Right on SPOT! As Hitch said,"It's not what people do in movies that creates drama. It's what happens to them!" - spot on? G

Amazing what this lil ole cammie can do . . in the right hands, of course . . G

Ouch! What a "funny" ending! Camera work was pretty good... acting was a bit dry.

I like to view it but all I can get is the "watch" button and when I click on any of the options nothing happens. (i.e - click on Window Media - nothing. CLick on Real - nothing. CLick o Use Quicktime - nothing.)

You shoudl see radio button selections for Windows Media or Real format (and a check-box for "Use quicktime when available") and then radio button selections for the speed (with 300K selected by default)... then below that is the actual "Watch Film" button.

Is that what you are getting? I'm sure this doesn't help any... but it works for me :-)

Sorry Filmy! - Don't shoot the messenger - ;-)

G

Hey Filmy,

Try this link: http://wm.atomfilms.speedera.net/wm.atomfilms/full/no_regrets_wmp_300.asf

Thanks,

Shawn

Thanks Grazie A great story and an example of what can be done with a GL2 did remind me of joe Black.

That did it Shawn! Thanks.

For Liam - What you said is exactly what I got and clicking on any of them does nothing. Must be some sort of Cokkies/Java thing with Mozilla? Anyhow - thanks to Shawn's link it worked fine.

This was really good..thanks for the link Grazie. It had nice pacing and flow I think. My only little tiny thing is the end was a bit pridicatable because of the master/wide/establishing shot of him stoping in the road. If it has been a MCU or CU it might have been more is a shock than it was...but that is just me. But still it was really really good!

"That did it Shawn! Thanks."

Anytime, I'm glad I could help. ;-)

Grazie, thanks for the link - I thoroughly enjoyed that short.

Shawn

Great site. Loved the movies. In addition to the recommended short, also check out "Road Kill." Marvelously sick sense of humor.

I actually gasped, lmao, very nice.

- Ray
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When I saw this ending I literally jumped back in my chair! Scared/shocked me to bits . . . I'm really not into overt violence . . .Two points here:

1 - Having the XM2, it has really raised the Bar for me in my own endeavours with this fab cammie.

2 - The pace and "message" or the pace/poetry of the piece really got to me. Somehow being "lured" into the almost monotone and boredom of the main character, and as an onlooker wanting to know where it was all going to go. I started to get a little impatient. Almost angry by this "drip-drip-drip" narrative. And in a sense, not dissimilar to the anger of the main character. Then the possibility of relief or a finishing endgame almost in sight . . only to have this removed by what we all saw.

So, for me the piece very efficiently gets to the point. It uses videography to get that "story" across. It uses the technology in a terse shorthand that I really admire. There was no "fat".

. . very clever . .
Grazie

The ending kinda sucks for the guy.....lol, but it is a nice piece.

Sucks! Sucks! - . . .erm . . I would have put in rather stronger language than that. But then again I would most certainly be banned from thi Forum! "Sucks!" Is this Stateside irony? . . hmmmm... so that's what it is . . ah yes . . . ;-)

Grazie

did remind me of joe Black
That's putting it mildly. It's almost a remake of that scene from Meet Joe Black - and I didn't like that either, as a story.
However, here we're talking about the making of things, and yes: this was very well done. I like lighting when you can't see that the scene is being lit. I like film music when it doesn't draw attention to itself. The sound and the dialogue I won't mention because I don't use the PC with the good speakers for internet, and I did not manage to download this thing (I hate that).
The editing was a bit unsmooth at times, which made the actors look out of rhythm. But the camerawork - the camerawotk was excellent. Very impressive. I can understand how you must feel, Grazie, going "to work" after that. Knowing that you have no one to blame but yourself (and of course the London fog).
Tor

Hah - oh yes Torsie - agreed! I also found some of the edting a bit . . scratchy . . .

Grazie

I recently watched a short about a single woman who kept spurning advances from her amorous neighbor across the street. She was watching her TV and it started to show her what her life would be like (family, kids, happiness, etc) with this guy. She excitedly runs across the street to see him, and the same EXACT thing happens. I guess original ideas are tough...

Yes, and this particular story idea is brought to you - copyright free - by the International Association of Single Persons (the die-hard branch).
Tor

. . . . What's the old saying, that there are only 7 jokes in the whole World?

The other thing is that if a story is good, then it is worth telling in any number of ways. It's all in the telling . . not necessarily the content. I suppose what we are discussing, in its most banal incarnation, is the old "Banana Skin" gag? Different content, but the actual emotion is very similar.

What's the Zen thing? Its not the destination, its the route we travel. The otther thing the older/experience we have, the more stories we are aware of. Then we start losing our memories . . not being dissrespectful here, I suppose we could then start afresh! - Now there's an idea for a short video!! What did I just say . . . just forgot what I said . . ;-)

Grazie

>>>I started to get a little impatient. Almost angry by this "drip-drip-drip" narrative.<<<

Actually one of the things I really loved *was* the narrative because it so went along with the visuals. I thought what she was saying cut perfect with the water fountain scene. Such a guy thing that scene was - it was brillant. And just how it cut in and out of narrative and narration and how it cut fropm OS narration to her talking direct at the audience was brillant as well. Like I said before it just flowed.

Yes filmy. I wasn't being negative. The "boredom" and frustration I was feeling was being parralled by that of the narrator's content. She was getting annoyed by the perpetual insistent uwanted approaches . . . that's all .. nothing more nothing less.

Excellent movie!

Grazie

Grazie,

Tried to play the clip. The timeline moved forward but I never got a picture.