Sapience: The Search for Wisdom - Cheap Tricks

Adam O.
Posted 5 months ago

Good job! Great project!

Howard A.
Posted 5 months ago

I hope you still go ahead with this movie

Natalie T.
Posted 5 months ago

Great project! very funny way of showing your work! I like it!

Priyatharshini R.
Posted 5 months ago

Spectacular. You guys have an excellent project on your hands

Peggy S.
Posted 5 months ago

The genius of this film is that it would be so affordable to make and yet so interesting and engaging

logan d.
Posted 5 months ago

I know this movie will come out soon enough:)

Stephen N.
Posted 5 months ago

I agree, this film is really interesting and the techniques you are employing are cool:)

Bart G.
Posted 5 months ago

You guys have a great concept for a film. I'm very curious to see where this goes. Great understanding of the genre. I wish you guys were still in the competition.

Milan S.
Posted 5 months ago

Very interesting voice over choice!

Rob E.
Posted 5 months ago

That's hilarious. You guys are hilarious. Even just the computer graphic stuff showing the camera and light movement is super fantastic.

Donna R.
Posted 5 months ago

Good job.

Mack B.
Posted 5 months ago

Very amazing set up. Very creative and interesting.

Perry M.
Posted 6 months ago

Very good!

Mark C.
Posted 6 months ago

nice 3d. good narrator voice. I like the extra tricky, double cheapy 3d diorama.

Ian G.
Posted 6 months ago

nice tricks!

Martin V.
Posted 6 months ago

It's okay. pretty cheesy.

Bren W.
Posted 6 months ago

That voice feels like something out of a really cheesy TV commercial. I love it.

Bill A.
Posted 6 months ago

Very cool motion graphics used to express your plan to shoot!

Kevin C.
Posted 6 months ago

Clever. Good way to make talking head set-ups interesting!

Tawnya T.
Posted 6 months ago

good try

Melissa H.
Posted 6 months ago

I love the narrator's voice! The tricks are interesting. I am not in the industry so I am naive in the way of tricks. It was interesting to watch.

Angie Y.
Posted 6 months ago

interesting

Ron K.
Posted 6 months ago

This is a brilliant idea! Although I love the subject of this film, I would pay to watch it just for the approach to delivering the message. good luck!

Dug R.
Posted 6 months ago

I like getting a look at the style in depth for how you'll make your film interesting. Cool.

Frank L.
Posted 6 months ago

Would have never guessed some of these tricks even existed.

Timario M.
Posted 6 months ago

I adore this concept. Money super saved since the only thing to worry about is a good setup and convincing dioramas. Oh yeah. And relevant experts ... None of this "down the rabbit hole" type of garbage. Good luck :)

jane D.
Posted 6 months ago

very cool

Rob B.
Posted 6 months ago

Interesting ... but what is the relevance to your movie?

Kathy S.
Posted 7 months ago

I supposed this is a new concept that would work but how it make a great film is what I would question.

Greg S.
Posted 7 months ago

Well done

Kevin S.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool idea!

Dwayne M.
Posted 7 months ago

I'd be really interested in seeing how this turns out.

Denise D.
Posted 7 months ago

YOu are so right on the mark with your attempts to illiminate the talking head documentary. I want to see your movie not only because of the topic but because I want to see how you will present your material...which is very engaging so far!

Donald Y.
Posted 7 months ago

By some standards, this is a cheap production - but by the standards of most short film makers, it requires a lot more than they can afford.

Peter B.
Posted 7 months ago

Hey Don, with today's technology, you'd be surprised what can be achieved on a small budget:)

Holleay R.
Posted 7 months ago

I like this. :) Good for you guys.

Colin T.
Posted 7 months ago

love the presentation of this mission video

Emersen Z.
Posted 7 months ago

I've always found his project to be quite fascinating. Great tips!

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Emersen!

Super A.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting

Sarah L.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool and quirky. interested in seeing more...thank you guys !!

Jonathan M.
Posted 7 months ago

Did you use any stock footage in your film?

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Don't know yet as it's not finished. The plan however is to use some stylized live action or stock footage.

Brett T.
Posted 7 months ago

Love the resulting effect. I noticed it in the first video I watched, but seeing the mechanics of it is super cool.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

that means a lot Brett thanks.

Jenna R.
Posted 7 months ago

It's great you already own this set up.

Foxbase A.
Posted 7 months ago

love it

Wesley S.
Posted 7 months ago

Whew, glad you innovated on the green screen 4 camera setup

Aaron S.
Posted 7 months ago

cool video

Natalie H.
Posted 7 months ago

good job

Chris W.
Posted 7 months ago

Too cheap

Colin W.
Posted 7 months ago

good job

Richard B.
Posted 7 months ago

Loving how you implemented the green screen without making it look awkward

Sean M.
Posted 7 months ago

Very nice lighting in these interview scenes. The greenscreening during talking head sequences isn't revolutionary but it looks to be well done here.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Sean. It's somewhat difficult to show the full potential with only our one proof of concept diorama BUT we're really excited about how it'll all come together.

Dahae S.
Posted 7 months ago

This would be worth it

Michael M.
Posted 7 months ago

pompous

Tony M.
Posted 7 months ago

I thought this was well done

Louise m.
Posted 7 months ago

Not bad

Marian C.
Posted 7 months ago

interestng

Oskar W.
Posted 7 months ago

Thomas P.
Posted 7 months ago

interesting

Marianne E.
Posted 7 months ago

well this is allright

Kevin F.
Posted 7 months ago

Neat effect. Good luck guys

Rob L.
Posted 7 months ago

Great concept

Andrew S.
Posted 7 months ago

Excellent technique! The dioramas look great!

William B.
Posted 7 months ago

It seems like all the backgrounds are the same, not really showcasing speakers any differently.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Hi William. The final film will include many different backgrounds. Each subject will be composited into their own 3D diorama that dynamically changes according to what they are discussing. At this time we only have our proof of concept backplate, hence why they are all on the same one.

William R.
Posted 7 months ago

ok... dont see ow its cheap

Todd M.
Posted 7 months ago

Liking this concept more and more. Great thought put into making your film visually interesting.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Todd! It's important for us to make a documentary that can appeal to demographics outside the traditional documentary crowd.

Michael M.
Posted 7 months ago

Very cool

Aaron M.
Posted 7 months ago

impressive cgi

Amy-Leigh B.
Posted 7 months ago

I like the new ideas your bringing to the genre

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

That's exactly our goal, thank you!

justin H.
Posted 7 months ago

Good balance of vfx and "real stuff"... kinda cool how you made those background scenes. Some of them look flawless, some of them look just "ok". overall pretty amazing though!

Sarah D.
Posted 7 months ago

cool

David T.
Posted 7 months ago

I like your new doc technique and applications of tech

Jim L.
Posted 7 months ago

Like use of green screen

David A.
Posted 7 months ago

This is pretty awesome! Well done guys!

Laurel L.
Posted 7 months ago

Fantastic job. Great ideas and implementation.

Nicole L.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool

Holly F.
Posted 7 months ago

interesting. thanks for sharing. sexy voiceover. lol

Laurie D.
Posted 7 months ago

Awesome newscaster voice!

Vivian Z.
Posted 7 months ago

Refreshing to bring your "Extra Tricky Double Cheapy 3D Dioramas" to the documentary genre.

Joyce S.
Posted 7 months ago

one of the few cheap trick missions ive seen that showed how you can save money and utilize reasources.

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Awesome, that's exactly what we set out to show. Thanks!

Michael W.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool concept!

Becky P.
Posted 7 months ago

Very neat, I like the style behind the "talking head" with the background. The backgrounds are unique and beautiful.

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Thank you!

Ruxandra R.
Posted 7 months ago

I like the "extra tricky double cheapy", funny. As for the rest of the film, it is an interesting way of telling the story. I had never thought of talking heads that way before.

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

We hope to provide audiences with a new way of looking at and engaging with documentaries. Thanks for the support. Cheers!

Michelle S.
Posted 7 months ago

interesting

Tom J.
Posted 7 months ago

Nice, unique approach to add variety to the documentary. However, if you're factoring in your time to motion track, key, and matte paint everyone of your interviews, it definitely isn't cheap! But great work on the production value you're bringing to your documentary!

Bo H.
Posted 7 months ago

very interesting

Wendy B.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting

patricia s.
Posted 7 months ago

interesting

Grayson W.
Posted 7 months ago

The visual effects for this is MAD

Parker W.
Posted 7 months ago

This is so interesting!

Panta M.
Posted 7 months ago

love this video~ !!!!! sooooo funny!!! hahaha
And i love the SFX~~~

Patricia F.
Posted 7 months ago

talking head, no, didn't they do that in ALien...

Jay R.
Posted 7 months ago

Awesome - love your approach and your content.

Annabelle H.
Posted 7 months ago

Impressive!

Betty K.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting technique! well done

Michelle G.
Posted 7 months ago

well put together - funny and clever - but at the end of the day these are still talking heads which I find a little boring.

Peter B.
Posted 7 months ago

The talking head is just one aspect of the documentary that we decided to discuss in this video...there will be other sequences....

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Hi Michelle, yes we'll be cutting to supporting footage, motion graphic sequences, and other goodies to ground the content. This cheap trick just focuses on our treatment of the talking head moments themselves. Thanks for the feedback!

Michelle H.
Posted 7 months ago

Love the docu voice guy :)

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Haha, thanks!

Joan M.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool

Sarah L.
Posted 7 months ago

cool

mandy b.
Posted 7 months ago

very cool

Jordan R.
Posted 7 months ago

Neato!

Cam L.
Posted 7 months ago

Wow... really really impressive camera setup... some of the best interview footage i have seen! Amazing work guys!!

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Cam. Appreciate the appreciation.

Janine F.
Posted 7 months ago

Love it. (It was disturbing seeing the big X over some faces though, instead of over the background effect being referred to.)

Peter B.
Posted 7 months ago

hmmm, interesting point. Didn't even come to mind. Ugh sometimes you can lose objectivity when you're entrenched in a project:(:P

Sheldon L.
Posted 7 months ago

Hah the library wall...classic.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Read those books!

Will B.
Posted 7 months ago

Amazing video! I love the voice over, animation and general innovation of your project. Good luck guys!

Peter S.
Posted 7 months ago

Looks great

Stuart P.
Posted 7 months ago

I like the four camera set up and the well done green screen, but does not seem very cheap.

Peter B.
Posted 7 months ago

It has all been budgeted. It's doable way below the 1million mark. That's the beauty of it! Looks expensive, but can be done for cheap:P

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Cost of studio rental is generally $1600.00 per day. Interviews are only a day and often only a couple hours with these intellects, so add all the interviews up and it's still incredibly cheap to shoot there vs. meeting them all over the world, trying to control lighting, finding good locations, sound, etc.

Joelle W.
Posted 7 months ago

Love the way that you have incorporated effects into the film!!

Natalia N.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting/creative how you can change and alter the background but in the end they are still just people talking. Not sure if it would be a million dollar production.

Peter B.
Posted 7 months ago

The people talking is just a part of the film. It will not be a film just intercutting between the talking heads. Voice over will help drive narrative and there will be many cutaway scenes...

Kevin C.
Posted 7 months ago

awesome

Eric T.
Posted 7 months ago

Great animation, but aren't digital effects fairly pricey?

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

In the last decade VFX costs have plummeted primarily due to the performance increases of professional workstations and software advances. Our budget to complete all of the Matte paintings, compositing and motion graphic sequences is well below a million dollar budget.

Douglas H.
Posted 7 months ago

Has this been entirely produced already?

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

We have shot some of the interviews but there is still more interviews, a ton of locations shoots, animation work, writing, etc. to be done.

Jennifer M.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting....

Matt S.
Posted 7 months ago

Your motion graphics team is top notch and I love your innovation.

Michael L.
Posted 7 months ago

Great style to this video. Good job. Love the voice and comical feel.

Dylan S.
Posted 7 months ago

Really Cool!

Karin O.
Posted 7 months ago

you got 5 votes from me :)

Cassandra W.
Posted 7 months ago

Haha this is awesome

Matt D.
Posted 7 months ago

Great job.

Kris S.
Posted 7 months ago

Very cool.

John K.
Posted 7 months ago

nice video

Mohamad M.
Posted 7 months ago

Love the self-referential humour. Struggling to see the narrative importance of such a complicated rig. I worry it might distract from the content of what your subjects are talking about. That is ultimately what should be most compelling. None the less, nice job guys!!

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks for the feedback! We plan to use the environments as a backdrop that's relevant to each subject's discussion. They would slowly progress through time to suit their stories/narrative. But we'd also cut away to other footage, motion graphic sequences, and visuals that will help ground the content even more. Cheers!

Bob J.
Posted 7 months ago

It's good that you can laugh at your own genre.

lana T.
Posted 7 months ago

liked it a lot :)

Jermaine L.
Posted 7 months ago

Now that's a cheap trick! Well done.

Zolie G.
Posted 7 months ago

remarkable visuals

Bernie H.
Posted 7 months ago

interesting..

Björn H.
Posted 7 months ago

I like it!

Sandra L.
Posted 7 months ago

Well done overall but the narration part didn't work as well for me.

Tina K.
Posted 7 months ago

..interesting

Cooper B.
Posted 7 months ago

Nicely done!

Bobbi H.
Posted 7 months ago

I couldn't stop laughing, so true. Great way of overcoming the dreaded talking head!!!

Augustine J.
Posted 7 months ago

Nice tricks!

Kassiy S.
Posted 7 months ago

Aren't you afraid of it looking too green screened and fake in the background? Like, I can always tell when things have been CGI-d.

Suzanna B.
Posted 7 months ago

Because this is based on concept work, it's not 100% final or polished. That would certainly be our biggest concern in the final stages of post-production! Matte paintings also have an amazing photo realistic look to them, that with a bit of extra blending work can become unnoticeable. Some subtle animations will be brought in as well to bring it to life a little more!

Ross W.
Posted 7 months ago

Love your visuals

Ryan D.
Posted 7 months ago

Funny and really ingenious techniques for documentary!

Andrea S.
Posted 7 months ago

Very cool!

Sarah N.
Posted 7 months ago

This looks interesting

Kaitlyn M.
Posted 7 months ago

Specific, concise, and I love the touch of humour in it.

Bobbie-Gene H.
Posted 7 months ago

Looks like a great concept.

Jason J.
Posted 7 months ago

Very interesting

Anna K.
Posted 7 months ago

Neat insight into your technique.

Catherine M.
Posted 7 months ago

Interesting to see how you achieve your look.

Zach L.
Posted 7 months ago

That was awesome! Great solution to the talking head problem, I hope more documentaries take this approach.

Jacky D.
Posted 7 months ago

This is my favourite, loved the humour while showcasing something unique to your particular genre.

Marc S.
Posted 7 months ago

I'm a big fan of emphasizing the positive so I would have rephrased the DSLR camera line but other wise cool

Rod M.
Posted 7 months ago

Excellent.

Rick H.
Posted 7 months ago

Not sure about a feature film but trailer is ok

Andrej K.
Posted 7 months ago

Great way to make usually boring talking head much more interesting and powerfull

Christa R.
Posted 7 months ago

cool. I like

Jamie T.
Posted 7 months ago

nice effects

Richmain Y.
Posted 7 months ago

great job

anda r.
Posted 7 months ago

Very nicely done.

Scott M.
Posted 7 months ago

Cool... I love that you're making the environments within which your experts are speaking so much more interesting and dynamic. Great job!

JT L.
Posted 7 months ago

nice job

Iwona b.
Posted 7 months ago

Great ideas! Congratulations!

Simon P.
Posted 7 months ago

Such an important message and I love Docs, but again I just dont know if this will fly in popular cinema

Emily H.
Posted 7 months ago

LOVE THIS! Let's ride the world of the dreaded talking head in documentary! Great innovative techniques, lots to learning from you guys! - Team behind OG

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Emily. I used to teach with your uncle... I think? :) Great work yourselves!

Emily H.
Posted 7 months ago

Was it Don Hunter from the Vancouver Film School? This would be my uncle: http://vfs.com/programs/film-production/faculty/view/32 - If so, what a small world! Would love to connect sometime and chat more about your project!

Gianna I.
Posted 7 months ago

Was so looking forward to seeing this mission from you & happy to say you nailed it! Great job! (Team Rosalind Revenge)

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

Thanks Gianna. Appreciate it.

Del L.
Posted 7 months ago

Like your style

Jeremy L.
Posted 7 months ago

Catchy explanation. Extra cheapy Double Tricky. Definitely feel that this can take docs to a new level. I laughed when I saw the bookcase shot. It is so true.

Jonathon C.
Posted 7 months ago

The bookcase is definitely the best. But... what does it mean?!?

Steven Y.
Posted 7 months ago

That's hilarious.

Michael K.
Posted 7 months ago

Nice way to renforce what's being said.

Adam W.
Posted 7 months ago

Ha! I lol'd, this was great!

Jake C.
Posted 7 months ago

Amazing treatment, love how dynamic these set ups are.

Afzal H.
Posted 7 months ago

Looking forward to seeing this on the big screen. Very innovative for this genre.

Frances L.
Posted 7 months ago

This was fun to watch, great ideas. :)

Jeff R.
Posted 7 months ago

Love that its about giving a visual reinforcement of a complex idea.

Andrew I.
Posted 7 months ago

Ahaha this is so good.

Rose L.
Posted 7 months ago

Great job guys! As huge fans of documentary we're really excited about your project. Great to see you guys making full use of space and creating appropriate environments for your interview subjects to further tell your story and inform the viewer. Lovely to see a Production Designer on your team too. Much love. - Team #LDRfilm

Tony S.
Posted 7 months ago

Haha smart. Good job, and great look!

Samantha B.
Posted 7 months ago

hah

Johnny A.
Posted 7 months ago

Being able to poke fun at yourself is a great quality.

Maikol P.
Posted 7 months ago

genuinely fun watch. Can't hate on the black void though haha.

Tyler S.
Posted 7 months ago

This tongue in cheek breakdown of the extra tricky, double cheapy technique is awesome!

Matt M.
Posted 7 months ago

Haha, "double cheapy" gotta love it. Nice doc breakdown. - Team Rabbit

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