Hollow - short film

[filmfreakmiah]

The real nightmare is the kid's reality.

[mjcaway]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

[katebien]

Really good short! I'm in school right now for film, i want to edit and write. One question... how did you get EMMA CAULFIELD to be in it!!! that's so cool!!

[ladolkart]

@katebien Well thanx for the compliment and as for the >Emma question the writer/producer/director had some connection to her :) Emma actually won a best actress award for this at the Beverly Hills short film festival.

[aussieelyse]

One thing I don't like about tv shows and films, is that the pop corn is always filled right to the top even when they have finished or are half way through watching the movie. For some reason that there pisses me off. I'm so sorry, that's sooo off topic. I love this by the way! :P

[ladolkart]

@aussieelyse well if you watch again it is near the beginning of the movie (first scary scene) in this short. :)

[ReelyBored16]

really great stuff! great camera work and direction!

[mizbutterfly77]

Excellent !! Loved it! Proof that great work can be done on a small budget. Money and expensive equipment isn't everything, it's the talent behind it. And you guys nailed it! :)

[marixalilith]

wow this was really good...

[scary2hell]

i love emma cauldfield she played in buffy the vampire slayer as demon anya

[eveyrocks]

I really admire this film, i've been a part of a few no budjet student type films, but never any of this standard haha. It could fit in with any of the major films out. I love all the shots, they are really refreshing, a mix of old fashioned and new. The way the tension builds up is great.

[ladolkart]

Well I admit since I'm not a student I did have access to better equipment for free from venders I use regularly.

Though I appreciate the compliment.

[redlipstickism]

Very cool. And creepy.

A different, unique kind of creepy you dont really see that often. Love it!

Gotta love emma caufield as well. She's brillient!

xx j

[ladolkart]

Thank you very kind words. Yeah it's new and old at the same time. I see a bit of 70's horror specially in the dream stuff.

[murray132006]

Great work and scary movie - I like it :)

[LoonyBin60]

Whose house is that coz it looks reali big! x

[ladolkart]

It's a City of Pasadena owned property.

It is quite big vacant old house..

They donated it for our use.

[hchavez29]

only 758 views??!!This video is amazing! Gotta get it out there

[ladolkart]

Well it was in 40 film festivals.

This page is mostly just for my works as a cinematographer.

Thanx for the compliment.

[excessisthenewmodera]

So scary....

[LoonyBin60]

Thanx muchly loved Emma and ur plot was so well thought of! Bravo!

[ladolkart]

Well thanx but I was just the cinematographer though the director also wrote the screenplay.

[LoonyBin60]

I still think its bloody brill! Your shots were so well done! Thank u 4 gracing youtube with this! x

[ladolkart]

Yeah not to bad for something done with essentially no money. Thanx for the compliment.

[LoonyBin60]

No problem! I hope you do other movies like that! x

[LoonyBin60]

I dont quite get the ending. Can some1 plz tell me y theres a man wiv a gun and wher emma caulfield is @ the end. Many Thanx!

[ladolkart]

Ok one more time. Emma has already died and most of the movie is the child's dream. In the dream the red door is in his bedroom and all is fine except what's behind the red door. In reality the red door is the front door of the house. The end of the movie and when Emma is dead on the floor are the only parts in real time. The parents are drug addicts and the man with gun is coming to collect something. So the red door in dream represents the actual home in real time. That's it in a nutshell.

[LoonyBin60]

Thank u muchly!

Ur movie was amazing and I just love the terror in Emma's face! Bravo! Make more movies!!!

[troyfin2]

Great video! But the plot lost me. lol

[w00tsville]

Very good.

[tdiddy091909]

this was awesome....really well done, creepy, and love Emma!

[britaniclaus]

i really wanna watch this movie.i cnt find it anywhere can u help me??

[ladolkart]

Can't you watch it here? If not you can download from itunes I believe.

[x646d63]

This is remarkably troubling. Amazing storytelling and fantastic filmography.

[MandJfly]

Watched this on TV one night...scared the bejeeps out of me. Haunting and extremely disturbing. Well done and thought provoking.

[ladolkart]

Thank You.

I did not know it was shown on T.V where did you see it?

[MandJfly]

Sorry so late getting back to you!! I live in the UK and on SKY there is a channel called ShortsTV. I caught it on there one night. I still think about it at times all these months later!! Keep up the good work!

[ladolkart]

Funny I bought it on itunes myself and I shot it. lol

[evermail]

If one of my films got on iTunes I'd buy it, too.

[evermail]

Nice work. I just bought it on iTunes. What camera and lenses did you use? Was there Steadicam?

[ladolkart]

This was done all for free for a friend of mine.

I got Otto Nemenz to give us an Arri SRlll and used mostly Canon zooms and some Zeiss primes for close beauty shots or wide shots. Thanx for the compliment!

[evermail]

It's great work and shows me, a new cinematographer, the things an experienced eye can do with even little to no budget.

Were the majority of the "reality" sequence shots with sunlight or were you bouncing lights off of ceilings and walls?

[slotho1201]

bwargh I <3 emma caulfield.

[ladolkart]

Yes Emma was super cool!

[slotho1201]

argh... I really don't get it... Someone explain it too me.

[ladolkart]

The Dad's a drug addict, Mom's dead. This mostly takes place in the child's dreamscape.

[ladolkart]

The true red door is actually the front door of the house.

[vegasacid]

amazing work, very gripping. what film stock did you use?

[ladolkart]

Thanx for compliment. The film stock was Kodak 7217 200T.

We shot Super16 in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio.