No, that movie sucked!  This is something else.  This is my second project for Videography.  We were put into groups to make a half hour TV show (more or less) based on a certain topic.  My group's topic: Nightlife.  Amazingly, nobody in my group did a documentary on Philly's club scene.  Although I'm sure that would have been WILD, right?  Philly Shore!  Pauly Shore.  What.  Here is my segment:  

Click here to go to the YouTube page and watch this video the way you were MEANT to!  Because it's bigger![/center]

Seriously this tiny little box is not cool.  ALSO let me just say that if I had more time for this project (both in length of project and time to make it) I would have made the dream longer and much more HORRIFYING.  But that's life I guess. 

come ooonnnn

i didn't even see this topic before. i thought you posted it right now. i'm letting the 1080HD version load a little before i press play.

edit:

HD100800 is too much for my laptop to handle. i'll upgrade my technology next time so i don't embarass myself. i'm just downgrading to 720 ppp (pix per second) ritght away.

I just watched a bunch of the videos you have on that account. I like the style and atmosphere you are going for, in fact I think your whole deal here and mine are pretty similar! The only thing is, it's too derivative for me to really think it is great. I don't know how serious you are about making vids, and you probably don't care, but this is what I think for what it is worth.

The dream catcher video was okay - I totally get what you were going for, and I am on board with it! The only thing was that it all kind of went as I was expecting it too, and you and your buddy's mannerisms were pretty typical of this kind of spoof video as well. The dream clip did look really good, though! I mean like I said, it's what I expected but you done a good job on making it look like a dark room deep in a gentle man's mind. I think the last shot of you looking back into the camera in fear and holding it was good. It's a patchwork of Tim and Eric and David Lynch, and other things in that area, but like I said I am really into all that stuff as well so I am not saying I flat out didn't like it. It's just that I can see where the influences went in and how they came out really directly, and it doesn't feel like you were putting your own touch on things, just putting in parts from other things you liked and it feels kind of superficial and flat.

I had a look at a bunch and the self-portrait video with you stroking the cat is sticking in my mind right now. I am playing Silent Hill 2 again right now, actually, and I recognised the 'there was a hole here. it's gone now' because I just saw it in the game. It kind of puts me off to see things just lifted like that. I think you could do alot better!

I love it when things are funny and scary at the same time, and I think you do too. I think that's what you are working towards, but yeah these are just too much copycat vids for me. I mean maybe I am the same way, and I think some of the things I picked up on here I only picked up on so strongly because they are mistakes I've made before, so I don't want you to think I am just putting you down. These are words coming from a pal.

Maybe you are just joking around and don't really care about any of this, but there you go! I subscribed to you because I'm really curious to see what you could do if you put a bit more of yourself into it.

Thanks for responding Jamie. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but my computers broken (I'm typing on my iPhone right now ugh) and I haven't really had a lot of rime lately. But I appreciate your response and pretty much agree with your assessment.  I mean I think COPYCAT VIDS is a little unfair but I see your point and it's a fair one to make.

I'm still just a student though. Still learning. And I'm hoping thatq with time and experience I'll be able to find my own "touch".  I mean, I wasn't super serious about this project anyway, but I'm still pretty proud of it, especially since people other than just my friends apparently find it funny. So that's a start. Just gotta give it time. Nah mean. Man I should get my computer fixed, typing this much stuff on an iPhone is dumb

nice to see you again roman

woah i posted this a month ago

hey so I'm gonna bump this ONE MORE TIME!  I kind of hate being that guy but this forum is so dead that if a topic isn't in the top 5 nobody notices it and I'd really appreciate some more responses like Jamie's!  Or even just YEAH IT WAS GREAT/NAH IT SUCKED.  I mean, the musicians on this site get so many props, can't the filmmakers (filmmaker?) get some love too?

also maybe the title wasn't ENTICING enough so I changed it, maybe that will help?? I hate you all!!

I don't like being critical because I know this was probably for some stupdi project with a length requirement you needed to finish on time and didn't really want to make. honestly I didn't really like it besides nightmare and the part where you put earbuds in your mouth.

well yeah, that's true

I kinda wish the nightmare would be more mysterious at first using different camera angles. like start out with a close shot of something (????) moving and several THUMPs followed by something like what you already ahve

believe me, if I had more time to work on this project the nightmare wouldn't have been 10 seconds long.  the original plan was to shoot the infomercial sequences on one day and spend an entire day doing the nightmare (because as far as I was concerned this project was going to just be an excuse to make CRAZY NIGHTMARE SCENE) but sometimes things just don't work out.