This Business of Ours -- Short Film

[WeIlstonePictures]

New Channel Everyone! Wellstone plans on uploading old videos but with our own COMMENTARY!

[emceefreshjiveLA]

cause you'll be dead! You should enter it at BIGSTARtv's Online Film Festival, you could win 50K

[JimiHenbricks]

You are too young looking for this type of film. I think you should do a college comedy.

[PAM1976]

Wellstone. lol  How Jewish is that lol!!

[ninjazoner]

You se a zoom h2. Hows does that connect to ur camera with no inputs and how is the sound without the h2?

[TVwriter23]

That's what I'm wondering as well.

[mrbughorn]

Pretty good, but you're too young to be mobsters.

[ooganblat]

it's the voices/mumbling...

great work though!!! what camera do you use

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[Ben1257sb]

one of my all time favorites.

[gnxmusic]

The zoom H2 will do he job, jsut got learn how to use the setting and he placement of it while you record. Good luck.

[BEggerton]

Maybe it's YouTube's quality, but I'm not all that impressed with the Zoom H2. It seems to me that a shotgun mic and boom pole work better than anything.

[jp3553]

Well my camera doesn't have any mic inputs (I am hoping to buy a better camera soon...) so I couldn't have used a shotgun mic.. thats the main reason I got a zoom h2..

But a shotgun mic would probably have better quality....

[DylanKershaw]

acting needs working on but nice camera angles!!

[ChezterG]

its pretty good, but your acting needs to me a little more believeable. other than that good!

[funkyfredscool]

one of the guys looks like chase from zoey 101

[pearl112]

thats the first thing i thought of!

[Saul3241]

bravo bravo guys. that was nice.

[claireisyourfather]

i dont get it

[WellstonePictures]

They are in a killing business together, but they both decide to kill each other because they both think the other person is ruining the business.

[claireisyourfather]

ohhh, well i liked in anyway

[fig51557]

Great video--- especially with the twist ending. Good job everybody !!!

[Cnior]

nice...

check out my films.

-Cnior/Eric Horner

[filmguy91]

holy......the best ending i have seen in a short film in quite sometime!

[Morventhus]

Haha! if only the guy in the chair had that Godfather voice.

[magicmonkeyman11]

very cool. i like the eiting man freaging sick

[09ine]

did you use any lenses or did you just edit the contrast? what editing programs. looks great this way

[WellstonePictures]

All I did was add some contrast, a bit of brightness, and that's it. I used Sony Vegas and cropped the video a bit as well.

And thanks for the feedback!

[Ben1257sb]

make sure jeff sees this cuz this goes to wellstonepictures3. but i do give you credit for what u had. those lines are very hard to memorize i can defenitly tell. you guys have progressed so well over the past and im shocked what you have come up with. keep working on the memorization of the script though because i think a big chunk of delivering your story well is how the actor does it ;)

[WellstonePictures3]

Memorization is something we should work on, but generally what we do is produce a script and produce the film, usually within the same day.

I would prefer it to be that we actually read the scripts and rehearse (or find better actors to do it), but time isn't on our sides.

Perhaps over the summer when time is more efficient it will be easier to do these things.

[Ben1257sb]

one thing that stuck out the best was your dialouge. i noticed you didnt just switch back and forth from actor from actor. you actually had one talk a little and filmed the other actor listening and reacting to it. very very nice. one other thing tho... your other guy should memorize his lines or stop looking down ;) but thats about it!

[WellstonePictures]

Haha.. yeah thanks. Jeff wrote the script and he is real good on making the dialog sound intellectual. We worked hard on doing the "L cuts", we actually filmed the entire scenes twice, one of the speaker, and one of the listener. But yes, we did notice Jeff looking down too much at the script(some of those lines were long!) But again, we aren't good at acting.

Thanks for the feedback!

[WellstonePictures3]

Well, two things about looking down:

1) Some of the lines were very long, and we basically wrote this script and went without rehearsing - we took multiple takes until we got a satisfactory take.

2) I probably looked at my script only 25% of the time I was looking down. I was trying to make it look like I was looking down as in searching for thought, but I'm not too convincing of an actor, so that failed miserably.

[wellstone2]

Finally some feedback that is useful!!Thanks everyone

[snoppy3183]

lol really good looks like a real movie

5/5

[chiefbrody2001]

Good script, good photography.

[LaButangas]

(sorry for my english... I'm italian)...

I would buy a nv-gs320( is the PAL version of pvng320, that is ntsc)... but.. on youtube, videos uploaded ( from this camcorder) are very different about quality...I realized that this video has got good quality...so I think that the quality depends from the exange ( avi to mpeg)..

how do you do to upload with this high quality? If you answer me.. I'll give credit to you... thank's for the attention

[WellstonePictures]

Well first off, this isn't the stock footage. When I edit it I added a ton of contrast (this helps a lot with making the colors more vivid) I also cropped and did a bit of color correction.

But all I do is render the video as a WMV. I edit with Sony Vegas and capture with a firewire cable.

I would suggest adding contrast, and if that doesn't help any send me a message and I'd be glad to help you out.

[p129crn]

Its very easy to criticise but very hard to practicaly act infront of camera,overall the video has been very good edited shots taken and scripted very well but lacks in acting and expressions.

[WellstonePictures]

I completely agree. We cannot act. Plain and Simple. Hopefully we'll be able to find some better actors in some of our future films.

[effectsmaster1]

that was very good.

[cyspy]

By the way, they both are obviously assassins, but the dialog sounds a lot how mafia bosses and mafia hitmen talk, and their all around attitude.

[cyspy]

Great dialog, decent shot list.

Acting wasn't good, both verbal, physical. Such as the first drawing of the gun.

I didn't like the way it cut to black and THEN showed the guy fall. It messes up my being actually INTO it.

Otherwise good, excellent visuals/audio.

And again, GREAT dialog.

Peace,

Beast

[WellstonePictures3]

Yes, acting is an area we need MUCH improvement on.

[CovanentFilms]

great stuff guys! solid execution. Musta been kinda hard tryin to do this one. im sure u learned alot! congrats on a well done short!!

jD

[WellstonePictures]

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[wellstone2]

It turned out well but it got a little repetitive at points we could have worked the script a little better. This room does look nice on film

[WellstonePictures]

I honestly don't think so because all of the dialog is crucial in telling the story. I thought it was pretty well written. I mean, we couldn't have done much to make it less repetitive.

[Unbroken0ne]

PWNT lal

[Unbroken0ne]

PWNT lal

[Unbroken0ne]

PWNT lal

[icemanfan5]

very good dialogue fluency, shots, acting, and this may be one of your more "cinematic-looking" short films. And course, a muzzle flash, or even a flash transition, would look cooler.

overall. 5 stars

[WellstonePictures]

Yeah, thanks for the feedback. Glad you took time to critique it!

[fuckingowsomevideos]

i like it as allways the suspence was good. and nice editing on the gun,the turnaround,and the sound on the gun nice job in all keep it up =)

[MPT77]

I didn't like the reflection in the mirror. And at the cut at around 1:18 your arms were down while as the reflection in the mirror your hands were on your chin. He didn't seem surprised when he held up the gun. And over hiring an employee? lol, I'm just kidding cas that's nit picking. I liked it as always :D The sound's great, directing, cuts. 5/5. Nice drama, shows how you can make a real short movie without explosions. This is true talent.

[WellstonePictures3]

Wow, that cut totally came back and screwed us. As you see before that, we made sure that when Justin placed his hand upon the chin it was like that in the following shot.

Some how we let the next cut slip. Nice find.

Thanks for the rating and critique as well, we enjoy people pointing out mistakes/places we need to improve.

[WellstonePictures3]

Also...

The reason he didn't seem surprised was because, in part, he expected it. Secondly, my character intended to kill Justin's.

The "business" isn't any normal business - it's a murdering business (if you can call it that). The "client" refers not to employees of the company (or someone that the company does business for/with), but rather as the person who is meant to die.

Each character feels the other has hurt the company, and thus each decides to "do business" with the other.

[WellstonePictures]

Yeah that was a good find indeed. As Jeff said, we appreciate you critiquing films, as most of our subscribers don't give us much feedback. And we didn't really explain it that much but we meant for their "business" to be a mob, and they were deciding who to "hit" next. But yea I really appreciate your comment.

[WellstonePictures3]

I wouldn't really affiliate these particular characters with The Mob, per se. Rather, they have a business that has an expertise in "dealing with people".

[WellstonePictures3]

This was meant to be a reply to Justin's last post.

[WellstonePictures]

Well yeah, I guess that's a better way of describing it.

[WellstonePictures3]

Well, it's simply that the Mob is more of synonymous with the Italian Mafia/Cosa Nostra. Simply saying that the Mafia kills people as this business does is a bit of an understatement. The Mafia is much more involved is organized crimes dealing with robbing/drug trafficking (though murders are of course common in such business). Basically, they don't simply kill, and when they do kill it is with reason.

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[WellstonePictures3]

Also, the Italian Mafia only allows in individuals of Italian heritage on both the mother's and father's side (though it used to be only the father's side).

Thus, I would qualify, but you would not. Even though you could be an associate of mine, it is unlikely you'd be so heavily involved in activities as murders.

[WellstonePictures]

Wow. How do you think up all of this so fast? haha. Your comments are so much more intellectual than mine.

[WellstonePictures3]

It's stuff I know. ;)

[lucasghst]

not my favorite but it was ok

[WellstonePictures]

haha. You only like our comedies. I honestly don't think any of our comedies have been any good. One day we're gonna make one thats just sooo funny and amazing at the same time.

[FourHandsProductions]

Best of all of ur films so far, though making a gun shot on screen instead of the black would have made it better.

[maxvldz]

nice!

[granskare]

excellent! it was totally good stuff :)

[wellstone2]

The shots turned out good

[Bigcatpro]

cool

[Nicoz0rz]

Niceee(:

[cuda92]

nice add in the gun shot and take out the black and put the blood :) than it will be 90% more cooler 5* love the vid