Mark Moore
June 21st, 2003, 10:23 PM
College-Film.com had a short film contest recently and MY SKIN won the voting poll. It is an amazing short, so I hope you don't my posting it here to watch. It is one of the best shorts I've seen in a long time.
http://www.blackcabproductions.com/MS.Movie.1.html
Here are the production notes: courtesy of www.college-film.com.
“My Skin” was shot on Mini DV with a Sony TRV-900 camera, over four 18-hour days. The location was the second-floor apartment of actor Tony Simmons’ duplex. The windows were blacked-out with opaque black plastic to allow for daytime shooting. 15 camera setups were utilized to capture approximately 80 shots.
Lighting was designed to enhance the room’s already existing practical lighting –– only 3 film lights were exploited as fill and to create the blue-green ceiling.
To achieve the overhead spinning shots, a special rotating contraption was built and fondly named “The Device”, due to its rack-like appearance and the vertiginous torture it put the camera through.
The film was edited in Final Cut Pro and the soundtrack built in Pro Tools, before being mixed and re-imported into Final Cut Pro for synching to the master cut.
The opening title sequence was created using images composed in Photoshop, which were scanned in from the original finished poem, “My Love (Skin)” from the film –– and then imported into Final Cut Pro to be distorted and animated. All color timing, compositing, and motion effects were accomplished using Final Cut Pro.
http://www.blackcabproductions.com/MS.Movie.1.html
Here are the production notes: courtesy of www.college-film.com.
“My Skin” was shot on Mini DV with a Sony TRV-900 camera, over four 18-hour days. The location was the second-floor apartment of actor Tony Simmons’ duplex. The windows were blacked-out with opaque black plastic to allow for daytime shooting. 15 camera setups were utilized to capture approximately 80 shots.
Lighting was designed to enhance the room’s already existing practical lighting –– only 3 film lights were exploited as fill and to create the blue-green ceiling.
To achieve the overhead spinning shots, a special rotating contraption was built and fondly named “The Device”, due to its rack-like appearance and the vertiginous torture it put the camera through.
The film was edited in Final Cut Pro and the soundtrack built in Pro Tools, before being mixed and re-imported into Final Cut Pro for synching to the master cut.
The opening title sequence was created using images composed in Photoshop, which were scanned in from the original finished poem, “My Love (Skin)” from the film –– and then imported into Final Cut Pro to be distorted and animated. All color timing, compositing, and motion effects were accomplished using Final Cut Pro.