Very nice article and Q&A over at Nofilmschool.com on the making of the film. The storyboard comparisons and "making of" video are good too.
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/01/shootin ... story-16mm
The Mysterious Disappearance of M.M. Bayliss - 16mm short
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Re: The Mysterious Disappearance of M.M. Bayliss - 16mm shor
Unimpressed
The colour is awful. Blue and Orange. What on Earth possesses anyone to pursue this god awful formula?
The pace is way too slow. If the photography and/or performance was a bit more interesting it wouldn't be so bad. And by the time you've realised what the punch line is going to be, you still have to wait an agonising amount of time for it to happen. And the performance is terrible. The actor looks like he's spending all of his efforts just trying to move in slow motion to his mark, that there's nothing left of interest to watch.
And the blocking is so ordinary. Its easy to see it was conceived on paper (storyboards) rather than in situ, where some more imagination might have taken place. Some Hitchcock sequences can suffer the same problem. The actors appear to be no more than props satisfying some preconception configured in a sketch. In this film the floating keys become more interesting than Mr Bayliss.
Comic book film making, and not even worthy of that description.
Just my two cents worth.
C
The colour is awful. Blue and Orange. What on Earth possesses anyone to pursue this god awful formula?
The pace is way too slow. If the photography and/or performance was a bit more interesting it wouldn't be so bad. And by the time you've realised what the punch line is going to be, you still have to wait an agonising amount of time for it to happen. And the performance is terrible. The actor looks like he's spending all of his efforts just trying to move in slow motion to his mark, that there's nothing left of interest to watch.
And the blocking is so ordinary. Its easy to see it was conceived on paper (storyboards) rather than in situ, where some more imagination might have taken place. Some Hitchcock sequences can suffer the same problem. The actors appear to be no more than props satisfying some preconception configured in a sketch. In this film the floating keys become more interesting than Mr Bayliss.
Comic book film making, and not even worthy of that description.
Just my two cents worth.
C
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