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A short film by director Joe Shaw. Cinematography by Philip Bloom.

Shot on EX1 and Letus Extreme.

Please check out Joe's website at joe-shaw.co.uk/

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Ammonite 1 year ago

Very powerful piece. Brilliantly acted
Antonio Segura 5 months ago

are styles that are fine but no longer current
iamkalaniprince 4 months ago

not to mention a great example of how a great story line and perfectly executed technical savvy makes you forget about what kind of camera was used. Great sound as well. Lav mics ?

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BumKi Cho 1 year ago

Love it. Well scripted, directed, acted, and videographed. Nicely edited as well.
Antonio Segura 5 months ago

ok
Chrizzle 1 year ago

I've been looking around for this video for a while. It was in the reel for Sony? I think.. It looked brilliant!
And, watched it through. It was a masterpiece.
You never cease to amaze :)

Great job.
Ivan 1 year ago

Makes one quiet. Powerful script. Very good acting.
Jan van der Meer 1 year ago

My God Philip, this is a very impressive and actual story. Joe must be inspired by the pedofile US priests disaster. Great angles, location, sound and actors, perfect!
Ryan Lightbourn 1 year ago

That was incredible. The EX1 does some amazing things for under $10K. That said, the acting was also excellent and makes it feel so much more real.
Rashmi Varier 1 year ago

Great cinematography. Philip. What kind of sound did you use?
Good work, Cheers!
Sean Cruser 1 year ago

nice to see the final short!
MikeOnAMac 1 year ago

I remember seeing this before. Presumably, this is the final version. Does anyone have a link to the version that was posted a couple months ago?
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

This is indeed the final version. The one that was up a couple of months ago was just a rough cut with unmixed temp sound, temp music etc.
Anthony Meadows 1 year ago

WOAH! Awesome. I didn't expect it to be such a powerful topic. Great job. Handled perfectly! Keep up the good work!
Paulo 1 year ago

Spectacular!, you made it look so real. Excellent actors.
ANTHONY JACKSON 1 year ago

Good looking movie.
you did a wonderful job. I would go,and see this film just because it was shot on a EX1,and because you film it.
Paul Rogers 1 year ago

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Justin Jerome Chance 1 year ago

very interesting....
William Richardson 1 year ago

I was wondering when this would be back :D
RogerB1 1 year ago

I am very impressed with this piece. Excellent Work!
chris leppla 1 year ago

that was incredibly well made.
Infonosity 1 year ago

this is more powerful than vodka :)
Brian Dieck 1 year ago

Wow, that was very good, I hope that gets shown on some big screens at festivals guys. Congrats.
Chris Nerat 1 year ago

I clicked on your video not knowing what to expect and was blown away! Very well done all around.
Jennifer Morris 1 year ago

outstanding
Leslie Foster 1 year ago

Haunting and beautiful. This is what a short film should be. Well done.
Sage Pictures 1 year ago

When I first saw this a year ago, I thought it wasthe best film I had seen on Vimeo.
It still is. Since then I have seen all of your cinematography.

A question ... has something changed about the quality of the voices? They seem different to me.
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

The version you saw was actually in April and it was the rough cut. The sound would have been a temp cut only from the radio-mics. The final mix was done in surround and sounds great. Somewhat lost via the web!
Sage Pictures 1 year ago

I see what you mean. It looks like ambiance was added, but through my stereo headphones it seems like the mics picked up a lot of unwanted sound. In surround this would come across as distinct channels adding atmosphere. I guess this means I will have to do vimeo-centric stereo renders. Thank you, your reply explains a lot.
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

One other thing to consider is that I reckoned most people would not be listening on headphones. To some extent the audio has been normalised which really butchers any subtelty - in your headphones you will really notice that more than over little speakers.

It's a tough call, but the film was made and mixed for DVD/Screenings so that is where it will sond best.
Nick Jones 1 year ago

disturbing
Brad 1 year ago

Amazing and moving. Great short film. Bravo on the acting and the angles. A+
express49 1 year ago

You guys made my heart beat faster , brillant !
Bernie Hipos 1 year ago

Excellent job on this one. Superb!
SagaXtream 1 year ago

Awesome
Ricardo Ruiz-Fearon 1 year ago

A beautiful use of the surroundings, visually impactive, well written!
Pierre 1 year ago

Strong!
Paolo Mugnaini-Editor 1 year ago

top notch!
Andreas Hurtig 1 year ago

How many cameras where used in this shot?
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

Single camera throughout.
Frankasaurus 1 year ago

Amazing.
DesiThug 1 year ago

Heart Wrenching
Alex Newson 1 year ago

one word.great!!!
Erik Löfgren 1 year ago

Good; acting, pics, directing/script etc you guys could extend it to a future.. keep the format, keep up the gw! r-erik
Kyle Lowe 1 year ago

I saw the original/first cut. This blows it out of the water! Awesome job.
Les Lanphere 1 year ago

This was incredibly well made, but hopelessly sad.
Ramda Yanurzha 1 year ago

Bravo! I've been searching for a 15-minute long short movie and looks like i found a really great one. Can't wait for your next project!
Jay Shropshire 1 year ago

nice job, never seen anyone ever address that subject like that. Pretty powerful.
Forrest Smith 1 year ago

English subtitles?
AIR Interviews 1 year ago

wow. that was great.
Luis Dechtiar 1 year ago

wow. outstanding performances and an incredibly disturbing treatment on the subject.
James T. Kirk 1 year ago

Good job, very intense !!!
Long Nguyen 1 year ago

This was incredible! So refreshing to see quality like this.
Alfonso GJ 1 year ago

Fantastic!

I didn't like the topic, but I did in spite of it, love the whole short!
Alfonso GJ 1 year ago

There are MANY important topics out there, but that doesn't mean you have to like them all :D
Greg Voevodsky 1 year ago

Very good final cut over the rough cut we saw months ago. I think you have an award winner here. The only thing I would change is the TITLE... to something like "PASSED ON" "NOT FAR FROM THE TREE" - "Echo" just has a fun meaning of kids yelling and hearing the echo... I think a darker or more serious title - SILENCE OF THE LAMBS even if it makes little sense would do better... a biblical reference maybe. Anyway, great job.
Raj 1 year ago

I think "The Echo" suits it perfectly. The last line in the dialogue reinforces the idea - "and I'll come back when I do it again... share it.. again and again and again" like an echo.

I watched this the first time and took it as a reference to both the characters' past "coming back" to face them but that last line really gives the title a heavier meaning - David's character itself is like an echo to the event that happened in the past.
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

Thank you. You totally got it.
Kenrick Fagan 1 year ago

Well scripted, acting was very good and engaging.
Aaron Nicholls 1 year ago

That was great.
VJnet 1 year ago

Hauntingly well done.
Tom Blair 1 year ago

Nicely acted. Not very original.
Nate Haustein 1 year ago

Excellent, powerful and terrifying. Great twist and it looks great!
andrew. 1 year ago

Saw this the other day (i think on dvxuser?) Thought it was great!
Daniel Eckert 1 year ago

This is so well done I almost thought it was real. I thought that guy was about to go find another girl after the last scene. You really pulled me in with the twist when he said "did you confess what you did to me?" I loved it. The colors were great, the music was excellent and the acting was top notch. 5 Stars.
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

Thank you. I appreciate it. It's hard for me to watch it objectively anymore - so it's nice to know that line has the desired impact.
Jeffrey Butler 1 year ago

Well done! Just a thought; there is no forgiveness without justice.
Teilo Vellacott 1 year ago

3 out of 5
David Spagnoli 1 year ago

Very well done. Award Worthy. Great lead actor, the man who played the priest was good also. Loved the shots, the film colors looked very vivid too. It may have been effective to utilize the sound of the trains for dramatic effect. Maybe I'm just used to seeing that used many times to bring things to a climax. Just a suggestion. But I did love the film. Thanks
Shane Carter 1 year ago

Incredibly powerful piece, masterfully done.
Old Dead Eye 1 year ago

Some of the shots look almost 'Green-Screened'
Ralph Lindsen 5 months ago

i got the same feeling. I think the depth of field was a bit too shallow. The parts in focus sometimes felt separate from the rest. Might be me though (although i really love shallow DOF and Philip's work in general).

But a very good short, acting, videography, directing and sound too were very good.
Freddy Antonio Zapata 1 year ago

Nice!
Erez Henya 1 year ago

Very well done! chapeau.
cavalon pelayo 1 year ago

just perfect, sound, image, color, text, history, actors, location.... etc.... just perfect, congratulations
Clan McCloud 1 year ago

one word:

masterpiece
Adam Grant 1 year ago

Absolutely incredible.
Christopher Ruffell 1 year ago

wow - what a twist! well shot, well scripted piece. the music really worked well too - who did the music?
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

Thank you. The music was composed by Alexander Rudd - myspace.com/alexanderrudd
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

really great music
Johnny Nguyen 1 year ago

thought provoking.
Adam Gerritsma 1 year ago

Filming a scene with just dialogue is very difficult. You filmed it masterfully! I was not expecting such a dark twist either, bravo!
Tyson Moffitt 1 year ago

No other words can describe this than brilliant!
Rogerio Alves 1 year ago

Can you tell me the picture profile you used for this? Did you do any color correction in post if so...then how? Awesome short!
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

i can't really remember the specifics of the picture profile at the time. It was based on a Bill Ravens one from DVinfo.net
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

Phil can give you the details on the picture profile. The colour correction was done in post by an excellent colourist working on a Baselight system, which is pretty high-end and total overkill for this. It was very much done as a favour...
Metropolitan Pictures 1 year ago

Great film Philip! Hope you submit it into festivals, win and get an Academy Award nomination for best short! Excellent work all around!
Debbie McClaren 1 year ago

Riveting!!!! Shocking!!!!!Excellent!!!!!!
Charlie Wilson 1 year ago

Absolutely amazing.

Like'd!
Mark Bennett 1 year ago

Absolutely great guys. I was wondering what sort of mics you used. Were they lapel mics or did you solely use a shotgun with boom? I am curious because of the wide shot where they walk toward the camera - I can't see where you'd place a boom, but i imagine the sync would have been difficult if the dialogue was recorded separately. And did you run the audio through the EX1 only? Please enlighten - I loved it.
Joe Shaw 1 year ago

We were blessed with an excellent sound recordist with complete drama cart. We used lavs and boom and at times used another boom to record stereo atmos. So the sound was recorded separately, not straight into the EX1.
Trick Phelps 1 year ago

I am very impressed with this piece. Fantastic work. I hold you and your team in high regard. Everything was beautifully done.
Raj 1 year ago

Such brilliant film making.

Just two characters, one scene, one conversation and a story that grips you. It had me gripped from start to finish.
Sean E, Boi 1 year ago

You guys just got another fan. Well done.
Yildy Aktas 1 year ago

Great work. Spectacular acting, story line and cinematography.
Justin Sarno 1 year ago

This piece was pretty exceptional. Great job!
Shannon Wilkerson 1 year ago

Compelling and beautiful. The use of the one location was excellent. And the character development was impeccable. Great work!!
robert tucker 1 year ago

Inspiring piece...I can only echo all the comments before.
mike pulcinella 1 year ago

Powerful and moving!!
Timothy G. Ryan 1 year ago

Well, that was unexpectedly compelling and satisfying! Other than the tech video that got me to this site in the first place (the refreshing use of real, instead of usernames being the reason to sign-up), this is the first thing I have seen from here and I can't tell you how impressed I was! The acting was complete, the script was paced and developed so well, the shots beautiful and intriguing in their subtlety...simply a fantastic effort. Thank you.