WeeklyDV: Haunted

I finished up my entry entitled "Girl Haunted" for this week's WeeklyDV.com assignment. Everyone's movie should be online by tomorrow (halloween) and I'm very interested to see what people came up with. I think my approach is not at all expected, but I hope that doesn't disappoint anyone. UPDATE: only two other entries this week (bummer) and they all took the same sort of approach that I did! Funny. All production was by me, Jeremy, and I wrote the dialogue as well. I shot the video at work in a brightly lit spot with a white-ish background. Coby was walking and talking with me while I shot. Once in Final Cut Pro, I edited the pieces together, slowed it down to 20% of speed, desaturated the colors, blurred it slightly and then used the 3-way Color Corrector to blow out the highlights, adjust midtone color and tint/lighten the shadow areas. Music is from a royalty-free library.
 

Comments

Nice work. The dialogue was a little more erudite than I would have expected from someone haunted by emotions. Could just be me. I really liked the editing...slow-mo plus the washed out sepia look were really good for this.

Thanks for the feedback. It should perhaps be noted that while I was creating this piece I couldn't help but keep thinking of Michael Myer's character in "So I Married An Axe Murderer" where he does the beatnik poetry scene. Remember that performance? I think it influenced my piece on some remote level. For whatever that is worth...