Oh my god Ryan!!! That was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've admired all of your work and this is your best. I don't like all the title screens and credits, but that's just me.

Work like this speaks for itself.

And then at the end, where you SHOULD have credits and such, they scroll too fast.

Don't get me wrong. This is great work.

Great stuff. althought I personally I am not fond of the vignetting and I think it takes away from the quality of being in HD. But man you are a master of the jumps I cant tell you how many times I did!

soooo sick!!

Right on man, good stuff!

I have to disagree about the credits, I actually really enjoy them personally. I think they're clever and creative...

as ive said with your previous posts with this short i loved though i thought some scenes were very soft.

Awesome dude! Glad to see you went with the full frame instead of matted down. Really looks great!

You mentioned something about this being expanded into a feature? Can you elaborate upon this?

This is the perfect grindhouse film. What did you use for all the ambient sound and music composition?

I've been following the progress of this film since I joined Vimeo a few months ago, and I've gotta say - you delivered.

Great job, Ryan. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Well heres my opinion:
Your a great director as this film had some kind of flow. The story itself wasnt all that great. It had nothing in it. The whole middle part would be ok to put in a full length movie, not a short film where we dont even begin to learn who the characters are. The story does not have much depth in it. Its pretty basic, as if most of the time were spent on shooting and editing rather than the writing. It had a couple of jumps but honestly throughout it I was wondering if anything exciting was going to happen. The acting was very well done. The sound effects, some of em were good some of em were just overdoing it. As for the twoneil DOF adapter, although it may give you a 'filmlook', I personally learned to do without it. It makes the overall image very dark and shallow. It pretty much takes out the high definition of the video and makes it seem as if you used a cheap DV camera. All those dust grains and noise on the focusing screen don't help the image either. I didnt like the constant shaking of the camera. It seems like for most of it you didnt use a tripod, which maybe intentional, but did not look good. I know for a short film done by a few people, it would have been hard to dress up all those extras as actual zombies. But the zombies in there were just not scary, the camera shook too much to cover that, but you just made it noticable. Once again I think this would have looked much better without the DOF adapter. So overall I think if you were given a better script you would have done a good job with it, but this story was just boring. I make films too and I know how personal you may take some comments, especially after spending so much time on the film. Overall I give this film a 5.5/10. I think you can do much better than this. You're a good filmmaker but you need a better story and to get rid of the DOF lens and adapter until you can afford a professional one. Good luck with your future projects...

Great sense of filmmaking

Good looking film here
keep up the good work.

thanks guys!

I cant wait til we do the feature. VENI VIDI VICI

besides the obvious technical issues (focus, ghosting, etc), I think you're actually a VERY talented kid.

This thing was more intense than most real films in this genre. If you can combine your obvious talent with a good story and good acting, I think you could do something potentially megacool.

I for one wish you the best of luck Ryan, and look forward to more. :)

Very good first time attempt... in fact, far better than average in IMO... but, horror/zombie films are done to death IMO... but, yours was an honest attempt to make it cinematic-like in production... which is very difficult to do. You chose a difficult filming road to go down... and, for that your efforts are admirable.

BTW, I believe your voice overs sometimes don't match the scene... specially when the actress' mouth is not moving, but the voice over is talking in her voice. Good voice over syncing/matching during the edit is a VERY difficult process to do... and, you only get good at this process by doing more. And, it seems you are definately going to get much better as you progress through this whole film editing process.

No matter the outcome... no matter the criticism or praise given today... this will definitely be a positive learning experience that will have value in the long-term.

Keep up the good work... and congrats on your new film-baby.

Joe

Very good job!!!!

I really liked it. I'm guessing you're a film student?

Anyway, besides me disliking zombie movies, you did a solid job. The one thing I would have changed would be the running sequences. I'm not sure if you used like an echo effect to create more confusion and blur, but i think it would look better just a tad less shaky and a bit more clear. It almost looks like you intentionally shook the camera more than just the motion of running with it.

Of course, if you're going for that look, you nailed it.

Great Job on the film.

good job

Hey, nice to be able to get such a large team together to do this stuff!
As posted above, maybe you can improve the script to get a bit more depth to it
Technically your special effects (gun fire, blood ) looks a bit too cheap to me ;-) Also the video is a bit too shaky and seems to suffer from de-interlacing and other artefacts.

wow that was really good! you inspire me to do better!!!!

Thanks Jo! I like your choice in weaponry (XHA1)! I just picked up one myself recently! Thanks Jo! Your words are very inspiring for me for me to do better as well! So thanks!

-Ryan

hey man, this film is sweet! what equipment are you going to use on the full length?

Thanks Stephen! On the full length we will be using my XH-A1+Letus setups. Nothing fancy but far better than my setup for this short haha.

cool man, but this movie does not look like you were using the hv20, like that dolly shot when your looking into the red truck on the abandoned street, that look amazing for some reason. yea but, how long did it take you to save for that camera?

Thanks man! But yeah, that whole scene in that downtown aree was all the naked HV20. Beautiful little machine.

And the camera, i was saving for a couple months then finally had a little extra grant money left over from school,
so i went for it and bought it!

yea thats cool though right now im saving for the hv30. i have a sript for a film and everything i just need the camera. but yea the A1 is a sweet camera.

You are incredible man. I have a hv30 along with a ton of gear I saved up for, and am working on a feature film right now. I will be uploading stuff on here soon. Are you going to go to film school man?

haha thanks Noah. I've always wanted to buy an HV30 as a B-Camera along side my A1 for it's lovely features of 30f.I was a little upset cause after i bought my HV20 the 30 came out, but it's okay, Canon makes osme beautiful camera eh? So do you have any previews yet of your feature yet? I mean like any shorts or anything on it? I would love to check it out.

I would love to go to film school, but i can't afford it and for some reason i feel they would reject me anyway...my work probably isn't impressive to them.

Hey bro,
Yes the hv30 is an amazing camcorder, I dont use 30p much, but there are alot of new features on the hv30.
Im sure alot of film schools would accept you. You should look into the one Im going to. CompassFilmAcademy.com It is a christian film academy, and they are all about mentorship, which means when you complete their program they hook up in the film making industry and find you a job as soon as your done with their program. It is much cheaper than a regular school man. So you should look into it, youll love it. I promise.....Ill have a preview on here soon, I will be sure to let you know.

cool movie... well done!!

Well done, but Ive got a question: Did you use a different lens (a wider?) in the sequence from 3:29 to 5:52 or how did you manage to enlarge the DOF that much, most of the pictures I see with 35mm adapters have a really small DOF?
cheers,
Stefan

This was pretty freakin' insane. I think you could have done it better though :]

Wow, that was awesome. How'd you do the blood squirting into the sink from the girl's hand. That was amazing.

Great movie! Keep it up

Hey, uh, what camera did you use for this?

Ryan man, that was awesome. You used some VideoCopilot stuff there in an amazing fashion. Especially the Twitch sound effects and Action Movie Essentials. Do I also detect some Film Magic Pro? I would have loved to be involved in this, it's great!

Great Movie. You are very good.

wow great work for $3.75

Co-Pilot color correcter makes a big diff.

love the video

i added it to me video group Anything Cheap

Really cool Ryan!
Loved it!

Best scene, outside at the car.

Your the man! ;D

Greetings from Germany!

Thats Awesome man.... Great Job!!!!

Amazing work! I love this. I'm dreaming of making such a zombie movie!! =D

I'm really impressed! Your camera shots/angles were right on. I love the blured, rush feel to the movie. Has a surreal feeling to it. What type of dolly are you using? Is it DIY? I used StudioFX for the gun shot flares and it's real awsome. Only thing, I had the trial version, so it wasn't much, but great to experiment with. Good shit man, can't wait to see more of your work.