Merci

This is my VCE Media film I made in 2007 at Kew High School.

This film was also shown in the 2007 Westgarth Short Film Festival.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• merci
• tom
• hughes
• tomwhughes
• claychicken
• kew
• high
• school
• media
• VCE
• 2007
• short
• film
• westgarth
• festival
• mime

[nothingtralala19]

wow. i'm doing media for year eleven and am trying to do the whole arthouse/childhood/ idiosyncratic/fantasy jazz, and seeing this art is quite disheartening. How did you get the overall colour? My editing program is shit!.

[tomwhughes]

thanks! I used premiere pro to edit. I applied a slight warming filter, and adjusted the input levels slightly to get a stronger contrast and richer colours. I also hired a good camera to get a more professional quality. My advice would be to not make your film too adbstract/arthousey because no-on will be able to understand it, and that is not a good thing.

[dcac830]

nice! did you shoot in in 24p with the xl2?

[tomwhughes]

Yeah I did shoot in 24p to try and get the film look. That was one of the main reasons I chose the canon xl2.

[miekemaligne]

This is stunning! Wow! Mieke

[ThisIsMrNeil]

I love this! Where can we see it with the soundtrack?

[malitoburito]

im so jealous that this isnt my film.

your actors were really good too.

[JMuhleisen]

dude, amazing. doing some research for my 3+4 media production atm and this blew my mind, speak of setting the standard, insane.

[Kimeric]

haha awesome 5 stars

[yaodongtang]

nothing short of AWESOME

[liv0002]

wow, Tom that was amazing!

[ox0xo]

Nice short Tom, I liked it.

it's artsy but not fartsy.

I noticed you used a lot of black transitions on the melody, it reminds me of my vid caught inside (which is a lot worse than yours, believe me) There's not much dialogue either, do you prefer it that way?(I havent used dialogue myself in my first shorts)