Ante Up - Crazy Martial Arts Fight Scene!

hey how can i get in touch with these guys im producer i like to talk to them

Hi highoctane, this is Tyler the producer / director of the film. E-mail me at vendetta_film@ yahoo.ca. I'd love to talk.

Good job. I am also a film maker and I have always wanted to shoot a fight scene with guns and martial arts and cool stuff with a low budget. I definitely pick up some film techniques from you. Cheers.

I'm always glad to receive criticism from a fellow filmmaker. If you're ever shooting in the Toronto area feel free to give me a shout.

Great to hear from you buddy! Thanks for the kind words. All the best to you

The format that this was shot on was Panasonic DVC Pro. I'm not sure what the actual model of the camera was. There's no way that I can count the takes that we did. Hehehe.
For the bottle breaks we could only do 2 takes each (only had 4 breakaway bottles) and we rolled 2 cameras at a time for those shots and any of the harder stunts to aviod the need for multpile takes. So the number of takes ranged from anywhere between 1 and 20 for each shot. Shots where one of us have to catch a bottle and then continue fighting obviously took many takes to get right.
Good questions. Thanks.

Thanks, man. Is this someone I know?

I prefer Final Cut Pro when it's available to me but I cut this on my home PC system which runs Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. Did all sound design and colour correction in Premiere too.
Thanks for the comment.

I'm trying to thank you each individually but it's getting to be a lot of work!
I hope everyone who likes the film is giving it a nice high rating. I gotta keep that score up! :)
If this does well enough I'll put up some more cool fights.
Thanks for the support!

Hear hear!

Thanks a lot, Alex. Of course! You can call me to direct your next feature anytime. Good hearing from you.

I hope you're doing good yourself.

...but you were really close!
Much appreciated. It took us about a month to choreograph, two rehearsals per week. We shot it in two 9 hour days, and we had to change about half of the choreography while on set! Ideally a good fight scene should take 'ages' to plan and shoot, but we were on limited time.

watch more Van Damme (or, God forbid, even Steven Seagal) movies ;o)

I know a bunch of Van Damme haters are gonna stomp on me now but whatever! JCVD was king in his day! (though I admit, he doesn't hold a candle to any of the Asian action stars)