BERSERK-the black swordsman fan movie

Hi everybody! My name is Francesco from Italy. I write here because I would like to share with you my latest work. I am a great fan of Berserk and my hobby is cinema and cosplay so I've decided to put my efforts in it, with some friends of mine.I want to specify that this movie is made with ZERO BUDGET, so it has been realised in 4 months. I hope you enjoy it and let me know your impressions^^

the movie:
http://www.vimeo.com/2740962

the backstage (make-up,3d vfx ecc):
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MTTC5pGuc&feature=channel_page
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMZGleThUw&feature=related
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=tDx_hzsidl0&feature=related
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xGtq7XiMI&feature=related




 

Walter

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Thanks for posting, and welcome to the forum.  :void:

I saw this video a few months ago, and my first thoughts were that this works well visually, especially the great special effects. It's clear a lot of effort was put into the visual effects. But conceptually, it's a little off the mark.  For instance, I think it's very uncharacteristic of Guts to run from a fight -- especially some puny wheel guys that he can cut into toothpicks. I understand that he was fleeing to get in a better position to use the DS, but seeing him turn and run felt very wrong to me. Guts would have found a way to stand his ground, and it felt a little like a betrayal of the character to think he would do otherwise.

Anyway, do you envision this as a kind of proof-of-concept for future projects? Or was this just a fun short clip to do with friends? Either way, like I said, I think this works well visually. The director (you, I presume) certainly knew what he was doing for this kind of clip. 

Oh yeah, and the costumes look good. Not sure Guts' was made with a zero budget though  :guts: And that WoW music really needs to be replaced with something else. It's kind of a "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" moment when I heard a soundtrack provided by a recognizable MMORPG.

The allusion to that portion with the God Hand in volume 3 and 10 was a very cool touch for the credits.

PS: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=1J7KZibsdZo&feature=related (hahaha, the part with the blood is almost pornographic. LOVIN IT :carcus: )
 
Very fantastic work LedProduction! I commend you for putting something together that isn't an embarrassment to watch as a Berserk fan.
The costumes, make-up, special effects are all very well done for what I assume was very low budget. (Who has money these days right?)

I saw this on youtube coincidentally a few days after you first posted it and in my eyes, it remains the best Berserk fan movie to date.

I hope to see more from you in the future.

(Shouldn't this thread be moved to Creation Station?)
 
Yeah I saw this a few months back as well. I was really impressed by the quality of the special effects. Seriously.. I've seen worse special effects in movies that actually cost money to watch. Well done. I do agree with Walter though that Guts wouldn't react that way to a threat. Especially when he doesn't have someone by his side to protect.

Overall it's pretty cool but the terminology didn't exactly make me jump for joy.
 
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I liked it. You tried to capture the look of the manga with some of the images when Guts was attacking. I agree with the CGI comment, some Scifi channel movies don't look as good. Good job.
 

Griffith

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Very impressive considering the quality necessary to do any sort of Berserk adaptation, your limited resources, and what you achieved. It kind of reminded me of Mel Gibson movies, particularly The Passion and Apocalypto, obviously. I didn't have a problem with Guts running either, I mean, not anymore than I minded that he wasn't actually 6'5" and 280 pounds of muscle. I like the scene itself, and he technically did "run n' gun" when he fought the wheels in volume 18, so I can see how this was built off of that while being something specific to this adaptation. The only thing I'd change, other than the names to the Japanese official romanized spellings, is the sound the Dragon Slayer makes when dragged.
 
Incredible awesome work!
Good CG sequences, good way to include CG moments and real shots, smart use of story board!
Really impressed ( even if your guts should have got some more muscles hehehe :serpico: ) but what you've done is truly awesome. (Casca is beautiful lol)
Thanks a lot!

Edit : I like the ending music, what is it ?
 
I thank you all for your compliments, but I want to reply to some doubts you have.
Gatsu (I'm italian so I call him as the italian adaptation) runs away for 2 reasons: the first one is to quote the manga volume n.18,infact we wanted Gatsu to fight with the swords, but with our budget this was not possible and he wanted to look for Caska so he doesn't want to lose time to fight. The second one is a sort of challenge, like saying "hey wanna see if you are able to join me!" Obviously Gatsu wold not be so coward to escape.
As fot the soundtrack yeah you're right, we are working also on the music (there is a group of good musicians who has offerde to make the music of this movie) and it will be on line soon with the new soundtrack.
Now we are also working on other projects, as for example World of Warcraft.
 
Wow...This is so much better than any attempt made by Hollywood. I am impressed, I also loved the CGI effects, great choice of music and the camera movement makes it look almost like a documentary. I hope to see more of this in the future ^^
 

Aazealh

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LedProduction said:
Guts (I'm italian so I call him as the italian adaptation) runs away for 2 reasons: the first one is to quote the manga volume n.18,infact we wanted Guts to fight with the swords, but with our budget this was not possible and he wanted to look for Casca so he doesn't want to lose time to fight.

The problem is that in volume 18 Guts just runs through the enemies (mowing them down as he does) and keeps going forward without bothering to stop and fight them all. It shows they are insignificant obstacles. In your video he goes back on his steps, effectively retreating before them, and it's depicted as if they were hunting him down. Not the same thing at all.
 
I tried watching the movie but it lagged to no end. I tried downloading it and it lagged playing off of my hard drive, I asked someone else to watch it and it lagged for them too. Keep in mind im running a decent pc.

So could you please upload it to youtube? You could maybe use their new HD quality, that would work well. Let me know thanks.

Did it lag to the point where it was unwatchable for anyone else too?
 

Aazealh

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VirulentShuriken said:
I tried watching the movie but it lagged to no end. I tried downloading it and it lagged playing off of my hard drive, I asked someone else to watch it and it lagged for them too. Keep in mind im running a decent pc.

Install better codecs and/or the latest version of Flash Player.

VirulentShuriken said:
So could you please upload it to youtube? You could maybe use their new HD quality, that would work well. Let me know thanks.

It's been on YouTube for 5 months already, but apparently there's a problem with the sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZy_ZQsoaOk

VirulentShuriken said:
Did it lag to the point where it was unwatchable for anyone else too?

Played fine for me.
 
The problem is that in volume 18 Guts just runs through the enemies (mowing them down as he does) and keeps going forward without bothering to stop and fight them all. It shows they are insignificant obstacles. In your video he goes back on his steps, effectively retreating before them, and it's depicted as if they were hunting him down. Not the same thing at all

You do realize that he knows that, and you also realize the budget they where on? I'm sure people who know Vol. 18 are aware of what really happened in the manga. They probibly didn't bother to mention it as they could see the difficulty in creating that scene with what they had to work with.

Either way someone should front him some money to make a longer version with the capability to capture things more acuratly. But who says the movie has to follow the manga anyways? I personally like watching The Crow compared to reading the comic book version. Both are great, but to movie is quit a bit different than the comic. Why would you want to catpure everything from the comic and duplicate it exactly onto film? It would be the same thing, but in a different medium is all.

Don't get the wrong idea, i'm not trying to be an ass to you Aaz, but sometimes certain liberties need to be taken out of nescessity, and he had to. Maybe he should have changed the entire scene then, but it still worked in the medium he created.
 

Aazealh

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Beings_Mythos said:
You do realize that he knows that

Don't make assumptions.

Beings_Mythos said:
and you also realize the budget they where on?

Unrelated.

Beings_Mythos said:
I'm sure people who know Vol. 18 are aware of what really happened in the manga. They probibly didn't bother to mention it as they could see the difficulty in creating that scene with what they had to work with.

No, they probably didn't mention it because they didn't notice. And I don't think that scene's much harder to recreate than what was done. Nor do I think doing another scene like the one that was done but keeping in line with Guts' character would be difficult, which was actually my point.

Beings_Mythos said:
Either way someone should front him some money to make a longer version with the capability to capture things more acuratly.

I don't think what I pointed out is the result of a low budget, so I doubt it'd be fixed by having a better production value.

Beings_Mythos said:
But who says the movie has to follow the manga anyways? I personally like watching The Crow compared to reading the comic book version. Both are great, but to movie is quit a bit different than the comic. Why would you want to catpure everything from the comic and duplicate it exactly onto film? It would be the same thing, but in a different medium is all.

Yeah I don't think you quite understand the point of the character doing things he'd normally do and not doing things he wouldn't normally do.

Beings_Mythos said:
Don't get the wrong idea, i'm not trying to be an ass to you Aaz, but sometimes certain liberties need to be taken out of nescessity, and he had to. Maybe he should have changed the entire scene then, but it still worked in the medium he created.

Don't get the wrong idea, but I think you just completely missed my point and are making a really bad case of defending something that doesn't need you to defend it. I also think you should avoid double posting in the future so that I don't have to fix your posts.

In conclusion, depicting Guts in a faithful manner isn't difficult and not doing it wasn't a necessity, it was most likely the result of a lack of either attention or interest.
 

Th3Branded0ne

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Beings_Mythos said:
You do realize that he knows that, and you also realize the budget they where on? I'm sure people who know Vol. 18 are aware of what really happened in the manga. They probibly didn't bother to mention it as they could see the difficulty in creating that scene with what they had to work with.

Well the setting doesn't matter much. The main point in that scene, whether is in another medium is that Guts was in a hurry to find Casca, so I don't think he wanted to stop to fight them all.
 

Walter

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Th3Branded0ne said:
Guts was in a hurry to find Casca, so I don't think he wanted to stop to fight them all.
Why would a guy that can slash through more than a dozen people/things at once divert his course for a bunch of wheelie zombies?
 
Don't get the wrong idea, but I think you just completely missed my point and are making a really bad case of defending something that doesn't need you to defend it. I also think you should avoid double posting in the future so that I don't have to fix your posts.

In conclusion, depicting Guts in a faithful manner isn't difficult and not doing it wasn't a necessity, it was most likely the result of a lack of either attention or interest.

I did miss your point. I had gotten the impression that you where pointing out the inaccuracy of the transplanting of "story line events" and how they where put into the movie, when instead you where pointing out the inaccuracy of how Guts character was depicted instead. Sometimes on these sites people tend to get so anal over minute details, that I end up missinterpreting people when they arn't being so. In preson it's not a problem usually, but over the net there is a lack of tone. Also hence me stating "Don't get the wrong idea" before I state something that I think might be taken in the wrong manner. I noticed you did the same this time, but wether you are mocking me or where sincere, doesn't really matter.

Anyways I think the mistake you pointed out in how Guts was depicted was more a lack of attention to detail instead of a lack of interest. It takes a lot of interest to put in the effort of even a low end film. Sorrey for posting such a bulky response, but I felt compelled to defend my momentary lapse of reason I aparently had.
 

Aazealh

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Beings_Mythos said:
Sorrey for posting such a bulky response, but I felt compelled to defend my momentary lapse of reason I aparently had.

No problem, it happens to everyone once in a while. :SK:
 
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Walter said:
For instance, I think it's very uncharacteristic of Guts to run from a fight

Agree, for me it looks like this was to make the movie longer than it should have been if he directly fight.

Walter said:
I understand that he was fleeing to get in a better position to use the DS

Didn't know Guts like nintendo games :ganishka:
 

Bunnet

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Bringing that into the mixture how come there no more Berserk video games? Gosh Bleach and Naruto overwhelm the anime video games and I'm just getting sort of tire of them
 
As a fellow filmmaker I would like to say it is a good film especially with nothing but your own time and no money involved.

Its your take on the story, so I won't say anything about that, the only thing I thought lagged imo was the intensity of Guts. It would of been nice to see some more rage, enjoyment, salivating, and it would be nice too make it seem that guts is swinging more "weight." The speed and weight ratio didn't match. Not that it was to fast, it actually was too slow imo, and his body placement needed to complement that fact he was swinging a lot of weight. So I guess when it comes down to it, more body language.

But dude, mistakes or not, you did something a lot better than others have. Good outfit too.
 
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