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Title: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Kermit de frog on April 20, 2008, 08:46:50 PM: (http://lgmfilms.net/aceshigh/TheDoolittleRaidersSS03v1.jpg)

This film is dedicated to those 80 men who flew in the Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942

I want to say Thank You to:
4440
A8Niskey
Betty
Blue
Condor00
dtis30
DUGY
HB555
Hibbie2
Strip
RDRTrash
WannaB
XSHAUNx

Without you all, this film would not have been made. Thanks for your help, inspiration and great ideas throughout the filming on that Tuesday Night.
<S>

I owe you all big time.

http://lgmfilms.net/aceshigh/TheDoolittleRaiders.zip (http://lgmfilms.net/aceshigh/TheDoolittleRaiders.zip)
File Size: 289MB

Come experience the mission that forever will be remembered in time, when heros would fly, and a nations pride would be restored.
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: zoozoo on April 21, 2008, 06:26:58 AM: Url wont work :frown:
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Latrobe on April 21, 2008, 08:58:12 AM: Superb!, Excellent!, Fantastic work! One of the best films I've ever watched! :aok :aok
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: croduh on April 21, 2008, 09:19:48 AM: I would like to watch but i am afraid that the file size is a bit too big for me.Please can you put it up on youtube too? :)
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Gianlupo on April 21, 2008, 09:55:31 AM: Kermit, you did a remarkable job, it was a great production effort, surely. Much kudos to you and the people who helped you for that. I liked it, you were very creative with the tools you have available, nice shots, nice camera movement, for the most part. But...

But, from a purely cinematographic point of view, I think it's too long. There are whole sequences, especially in the first part, the taking off, that adds nothing to the narration and can be simply cut. The accumulation of "dead times" (don't know how to correctly translate it) makes the whole film a little boring, in the end.
And, in some case, the camera movement weren't as smooth as I'd have liked to see... but I know this is a limitation of the film viewer, I just thought the new shot system could make up for that.

Btw, there's a typo near the end of the movie, when you show Doolittle receiving his fourth star, you typed "histoy" instead of "history".

Don't get me wrong, I think you did a fine job, just wanted to point out a few things, hoping you would pay attention to them in next movie (if you agree with me, of course!) ;)
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: DPQ5 on April 21, 2008, 04:17:29 PM: Quote from: croduh on April 21, 2008, 09:19:48 AM
I would like to watch but i am afraid that the file size is a bit too big for me.Please can you put it up on youtube too? :)

yeah same
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: OntosMk1 on April 21, 2008, 04:21:48 PM: Absolutely superb!! Wonderfully done. Thoughtful and moving.

<<S>> to you Kermit and to all of the players that helped in the making.
:O :aok :rock :salute
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: 96Delta on April 21, 2008, 04:44:08 PM: Excellent job on the stationary camera shots.
The angles were awesome!
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: reeb on April 21, 2008, 05:14:54 PM: all i can say is wow awesome film kermit <S>
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Solar10 on April 21, 2008, 05:16:06 PM: Incredible movie. <S> to all the Doolitle raiders. So few remain.
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Kermit de frog on April 21, 2008, 10:01:18 PM: Sorry, my server is down. I had gigs of bandwidth this month and they all went away in hours.

May have to wait until next month to see the film, which sucks. Hundreds of downloads at a nearly 300mb file size = byebye server bandwidth.
There's something I didn't think about. Doh!
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Gianlupo on April 22, 2008, 06:40:12 AM: Quote from: Kermit de frog on April 21, 2008, 10:01:18 PM
Sorry, my server is down. I had gigs of bandwidth this month and they all went away in hours.

May have to wait until next month to see the film, which sucks. Hundreds of downloads at a nearly 300mb file size = byebye server bandwidth.
There's something I didn't think about. Doh!

Kermit, you can make an account at FileFront and upload the movie there. IIRC, there's no bandwidth limit.
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: zoozoo on April 22, 2008, 07:03:04 AM: got a youtube version?
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: reeb on April 22, 2008, 07:27:33 AM: kermie you tryed vimeo, 500meg upload per week and HD capability and no downloading to watch.
youtube is a joke and not worth the time to upload to it.
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: zoozoo on April 22, 2008, 07:36:33 AM: Quote from: reeb on April 22, 2008, 07:27:33 AM
kermie you tryed vimeo, 500meg upload per week and HD capability and no downloading to watch.
youtube is a joke and not worth the time to upload to it.

Alot of ppl that were on AH last night had trouble uploading the file, thats why i was asking.
Title: Re: LGM Films Proudly Presents..."The Doolittle Raiders"
Post by: Kermit de frog on April 24, 2008, 03:36:09 AM: Hey gianlupo, thanks for your honest opinion. <S>

The Aces High Film Viewer was not used at all.
I'm working on the "dead spots" you speak of. Mostly, they were there to give you time to reflect on what you just read or watched happen.
The typos have all been fixed as well.
The project was supposed to be 5 minutes, but well, it turned into what it is.
Next month will be the "final" version. I'll have time to play around with it some more to see if I can make it more interesting for more people. I'm glad I ran out of bandwidth, as it's giving me time to review it.

There will not be a youtube version, sorry croduh. I'll continue to host it on my webspace, but if someone else with a non profit website has room/bandwidth, I would like to talk with them.