"Utopia"
Winner Of The 2003-2004 Proclaim your patriotism video contest
17-year director

you must have windows media player 9
17meg video

www.websamba.com/rch-entertainment/indie%20films/utopia.wmv

The link doesnt seem to work.

it does!!

Got it to work.

Very interesting Riley. I liked it. I liked the handheld shots in the jeep after he had been taped up. I actually kinda laughed when he jumped up really quick in his des....reminds of the times in high school when I did the same thing. Everyone just kinda turns around and stares at you just like the students did in your video.

thanks

Looks like you can 'right click save as' the video, have to click the link and let it buffer.

Nice work Riley, but the audio was pretty distorted in some places for me. I half expected some zombies to lurch out at him when he's wandering the halls, has a bit of a '28 Days Later' feel to it in that section!

Cheers,
Brian

I like the shift to the world where he wakes up into.

I though it took really too long to get into that world. I skipped ahead half a minute into the teacher's assignment speech.

Nice handheld work when he wakes up. I like the tone too. THe kid was pretty good. Lots of good shots in that sequence when he's grabbed by the thugs.

Audio was low budget.

This is neither here nor there but by coincidence I've been listening to Goldfrapp's "Utopia" endlessly today!

I laughed so hard at the part he yelled "hello!!!". I was like "oh my GOD thats directly from 28 days later!!"

What was it shot on?

digital 8 my friend, digital 8 !

yeah you also took the music from 28 days later lol

Wow, digital 8!! It looked pretty good!! I thought it was shot with an Xl1s!!! Bravo!! It was great movie!!

which digital 8 camera was it?

Sony Trv740, but i spent about 2 weeks editing, color correcting, Magic Bulleting (and i have a very fast computer/render farm) etc

i cant wait to get a 3 chip camera, less time color correcting and de-artifacting

nice, that is awesome!

Lol, I too noticed that the music was from 28 days later. I add something from that soundtrack to half the stuff I create. It's really a great sound track.

Are you allowed to submit videos to contests with copywritten music on them?

it was just a contest, no prizes, just for highschoolers to proclaim their patriotism thru a video

That's cool. I liked your movie, very good work.

Looks like the website died!

Oh well, that's what I get for taking Friday off to go shoot some of my movie! :-)

those jerks deleted the file! anyone willing to host a 17meg file with unlimited bandwidth?