My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

I have never said I didn't agree with him, I actually said "Yeah, I know what's wrong with this movie" but our goal was to make a movie in one day and there was no time for extra cuts, especially since random people came to our door that day wanting to make a movie about a concept that had not been thought of until halfway through it, and even where we did have extra scenes, only one of us (Shoe The Almighty) has a program to edit the movie on. There's more than one of us who were involved with the decision-making and not all of us have "that gift which only you possess" so in that sense, it's easier to make a movie by yourself anyway. The long scenes SUCK ASS and I know that. As for all the other advice you've given so far, I KNOW ALREADY, so if you have any OTHER tips unrelated to this movie that I could not possibly know right now as a high school student, feel free to comment on my profile. Also, not many kids ever make good movies and sorry for thinking you'd never made one before, but don't assume no one knows more than you on any subject.

[Shoe The Almighty]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

We're making a better fight movie, and instead of working with it for one day, we have a whole week. You'll see a huge difference between the two....and I might put the tripod, or a random skateboard that obviously doesn't belong to the person sitting next to it, in a scene just to make some people get frustrated…..like afrobean.

[Tokzic]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

IS THAT SOME CRITICISM WELL HERE IS SOME WRATH

way to completely lose artistic credibility lmfao

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

way to completely lose artistic credibility lmfao

Yeah well... you're ugly

But really, I don't mean to "bring wrath upon thee", just excuses, and I don't care if they were good excuses or not, because THIS MOVIE WAS NOT MEANT TO BE FLAWLESS. If you didn't like the movie, sorry, some people did, and this movie is for those people who don't think as much, not to say it's meant for idiots, but this movie does NOT reflect our ability to entertain so only applies to a less serious audience. But we'll try to make better movies for you people who aren't looking for entertainment, but for flaws, and we'll try not to give you something to criticize next time.

[Tokzic]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Filmmaking is an art. If you treat your films like scribbles, then you shouldn't be posting them here. If you post it, everyone has every right to say anything they want about it.

And really, you shouldn't be attacking people who are criticizing you. Criticism is good. You need criticism to improve. What were you expecting, a chorus of mindless "lol guds"? Those are worthless and don't help you in your craft at all. You can't possibly see all the flaws in your own work, so you should encourage criticism. If you don't, well, have fun being sub-par for the rest of your life. Less competition for me.

[SethSquall]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Yea agree with Afro.

And if you don't want criticism. Don't post it. I think you've been given a lot of pointers here, look at it that way.

[Shoe The Almighty]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Filmmaking is an art. If you treat your films like scribbles, then you shouldn't be posting them here. If you post it, everyone has every right to say anything they want about it.

And really, you shouldn't be attacking people who are criticizing you. Criticism is good. You need criticism to improve. What were you expecting, a chorus of mindless "lol guds"? Those are worthless and don't help you in your craft at all. You can't possibly see all the flaws in your own work, so you should encourage criticism. If you don't, well, have fun being sub-par for the rest of your life. Less competition for me.

Yes filmmaking is an art and I'm really into it....Greed....was just a fun project we did because we couldn't film the movie we wanted. You should watch the other movies I've made, we put more effort into the other ones.

I like the criticism....but the pointing out the errors I already know exist kinda annoys me. After spending hours editing, I can pretty much find the errors in the movie. There is more errors than you think lol.

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Filmmaking is an art. If you treat your films like scribbles, then you shouldn't be posting them here. If you post it, everyone has every right to say anything they want about it.

And really, you shouldn't be attacking people who are criticizing you. Criticism is good. You need criticism to improve. What were you expecting, a chorus of mindless "lol guds"? Those are worthless and don't help you in your craft at all. You can't possibly see all the flaws in your own work, so you should encourage criticism. If you don't, well, have fun being sub-par for the rest of your life. Less competition for me.

Can you read AND retain information you read? I said "I'm not attacking people" , "This movie definitely does NOT reflect our ability" and "I know what's wrong with this movie" as well as inferring "I agree with Afrobean". Could you listen for once? We know the flaws! Get it through your head. I AGREE WITH AFROBEAN dumbasses. I can't learn from the criticism you give if I've already given it to myself.

[Shoe The Almighty]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Can you read AND retain information you read? I said "I'm not attacking people" , "This movie definitely does NOT reflect our ability" and "I know what's wrong with this movie" as well as inferring "I agree with Afrobean". Could you listen for once? We know the flaws! Get it through your head. I AGREE WITH AFROBEAN dumbasses. I can't learn from the criticism you give if I've already given it to myself.

lol Lets hope that clears things up

[Afrobean]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

So you guys are gonna be posting some of your better work soon right? I'd love to see how it stacks up.

EDIT: Hey why'd you delete your post? I was going to read it!

[Shoe The Almighty]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

So you guys are gonna be posting some of your better work soon right? I'd love to see how it stacks up.

EDIT: Hey why'd you delete your post? I was going to read it!

I'm hoping to film this week but yet again not everyone can show up. If that continues then we can't film the movie or I'll have to think of another idea....but if everything goes right the movie will be up before next week

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

So you guys are gonna be posting some of your better work soon right? I'd love to see how it stacks up.

EDIT: Hey why'd you delete your post? I was going to read it!

I just put "Yes" and it posted when I was looking away. I have no idea how that happened but I was going to either elaborate on the "Yes" or not post anything. Nothing interesting to say really.

To Tokzic: Sorry for giving you the idea that this movie was supposed to revolutionize the world in some way, but we ARE going to have random crap films every once in a while because hey, lots of people are easily entertained. Just try to see the funny parts and don't think so much, unless it's needed / wanted, which it will be once we have time to make our current project (although we're having availability difficulties), but even when we need the criticism, we already have Afrobean, and he's much better at it.

[Afrobean]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

I just put "Yes" and it posted when I was looking away. I have no idea how that happened but I was going to either elaborate on the "Yes" or not post anything. Nothing interesting to say really.

To Tokzic: Sorry for giving you the idea that this movie was supposed to revolutionize the world in some way, but we ARE going to have random crap films every once in a while because hey, lots of people are easily entertained. If you were expecting an amazing movie, you shouldn't have gone to YouTube. Just try to see the funny parts and don't think so much, unless it's needed / wanted, which it will be once we have time to make our current project (we're having availability difficulties), but even when we need the criticism, we already have Afrobean, and he's much better at it.

I don't know if I'm particularly "better" at it, just more detailed. A number of the things I made mention of don't even take any formal learning in the field; a simple love of the art would be enough to clue in to the more obvious things like that your cuts were way too long in many cases.

ps rofl man I haven't been in this mindset for so long... it's a real shame I don't have the drive to do the necessary schooling, because this field is one of few that I would actually enjoy working in.

[Shoe The Almighty]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

I don't know if I'm particularly "better" at it, just more detailed. A number of the things I made mention of don't even take any formal learning in the field; a simple love of the art would be enough to clue in to the more obvious things like that your cuts were way too long in many cases.

ps rofl man I haven't been in this mindset for so long... it's a real shame I don't have the drive to do the necessary schooling, because this field is one of few that I would actually enjoy working in.

Your better at criticism. Yes some scenes were a bit long (the running scene) but at the time it seems good. Every time I edit a movie, I view it over and over and I'm fine with it, but when I put it up on youtube I can always find places that I could cut shorter or make better. But I don't want to go back every time and keep editing the movies over and over. All of the movies I have on my account (except for Greed and The Body Stacker) have been edited a second time and now they are better....but as I said I can find parts that I can make better. I might make a better edit of Greed one day but right now I'm focusing on the fight movie I'm hoping we film sometime this week.

You should just film a movie for fun

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Re: My friends and i made a movie. Called Greed.

Afrobean, you seem to know everything, so I cangratulate you for your life accomplishments A_A'