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The Family Name – A Short Film

May 13th, 2007 | Posted in: Movie Making, Movies | Save to del.icio.us

All of us working on the film are proud and excited to release our film, The Family Name. This film was an assignment for our Film Analysis class at our school. The film stars Drew Jackson as Martin, a son coping with his father’s (played by Ben Welder) problems with the mob and his indifferent brother, played by me, Dustin Bachrach.

The film was directed by me with Will Hurd as our Director of Photography. You can watch the movie here (140 MB). The film is in iPod format so you can even put it on your new iPod and watch it on the go.

Some information about the film: The movie is provided in 16×9 at 640 by 426 pixels and is 12 minutes and 19 seconds long. We shot on digital using a Sony DCR P101 camera. The film contains 3 songs: La Femme d’Argent by Air, Take Me Somewhere Nice by Mogwai, and Keeping the Blade by Coheed & Cambria. The film was shot using a maximum of 4 people on location with only 3 people people sometimes. We recorded audio from a shotgun mic directly into a Powerbook. All footage was captured and edited on a Mac using Final Cut Express. The film was shot over a period of 1 month.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the film, and stay tuned for a few tutorials on film making and future movies.

Corbin

Guys I thought it was great. Definitely going to give all the others a run for their money. I particularly liked the cuts and the choice of music. The only criticism I could have was the differing audio levels and that yall didn’t advance the plot any further, but with the time considered that our class had to complete this project, it was perfectly great. Good job and well done!
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[...] May 19th, 2007 | Posted in: Movie Making, Guide | Save to del.icio.us As you might have seen in my earlier post, I just finished my first short film. After doing this and reading across the web to find good [...]
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[...] Unless the scene demands a real hardcore song, try to pick more instrumental tracks. If you watch our film, you see that all the songs try to fit the mood of what’s going on. The break-in scene has a [...]
Anthony Wayne

Hey Dustin I really enjoyed your movie…I can tell that the comment below me is really old but i was wondering if u could tell me what you used for lights wen filming the follow shot of the break in scene?
dbachrach

Anthony, thanks very much.

For the break in scene, we shot w/ a partial moon. The beginning of the shot is when he jumps over the fence and approaches the house. It's cheap, but we just had a car behind us with its headlights on for light.

When he approaches the door , we are just lighting with the lamps outside the house. You can see them in the shot I believe. It gave a very natural feel.

Hope that helps. It was pretty low-budget.

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