[Flyboy]

I just launched a web series called Take Me Back that I've been working on for ages with a friend of mine. I'll be putting up a new episode every week for 10 weeks. So go take a look and if you like it, tell your friends! I'm eager to know what you folks in the AG community will think of it.

www.tmbtheseries.com

Thanks!!

(btw, I'm Joe, not Seth, if anyone's curious... we co-wrote, co-directed and co-edited the project together while I did the cinematography and he acted)

[kuze]

Nicely done, I very much enjoyed it!

[Jelena]

Very promising. I won't miss the following episodes. I love your work, (still keeping a Flyboy picture as desktop ) it's something about the light, the colours and the way you work with details.

[Flyboy]

Thanks!

I'll keep everyone posted on upcoming episodes.

[Henke]

The cinematography is actually really good. What kind of camera did you use?

The storytelling seems a bit different (although I don't watch much series, web or otherwise). What's your inspiration?

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Henke

The cinematography is actually really good. What kind of camera did you use?

I poured my life savings into buying a Panasonic HVX-200 last summer, although I couldn't afford the cards to shoot it on HD so we shot on good old-fashioned miniDV. A little unfortunate, but we were limited in more was than one and in the end it all helped shape the project.

And I can't say there was much inspiration story-wise. The two of us watch tons of movies. I threw together the initial idea and we just worked from there.

[Henke]

Cool, that's the same camera that I used for my film (although I shot it on memory cards in HD). You used an interesting picture format (wider then 16 : 9).

[Flyboy]

2.35:1. I like it wide (the more pretentious, the better - or something). Is your film online somewhere?

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Dude, this is awesome. It's excellent on all levels, technically, editing and photo-direction wise, in addition to interesting dialog and perfomances. Keep it up.

[Henke]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

2.35:1. I like it wide (the more pretentious, the better - or something). Is your film online somewhere?

No, the score isn't finished yet. I've only uploaded a trailer for it so far.

[Starflux]

That was fantastic! The cinematography, the acting, the lighting, the editing... all astoundingly good and worthy of a feature film. And the premise is interesting; I like the weird mask guy, and there's plenty of foreshadowing about the weird gizmo. Is it some timetravelling device with which he can go back to 'repair' all the scenes we saw earlier; getting the girl most of all? I'll keep watching if you keep posting them

[Flyboy]

Thanks again for all the comments!!! You're very nice/kind/generous and all the rest, so thanks!!

And don't worry, the whole thing is shot, scored and edited, so we're not gonna miss a beat year. A lot of planning went into this. I'll keep whoever's interesting up to date on how things are going with the series.

[Flyboy]

Chapter 2 is online!

I hope you guys like it...

[kuze]

Waaay too short, but still awesome.

[Jelena]

Intriguing!

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by kuze

Waaay too short, but still awesome.

This is the shortest of the 10 chapters, although the other ones aren't terribly long. It's surprisingly difficult and time consuming to make something this length with so few resources.

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

I'm sorry, did you say "with few resources"? Tools much be much better that I thought if you can produce something of this calibre with few resources.

Keep it up.

[Flyboy]

Well, it's all relative, I suppose. We had a camera, 2 or 3 lights, a mic and a reasonably small budget, considering the length of the project. Most notable though, was the fact the we had no crew, so every detail was taken care of by myself and my friend, hence it taking 16 months to complete. With gaffers, grips, producers, ADs, assistant editors, etc... and of course money, these things tend to move quite a bit faster.

The episodes may be a short, but there's a lot of blood and sweat that went into each one, not to sound too dramatic...

[Henke]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Well, it's all relative, I suppose. We had a camera, 2 or 3 lights, a mic and a reasonably small budget, considering the length of the project. Most notable though, was the fact the we had no crew, so every detail was taken care of by myself and my friend, hence it taking 16 months to complete. With gaffers, grips, producers, ADs, assistant editors, etc... and of course money, these things tend to move quite a bit faster.

The episodes may be a short, but there's a lot of blood and sweat that went into each one, not to sound too dramatic...

I know exactly what you mean. When you have a crew things go way smoother then if you're completely on your own. I hope I never have to make a film all by myself again. It nearly gave me a heartattack

But the quality tends to suffer if you have to to everything but I have to say that you managed to pull it off nicely. Try getting some cash for your next project (by the looks of this it shouldn't be a problem).

[Starflux]

Another great episode. Especially the neat little storytelling techniques used are cool; the cross-cutting between the prisoner and his weird doppelganger and the radio telling of gruesome (foreboding?) things while the music has that 'Amélie' vibe of French quaintness. Good stuff.