GUNPOWDER RANGE | A Western Short Film
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- After returning from the war, Milton Bedford discovers a man named Conway Nevins has taken over his range.
EQUIPMENT USED
Filmed with a Canon DSLR 70D & a GoPro Hero 5
Recorded with a Rode VideoMic
Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro CC2018
Written with Celtx software
The Wild West by Ross Bugden goo.gl/igZgiW
Promoted by MrSnooze • Western Background Mus...
License: CC BY 4.0 goo.gl/9ezBZw
Plastic cartridges ? I am old but not ancient and I remember the days when they only came in card. They not only look different but also have a very different sound when they hit the deck.
Paper and all brass hulls in use then.
But 1868 caplock doubles, Cap-N-Ball revolvers, and 01860 Henry and 1866 Winchester Yellow Boy lever rifles and caplock and even flintlock muzzle loaders are period correct. Not .22 single action pistols and a lever rifle.
I LOVE this one:)
Menna Barlow I wish I could meet these guys!!
Jerry Hoffman They’re really awesome people 😊
Nice job, brethren! Some right fundamentalist filming! 😉🤠😉
You did such a good job on this Charles!
That little house on the prairie had aluminium sliding windows!
And plastic poker chips.
Yes, things were so much simpler back then!
I like it, well done.
The only thing I really didn't like, was a good scene. The last gunfight, the point of impact should be in his right chest, since he is at an angle.
If the fighters were facing each other squared-up, a left chest hit would continue on into the heart; but since he was turned 45 degrees, the bullet should impact the right breast to continue on into the heart.
You are thinking 2 dimensional, in a 3D situation.
03:42 - That sure is a modern looking window. At 05:38 venetian blinds are visible as is a coaxial TV cable. The coffee mug is modern as well and the clothing is all contemporary 'Western'.
Weapons are modern renditions of 19th century style firearms.
No actual mention is made of time or place, however. The protagonist tells of leaving "for the war three years ago" but makes no mention of which war.
This could all take place in modern times as a vet (with a 'Western' fetish) returns to find his bought - for - back - taxes off grid retreat has been sold to likewise Western themed ya - hoos (who had shot it out with and killed his wife) for back taxes and acts out his Hollywood inspired fantasies.
Hey i mean, people gotta work on a budget. Not everything can be perfect, sadly. I’d congratulate them for what they managed to do rather than condemn them for the small details they may have messed up.
@@cf8979 Where did I 'condemn'?
Are you aware of the meaning of the word, 'however', and how it is used?
Brian Rothhammer i am, and i agree with your “however”, I just felt I would draw attention to the possible drawback that may have caused the things you pointed out. I’m not looking for an argument, just giving my thoughts.
@@cf8979 Fair enough.
As stated previously, however, they aren't necessarily mistakes or 'drawbacks' as the era in which the action takes place is never established.
If the scene is set in the late 20th Century onward, there is no anachronism for which to account.
Brian Rothhammer thats a good point, and since filmmaking is a creative medium with a great deal of freedom, its very possible. I do, however, feel that may not have been the intention. I could be very wrong though. Either way, i think its an impressive film that shows great potential.
Guns, leather and clothing were all incorrect for the period. At least they spoke English.
Painful
Yea, there were a lot of inaccuracies with guns, clothing, etc. But that comes with all amateur films. (cost, limited settings, and crap you have to ignore to complete the project.) I think you need to take a look at the fade in's and outs in the beginning. They were kind of disruptive. You had great scenery and setting and good color and camera but they were weakened in effect by the fades. You could have settled the "gun problem" by having the hero say, "Spanish American War" or just "I went to Cuba" and giving you a different time frame for the story. The weakness of the story was the hero allowing the bad guy to apologize for killing his wife. I don't think he would have offered and the hero wouldn't have accepted. It would have just pissed him off. I thought the shootout was very good, especially when the villains shot hit the tree. The panning of the dead bodies was also well done. Although the acting was armature, the directing of the actors showed promise. You had them in front of the camera and moving to move the film along. Keep at it. I think you get some backing (to make props, guns, costumes, and setting a bit better), and you will make some good movies.
You are assuming the "time frame for the story [sic]".
At 04:31 the protagonist says, "Before I left for the war three years ago I paid nine thousand dollars for this property and set my wife up to manage it." There is no mention of which war he had "left for" three years prior to the scene.
Also, $9,000 would be a rather large sum of money in the 1860s.
This could be sat in the present day with a vet who displays a fondness for 'Western themed' weaponry and clothing who returns to find his off - grid prepper homestead has been repossessed by similarly Western themed doofuses.
Also, I feel the 'fade in' at the beginning helped to set the scene quite well.
@@-oiiio-3993 I came home from working over-seas and my mobile home was missing..the concrete stairs and weeds were all my wife left me. I miss my trailer.
@@brianadams1907 Did she at least leave the pink flamingo?
@@-oiiio-3993 it was the Pink Pony friend
Can’t believe he missed with his Henry 22 lr from that close. But that coach gun is perfect. Rossi made a nice one. Hard to find these days. Duel trigger/ exposed hammers. Great dove and quail gun
Thanks for an outstanding video: Looked like someone had been cleaning up the land with a mulcher machine. (Mississippi gulf coast)
This is really great, glad to see the colour correction which brings the cinematography to life, great stuff
Plastic poker chips, aluminum Venetian blinds...
Could of at least used period correct firearms.
so this was the short version of almost every western made back in the hayday of westerns,
bad guys steal land
bad guys kill some one
good guy comes back hom
good guy kills bad guys,
this story has been told a few 1000 times,
the acting was pretty typicial of a bad western...
but every one has a tail to tell i suppose...
maybe next time do it in the prespective of the horse and called it "horse sense"
this could have been better, even the cabin with windows from the late 20th century..
you could have hid those a bit better,
the gun shots, well, you could have used the sound of real guns being fired ..
i'm not trying to belittle your work, it was a good story .. but it was lacking just a few things
anyway.. good luck with your next project,
Not a bad flick. Some of these short films are better then Hollywood hits.
They focus more on pyrotechnics and blood and gore
Pretty fair film but for accuracy sake, find a cabin NOT sided with Masonite.
Plastic shotgun shells?
Good job, lads. The passion is apparent. Keep up the good work.
Bulshit
Picking up the rifle might have been useful, for someone. smh
decent short, though
Needs work.
I LOVE this one:). Nice job, brethren! Some right fundamentalist filming! .
One can make good points over the anachronisms, but the story's the thing.
This teaches us that when someone else takes over your right, you have to fight for your right. And in fact the oppressor is the one who does not fight for his rights.
four brothers playing cowboy a good short film it does not make.
VERY well done! I was most impressed!
All new leather holster saddle beautiful new clothes too , spotless
Guy that's nood a good one, u could do better i guess.....
Good movie 🎬 🎞 🎥.
Plastic shotgun shells?
Crap acting, crap story, waste of time making it.
The war ended in 1865. The cartridge revolvers used here weren't invented until 1873.
Well technically there where Cartridge conversions that date just a couple years after (1966-1867). But the model used was an 1873 model.
A couple things to think about for the next time.
1. That the guy on the roof missed is kind of hard to swallow. And then the guy on the ground getting the guy on the roof without properly sighting just compounds the unlikeliness. I think it could have been done a lot more believably. For example, the guy on the ground happening to notice the guy on the roof just before the guy on the roof fires. (Been done a million times, I know. But at least it's more plausible than what happened here.)
2. The man now has possession of his house again. For how long? The land and the cattle--fairly or unfairly--are not legally his. And how is he going to explain killing these other guys? Seems to me he's going to jail as soon as folks realize what's happened.
Other men were all armed and fired their weapons, in the west (assuming 1860's since he just returned from the war) this was considered self defense, especially since all 3 men were armed and got off shots, the cattle he can register a new brand, rebrand the cattle and in a few years make a drive to market with all his 3-4 year old stock.
Great production but man. Worst acting ever lol
not bad but the house and structures were wrong
Not to mention the clothes being WAY TOO CLEAN. Nobody was even a bit dirty. These guys looked like they just stepped out of a Sears catalog. Details matter.
pretty weak
The coffee or the film?