, but that would inevitable add a few more days to the schedule. That's our experience at least.
@@sliceoflifefilm Okay 👌 Yeah I'm a Director and have always tried to avoid what I know as Pick-up shots that were missed on shoot or that I ran out of time for. The times I've had to do it I have battled with matching the lighting sometimes, although yes grading does help! Did you guys run out of time for all the extra Inserts you needed to shoot?
@@DennisScullyzenith7 No, we didnt even plan to shoot them with the actors because we would lose a lot of time on set. We always intended to film them afterwards.
Insert this!!! Top notch as always. I really like what you did with the poormandolorian "volume". Its so incredibly effective, especially the shot of the Sony camera. Once you composited the screen over the top you would never know that was a "fake" shot, which is ironic because it still is captured "in camera". Ill say it again, learning more from every video than the last 3 years of film school. Much love, see you next week! Also thanks for sharing your trip to the USA. Even in Australia the stuff you are doing there seems so "exotic".. ha ha. I want to wear sick shirts and cowboy hats and eat burgers and shoot stuff! For like a week.. Then GTFO out of there.. Lastly your garage looks way bigger than it did in Slice, its still the same place yeah?
Haha. Thanks a lot! Happy to hear you got some good info! Yea America is exotic to us too, and I agree, a week would be enough! We were there a whole month and it was hard to be away for so long. It's the same garage, albeit redecorated. We shot this with an iPhone. Perhaps the lens is wider 🤣
Maybe because its not stuffed to the brim with toilet sets and cars.. If the camera adds ten pounds, then the iphone must subtract them he he..@@sliceoflifefilm
I know...😞I'm sorry... I am wookie (or Village Person)... and loving it! ps There's a pump INSIDE the pee pee boy? Fabulous... That would have saved the family hundreds of thousands back in the day@@sliceoflifefilm
