It's a TV show. Canadians can watch it at 10:00 local time on Global. Maybe we should describe it to our American audience.

that was a cool peace of work. I saw some very nice shots, but the scenes only take half a second. I like your the things you did with the special effects. The toothpicks are amazing. I think you shouldn't overdo it. The same for the action work. You don't want the movie to be fake, cause it is hard to make action look like it is real. You can tell from some of your action scenes that is lacks somethings (mayby the colours or the way you handle the camcorder..stiff somehow). Try to stand out with cinematography.
I like the nightshot of the moon. For the rest, nice work. YOu have talent.

Thank you for the critique, its good to hear praise aswell as where you think I could do better :)

The action scene stuff (car flying over the bridge) is very dull in colour I must admit, it was a hard day to shoot, as the weather was miserable and it kept raining on and off, and as we were shooting on the motorway, everything is grey anyway, but I definately think I could have done better there.

I'm going to alter the showreel as time goes on, gradually replacing the showreel with new footage I shoot.

Thank you!

Anymore comments anyone? Is the music over the top? Is dramatic a ridiculous name to call this showreel? Do you think there is a better way of doing the showreel? All welcome!

Hello everyone,

I recently made a 1 minute movie with the intention of participating at the "1 Minute Film & Sound Awards", a video competition in Belgium.

The jury made a selection out of the 180 movies that were send in. They picked 30, including mine.

There are 3 jury prices and 1 audience price. The audience price will be voted on the internet.

I would really appreciate it and be greatfull if you would watch my movie and vote on it. My movie is far from excellent(I'm just 17, I can still improve ;) ), so I know I probably won't win any of the jury prices, I'm putting all my hope on the audience price.

Here's the link: http://kingkong.be-creative.be/1Minuut2005/1minuut.php

Some "Dutch for beginners"

- My movie is titled "Bilwinco" from Ruben Vandepitte (movies are alphabetically)

- Bekijk dit filmpje means watch this movie

- Stem op dit filmpje means vote for this movie

- Naam means name

- Voornaam means first name

- It's important that the email adres you enter exists.

Thanks for voting !!! I can really use your help!

Colorado members,

My documentary "American Jouster" will be screening at the Breckenridge Festival of Film this Saturday, at noon. It's the official premiere, and unfortunately, I will be unable to attend. But the festival looks to be a good one, in its 25th year. So enjoy!

"If you don't trust the other guy on the other horse, don't get on your horse..." American Jouster

After picking up 8 awards during a very successful run on the US festival circuit, Blackwater Elegy (www.blackwaterelegy.com) will finally make its New York City premiere at Damah New York (www.the411nyc.com/damah/) tomorrow, with a second screening Saturday!!!

Blackwater Elegy (www.blackwaterelegy.com), starring Barry Corbin (http://imdb.com/name/nm0179224/) (One Tree Hill, Northern Exposure) and John Cullum (http://imdb.com/name/nm0191633/) (Law & Order: SVU, ER) has screened as an Official Selection of over a dozen film festivals, and has received 6 Best Short Film Awards. I (http://imdb.com/name/nm1389377/) received the Best Cinematography Award for my work on the film at the 2004 Thunderbird International Film Festival, and John Cullum (http://imdb.com/name/nm0191633/) took home the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2004 Tambay Film Festival.

Blackwater Elegy (www.blackwaterelegy.com) will screen as part of SCREENING REEL 4 at 4:00 P.M. tomorrow, at The Lion Theater. The film will screen again at 6:00 P.M. Saturday at Studio Theatre Row. Both the Lion and Studio Theatre are located at 410 West 42nd Street. Tickets will be available at the door on a first come, first serve basis. Or you can reserve tickets by emailing Kaiti: kaiti@the411nyc.com

WHAT: Blackwater Elegy (www.blackwaterelegy.com) - NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE - Damah Film Tour New York (www.the411nyc.com/damah/)
WHEN: Friday 9/9 @ 4:00 P.M. and Saturday 9/10 @ 6:00 P.M. (www.the411nyc.com/pdf/damahschedule.pdf)
WHERE: The Lion & Studio Theatre Row 410 W. 42nd Street Manhattan

For more information please check out:

Damah New York (www.the411nyc.com/damah/)
http://www.the411nyc.com/damah/

Blackwater Elegy (www.blackwaterelegy.com)
http://www.blackwaterelegy.com

IMDB (http://imdb.com/title/tt0384851/combined)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0384851/combined

To reserve tickets email Kaiti: kaiti@the411nyc.com

I will be attending the first screening tomorrow afternoon. Unfortunately, I am headed out of town for a shoot Saturday morning and won't be able to make it to the Saturday afternoon screening.

I have been asked to participate in the filmmaker Q&A taking place tomorrow evening from 6:30p.m. to 8:00p.m. at the Studio Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street. Would love to see any DVi friends who can make it!

What clip do you think is filmed better? Clip A. http://media.putfile.com/I-hate-filming1Mbps_Stream001 or clip B. http://media.putfile.com/jasonhugeollie_cusomnijja

I think A is better.

A: Interesting angles and perspectives with the fisheye.

The last shot wasn't as strong.

B: The location has some nice colors to it.
I didn't like how the camera droops at the end.

Hello everyone,

My latest award-winning short film entitled THE WARNING is now online. I shot the movie on the XL-1S and edited on Adobe Premiere Pro. I even had the camera on a steadicam for a bunch of shots. You can check it out at www.maptorch.com/the_warning.htm. I will be posting this film in three parts, one each Friday. The film stars some very talented young actors from central Ohio, Dan Kiely (Richard), Ria Filippakis (Pam), Jeff Smith (Mystery Man), Nichole Lavins (Kelly) and Elisabeth Wenzel (Marylin Monroe).

So go check out the movie, and while your there stay to watch my other short film entitled WHAT NOW? and the trailer for my feature film JACK'S HABIT recently released on video as part of a 4-movie set called Psychotic Tendencies (look for it wherever DVDs are sold online!).

Please feel free to discuss the film, and thanks for watching!

Alec Rossel
Writer/Director

Welcome to the boards Alec.
If I were you I would try to move your post to the DV for the Masses board here, that's the place where people actually show their stuff, or you can ask one of the moderators to do it for you.

I watched the trailer: good editing, good music and sound, good framing, story looked compelling, BUT I really didn't like the lightning. It is as if you didn't light at all, and that's why I think it still looks a little bit like a home movie.
If you would lit it, or lit it better, I think it could have been great!

Now I've watched the first part: I didn't like the lettertype of the credits in the beginning. Nice steadycam shot.
Good acting. You know how to build suspension, but sometimes your framing isn't always completely good. Maybe you should train yourself a little bit more with the steadycam shots? On their own, their nice, but sometimes they are a little bit 'crooked' (don't know if this is the right word, searched via internet for the english translation, it's not my native tongue).
And if you do that, it's better to make a style of it, like some film-noirs, or to not have it at all.
Then you fade out after the scene with the pistol (very good shot, you don't see the guy's face!) to the woman, but I would just cut to here, without the fade out.
Then the scene with that woman, THAT one had nice lightning! It looked like you desaturated your colours in post, but it looked nice, and less 'home movie' then the other parts (I'm now only talking about lightning and colour)
and be careful with zooming.

Conclusion: you really know how to get people to want more, and you know how to build suspension. Acting is good, editing also exept for the fades maybe, but you should try to get more attention to lightning and colour.
Best regards, and I'll sure try to look at the second part!

Hey Mathieu,

Thanks very much for the in depth response. It's great that these boards are out there with people who are considerate enough to take the time and care that you did to critique someone's film.

I know the zoom you're talking about in the park; it drives me crazy as well. The camera was on the steadicam for that zoom and it was as smooth as they could get it for me. I probably should have just cut it out.

I definately used minimal lighting in this movie. I wanted the diner and EXT shots to have a very "real feeling" so I lit the diner with a Chinese lantern to expose Richard's (the main character) face and that was about it. For the EXTs I used a bounce card.

It's interesting that you bring up framing, this is the first time I was able to work with a bona fide steadicam and it was a learning experience for me. I need to be more cognizant of the framing when the camera is on the rig.

I think the transition between the gunman's rifle and the woman in the park could have worked without the fade, but I didn't want to suggest a totally linear relationship between them.

The next part has some nice INT lighting that I think you'll appreciate.

Thanks again, and don't miss Part 2! See if you can figure out what's going on and what may happen.

BTW: Your English is great

Alec

I get a timeout when trying to connect to your site.

Clip B has one random shot... apple and oranges. Skate Videos all look the same, someone needs to get creative and figure something out besides the low fisheye. Get a steadycam and loy mode adapter and run after people... cut in some POVs... anything but barrell distorted fisheye shots over and over and over....




ash =o)

I get a timeout when trying to connect to your site.

Yeah, I can't access it either!

http://media.putfile.com/torpeonline

hello all, a music video shot with a makeshift consumer camcorder. hence the video noise. done to HEY JUDE.

enjoy.

http://media.putfile.com/wbseptember

a short film starring the popular Bernadette Monisit of "The Witness".

Enjoy!

Na kayasa aning di na hatagan og tsansa ang mga cebuano films. LOL

Hey guys,

I think you may have been trying to access the site when there were power outages in LA. I called my web hosting service and they said that the power outages there were effecting their servers. What a great time for that huh? Friggin Murphy.

Everything is back up and running now in case you haven't seen it yet.

Alec

Hey everyone,

Part 2 of THE WARNING is ready to watch at MapTorch Films (http://www.maptorch.com/the_warning.htm). If you liked Part 1 and you were anxious to see the next installment go check it out now! Part 3, the conclusion, will be up next Friday at noon.

Don't forget to stick around and check out some of the other movies on the site if you haven't already.

Please feel free to discuss this part as well, what do you think is going on? What do you think will happen?

ENJOY!

Alec

Hmm, kinda feel odd giving my opinion I don't have any movie-making experience, but as a viewer...

I liked part 1 more. Both are intriguing and a little suspenseful, and the main character's (note writing guy) acting is decent. I'm thinking maybe he'll "bloom" in some later scenes/parts.

I really didn't like the ladie's dialogue with him in the restaurant in part 2 though - it sounded like it was read off and a little forced. Maybe you were trying to convey something with that tone though?

I am interested in the rest though!

Justin,

Don't feel odd, I post on here to get opinions, I really appreciate it when people take the time to watch and tell me what they think.

You may be on to something with her tone though.

Thanks again for watching and look for Part 3 next Friday.

Alec

Hi!

I am beginning my first feature film called STRANGETOWN, in mid-october and in that occasion I have a question:

I am operating the camera and directing myself. I have beautiful locations
, most of them outside, but how can I effectively light the inside-ones?
I mean in a REALLY simple way. It is a time- issue.

Hope you have some ideas.

Eh....open the windows? :-) I've got a set of 500w tungstens that were used to light the indoor scenes of my last project. They were only about $200 from B&H (www.bhphotovideo.com) and worked great.

Well crew,

Im pretty sure my subscription at ifilm is just about over.
So to get full value, and some feedback, I thought id give you all a final chance to check out this short i made late last year with my home made 35mm adapter. "The New Day"



http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2669574

I have been a bit lazy this year in making stuff which is strange becuase last year i was stacking shelves in a department store and trying my ass off to get a "real" job and also make a decent shorts.This year, however im i have finally got thaty job, Im producing commercials but, ive only made a wedding video and some "run and gun" of my new kitten!. "Go Figure" as my North American friends say.


Cheers,
Ben Gurvich

The film is done well, also it is real good to see another aussie short online.

A few things though:

The sound could be a lot cleaner, is bad compression or what?.
Couldve had another seen building up to a climax. Just my opinion though.

B.Sundry

This was very hard to follow for me. Maybe it was the audio and the accents.

I kinda like the lense depth and slight vignetting though.

Thanks for Watching Justin. Appreciate the comments too.

This was very hard to follow for me. Maybe it was the audio and the accents.

The story for me was really an exercise in making a dramtic piece on Minidv
Not much really happens, as you can see, its more about the main character internalizing everything that happens around him. The blandness is sort of a stylistic choice.

As far as the accent, it can be hard at times. I recently spoke to my Canadian mother inlaw on the phone and with the delay and all the different vernacular it made it a bit hard for her.

I used the Box to give a film look, and make it not look so video and cliche.
All the sound was dubbed with a Rode omnidriectional mic. Unfortunately i didnt use it in a studio just a quiet room, butit picked up the humming of the PC.


I kinda like the lense depth and slight vignetting though.

Yeah i used a 50mm nikkor 1.8 and my home made dof box adds some nice grain.

:)

I think the audio issue wasnt a matter of production, just web compression with the accent and perhaps the underlying music.

"Long Brown Coat" is a short film written / directed / produced by Dean Bull (little ole me).

Check out the trailer at the website: www.Longbrowncoat.com

The short was shot using the mini35 (rented from fellow dvinfo'er Eric at indie rentals) attached to the dvx100 and the entire film was designed and all the sets were constructed from the ground up. Entire budget was 2000 bucks so I think we stretched the dollar pretty far.

For anyone is San Diego, "Long Brown Coat" will be playing at the San Diego Film Festival. The film also got accepted into the Nevada City Film Festival, and The International Festival of Independent Horror in Illinois. Just waiting to hear back from the other 35 Festivals I submitted too...

The site also has some behind the scenes photos of the sets, make-up etc.

If you got any questions, just throw em out and I will answer them as best I can.

Dean - Film Fabricator

Hey everyone,

Part 3 of THE WARNING (http://www.maptorch.com/the_warning.htm) is up! Go check out the conclusion of this short film and let me know what you thought. If you need to refresh your memory on the other parts, just download all three using the links provided on the page to right click on, and watch them back to back.

Thanks for watching, enjoy!

Alec

I was anticipating this. ;)

Overall I thought it was a decent short from execution of story to cinematography. One particular thing though - in the 3rd part I noticed alot of audio clipping in one particular tense scene with Richard (don't wanna spoil it).

I also wasn't sure who the shot guy at the end was... maybe he was from a 1st or 2nd part, which I did see both - but forgot about.

I thought the character of Richard was generally good and interesting. Again in the thread for the 2nd part I had a tough time believing the woman's dialogue with Richard in the diner. I don't think it was so much the dialogue but the forced execution. The sunglassed-guy... would've been interesting to see a little bit of his life or background like we did with Richard so that we know how he plays into this whole equation. Acting was OK but seemed cliched at times.

But overall a nice short that builds up suspense although for me a confusing ending.

Just for the records, skatemovies are all far from the same!

Take for example Adio's movie, they hired two of the best graphic designers available (cant remember their names, ofcourse) to spice it all up. The results were an amazing movie, with a lot of really nice effects to it.
Apart from that, a lot of the time the cameraman rides behind the skateboarder on a custom dolly - yup, its a skateboard!

Hey Justin,

Thanks for watching and offering your comments. I can't believe you didn't recognize the guy at the end. I'm sure if you look again you will realize who he is. You can PM me if you still don't know who he is.

Alec

Friends,

The next horribly bad chapter in the Bad Cat series is now available!

In this chapter, we find our foxy feline Garfield finally taking out his owner permanently in a rather gruesome way: Using his 4-year-old daughter as bait.

Bad Cat 4 was filmed with a Sony DSR-PD170 camera in native DVCAM, true 1.78:1 widescreen.

Bad Cat 4 is now available for download in MPEG1 (352x240 @ 1000k), MPEG2 (720x480 @ 6000k), Quicktime H.264 and MPEG4 256k and 64k streaming media files.

Download Bad Cat 4 here: http://loudorangecat.com

Greetings...I recently finished this video for a local band.

I shot on a Canon XL2 and a K3 S16. Editing was done in PPro 1.5 with Canopus DVstorm2 and AE 6.5.

WMV file, 30 mb.

http://www.extremesoundonline.com/video/bsl/tilldecember.wmv


Please leave comments! Thanks!

friggin' awsome man.

How did you do the snow at the end with the band?

Thanks!

It was done with a chauvet snow machine....it sort of like a soapy foam actually. The snow during the graveyard scene was added in AE with Trapcode Particular.

Hey everybody,

Over the past couple months, I've been doing an "internet TV show" about my city's local music scene. It's a half-hour video file that can be downloaded at any time, with new episodes coming out every Tuesday. It features interviews, news and live shows, and has received some pretty good feedback so far.

All seven episodes are available online for the public to check out (no registration or anything like that is necessary). Most of them are about 125MB in WMV format (not the greatest, I know) but they shouldn't take too long to download from my server (a few minutes for most people).

Most of the show has been shot with my friend's Canon ZR50, a small consumer DV camera. Most of the live audio is taken from a special custom mix from the sound board recorded to a minidisc recorder and then sent to me through my server by my friend who does audio for the show. What could be considered the worst mic in existence has been used in most episodes for interviews and you'll find out pretty quickly why I don't use it anymore.

There haven't been any new episodes since early August because I was waiting to get my new camera (Canon XL2) before I kept going, although there will be a new episode sometime this week because I was able to use a camera from work (local TV station).

If you've got some time to kill, check out an episode or two. The one I'm most happy with so far is episode 7, although it's an hour long and I don't know if you'll have the time. But if anyone does check it out and would like to provide a bit of feedback, it would be much appreciated!

Everything has been a learning process. I've been making little improvements and adding new elements to every episode and I'd like to think that each one is better than the last.

Okay, enough blabbing!

http://underthebridge.mumps.ca/

Click 'Watch Latest Episode' and select an episode.

Hope you like! Constructive criticism is great!


-mark

They won't work for some reason. I'm getting an error message once I try and access the episodes through the site. Maybe it's because I'm on a Mac?

Hmm, the videos will work on Windows Media Player and Winamp. I've heard some people say they've had trouble downloading the episodes on their Macs so that very well could be the reason. When I have more time, I'll be making Quicktime versions of all the episodes.

Sorry!

Here's a music video (not my kind of music, but work is work...), shot with Canon XL1s. Forget the music and focus on the girls. :)

www.mytempdir.com/177679

No steady-like tools. All handwork.

Edit with Premiere. Post in After Effects.

These commercials were shot on a Sony DSR-PD170 and edited in Final Cut Pro HD and Motion. Shooting from the inside of a building out sucks.

SPOT 1 - Totally unbelievable scenario (http://www.cassadvertising.com/video%20files/mac/cass%20antidish%2001.mov)
SPOT 2 - Makes a great snack container (http://www.cassadvertising.com/video%20files/mac/cass%20antidish%2002.mov)

Nicely done, John...even the left-handed handshake. ;-)

hello all
I posted a while ago on my first film alien autopsy but with a predator on the table instead filmed in my garage at home. a film we needed for a bigger film to be shown in during the main movie.

Didnt get much response maby because it is a fan film?or cause we used alreday fimilar creatures?and music?

anyway heres a quick teaser raw clips from 3 out of 12 tapes shot on 3 canon Xl1s

The costumes are all custom made by us and the story is our oun aside from the well known creatures and music..there is alot of editing to do...so technicaly this is my first film, first time with a camera and actors..it was fun but a hell of alot of work one I would most love to do again soon. heres a link hope you like it..or the idea of it anyway.

please let me know what you think so far.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/5821168361310126/raw_clips_small/

this is our first outakes vid one of a few Im shure to come

http://www.zippyvideos.com/1914097641310206/outakes_part_one/

Pete

Wow, awesome job on the costumes. I look forward to seeing the final product.

Awesome.

BUT... I feel everything too slow. Most of the shots looks like slow motion, and that isn't good for action sequences. The same in less time, maybe result as I prefer.

About the costumes... ¿self made?

As I said, impressive job.

Hello all. I have not posted in a while, but wanted to share my trailer for comments and criticism.

We spent about 6 months following a promising young motocross rider through several major amateur national races. The link is to a trailer for the final project.

I would love to hear what y'all think.


http://www.zoohoot.com/mx/haulinass/trailer_512.wmv

The file is not on a streaming server, so please save then watch for best results. It is about 22 megs.

Gday all,

A friend and I are getting close to shooting our first short - here's a rough edit of some test footage we took to get a sense of how the XL2 would handle low light, and how the scene might play out. I quite like what the camera has been able to achieve, but I get a sense we can do better. I've got 73 questions, but if ya'll could help me out with a couple it'd be much appreciated.

Any thoughts on what does and doesn't work with respect to “the look”, and what can be done better? And how might I capture the audio of running footsteps effectively, keeping in mind I’ll get some car mount shots next time?

Used no extra lighting, shot wide open, gain+6 and 1/25 shutter.

http://rapidshare.de/files/5736609/OOTF_Test.wmv.html

select "free" at bottom of page to get link.


btw, pls ignore the minor continuity issues (I'll ask the train driver to park his rig next time) and not-so-steadicam...

Thanks,

Steve

It hardly ever works when i try downloading from this site.