QUICKENING: a Highlander-Based film by Mar Omega

Sylvia and Alexander meet in the time of the gathering to fight for the ultimate prize. Immortals must duel to the death. In the end, "There can be only one". starring Jodi Murphy and Mar Omega and brought to you by the directing team of Michael Golebiowski and Jared Hanna. Original musical scores by Joshua Nicolass Wilke and Michael S Waller. Sylvia's stunts by Kyra Omega. Screenplay, props, editing, animation and produced by Mar Omega.

This is the final edit. The fight scene has been shortened by approximately 30 seconds.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Highlander
• Quickening
• Immortal
• Mar
• Omega
• Jodi
• Murphy
• Kyra
• Michael
• Golebiowski
• Mike
• Jared
• Hanna
• Jersey
• Fresh
• Productions
• Joshua
• Nicolass
• Wilke
• Preterist
• Dreams
• in
• the
• Attic
• Waller
• Synthetic
• Mind
• Dechay
• Second
• Macleod
• Connor
• Duncan
• Sword
• Fight
• Kendo
• Fencing

[ipunchnuns9]

Some day, if there is a re-edit, I will do a from-scratch score to this.. sadly my want to be finished quickly on account of time constraints caused me to simply chop in audio excerpts... One of these days... lol

[MarOmega]

@ipunchnuns9 Hey Josh! Good to see you here. I really like the job you did on my film! But if I re-cut it in hi def and you want to give it another go, you have my full permission!

[MrInstrumentalist]

I think that a more exciting piece of music and more sound effects would've made the fight scene not seem as long. At the part where they were talking before the fight, if you had access to the actors maybe do some panning and add background ambience and footstep effects back in. If you don't have the actors then go back into the dialogue track and splice out the silent parts between dialogue . good film though, I just believe a movie should be a treat for the ears as well as the eyes.

[MarOmega]

@MrInstrumentalist Thanks for the advice! I like the musical score that my friends, Michael S. Waller and Joshua Wilke did for me. I wish I had audio editing equipment at the time so I could have properly modulated it. Sounds ok online, but on DVD it gets really loud in parts. The sound fx definitely needed work, especially the sword klangs. The real ones never sound dramatic, and most stock sounds are way off. Also, there's that dang bird chirping through the dialogue lol. I'm no audio expert.

[JlGSajW]

Man this is not bad for a short film! i really like the camera shots and the acting is pretty fluent and i can tell the script is really well written. good job Mar!

[MarOmega]

@JlGSajW Thanks for the good props! I really enjoyed most steps of this production and really look forward to doing another film soon!

[MrInstrumentalist]

@MarOmega saw in your movie something with great potential and threw my two cents in on it (for whatever it's worth). I am a huge fan of creativity. It's my philosophy (If you will allow me to ramble on) that film should involve the viewers ears as much as their eyes and that sounds should be kinda larger than life, especially in an action film as good as yours. Anyway I'm inviting you as a friend so your next films can show up on my home page.

[MarOmega]

@6470N3620 Thanks! If I ever have time, I definitely want to do an overhauled.  I could cut the quickening down a bit too. As for the technical limitations of the quickening, we shot that a different day at a different location, so we had to stick with tight shots. I'm glad most people don't notice that she starts out in front of caves, rocky landscape and fluorescent green trees, to tight shots in front of one big, dark green fir tree.

I have big plans for future projects so stay tuned!

[6470N3620]

Both the fight scene and the quickening one are a tad too long. The quickening, too, would have been better served by wider shots, showing the whole of her body (although I suspect that is a technological limitation?).

That said, it is not bad for an amateur film! Like someone has said before, the dialogue is better written than in many commercial flicks, and I like the ending. Keep up the good work -- and show us something more soon!

[MarOmega]

@NateSean I can't say I disagree with anything you said. The idea was to create a short film somewhat on the fly. So I came up with a couple characters who could be easily identified and use the basic premise of most Highlander fiction. An I was not about to use a MacLeod or an ivory dragon katana (a diato would suffice) in the flick.

Now that I have a better system, I want to do an HD edit with a much shorter fight scene and better audio.