My Documentary

[preppyak]

This is borderline self-promotion, but I figured 15k+ posts entitles me to throw it here I guess, especially since a few thousand of those are in this forum. This is a short documentary I made last semester on sleep deprivation/the college lifestyle/general American sleep style. I stayed up for 72 hours and documented myself in a similar vein as Supersize Me.

Figured I'd post it here for anyone interested in watching it, its 13 minutes and I'd love feedback on it. I just got accepted into the Princeton Film Festival today for it, entered several others as well...so I figured I'd also let fellow AP'ers know in case they wanted to check it out in person.

The video itself is here

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14269518Dpb8maeB

And my website for the whole thing is here...it has a bunch of links, preview clips, and a running blog I have.

http://www.freewebs.com/wideawakemovie/

Let me know what you guys think

[FondestMemory]

well done.

[Tyler Revolution]

Awesome. Very well done.

[pshh]

i enjoyed this. congratulations on the acceptance on princeton film festival.

i was wondering if any AP'ers made films. if you don't mind maybe i can ask you some questions on filmmaking in general :-)

great job

[preppyak]

go for it...I'd love to answer questions, I am actually teaching kids video stuff at a camp right now

[colorlesscliche]

Nicely done.

[LV03]

I have pulled so many all nighters and have been sleep deprived all throughout college so this was really interesting to watch (however the longest period of time without sleep that i went was just about 60 hours). Good job, i enjoyed watching this.

[poppa Q]

Nice, Copeland.

[_jonas]

aweseome work.:thumbup:

future Herzog if anything

[Deadwomb88]

Very well done.

[Prestonxsmith]

Very nicely done.

[preppyak]

future Herzog if anything
thank you...thats a huge compliment to me, seeing as I've seen about 90% of his documentaries and found them all oddly fascinating

[popdisaster00]

very nice dude. very nice.

we should make an ap.net members short film/doc thread or something. I've got a small amount of short films I'd like to show some peeps.

[4N6 science]

well done, very interesting doc.

[chokeychicken]

i'm working on my own documentary right now, and its really tough work.

congrats on this.

[kwsqd]

that was really good!

congratulations on getting into the film festival

[chokeychicken]

question: what did you use to film and how much footage did you shoot?

[JacquelineNancy]

Excellent job! I enjoyed it.
Congrats with the film festival.

[Mirrorsandfevers]

I enjoyed this a lot, well done.

[TouchMyWaffles]

Color me impressed. Very well done.

[SkyHeldUpByStar]

Fantastic job, really enjoyed it. I loved the clock scene when it kept falling off the wall and the editing was great when the professor was talking about how you shouldn't drive.

43 hours of sleep is crazy, lol.

[preppyak]

question: what did you use to film and how much footage did you shoot?
I used the Sony PD-170, our school just got them a year ago, great for color stuff and it worked well even in pretty low light scenarios.

I am not sure my exact shooting ratio...it was upwards of 6-7 hours of footage at least...so, that alone puts my ratio around 30:1. I have 6 DV tapes of footage specifically from this...and then a lot of my cover footage (the over-saturated desk/chalkboard writing sequence, the red bull/soda shots, etc) were shot on random tapes and imported.

[preppyak]

if you don't mind maybe i can ask you some questions on filmmaking in general :-)
Oh, and if you have any questions, just PM me or hit me up on AIM, I am usually around evenings

[pshh]

Oh, and if you have any questions, just PM me or hit me up on AIM, I am usually around evenings

yeah alright cool thanks