Fan reviews of Browncoats: Redemption (thar be spoilers!)
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, February 6, 2011 05:46
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We CAN'T be the only ones who've seen this...
WTFelgercarb?
The impatient Chrisisall
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We watched this at The Browncoats Backwoods Bash on the 18th of September. Excellent Fanmade Film.Mike Dougherty and crew should be very proud! 
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"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal
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Quote:Absolutely!
Originally posted by TDBrown:
Mike Dougherty and crew should be very proud!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
We CAN'T be the only ones who've seen this...
WTFelgercarb?
The impatient Chrisisall
Mine shipped Saturday. I'm sure I'll be adding to the conversation in a day or two.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I'm the captain's real life husband, and a person who has put in more than his fair share of time and resources into the project. I normally don't respond to things about B:R, but I couldn't help responding to your review.
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Cons:
Not enough close ups (I wanted to SEE the actors a little more).
Sound was inconsistent at times.
No space battle.
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I have to add, upon thinkin' on it, that it wasn't that there weren't close ups, rather that when there were, they seemed rather flatly lit. Nothing $10,000 in lights & grips couldn'ta fixed.
Those are all fair dings.
The close ups/lighting issue is what it is. Everything on this project was volunteer based, and we didn't get donated professional lighting assistance until the very very end of shooting. We learned a LOT doing this project, and if there is another movie made I garuntee you things will be done to a much higher level of quality based upon our collective experiences. Random example: A software update was released after we finished shooting for the Red One camera we were using, and it supposedly shows hot spots that we weren't aware of at the time of shooting.
We may be able to fix some of the lighting issues with color correction if we release a "director's cut" or something like that down the road (no promises).
Sound... I won't go into the details but things didn't come together at the last second with the sound editing like we had hoped. I personally think this is the biggest flaw of the movie (if we were going to list flaws), but it isn't as bad as some Hollywood made B movies I have seen (I think that's a good thing
). Again we may be able to fix some of this if we release a "director's cut" or something like that down the road (again no promises).No space battle - yeah I hear you, it would have been nice. We were fortunate enough to get the graphics work donated by http://www.neo-fx.com/ that we did. I think if we had inserted a space battle it might have caused heads to explode.
All in all for a movie that was put together by a bunch of people who had never done this sort of thing before, and just about everything was donated as there was no real capital raised for the project, I am personally really impressed with it (even though I was a part of it).
I am hopeful not many people will watch it thinking they are getting Serenity 2, because we didn't have the experience or budget of Universal or even Fox for that matter. Conversely I don't think a person who has never made their own movie knows how truly difficult it is or everything that goes into it (I know I didn't), so they might not appreciate the movie as much as someone who has.
The best thing people can do if they enjoyed the movie is to spread the word. We don't have any budget for commercials or "normal" advertising, so everything we have done to get the word out so far has been completely self propelled (going to Cons, getting on fan sites, etc...).
The Writer/Director has promised that if we move 32,000 units in a year that he will make a sequel (I think that's the number of Serenity collector's editions that moved the first weekend it went on sale, so it's not an unreasonable number to reach).
So please keep spreading the word!
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Quote:Great to hear from you!
Originally posted by HotFix:
All in all for a movie that was put together by a bunch of people who had never done this sort of thing before, and just about everything was donated as there was no real capital raised for the project, I am personally really impressed with it (even though I was a part of it).
I am an amateur film-maker from way back (even did stunt work on some actual released movies), and I have to say that for peeps that never did this sort of thing before, you all turned out an AMAZING product! I had assumed the director had been a film-maker just out of film school or something.
I personally have never made a full-length feature before (a half-hour has been my longest), but I grasp the cinematic mountain you all had to climb to get there.
I noticed in the credits that everyone did everything. No luxury of letting the carpenter peeps handle the carpentry, the wardrobe peeps handle the wardrobe, etc.
From an old film person to new film peeps, I totally salute you.
And yeah, I'm trying to spread the word- we need more indie films out there, of all kinds.
The sincere Chrisisall
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I'm with Chris. I haven't gotten a chance to watch yet, but I know what goes into a production, having worked on many micro-budget films myself. Just from the trailer I can tell a lot of work went into this. I look forward to checking it out.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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ALSO, I am a graphic artist, if you should need anything in the way of storyboards for your next one, DO NOT hesitate to ask me (if ya need it)!
The laughing Chrisisall
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This thread be worthless without links:
http://browncoatsmovie.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1593655/
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Way to go John!
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