Thirst / Dorst? look here (in Off-topic)

This is a home made movie that a friend of mine filmed, edited and made. It has been shot at the hotel in Turkey where I had my holidays with friends:

note: all the dialogues are in dutch and I will not translate them but they are funny.
note2: we shot it in about half a day of time and it is 12 minutes long, 27 MB.

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Please also give some comment, especially the Dutch people! :)

And yes I am also starring in this movie but I won't tell who I am :P

lol nice movie, don't understand what you guys said, but sweeeeet >.< lol ttyl ;)

I thought this was one of your "dodgy" movies from Amsterdam. 30 seconds into the clip I realised I was correct ;)

mucho Beer

Beer Shade?

haha, If that was acting you'd win some movie award (I have no idea what awards there are). :D

Shade, that is hilarious! I don't know much Dutch, but I could follow what was going on pretty well.

And we know your real name, so it's easy to tell who you are: the one they were calling Dennis - the one walking down the hall at the start.

wow.

"Heuj, kweenie wa jullie doen, mar ik gô nar d'n bar."
Zij is gwoon de ster van dit verhaal! HET idee van de ochtend!
En kdurf te wedde da die meloen uitgehold was en er int gheim nog een blik bier in zat. ;p

And now for the people who don't speak Dutch:

(when the girl gets out of bed) "Hey,I don't know what you guy are up to, but I'm off to the bar."
She rules the place! She's the star of this story! Best idea of the morning!
And I really think that melon was hollow and it contained a hidden can of beer. ;p

hehe pretty cool replies so far but also try to give some real comments :)

You mean like, movie-critic type comments?

I found the acting very convincing, and set seemed very authentic. The plot was enjoyable, but perhaps it gave a person an unusually high desire to consume beer in the morning. The lighting added to the atmosphere, enhancing the impression that you're all early morning drunks.

The sound could use some work: I could hear the beer cans opening (and calling to me...) very well, but it was often difficult to make out what the drunks - I mean, actors - were saying. English subtitles might help ;)

haha, pretty funny movie, reminds me of the vampire movies when they need blood :p
And lol at the: Jij bent lelijk!

Real comments ... here's something about the editing. :)

I think the shots were all too long. I know it gives the viewer an impression of how slow your morning began, but it does make the scene a bit dull. You could have told the entire story and have showed everything you wanted to in like 5 minutes.

So, how about letting certain parts of the movie go really fast? Not everything, but only certain actions people make. Like Mr. Shady himself getting into the apartment (one move at a time), or the guy with the vodka who's trying to find his room. 250ms to 500ms per shot would really speed up the movie, and I think it'll become a bit more funny as well.

This would also force the viewer to pay attention and it would clarify the reasoning of that beer-crave. Normal (read: not drunk) people make decisions in a heartbeat, drunk people do it very slowly. By speeding up the shots you create a paradox between the (not drunk) viewer, who thinks fast and understands the situation completely, and the images of drunk men who move slow but experience very little of it. Imagine this, shown in like 5 seconds:

Guy looking for beer CUT An empty fridge CUT Guy checking cupboards CUT Guy looking weird at melon CUT A row of beer cans CUT Guy finds out they're empty CUT Guy stumbles towards door CUT Guy stumbles in hall CUT Guy crashes into the bedroom with the girl CUT

After this everything goes slow again. People are lying on the floor... bed... someone finds out that there's a girl they don't know... As soon as they start to move towards the bar, CUT + CUT + CUT! If you make the shots increasingly longer, it will create a sleepy effect as well. Everything slows down till everybody falls asleep in the hall. The End. :p

I'll give you some REAL comments - Indie is right - the shots were WAY too long. I would hate to have seen the un-edited footage!

I also wonder about the camera person's tendencies - lingering way too long on that first guy's boxer shorts (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I didn't make it past half way through. If you want anyone who doesn't know you to actually watch it you need to add some interesting stuff. Some people need to get eaten, for example, and then turn into zombies. That would be cool. The watermelon could explode or have little alien zombies hatch out of it and then eat off some faces of people. Also I hear there is a girl in this movie somewhere. You should put her in the boxer shorts and move her section up to the beginning. If she is the only girl don't have her get killed by the zombies until the end, if at all.

That is all I have for now - until you make these changes my review would be "Worse than watching a stranger's home movies - two thumbs down...WAY down!"

Well, they're all sort of zombie-like, shuffling around in a drunken stupor. And the girl looks kind of like a mummy, wrapped in sheets. ;)

Final version has arrived, lots has changed since the first version!!!

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