Definitely didn't see that coming :) Some great shots.

It's beautiful, and I was engaged up until the very end, but I felt betrayed at the climax. There was great potential to round off all the emotions built up through the film, but the end had the feeling of a crude attempt at cleverness in the absence of an honest conclusion. I think it would've been more courageous to follow through with what you built up in the first 95%. (I hope you don't mind an honest critique, I'm only offering my thoughts because I enjoyed it :)

Fucking rad. I think it's hilarious, and the laughter provided definitely makes up for not rounding off emotions. ESPECIALLY since you made it a "colt" advertisement.

Thanks for the comments. :)

Please, any critique is welcome!

That's the only way to get better. :)

VERY will done! You have excellent talent! :o)
I really liked your camera angles, edit pace and lighting. I was surprised by the ending. (a colt ad)
What did you edit with?

10x

All Adobe. Offline edit at home and then in a studio - CS3 for finishing.

We shot 720p on the Panny HVX200. Great camera, even with all the new "beasts".

I envy you your camera! Great. I edit with Vegas and Premiere Pro CS3 Vegas on my PC and Premiere on my iMac 24. I love them both. I am shooting HD with Canon and Sony. I would really like that Panny. :o)

We rented the equipment and the CS3 finishing was provided by a studio that supports students.

I'd really want to have a HVX200. Maybe when it gets older\cheaper, I'll get one, second hand.

IF you ever get the chance, try out Vegas 8.0b. I am certain you will like it!

10x for the tip. :)

whaaaaaat! ha ha that was not what i expected!
sweet

That's an awesome short film, and very funny too!

Beautifully edited. Wonderful cinematography throughout. Nice.

i got into it, and then the ending suddenly made me un-engaged. i saw the joke but i never even let out a smurk.

Demonstrates lots of talent in directing, shooting, framing, lighting, color grading etc. Also building the emotion is done wonderfully, up to the 'climax'.

Personally I think filming a subject like this, brought so clever like this, is flushed through the drain by the colt (read "cold") reveal. (did you have it to make a colt ad to get money from the America Foundation??).

I would give it 9 points out of 10 for the first 95%, dropping to a 5 for the full short. This ending is almost is a demonstration of immaturity. Basically you are emotionally cheating your audience. Don't waste your talent on this!

What about cutting of the reveal and and leave the audience with the question 'what could be the father...' One way or the other, change it for the better!

very well done! my compliments.

Very well done indeed, it shows some potential to be sure.

nice!

i really like the atmosphere. but i have to agree with some of the comments here saying that the climax was kind of.... offputting.

i really felt like i was pulled out of the story cause of the end. but everything else was well put together.

excellent video ! i think the mood was developed very well - i empathized with the loneliness and despair of the main character and i think you could have maximized that effect by leaving out all the people at the train platform and possibly shown the woman as a ghost like image. - the main character seemed too interested in the woman at the train station - if he was at the point of ending it all, would he even look ?
i hope i don't sound harsh because i really enjoyed this video and the ending appealed to my sense of humour.
For me, the light ending balanced out the heaviness of the rest. great work !

good job loved it.

Dances with Karapetkovs, ok I'll stop spamming your comments, sorry, just wanna mess with you a lil' haha.

haha that was good, made me feel all sad and then I laughed. Enjoyed it a lot and loved the crane shots.

I just went to youtube to search for your short.

Not one single comment, you have better luck there posting a vid of a monkey or your dog farting.

YT sucks haha.

Nice new title, nice new thumbnail.

It's better now!

that train station was so clean- lol (they are pretty dirty here in NY) this is exceptional for a student film. Great job -

This is Genius stuff, Radoslav. You have extreme fluency in the language of motion pictures. I also like the the spare background music.

Rad, I was just reading all the other comments after I made the previous comment. Now if I wanted to say some thing critical about the show . . . The ONLY thing I can come up with is this: The swirling camera dropping over the side of the building, transitioning into a falling bullet did not have you're usual level of finesse. Maybe the camera falling off the building could speed to a rushing blur, and that blur could disolve to another blur--the blur made as the camera tracks the falling bullet to its' collision with the concrete floor.

I basically think this is great stuff and it WILL lead you to success.

thats graat. well done.

Where's Make Sure 2?

haha

Just one question, Rad:

How hard is it in Bulgaria to find good rental houses? I live in Budapest, Hungary and I'm struggling to find a place with decent equipment... It's a nightmare here. Big directors are shooting features with the state TV's DigiBeta ENG cams, but those are 1) horribly expensive for a high school student 2) DEFINITELY NOT high def.=unusable in a few years.

Now I've finally found the time to register here on Vimeo (after almost 4 months), I must tell you that you've created a bit of a fan base at my old boarding school with this one - You know how it is, links to interesting stuff get passed around. ;P

So don't be to amazed if some weird german chicks come calling in response to your Elvis video... :D

Quality short. The ending was a little unexpected but I really liked it. Bye Bye Love was a good choice for the end song, very original, great job!

Доста забавен край .... :)

сцената на покрива с крана rulz
(въпреки черната лента от ляво)

great short, saw the link to this on scarletuser . great cinematography.

cool

This video clip lead me to my moments of suicide. I had few attempts and I failed it all.
Good thing started to happen after all that pain I had to go through.
Now life is precious to me.
Now I love my life.
Now I learn to appreciate every moment of my life.
Thank you very much for your lovely video clip to reminded my dark moment to appreciate much more about life I am living now.
Thank you very much for your beautiful work to share with me. I love it and I thank you for your good and hard work, Radoslav.
You are great actor as well my friend.
Multy talented!
I am very glad that you are my friend today.
Thank you very much for your yes to my friend request.

Your friend emily eunjue hayes

I love your film. The cinematography is great. I like the overall mood, and the twist at the end is hilarious.

Karapetkov,

Great film, my favorite part was the crane moves on top of the tall building where he wanted to jump off.

Reminds me of vertigo by Hitchcock. Really made you feel the height and dizyness.

Nice movie, i liked it very much.

spoiler ahead:





i thought it was about liquor. =p

“If depression is the mother of suicide, then the father... could be only one...”

Wow, ever thought about a career in advertising?!
Concept and slogan are really good. Your natural intuition is a well-paid talent out there. Just saying!

Да, моля! keep me updated. :)