Sunset Fortress by Chris Hestnes and Allan Hagen

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absolutly stunning i love the end. its pure brilliance thanks for a great video CMS

who that was great man, love it! looks something like the dan and dave hidden footage video.. great work guys, like always!

You two guys know this but I really love this video. The backround is beatiful and some of the shots are just amazing. Good work Chris and Allan.

The setting was beautiful... the editing was clean, and the flourishes were smooth, but I wish there was more flourishing! Where's wotb??? 4/5 great vid!

Thank you very much for all of your motivational and inspirational comments. I appreciate it at a lot, and it is this kind of feedback that keeps me doing what I love - filming and editing ,besides the good ol' cards ofcourse. Regarding the snow project mentioned above - I know this is completely irrelevant, but I have a bunch of ideas and a perfect piece of music to use, so we'll probably end up going through with that. Also, regarding this video, it is important to know, that this was a web-optimized version, hence the fairly low quality. I did not take into consideration that it would be converted into flash, which is a big let-down for me, but should we happen to win, something I don't consider impossible (nor do I think we will, though), I can render a very high resolution one optimized for the DVD release or whatever needed. Just thought I'd put that down. Thanks. Can't wait to see who will win. Congratulations in advance to whoever does. Allan.

Holy XXXX !!! This movie is wonderful. WOW!! 5/5

i didnt say the dude was gay alright?!! overall the vid was good.. its just that i didnt see cards for a good 20 seconds. then it started.. it was cool.. DnD cool.. and its just my opinion that the ending part was not that manly. hehehe.... he could have made the card throw kinda like madison style right? cool..

i said it looked kinda gay... jeeze... that just my opinion.

Great job as always guys!

the ending was kinda gay though

clean... very clean.

Beautiful place to film...watched with my mouth open...awesome, I am really impressed by this video! good job :) 5/5

Thanks, everyone, indeed, and Chris, for suggesting doing this. I wanted to put my camera and editing work to use somewhere, but I felt I simply didn't have "the skills". Besides, how could I film myself? So, a collab was the perfect solution. Thanks for the comments, people. And Sleight_of_Hand, that is a wonderful idea, ALTHOUGH IT IS SO DAMN FREAKING COLD, that you can execute flourishes in maybe 30 seconds, badly, before you have to re-heat your hands. Unless you have a generator and a hair dryer behind the camera, to heat the person's hands.. I think I'm up for the challenge though. ;) After the Magic Weekend project.

it would be extremely good if u did flourishes in a snow field ^^ how mad would that look on video?

ah, thanks for all the wonderful compliments guys. Now I guess it's time for the excuses, if anyone cares. First, it was freakin' cold, so most of the stuff was damn hard to execute, for me at least. Damn you, Norway! Second, this edit was meant to be sort of a template for the final video. We planned to do some reshooting of most of the material and throw in some more original stuff, keeping only parts of what you see here, but sadly, due to weather conditions (damn you, Norway, again...) we could not. What the hell, excuses are of no use, this is what it turned out to be. Ah well, I think it turned out very well though, especially the editing. I've got to thank Allan for being part of this. I couldn't have done it without you, man. Chris

yes, you are a jerk if you don't rate every single video 5/5. just kidding, this video has the BEST cinematography and editing out of all of them, however the flourishes could've been better, but it still looks great and is one of the videos I'm watching over and over. can't wait for your guys "Magic Weekend" vidoc , best of luck with the contest. edit: forgot to add 4/5 from me dogg just short of perfect because of the content, I wish we could rate style and substance separately, you get 5/5 for professional style.

this shud be 5/5.... people are so mean. wouldnt be surprised if they went to a library to rate others badly 50 times over...... or rate themselves on the other hand for a bit of goods. To the positive , this can be one of the few videos comparable to Virtuoso, who currently lead the ratings by 0.20. GW ALL OVER BOYS SOH

I love the look of this video. The colors are great! Reminds me of something I might watch on Showtime. Keep it up. Cheers, dan

I loved how it looked.. but didnt really like anything in terms of card handling.. felt like there was such possibility for showcasing stuff, but you did same ol same ol.. idk, was alright, sick edits. 3.5/4