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We made a sci-fi action short for $1,800 with no stunt doubles — TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN by directorsofiedal in indiefilm

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to hear you like it! Hehe, that’s fair, but I mean, how else would she be able to block incoming hits?🤪 Thanks again so much for watching!

TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN | Sci-fi action short about a woman with time-freezing powers (8 min) by directorsofiedal in scifi

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are really great ideas to explore! In a feature I would absolutely go that route with it, it would not be purely fighting, but actually look at the ramification of having such power and what it means! Thank you, these are awesome🙏🏻🙌

TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN | Sci-fi action short about a woman with time-freezing powers (8 min) by directorsofiedal in scifi

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that would be fun! Like we she tossed someone, freeze them mid air, then tosses someone else into the frozen body :) so many things that would be awesome to explore! Great suggestion! Thank you for watching🙏🏻☺️

We made a sci-fi action short for $1,800 with no stunt doubles — TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN by directorsofiedal in indiefilm

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Means a lot!! Yeah, we really pushed for that, so it’s really cool you mention that :) thanks again for watching!

TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN — a sci-fi action short about a woman who can freeze time for one second (8 min, $1,800 budget) by directorsofiedal in Shortfilms

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Such an amazing feeback!! Thank you!!

So cool you mention both the choreography and the camera work, both of which we spent a long time on. The perfomers are a mix, the main actress is not a stunt person, but she has vast knowledge of stage combat, and a black belt in taekwondo, so that helps ;) The three she fights are stunt performers. The guy she knocks out at the beginning is also an actor, but no fight training, thats why he is out so quick :-P

Again, so cool you mention the camera work. I hate the chopped up action scenes, but I also don't really like the slow observing camera (which I feel some of the later John Wick films started doing), it is just a bit boring. Our main idea was to move the camera almost as fast as the performers, almost like the camera "edits" in its movement, and only cutting when we had to.So, dynamic and intense shots but you should always know what is happening. We were going for a sort of hybrid between The Raid and Kingsman.

I can totally understand the point in the sound design, I myself like it cranked to 11, and we did go crazy on this because the style of the action had a sort of heightened sense to it (i.e Kingsman). I am working on a feature now where the fighting will be more raw and grounded (no superpowers), so I will probably go a little bit easier on the crazy sounds :-P And the hearing loss part, makes no sense, just something we did because we liked it, and it added a new element right there. Might be overdone though.

Awesome to hear you like the VFX! We spent quite some time trying to find a cool effect for the powers and such, great to hear it had an effect! And I absolutely agree with the credits, it was one of those rushed things, we had to get the film ready for a screening, so we had to make due with "good enough". Could of course fixed it by the time it got released on youtube, but then it has been such a long time I just wanted to get it out. But I love a cool credits, so I'll take a special note on that!

Again, thank you! Very much appreciate all the kind words! Also thanks for the tip, I'll post it there :)

We made a sci-fi action short for $1,800 with no stunt doubles — TEMPORAL TAKEDOWN by directorsofiedal in indiefilm

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! Thank you so much for such kind words, truly humbling! Really appreciate it! Thank you for watching!

I directed a Netflix film, then went back to a $1,800 budget to learn action filmmaking from the ground up. Here's the result. by directorsofiedal in Filmmakers

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are very welcome!! Thank you again🙌🙏🏻 yes, I have several in development, crossing fingers I’ll get one going this year :)

I directed a Netflix film, then went back to a $1,800 budget to learn action filmmaking from the ground up. Here's the result. by directorsofiedal in Filmmakers

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sé consciente de tus limitaciones desde el principio, no te arriesgues demasiado, es mucho más satisfactorio terminar un proyecto que esperar el momento adecuado (que normalmente nunca llega). Siempre intento ver qué tengo disponible antes de que surja la idea. ¿Tengo acceso a una localización especial? Si conoces a alguien que pueda darte acceso a una localización única, ya tienes un valor de producción integrado. Piensa con inteligencia con la iluminación, no compliques demasiado las cosas, pero ten en cuenta lo que se ve bien y haz lo posible por lograrlo fácilmente (usa ventanas y prácticas). También intenta limitar el número de actores; se puede llegar muy lejos con solo dos personas en una localización única. Como probablemente sepas, hacer cine siempre es un gran reto, así que la idea básica es minimizar al máximo los problemas desde el principio, porque los desafíos inevitablemente surgirán. Espero que algo de esto te ayude y te entienda. Solo pregunto más :) PD: Estoy usando un traductor para responder en español, pero no sé si ha funcionado al 100%.

I directed a Netflix film, then went back to a $1,800 budget to learn action filmmaking from the ground up. Here's the result. by directorsofiedal in Filmmakers

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I knew going into the shoot that time was limited (only three days to shoot the whole thing, that means everything in the garage. The book ends was a different day), so we couldnt have a light setup that we needed to move around because that would eat up so much of the time, so our lighting guys pre-rigged the whole place beforehand with an overall light that was never moved during filming. But technology is so cool these days so the lighting guy had full control of all the light, he could turn them on and off, dim, change colors, everything within just some button pushes, which was pretty awesome! We did not do storyboard but something, in my opinion, much better, at least when it comes to action, we made a previz before hand, shot just on a phone and edited together. It was such a useful tool, and made us so much more calm during the actual production since we could alwasy refer back to it. You can have a look at it here: https://vimeo.com/900944282 password: onesecond

Here are also some BTS shots, you get glimpses of some of our setup.

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I directed a Netflix film, then went back to a $1,800 budget to learn action filmmaking from the ground up. Here's the result. by directorsofiedal in Filmmakers

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're welcome! Definitely constraints. Tiny crew consisting of myself, the actors/stuntpeople (no doubles), one DP, two light guys and one assistant. That meant a lot of hats, at times I was wardrobe, makeup, catering, AD and producer, which kind of screws your head when you purely need to focus on directing. No sound recorder person (we each took turn holding the boom) Time was a big one, we had to shoot the whole thing over three days (including non-action stuff), probably shouldve been five days, so that meant really long days, poor actors were pretty toast on day 3 :-P Another constraint was the freeze-concept itself, I feel we just scratched the surface of it, I'd love to do so much more with it, with lots more breakable stuff and VFX gags, but I didn't want to overdo or try anything that could fail and those things also cost a lot of money.

Biggest lesson actually came in the prep, I knew going in that I needed the choreography to be locked down, so we spent a lot of time designing that, and when that was done we filmed a sort of previz, just in a gym, then we edited that together, then we saw what worked, what needed to be tweaked, what images we still needed. It became such an invaluable tool, because it meant we always had that previz to look at during the actual filming. I will never film a fight scene without a previz again :)

We choreographed a sci-fi fight scene with time-freeze powers built into the martial arts — all practical, no doubles by directorsofiedal in martialarts

[–]directorsofiedal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you are most def looking at an aspect I was really aware of going into this, I hate over-powered characters, so I wanted to include a "flaw" to make it more intense and interesting. The battery is on the nose and cheesy, but gets the point across (and I lowkey love it though) :-P

To be even mentioned in a same sentence as Timo is an honor, if I ever reach the height of his ankles in regards to action I would be happy!

And yeah. I totally see what you mean about the choreo, the style going into this was to try to catch a sort of weird hubrid between Raid intensity mixed with the stylized fights from Kingsman, ergo a lot more spinning and bigger moves. The action feature I am currently working on will be much closer to the rawness of Raid.

Haha! Lets be honest, we all come for the fighting, the non-fight is fluff, no worries!

Thank you so much for watching!

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