Awesome short film: From The Future With Love

[dnwilliams]

I wish this were the pitch for the RoboCop reboot.

[Sheridan Passell]

Really hope I don't see a privatised police force in my lifetime but it seems like something that will happen sooner or later. Education, medicine, prisons - all heading that way.

I liked the short overall, good ideas, lacked a bit of polish (eg the guy at the end was cleaning his hands on a rag for a crazy long time) and the angles were frequently wrong (they need to learn the crossing-the-line rule).

They're claiming someone's written the music, but the track over the end credits is from the Resident Evil movie. Why put something copyright on your short after all that effort?

But yeah, it was cool. Enjoyed it.

[dnwilliams]

Didn't notice the angles thing, is this bad?

[Sheridan Passell]

The basics of the the rule are if two people are talking facing each other you draw an invisible line from one head to another and the camera stays on one side of that line. It then gets more involved, but that's the gist. Overall their camera placement is hit and miss - good sometimes, other times it's just in the wrong place.

[dnwilliams]

I know of it, just wondered if it was bad that I didn't notice the rule being broken in the film at all. It makes sense that if it was accidental it would go unnoticed, because it's not intentionally drawing attention to itself. I've always thought it'd be a pretty trick rule to break if you want to keep your subject in frame, I'm assuming it happened in the diner?

I'm going to start looking out for it, the exceptions seem cool http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule#Style

[Sheridan Passell]

There are exceptions to the rule, yes, and ways of transitioning from one side of the line to the other.

The diner scene was ok, there were moments in the fight scene where he has his memory erased (look at when he gets pushed over for example) and the camera placement in the deli scene at the end where the camera was in the wrong place.