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This is a short film about a young writer who's perception on life is changed after meeting an unlikely stranger in the park.

This was shot multicam style with 4x Panasonic HVX 200's in 1080/24p. It was edited using Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro and all of the motion graphics were done in After Effects.

This project was written/directed/edited/animated/and mostly everything else'd by Chris. Lydia Martin wrote the score and the song "Let's Go" was provided courtesy of Madi Diaz. Benjack! and Brandon Oxendine were the typographers and overall design consultants. They made sure my kerning was on point. Kudos to my mini army that helped me pull this project off in less than 10 days from inception to completion.

The Writer was played by Chris Crutchfield, The little girl, Rachel St. Gelais, and the girl's mom was Erin Fede.

Hope you like it.

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  • Great acting, maybe a little awkward at times... but that's another reason to love it! Nice effects too.

    "Cause my uncle, takes alllll his money back. I think his name is Sam." Instant classic.
  • Saint Family 2 years ago
    ha! You caught that comment! Good job!
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  • Saint Family 2 years ago
    love you Chris, can't wait to make another film with you someday! (and get a copy of this one =) ) Please don't forget us when millions of adoring fans are screaming for your attention =)
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  • Jeth Weinrich plus 2 years ago
    This was awesome.
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  • Rodney Gordon 2 years ago
    "Bye Dude", awesome
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  • This is fantastic.
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  • Nice effects too.
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  • Dorian Roza 2 years ago
    hey Chris, I love your work. That little girl is a shockingly good actor for her age. A cute piece all around.
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  • Thad Manning 2 years ago
    Chris, you do some great work. Surprised to see that you are from Charlotte. I called that city home for a number of years.
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  • Candace Barbot plus 2 years ago
    Hi Chris: Stumbled across your work. REELy impressive. I'm from a journalism background. Loved both your REEL and your storytelling skills. Count me as one of your fans/cheerleaders. Best, Candace
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  • Glad I took a few minutes to check this out. Good stuff, keep it coming.
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  • Justin Sumagui 2 years ago
    wonderful art!
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  • Benjamin Ringoir 1 year ago
    heey man, i love this vid.
    you really like your style. im also getting started with video productions etc,
    cant wait to work on some serious projects.
    anyways keep up the good work.

    greetings from the netherlands
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  • Bernardo Lopes 1 year ago
    One of the best Short Films I have ever seen. Really, what a great job Chris! Who wrote this, has a heck of an imagination. The simplicity just turns this so special. It's like it's just you and Rachel. Oh, acting and directing is not that easy too.

    I hope the best for your future. You have tones of talent!
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  • Spacey Blak 1 year ago
    Aawweessssommmeee!!!
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  • Kevin Tran 1 year ago
    Honestly, you inspire me.
  • Chris Crutchfield plus 1 year ago
    thanks man. i appreciate that.
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  • Mike R 1 year ago
    dude i saw one of your other videos and just keep watching more and more... this was great. So the graphics are called motion graphics, got to learn me some skills
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  • Michael MejiaFilm 1 year ago
    hey man good job on the vid. i just joined viemo and this was the first video i watched and im liking it =]. just one q, how did you get the animation/ text behind you, an object. im hoping there is something easier than frame by frame masking
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  • Spencer Nelson 1 year ago
    ?awsome was this final cut pro?
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  • Thomas Fontaine 1 year ago
    That's Amazing again! ( like all ur videos)
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  • Fabio Cunha 1 year ago
    Very good. Caught me by surprise.
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  • Stefan Pilipovic 1 year ago
    If u stick to positive side of life like you've shown in this video-you'll make it for sure. Gratz on this video, well thought out.
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  • jeffrey fuchs 1 year ago
    program for the ending text? with like the text on the bench! how?
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  • Nickki_Six 1 year ago
    I like it so much its very cute and I loved the graphics
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  • Mikkel Stenild 1 year ago
    "Bye Dude" NOW THAT'S A QOUTE ON LEVEL WITH "we gonna need a bigger boat"

    Very inspiring, you got game! Love the after effects work!

    Props!
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  • Mski 1 year ago
    Wow, Loved it. Defiantly touched.
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  • Josh Pabst 1 year ago
    unreal. super fantastic.
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  • Chris Lew 1 year ago
    Man I LOVE the flipping animation of the text! Is there a tutorial you can direct me to to get this?
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  • Akil Ifill 1 year ago
    Fantastic Job Chris....
    Wow man!
    You need to come down in Barbados man!!!!!
    We could use you down here on some of our projects!!!!
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  • Jason R. Johnston 1 year ago
    Kooooo! Also, you're performance was awesome! Kid was cute, nice music choices, cute story...me likey!
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  • Bret Trigg Visual plus 1 year ago
    Those titles throughout the film were on point and awesome!
    makes boring on titles so much more fun and interactive:)
    good work man!
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  • Dominic Stevenson 1 year ago
    Love your videos man. I like your motion graphics text style alot. I'm impressed
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  • Michael Ypes plus 1 year ago
    Love the simplicity and excellently executed. Great job :)
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  • Tanner Wolfe 1 year ago
    Great video...Love the concept of the story!!
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  • Imaginox 1 year ago
    That's very impressive
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  • Pigfish★ 1 year ago
    i loved the graphics!!!! please please post an after effects tutorial! the music was great too!
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  • justin_itn 1 year ago
    wow.. that's great..
    love the graphics n the kid,she is cute
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  • Rob Potvin plus 1 year ago
    sweet man, just great!
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  • Nayak Cinema 1 year ago
    Its good, but needs more cutting.
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  • T.Rogers plus 1 year ago
    this was pretty awesome.
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  • Dan Hashemi 1 year ago
    First of all, that was brilliant!

    Does anyone have links to any tutorials on achieving this type of typography effect in AE?
  • Dan Hashemi 1 year ago
    Actually, I've got most of it down, but can't figure out how to do the masking for the text so that if the characters head moves around, the text displays/hides parts of it...any advice or guidance? :)
  • Dan Hashemi 1 year ago
    Well, to those who are interested...I'm not sure if I did this in the best possible way, but I got it to work:

    Basically, you take your video layer, use the Roto brush in AE, outline your character. Then, duplicate that layer, and inverse it....now place the text in between your layers and the text will appear as if its in between the subject and the background.

    If there is a proper/better/alternative way of doing this, please let me know :)
  • Chris Crutchfield plus 1 year ago
    Im not sure how i missed you posting these comments, I normally would have replied right away. But yes, essentiall you said it right. Just motion track your text to wherever you want it to go... then duplicate the live action layer, and place it on a layer above the text, then mask (or roto brush) that layer until you get your desired effect. You can also mask just the text itself with the pen tool, but that usually takes longer than just masking the base layer of video. I did this project before the roto brush was a feature in AE, so it was all by hand!
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  • veto 1 year ago
    greaaat! so inspiring.
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  • This is way cool!
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  • Jane Chung 1 year ago
    Chris!!! omigod, I LOVED THIS. Reminds me of MY daddy...except he hates the phone. ;)
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  • David Litwin 1 year ago
    This is really excellent in it's simplicity!
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  • Luxury Films 6 months ago
    i really feel you brove and can you please tell me something abotu the camera?
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  • I loved this. The girl's "fait" and innocence brought a tear to my eye.
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  • Niklas Krüger 5 months ago
    This clip is just gorgeous.
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  • illaDeuce 2 months ago
    Awesome. In every way. I hope to see you or your name on some type of large screen one day. All the best dude.
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