Yellow (Giallo)

[INCBlackbird]

my last account was Jigsawsl8n8, I sent you a reaction a while back. and I actually did make that giallo shortfilm now so I'll sent it in a videoreaction ;)

[1TBEST]

Have never about dream .. T

[labotamysausagedog]

That's pretty awesome looking. For more giallo inspired goodness check out the music video for Primal Scream's 'Can't Go Back'.

[labotamysausagedog]

ddddd

[Threetails]

The visual style was a perfect homage to Argento and Bava, though the sound track felt a bit off until the end when it broke into that progressive rock groove.

[Threetails]

The visual style was a perfect homage to Argento, though the sound track felt a bit off until the very end when it broke into that progressive rock groove.

[Threetails]

You've nailed the visual style of the old Giallo films. The colored lights, the long shadows, the use of shape and ambient noise, it's all very well done. Not sure about the soundtrack, I'd have gone with a black ambient band in the spirit of Goblin myself.

[halloweenfriday]

Turn this to a full length movie please!!! It's so great it needs to be a movie and how did you make the colors?

[cinemaa1]

the murder was brilliant & the music at the back worked superbly with it. music of the whole film is simply gr8!. the film is good & the girl is gorgeous. thumbs up!

[ProductoraNeverMore]

AWESOME!!!!! how did you do the colours???? please reply!

[makifilmtr]

@ProductoraNeverMore, thank you, glad you enjoyed it. I used color gels in front of tungsten lights. Slight color correction was done in post, but not much.

[blacksdocrack]

Oh, man. I don't even know where to begin. the gloves, the gleam of the blade, the fantastic colors and the classic zoom in camera shots. I envy you for making this as well as you did. the only thing i think that could have been improved is the music. this sounded a bit mechanic and disco-esque as opposed to the very organic sounds of most giallos with loud thumping bass and funk style music.

[TotalitarianHypnosis]

Influenced by Goblin's score to Patrick and Contamination? The organ theme sounds extremely similar to both. Good work. I liked the Bava-esque lighting. I've been working on some similar things myself. Did you get a good grade? ;)

[agverdict]

These fraction bit of filming don't scare anymore. They look like amateru filming.

[cybervato74]

all the giallo imagery with the color, light and shadow is truly stunning.

[jigsawsl8n8]

so cool!!! serieusly! I'm thinking about making a giallo shortfilm as well but how did you get the light like that ? what did you use ? filters or lights in that specific colour ? or something else ?

[makifilmtr]

Thank you. We used color gels on our kinoflo lights. Shot with 16mm Kodak tungsten film.

[SevenDeadlyCinema]

You've nailed the style. Outstanding work!

[IANC4EVER]

he must have been a bad loser...

grt stuff, really impressed with the art direction.

U get away with it totally- its got that 'non-post production look' which Argento would have had to use in the 70's.

V well done

[mogwali1]

Very well done!

This certainly looks and feels very atmospheric.

[henrymadman14]

i love the way you have used many bright colours especialy in the opening shot! its very much like suspiria, it really sets the mood instantly. you should have won the best thriller award at the terror festival!

[Gilles29200]

This is masterpiece for a short film !

I like it ! The great style as Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace) and Dario Argento (Inferno, Suspiria)....

[ShredMaster79]

very good visual taste and really enjoiable soundtrack!!! the atmosphere fits with the movies he wanted to tribute!

hope to see more from this director!!!

[carterpen]

One of the most beautiful movie I have ever seen!

When might we see the next one?

[miles2424]

I have just been getting into Bava's work, I am a big 80's horror fan. This film look's great, but wasen't Bava famous for starting the trend of the killer wearing black gloves? I think your killer has brown gloves on, or is it just the lighting? If they are brown then that's the only change I would do.

[crowtrobot86]

This is really well done. I especially love the shot of the knife reflected in the glass of wine. Kudos!

[EamonAndrews]

brilliant! absolutley great. the kind of film i wish Dario Argento still made. He has a film coming out under the same title, but i think this one deserves it more.

[TheForgottenFlesh]

Also was it hard to get the lighting like that?

[makifilmtr]

yes, it was. the opening panning shot took 3 hours to set up, and consisted of 13 seperate lights. Wish we had more but this was a student project and that's all the lights the school provided.

[TheForgottenFlesh]

Deffinatly really neat. I must ask, what type of film would be best for that Bava feel? I thought the look of this was great eccept the colours needed to be a bit more well technicolor like. That's just me though. In any case you did an amazing job and it's nice to see someone else still using film over digital.

[makifilmtr]

Thanks for your kind words. Ideal film would be technicolor stock from the golden days. It doesn't exist anymore. These days they give the technicolor look in post. I didn't have the means to do that so tried to create the look as much as I could with what we had.

[TheForgottenFlesh]

What exactly do they do in post to achieve that look? Is it contrast?

[joshg123]

That was amazing! It felt like the 60s/70s again. Wonderful. Thanks for uploading this fantastic homage.

[preg74]

Really a good job!You're right,Mario Bava was the first in Italy,in search of this kind of lights and atmospheres..i'm a Bava sr fan too,and i agree totally when we say that Him make the real start for "Giallo" in my country!BRAVISSIMO 5 STELLE!!

[Vampyr789]

the colors are fantastic!

[tarrega2]

Not Bava sorry

[tarrega2]

Great photography and director..thanks

[yogo86lu]

Well...let me put it this way: Bava would wipe his a** with this shit! This ain't no giallo. At best, an attempt! BUT NO GIALLO! As an avid fan and filmmaker of this genre who's worked with the best, I think this film robbed 6min. of my life!

[rasputin63]

Pretty slick! 

The only thing you might've done to make it more Bava-like would be to have the pretty woman show her intense vulnerability before the chess game even began...

[Ascendtion]

The music gets pretty funkalicious there. Sweet.

[SlasherTV2]

that was excellent!!! I love the lighting, it reminded me of Argento's Suspiria!!

[SavageHenry78]

Good to see students still using film over video.

[nonballs]

This is great! Check out my trailer and short film. My next project is going giallo influenced!

[makifilmtr]

thank you. Best wishes to you on your next project.

[LoSguardoDeiMuchacho]

fantastico. suggestioni, colori, situzioni, musica, stile alla Bava, ottimo tributo! d'altronde gli Americani hanno sempre e solo copiato :)

*****

[makifilmtr]

grazie!

[morriconelover]

Argento was inspired BY Mario Bava, so its incorrect to state that Argento should be a bigger influence than Bava. Ask Argento himself.

[victoroso]

I desagree on Mario Bava been the master of Giallo...for me its Argento an you use a lot of his elements in your short.

It has a great ambientation, greath photo and excelent edition....congratulations...

[Bloodsport1]

HA! This is pretty good. This is better than some of the major studios films.

[h8edgepunk]

This was an excellent short film. I must say though I see more of an influence influence from the the films of deep red in the close ups and the style of lighting from Suspiria. but I loved it regardless.. It was well shot and timed. I must also agree with what Keith Brown said.. Argento would be proud

[Maarow]

Technically, this is pitch-perfect. Very, VERY Bava-esque. I'm a film student and I hope I can accomplish something this beautiful when they finally hand me some color film. :)

Cheers.

[RogerMooreRulz]

You should bring the genre back. There probably isn't a whole lot of money in it, but this is good. It looks straight out of a Lucio Fulci or Dario Argento movie. I'm so glad I discovered the movies when I was in a $2.00 dvd bin at meijers.

[deryaden]

suprisingly beautiful.

[freddead]

That's it? Aside from some superb lighting this did nothing for me.

A nice twist at the end would have helped this out.

[kaosproductions666]

Magnificent use of color, it´s a huge shortfilm truly

[albertosspain]

I'm from Spain and a huge fan of 80's horror and giallo and I have to say that your short is AMAZING and congratulations.the editing the actors, lightning, music, and every other giallo elements are accomplished so perfectly. Have you tried festivals because this short I'm sure will get awards.

[makifilmtr]

Thank you for your kind words. I am happy to report that YELLOW has been official selection at various festivals and has been nominated for 4 awards. Please click on "more info" next to the video description to find out more. Best regards.

[ayseal]

'm taken aback!! This short is FANTASTiC and I would give it a 10 stars it it was possible. Anyone who is into movies will know how complex the lightning is and if there is anyone who tried filming a short at some point, will absolutely appreciate the hard work you apparently put yourself into especially regarding the lightning. Perfect music, more like Argento style like the ones that Goblin's and every detail you paid attention to is mind blowing. This movie has to get into festivals!!

[Ramongomina]

im from Argentina i want to tell you that this is JUST GREAT.

10 stars cant be enough.

REally CONGRATULATIONS this have the true spirit and atmosphere of giallos.

What proyects are you doing now?

if i can help you with anything please tell me.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!!!

[dancingbearfilms]

really good...very hard to pull off bava without it ending up laughable 5 mother-fuc<ing-stars!!!i love the cutaways...

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[venezianonero]

I am very sorry, but I cannot share the enthusiasm of other reviewers.

It´s not enough to copy some of Bavas lightning style to shoot a decent giallo. The pacing was so lame, it nearly made me snore. And, honestly, if you are trying to do a full-lenghth feature you really have to work on your storytelling skills. Try some scriptwriting before you use the camera.

And, well, the music... wasn´t that convincing.

The actress was very 70th style, though...

[TerrorFilmFestival]

This is such a stylishly made film with great aspects of filmmaking and suspense. Really done well!!

[felixjazzage]

You just can't go wrong with harpsichord music in a soundtrack. That's what's wrong with modern horror films--no harpsichords.

Seriously, I just rated this at 5 stars. It's one of the best surprises I'd had on YouTube for awhile.

[felixjazzage]

Count me in as another Bava fan. This was really a very skillfully made homage to the man. The day-glo light and shadow contrasts reminded me the most of HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON, rather than a pure giallo, but that's a compliment, really.

[Moranguitomg]

whats the name of the music?

[makifilmtr]

It is an original score written for the movie by composer Semih Tareen. It is supposed to imitate the style of music made by the band Goblin, who scored some of the giallos from the 70's.

[sakara18235]

great xmas tree lites photography; a number of italian 60s movies had xmas tree lites photography (and the eastman colour would give them a nice blue tint, before, unfortunately,turning into a sickly red). argento's 70s SUSPIRA the last for this xmas tree lites photography? i hope you'll try to pull off this type of photography with shot-on-video; was a wonder you were able to do it in 16mm.

[TheForgottenFlesh]

First of all that was great. I am a huge Bava fan I think he would be proud of the fine job you did.

Second. What did you use to edit the film?

[makifilmtr]

Thanks for your kind words. It means so much coming from a fellow Bava fan. The film was edited on final cut pro off of a telecine transfer from the 16mm film.

[EmotionalMyopia]

This is an absolutely amazing piece and you managed to stray very true to the giallo and exploitation genres. The score is equally becoming of the film and sets a tone quite nicely. Have you given any consideration to venturing into the realm of full-length features?

[makifilmtr]

thank you very much! and I hope to make a full-length giallo one day if I can find get together the budget and the talent.

[jtrione]

Amazing.

[paulisdead]

Good Job! Vewry ture to the Giallo style. The only thing missing was the squeshy sound FX when she got stabbed and you need to have BUCKETS OF THICK BRIGHT RED BLOOD on the screen. :D

[Deadmeatproductions]

Superb job!

[Ecker00]

Good work but what was the moral? Dont think i understood it maybe if there was some meaning in this other then killing somebody. :P

GJ anyway

[paulisdead]

I think the point of the exercise was to show off the techniques used in those films rather than create a meaningful narrative.

[JoeMonsterxx25]

That was, as others have already stated, quite impressive. The minute I saw the young woman I thought "Yikes! Is it the 70's?" A very convincing job. The only disappointment I have is that there wasn't any gore at all. I realize that you can't show excessive bloodshed on Youtube, but at least a little bit of the red stuff would've added that final touch of authenticity.

[noirsociety]

looks amazing

[sireric11]

Awesome work. What's the name of that music?

[makifilmtr]

Thank you very much. The music is an original score composed specifically for this film (inspired by the music of Goblin). It is not pre-existing music.

[totallyaffum]

what year was this done?

[makifilmtr]

Shot in 2006. Post-production was completed by 2007.

[totallyaffum]

ahh, it looked much older, since giallo is a very aged genre. Great work by the way, loved the cinematography!

[makifilmtr]

thank you very much. I tried to make it look like it was shot back in the era, I am glad to hear it worked!

[totallyaffum]

are you planning on doing anything else like this is the future? if so, i look forward to it

[makifilmtr]

Yes. A feature length giallo, hopefully. I will use any success and recognition from this short to raise funds for a feature. But that wouldn't be until 2 years down the road probably.

[totallyaffum]

ahh man, i always wanted to do one of those, but

it will probably be awhile.

[oz2001]

Excellent, Music and the lack of Gore were the only gripes. Overall though wicked film.

[Gerogoth]

You really did a good job!

[DrPannunzio]

Great work; Unfortunately Mario Bava in Italy hasn't the recognition that he deserve :)

[gu88766]

hey its "joshua" here... happy to see the movie again.

[webserials]

great use of color, especially the chess game part, and I love the shot of the window with tree branch shadows on it. very nicely shot, and a good tribute to such a great director.

bravo.

Kevin

[dren84]

Very good. Didn't expect the quality but i was wrong.

[ToeMas123]

well...in some of bava's movies he used lots of colors during death scenes like green and purple and blue

but the music seemed more argento-like.

So ya....it could have been a tribute to both

weel done!

[bobbyjoe]

nice. it seemed more Argento than Bava, the colours especially were a direct reference to Suspiria. brilliantly made.

[baddog7676]

Well done! Bava would approve.

[hannibalmcnee]

Very well studied. Helped that the score was fantastic.

[ayseal]

The lighting, the score and acting blew me away. it has all the significant elements of a giallo movie amazing work!

[lhnz]

I liked it, but I would have liked it more with dialogue.

Very good use of colour I must say.

[scattergunkingofsin]

Great Giallo.....fantastic work

[Gaarak]

That was very nice and you got the light right. Tried to make a giallo last year called House By The Weeping Trees. It did not look anything like Bava...It turned out more like Umberto Lenzi giallo (His police films were great though)

[Mastercheng]

Checkmate ! Very nicely done !

[bromole]

Havent seen any Giallo...or Mario Bava...but I watched Suspira for te first time last night and the colors in this remind me totally of that movie...

[ForceFedFuture]

Wow this came out so good good job

[RolandDeschain1]

That was excellent. Very much like Bava's HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON.

The woman was great as a typical 70's European giallo Goddess.

[GoreFreak08]

This short giallo was so good.

!!

[giantfish2]

Very nicely done, particularly the lighting and the Argento-ish score. Keep it up!

[danreaney]

Excellent short giallo - this film has all the colours of the dark!

[0Koke0]

you really put so much effort in all the aspects, really good that's a good aexample of a giallo, thanks for making it.

[deryaden]

a great short movie for giallo lovers, well done