This movie has undergone yet another title change. It is now called Dream It Outloud. And here is the new website for the movie. Perhaps this means we have some hope of seeing it released on a DVD. That would be nice, it's been a long wait for this movie.
http://www.dreamitoutloud-themovie.com/index2.html
Nice find. This film has had such an unfortunate production history. It's a very good film ( in my opinion ). It's also why it took me so long to even hear about and see it. I liked the title Have Dreams, Will Travel but the new one is okay. I decided to pick up the DVD ( Brazilian import, of course ) off eBay as the YouTube version just didn't cut it and I wanted to see the film as intended. That's not to say it isn't a good preview of the film but the quality ( and some short scenes ) were lacking.
The one thing I was somewhat disappointed about was it seems the audio / video quality suffered some compared to most DVDs and likely due to the whole budget fiasco. It's not terrible or anything but isn't quite up to the par I would have quite hoped for. Almost as if it was made in the late '80s or early to mid '90s. Though I was able to acquire the movie, a higher quality DVD release ( doesn't need to be HD ) and an official soundtrack ( preferably through iTunes ) would indeed interest me though I doubt the former to happen, even in light of this rebirth.
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Glad you like it. It is from Family Guy. Brian kicks ass.
I've thought about doing that to a screaming child but I'd rather not get thrown out because of it. Maybe some day...
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I've seen some online rips of this film, and those as well as the trailer at the new website seem to all have the same problem: poor film quality. It all looks murky where it should have been shimmering with beauty. Is the Brazilian DVD the same way? If the trailer looks this way, I'm afraid that may be as good as it gets. Did they film in 16mm and blow it up or something?
The trailer quality at the new website is indeed the quality of the DVD. I'm no expert ( at all ) for filming but I was hoping it was just a poor final editing / digital conversion sort of thing. Even the audio on the DVD is fairly 'flat' and a little 'noisy'. I've ripped the entire film and even ripped the very ending in the absolute highest quality I could to get to extract the audio for the "Dream It Out Loud" song and it doesn't sound terrible but definitely a very noticeable lack of quality and fullness. This is also in comparison to some other rips I've done that have turned out much better and fairly close to the original DVDs.
It would be nice to know if the filming quality was poor or not. Give us an idea of a chance to make it up to par on today's DVD releases. The DVD also lacks any kind of bonus features ( commentary, interviews, deleted scenes, etc ). That's a hint it was created very quickly and as cheap as possible. Though... I don't know if it helps your assumption or not but the film on the DVD only takes up ~2/3 of the screen ( the rest is a black border ). I'm not talking widescreen either. I'm talking a ~1/3 border all the way around, not just filler on the top and bottom.
Another thing I'm curious about is if they will decide to edit the original film with the new title or just re-market and re-package it with "Dream It Out Loud" on the DVD sleeve, etc. Even the trailer on the new website is one of the originals with the Have Dreams, Will Travel title.
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The audio was real bad. All the environmental sounds were included. It made it sound a lot older than 2007.
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The final film ( DVD release and later trailers ) seems to have been poorly converted, more of an '80s quality. This is very likely due to the entire financial limits. In a way, one could argue it works since the film is set in 1962 but that wasn't the intent. There does seem to be hope for true quality if it ever makes a U.S. release from a company with money by taking a look at this trailer that retains the proper lighting since it was created earlier in the project when there were still funds to pay people and done properly. Seems to be a theatrical bound trailer considering the length,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXSRgwEEq7E
You can tell it was earlier since it was still advertised as the original title of A West Texas Story
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I expect there's a decent master somewhere. It would be good to have a decent version. I heard some people weren't paid either, so I could only imagine there wasn't many funds towards the end of this project.
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Thanks HDP,
Looks like there will be some good VK movies coming out again. Yeah!
Appreciate the update on this film too! :-)