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Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate that you took the time to respond. I’ll definitely look into those movies you mentioned.

Thanks again for all the feedback, it means a lot. You were right in saying I just went by feel with the shot length. I tried to give some sort of rhythm to this film, but it can make the pacing of horror films predictable. I’ve heard some horror films use abnormally long takes to unsettle the audience, I have yet to try this. The gun handling was also unintentional, I tried to capture the panic of the character, rather than present him as a hardened warrior. People cheer for warriors, they fear for civilians, so I guess that work out well enough. The changing of the gas mask filter was something that I wanted to convey, because as you said, they aren’t infinite. One of my biggest peeves in movies and games is incorrect use of gas mask. I may not know much about guns yet, but I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to gas masks. Thank you again for the advice, it means a lot. Your advice on gun discipline is exceptional, so I’m going to take a guess and say that you were in the army at one stage or another. Let me know if my guess was correct or not :)

​@@maketreal As I said you can take lots of different approaches, the point is that whatever approach you take (with camera angles, shot length, firearms use, amount of dialogue, whatever), those approaches should be deliberate. That is, you should have deliberated on them - thought about them. What effect will it give? Would that be cool and interesting? I have felt the weight of a pack on my back. However, you don't have to have done so to have interesting insights. We're privileged to live in a time where there are a lot of resources online we can draw on to inform ourselves, it just takes some time. It's like the old saying: good, fast or cheap, choose one, do things right and you might get two. You seem to be limited to cheap, and that's alright. If you think about things and spend a lot of time with cheap software on post-production, it won't be fast, but I think it can be really good. Of course there's also an argument for just churning the pieces out and muddlign through. Up to you :) Next time try email, it'll be faster and we can talk a bit more frankly.

Once again, thanks for taking the time to watch and write out your advice. The choice to have the movie mostly silent was intentional. I actually wiped the sound from the original footage, to much unwanted noise, and added all the sound in in post production. Although I couldn’t put in as many sounds as I wanted to, because my editing software won’t allow more than three sounds layered over each other. So did had to choose which sounds I really wanted. I am also of the opinion that the whole gas mask thing is a bit over used in movies, but the script I have in mind actually does require them later on. Plus it helps to hid my bad acting :) But once again, thank you for all the advice, and taking the time to watch my little films. I hope to hear from you again soon, and to hear your opinion on some of my other projects.

@@maketreal I think "Flesh and Blood (Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Short Film)" here on YT is an excellent example of a character-driven drama horror - there are firearms, but they could as easily be knives etc.

@@greenwithagun thanks for thinking of my small channel and taking the time to help out. There is a part 2 to this movie if you’re interested , I’d love to hear your thoughts on that one too.

Thanks for the feedback. First of all, I really appreciate that you took the time to leave this much advice. And I will definitely be using it in future. I will admit that I didn’t know very much about firearms etiquette going into this project, and laws around firearms are very strict in my area. Even nerf guns are categorised as firearms. I think my biggest mistake with this movie, was the plot was to ambitious, for the time and resources I had. But if you have anymore advice I’d love to hear it. I understand that I’m an amateur and have a lot to learn.

@@maketreal Use the difficulty. There's a great Michael Caine clip where he talks about how early on in his career, he was in a stageplay. He was supposed to come in through a door into a room with a couple arguing. But someone had put a chair in front of the door. He stopped, and the director asked why. "Well there was a chair there blocking me." "So? Use the difficulty." "What do you mean?" "If we're doing a tragedy, you pick the chair up and throw it angrily. If it's a comedy, trip over it and fall. Use the difficulty." Caine said that'd been his life's motto ever since. You have the difficulty of lack of access to firearms and decent firearm replicas. Partly legal, partly budgetary, but it doesn't really matter. Use the difficulty. As I mentioned, you don't have to show the ends of the firearms. They can be holstered, or carried barrel-down, the tips always just out of shot. You can use this to make a different kind of movie. If you're showing the whole firearms all the time, it's an action movie. If you're zoomed in on the actor, it's closer to a drama. When you're zoomed in as the person fires, what expression does he have on his face? Calm? Maybe he's a combat veteran. Panicked? Maybe not. Afraid? Angry? Vengeful? Is his face clean, dirty, injured? By not focusing on the weapons but instead on the person, you change it from being action to drama. You get into that nice bit, "show, don't tell." Use the difficulty. You can also take the difficulty of being in a place where firearms are heavily-restricted and make it your characters' difficulty, too. "This would be much easier with a 9mm." "Tell me about it. But we had precious few before all this, everything was illegal, they wanted to keep us safe, yeah? Hah! Bit late for that now. Everyone blew through the ammo years ago, now if you see one people assume you're just bluffing. When you pull out a blade they know you're serious." Maybe a decade or two after the apocalypse the lack of firearms made people bring back swords, and spear and shield. Now you have a different setting! Use the difficulty. Or perhaps the scarce firearms are monopolised by a few armed groups - the antagonists of the story. You never see them close - after all, the advantage of firearms is you can engage the targets from out of their sight. Blam, bling, the heroes jump in a ditch and run along it to get away from the crazy bastards with guns. The protagonists come up to a wall in the twilight, there's a guy standing there, a spotlight comes on and lights them up, he's silhouetted - and his silhouette shows him standing with a rifle. Now the fact that it's got an orange plastic knob on the end or is your cardboard one doesn't matter, we just see a black silhouette. And he looks sinister, and all the more sinister because this is the first firearm we've seen in the story. The protagonists are scared. If they want into this place, they either have to use diplomacy, or sneak in - in either case, they won't see firearms much. Use the difficulty. I'm not even an amateur movie-maker, I've never made one, so you're infinitely more experienced than me. But I watch a lot of low or zero budget movies, and I can see how they use the difficulty, and they usually do a much much better job than people with bigger budgets - just look at how the physical models of the original Star Wars movies stand up today against the heaps more expensive CGI of the 1990-2010 period. That's because constraints improve things. A big budget means you can rely on big splashy effects and the fame of the actors and all that. A low budget makes you focus on the minimum special effects to get the story going, and good acting and plot. Put another way: people vs props. When you have more of one, you'll use less of the other. This is why there is never good acting in a Michael Bay movie, but there is brilliant acting in a local communitry group's stageplay. Use the difficulty. I'm not sure that you even need any practical advice, so much as that mindset: use the difficulty. But it can be helpful to look at how others do things. I've got a playlist of postapocalyptic short movies which I think are well-made, check my profile for "PA short movies." Email me if you'd like to chat more, us Down Unders have to support each-other.

@greenwithagun thanks again for the advice. As I previously mentioned I got too carried away with the story, and overlooked the execution of the film. With my more recent film’s I’ve tried to focus more on technique and less on story. I would love to get your opinion on my newest short film series “Freaks.” I’ve really tried to lean into the horror style of directing. “Hint, don’t show.” I also real like your “Use the difficulty,” and will be adopting that. Really great to hear your advice and hope to hear from you again.

@@maketreal I'll take a look after work. I think you're off to a great start, mate.

@greenwithagun thanks, much appreciated.👍

Thank you😁 that means a lot.

Thanks, anything else you want to see me draw?

@@maketreal Perhaps a gun of your choice?

@@Dutelus I’ll see what I can do.

Thanks, I wish I could give a release date. But recovery has been slower than I expected.

Thanks 😁

Nearly at 100!😁 the first big milestone.

Thank you for you comment and subscription. I will eventually try to level up to removable mags and working bolts and slides. But cardboard is surprisingly tricky to make moving parts with, I’ll get there eventually though.😁

@@maketreal mags are pretty easy to do. just leave a hole and make it so that it stays in with friction👍

I’m glad you like them, my next gun project will be a P90, I’m planning on making that with a removable mag.

@@maketreal Awesome! waiting for it!

Why thank you.😁

Thanks for the encouragement 😁

I can do a P90 sometime. If you like.

@@maketreal ok i will wait

@@maketreal but update the guns to have a removable mag

I’ll do my best. Moving parts and cardboard don’t always work well together.

@@maketreal the ak stock is REAL good trust me just do paper mache and its fine!👍

Look man, if you’re going to critique my work,at least tell me how I can improve. If you really think my movie suck I’d like to know why?

@@maketreal There was so much wrong just in first few minutes I watched it would take me even longer to tell you. But the fake fire the fake guns the bad acting the bad camara work the crappy sound effects. Did you even watch it or get opinions from people not out kissing your rear. From people who don't know you,

They’re three people with a small budget what did you expect? It was just made for a bit of fun you muppet and if you don’t like it then piss off and go watch something else there’s no reason to hate on it. Also from all the short movies I see on UA-cam this is pretty much how they all are

I’m an amateur film make on a very tight budget. And yes the guns were fake and the fire. I know I’m not the best actor in the world, but have you ever tried acting, directing, choreography and editing an entire movie by yourself?

Let me guess; You’re an adult with a dream who was never encouraged and failed in life. And now it’s your life’s mission to pick on creatives who are just having fun and giving it a go. Perhaps you should familiarise yourself with Rooseveld’s quote about the man in the arena. Honestly, no one needs your amateur opinion. Get off your high horse and go watch something else.

I am currently working on a short film, I don’t have a date for release yet. But I am in the process of making one.

Thank you 😁

Thank you. I can try a short film if you like. But I can’t make any promises on the release date.

It would be awesom if you could make a predator movie

I’ll give it a try, can’t make any promises on the release date but I’ll give it my best shot.

@@maketreal ok sounds good

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it. Let me know if you’d like to see more.

Great, that’s first step done. Just remember to make it long, that’s probably the most important part that I got wrong.

Thanks, any requests?

@@maketreal no but if i think of anything cool ill tell you!

Thank you so much for the advice. For the issue with the angle grinder, I did consider drilling holes and using a chisel. But I don’t have a chisel thin enough and I wanted the lever to fit nice and snug.thank you for your feedback and advice, much appreciated 👍

Thanks 😁

@@maketreal Well, MC survived and the best part of this was the part where he fought and killed the masked guys in the first part of the movie. So more of that lol

Thanks, I’ll take your advice. More knife fighting and hand to hand combat. Thank you again for the feedback.👍

I’ll give it my best shot. The video should be out in the next week or so. Thanks for the request 👍

Thanks, glad you liked it. Anything you’d like me to make?

Thanks man. Let me know if you have anything you would like me to make.

Currently I’m out of foam, but I was planning on do a wooden one. Would that be slasher enough for you?

Thanks for the feedback

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Thanks glad you liked it

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@@maketreal 😐

I think so too :)