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59. Pizza Verdi (short film)
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Pizza Verdi (2011)
A short film by Gary Nadeau
running time: 7 minutes 42 seconds
Featuring MARIE ZAMORA and NORM LEWIS
A seemingly routine pizza delivery escalates into a tense game of cat-and-mouse. Giuseppe Verdi provides the soundtrack for this quintessential New York tale.
Written & Directed by Gary Nadeau
Starring Maria Zamora and Norm Lewis
Produced by Alain Boublil & Gary Nadeau
Director of Photography Ben Jacks
Gaffer | Grip Chris Cummings
AC & Additional Photography Jason Koontz
Sound Design Sean Garnhart
Edited by Gary Nadeau
Grading Deluxe NYC
Titles: Gary Nadeau
MUSIC:
"CARO NOME" from the Opera "RIGOLETTO" by GIUSEPPE VERDI performed by MARIE ZAMORA
"GREATEST" by DOX music video courtesy of ROBERT E. HOLLEY for GRAVE SHIFT STUDIOS
Special thanks to: Stefan Boublil, Michael Jackman, DOX, Robert E. Holley and Erin Nadeau.
© HEROIC PICTURES, INC 2011
visit us at pizzaverdifilm.com
or garynadeau.com
twitter.com/garynadeau
Pizza Verdi was shot on a Canon 5DMKII over a two day period.
facebook.com/pages/Director-Gary-Nadeau/106836899345105
A short film by Gary Nadeau
running time: 7 minutes 42 seconds
Featuring MARIE ZAMORA and NORM LEWIS
A seemingly routine pizza delivery escalates into a tense game of cat-and-mouse. Giuseppe Verdi provides the soundtrack for this quintessential New York tale.
Written & Directed by Gary Nadeau
Starring Maria Zamora and Norm Lewis
Produced by Alain Boublil & Gary Nadeau
Director of Photography Ben Jacks
Gaffer | Grip Chris Cummings
AC & Additional Photography Jason Koontz
Sound Design Sean Garnhart
Edited by Gary Nadeau
Grading Deluxe NYC
Titles: Gary Nadeau
MUSIC:
"CARO NOME" from the Opera "RIGOLETTO" by GIUSEPPE VERDI performed by MARIE ZAMORA
"GREATEST" by DOX music video courtesy of ROBERT E. HOLLEY for GRAVE SHIFT STUDIOS
Special thanks to: Stefan Boublil, Michael Jackman, DOX, Robert E. Holley and Erin Nadeau.
© HEROIC PICTURES, INC 2011
visit us at pizzaverdifilm.com
or garynadeau.com
twitter.com/garynadeau
Pizza Verdi was shot on a Canon 5DMKII over a two day period.
facebook.com/pages/Director-Gary-Nadeau/106836899345105
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I love that you used every inch of the space and every art piece. It breathed a character of its own.
The twist was perfect. I never saw it coming. I could have easily watched another ten minutes w/o realizing the time.
I expect a feature film in the next three years!
Also happy to see a HDSLR film so restrained—no hyperediting, handheld closeups or gratuitous pull focusing. Well done.
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PS:I was eating pizza as I watched…
SOUND DEVICES: 722 and two ZOOM H4n to record the tracks.
MICS: We used my Rode NTG-1 shotgun mic and my shure wireless lav kit.
We did foley on pretty much every sound other than dialogue.
We feel something, which is very rare!
This film reminds me Jafar Panahi's great movie "Talaye Sorkh" (Crimson Gold -2003) If you like this movie, i suggest you to watch panahi's one. In both of these two films, There are very similar things.
Haven't seen a short of this quality for years.
Your filming is, as always, at the highest level.
Thanks again for including my work in your film, I'm honored.
~Rob
this just confirms what I have always known, that you are a serious filmmaker and you know I have been a fan for a long time. I have admired all of your corporate work and now this!!! Besides amazing cinematography which is a given with you, sound, sound design, lighting, editing. What is the best part of this piece is the story. It has one, with twists and turns but it's complete and works. This moves into my top 15 on the internet. Thanks for sharing it with me in it's early stages and it's great to see it finished. You rock dude.
Thanks
This short is a DSLR filmmaking lesson on its own.
Shows that:
1 - To bring DSLR filmmaking to its full potential one needs to treat the camera like a VERY VERY HEAVY 35mm ancient film camera;
2 - Composing the shots is crucial;
3 - SCRIPTWRITING is double-crucial!
One can see this is the work of a scriptwriter. The story is very clean.
Its funny to see that these DSLR cameras are a huge step ahead in the Cinema History (time will tell of course) but at the same time a huge step backwards... They bring us Filmmakers way back into the beginnings of film creation, where film cameras were little monsters that no one could carry around. That's only my opinion but I think that to achieve great results with the 5D one must treat it like an ancient 35mm and move it as such. I hate when you see the 5d all shaky doesn't feel natural at all!
Thanks for posting the video!