The blood effects were free from detonationfilms.com (coolest site ever, even with poor website design) I bought some dirt explosions from them and also made a little air morter and shot wet sand in front of a green screen in my back yard for the really dark clumpy dirt flying up look. I actually did all of the composting in Final Cut minus some roto-scoping in after effects for the scene with 20 dead americans in the field which was really only 4 guys. I shot this on an Panasonic HVX-200 and for the first shot used a DIY 35mm adapter. Thanks for the comments!

Great job

Nicely done Chris

Thanks!

Nice job!!! Pimp! I don't think I've ever seen something so cool!

Damn Chris wow.

Nice job. Brings back memories from Call of Duty 2.

Yeah I love those games! Thanks for the comments!

That was / This is so crazy good!

wow, impressive technical work!

Great job well done Chris.
Specialy liked the opening scene.

awesomee

Pretty cool, opening shot was hot. You're so lucky that you live in Utah, great scenery-

WOW! That was great. I really enjoyed that. If this is the stuff your putting out for a class project than you have a very bright future ahead of yourself. It maybe be hard work but look how rewarding it is. Excellent. I wish I could do what you do.

fantastic!

Amazing job- I did something similar for a project at my school recently- somewhat similar scenery, but more fantasy-like in the visual effects.

Wow, very realistic production.

great job. I am a tough critic let me tell you, and this is one of the best productions i've seen here. i am judging the cinematography, color, key, light. it's amazing what u did there for the budget.

Nice vid, especially the colors.
Good job man.
I read in one of these comments you were going to LA, when's that?Good luck there!
Oh yeah, one last question.
How do you put the 'widescreen' bars on top and bottom? I have FCE 4

Very very nice.

Was surprised to see green screening anywhere in the effects... Nice keying, had me fooled.

the beggining you can see the letterbox you added. Its see through! Just noticed it.

Congratulations on a great job.

One quick critique. Right about 1:00, you see the first dirt explosion. The camera shakes with the impact but the dirt stays stationary. The second explosion does the same thing but it is less obvious due to its proximity to the camera. I don't know if you added the camera shake later or filmed it. If you added it later, be sure to link the effect onto all the layers you are working with (in After Effects I would do this with an adjustment layer on top of everything). If you filmed the jitter, then you need to motion track the shot and apply the tracking data to the explosion so that it looks like it is part of the scene.

It has already been mentioned and I understand you fixed it in a later version but the see through letterbox is kind of annoying. Personally, I don't think the film needed letter boxing as it was already shot wide enough. But I guess it varies from person to person.

Hope this has been helpful. Loved your video, good luck.

~David Torcivia

wow very nice... I really loved the feel of this... Looked very WWII "esque"... I think I would have brought some of the contrast down in the whites and saturation... a bit more.. but could just be me... other than that... very authentic... nice work!!!

Well, Chris 10/10 cool one, i like it and everything here is okey for me.
Best war scene i've ever seen here.

p.s. that scene with dead soldiers reminds me my war scene :)

Wow man this is great work!

Awesome! I was going to make me a WWII short but since my camera broke I can't budget one at the moment. I'm still going to make it, but I'm just going to wait until later down the road when I can get more money. WWII props aren't cheap! Haha!

this is incredible! one thing, when the two soldiers are running, you should have masked out one of his legs and detached it when the mortar hit. also, there is no sound effect when one of the soldiers gets shot and the gun drops. but overall its so awome. one question, when the soldiers are laying down, are they on a greenscreen and you just added more to the plate?

Awesom man...but you can see right through the black bars...

Very nicely done!

Very Nice. I love the dirt explosions. I was actually on the edge of buying those exact ones. Now I think I will.

Yeah. I used those dirt explosions but made my own as wellin front of a green screen. Hmm.. maybe I should post some on vimeo for download...

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Thanks

Omg!

looks absolutely professional! good work!!!