Thanks Rob, to tell you the truth, this was never intended to make it look film, and so the video-ish look is fine, as long as the color of the scene is appropriate for the style/look I am going for. This is a fan film, and it is a comedy/anime short film that will be poking fun of a lot of things, so it won't be on feeling of 'danger' anywhere. :) Much appreciate your comments.

Johnny

Less cars, more naked.

Hahahaha.... my favorite part is when those two woman are groping each other. There's the obvious reason why, but the more subtle and potentially greater reason is the look on that 7-year-old kid standing there watching while playing with his junk. That is absolutely hysterical! Good work.

I had to go back and look at what Brent was talking about, too narrow mindedly distracted to notice anything else.
What's not to like, you got cars and chicks.

Nice video. Had a dtmpower feel to it.

Were you the one that filmed those girls making out in front of that little kid?!!?

That video was all over muchosucko not too long back. Its pretty popular on the net. Be pretty cool if I knew the guy that shot it. ;)

might not be the exact same footage you've seen though as there was another guy filming over my shoulder and I've since seen his footage. It actually took me a while to notice the kid as well when I was editing it.

I made this 9 min short for my interview that will be in feburary for a summer film camp that I went to last year and hope to go to again this year. It was based off of a poem I wrote. I fell in love with the soundtrack to "Garden State" so I used alot of the music from that in it. It's currently only in quicktime, sorry :-/

Written and storyboarded in a day, shot in a week, edited in a day. Shot with a PV-DV953 frame mode (hoping to upgrade :-/ ) Premiere Pro 1.5, After Effects. Yada yada yada...

*and yes...i cast myself as the lead...its hard to work around other kid's schedules, especially when on a limited time frame, so please mind the craptastic acting (maybe im just saying that cuz I hate watching myself)*

http://www.rch-e.com/rche/knowthyself.htm
Heres a direct link to the Quicktime File:
http://www.rch-e.com/mosaic/Finished.mov
Nosce Te Ipsum (know thyself in Latin)

don't spare me!:

http://euromedcafe.org/winner.asp?lang=ing&documentID=219

peace

damn just found out there ain't english subtitles, it's in french...

sorry

Hi Yohann,

very good stuff indeed.
Colours look pretty good, and actors did a great job.
And the writing is very good. It just sounds real.

I wish your film was longer ;)

Good job.


P.S. Why don't you show it on french-speaking forums, such as "Repaire" for instance ?

UNDERGROUNDFILM.ORG's ALL SONNYBOO WEEK (http://www.undergroundfilm.org) started today! One of my favorite movies, SHERMAN & GEORGE: OXYMORONS (http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1015791) kicks off the week. Everyday a new Sonnyboo or Friend of Sonnyboo short film will premiere on UNDERGROUNDFILM.ORG (http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1015791)!

See SHERMAN & GEORGE: OXYMORONS (http://www.undergroundfilm.org/films/detail.tcl?wid=1015791) Directed by George Caleodis (http://www.caleodis.com) with Out of Our Heads, Columbus Improv Comedy Troupe (http://www.outofourheads.com)

I'm guessing many people up north are getting a touch of cabin fever so I'll post 2 poolside clips from a production I was shooting at my home last weekend.

These particular scenes were bikini clad aliens who seduce and kill unsuspecting crew members after transforming into aliens. You may recognize the big guy if you have been to the Indiana Jones show at MGM Studios (aircraft mechanic who fights). He was also the terminator at Universal and in a few tv series.

http://www.magoomedia.com/grub.php

The second day we had a makeup crew from Orlando come in to transform the girls to look like klingon like aliens. The makeup crew worked on the girls for 3 hours. Rick Gonzales is a great makeup artist who has done makeup for numerous hollywood movies. Here's a link to the makeup clips if anyone's interested:

http://www.magoomedia.com/media/makeup.wmv

Two days from 7 AM to 5PM turned out to be a lot of fun with a great cast and crew.

Greetings all! I just finished shooting and editing two spec commercials. One is for Starbucks coffee called “Morning”. The other is for Frosted Flakes called “Opera”. I’d love to hear everyone’s feed back.

http://www.jacobhensberry.com/work.htm

They are located in the Projects section. Thanks for your support!

Excellent job Yohann! I really enjoyed it. The subtle way you play with focus, the creative composition of simple two shots, intresting colors, moody atmospheric music, ect. Great all around. I don't even speak french and I think I understood it perfectly because the actors comunicated so well.

You might want to conisder subtitles just so more english speaking people will want to watch it. The films deserves it.

Only question: What'd you shoot it on?

Good work.

Jake Hensberry

Hey Michael. Nice work. I'm not sure what the "meaning" of this peice is but then again I don't think it matters as it's clearly more about tone then a literal interpertaion. Some of those shots are georgous, and the flicker effect is a nice abstract touch.

My only criticism is the war memorial. It all seemed very quiet and personal and intresting until that part, which seemed a little too forced in terms making us feel a certain way with an image that will always draw people’s sympathys. The other images were more intresting to me.

All is all, this peice seems like sections from a film that has yet to be plotted. I was waiting for someone to start talking and a scene to begin, which is cool. Maybe that's what you'll make of it.

Good job.

I liked the Starbucks very much. It has a nice rithm and the idea is works well.

Good job.

Thanks Dave! That's what it was all about so good to know it's coming across.

This music is becoming quite a bit of a cliche in modern shorts or demo reels. I think it's the 4th or 5th time I hear it in one...
It just doesn't have the same impact anymore.

Thomas, the music is untitled but it's track #3 of the Sigur Ros album called ( )

Jake, the frosted flakes one cracked me up. I loved it when the guy started crying after that one measly flake fell out...

BTW: What camera did you film those on and where did you get the music for the commercials (and your other stuff too)

Aaron

Thanks a lot Aaron! We used the DVX 100. The music for Starbucks was David Bowie, "Queen Bitch" and the Flakes spot was Pavorati. I don't have permission for either one, (Yikes!) but since they're spec I'm hoping the powers that be won't mind.

Thanks Again.

Thought some of you might be interested in this. It's a short film festival being held at my school in the beginning of May. We're accepting entries until March 15. Click on the link and scroll down to download an application:

http://www.wcsu.edu/cta/

The local Youth Coalition hired me to make a short promo intro video for their Youth Speak Out Forum. It's a day where kids speak their minds on community issuses and they wanted to play a video before the students speak to kind of rally them.

http://www.rch-e.com/temp/yso.htm
Direct Link: http://www.rch-e.com/temp/YSO.mov

Yes, I know sigur ros is being used alot lately, but if the shoe fits, wear it, right?

PS...I just turned 18, in case you were wondering how old the creator was.

Thanks for looking!

It seems a little slow to "Rally" the kids. If you were pulling at heart strings and asking for donations, cool, but "rally" or "pump up", I didn't get that feeling. To preempt a speaker you usually want something that grabs attention quickly and leaves the audience wanting more.
It's nice though. I've looked at some of your other stuff before and I want to tell you, you do nice work. Quite nice.

-I liked the guy in the trash can too!

Thanks, Yeah...i guess rally wasnt the word i meant, i dont know what i meant :-P

That was the most boring clip I've ever seen posted on here. Please, for the sake of everyone else, cut it down to 30 seconds. I watched it all the way through hoping I'd see some hot booty, but the payoff wasn't worth it.

I hope you cut your movie a lot better than that.


The person sitting beside me as I watched asked me if it was a set of a porno movie.


I like your pool though.

that sounds great kevin! i dont think i will have anything ready for submission in time though! everything else i have is way older than 18 months the rules state. (would love to send 2 music videos in that i did many years ago if they have a non competition catagory that can showcase stuff like this.) check out one of the videos on my website and pass the info along to whoever is in charge if you think they would be interested. i live in new fairfield CT now and look forward to attending the festival when it comes. (is it going to be held on the danbury campus like the animation festival was?)
anyway, check my stuff out at www.zenimage.com

thanks for the info!
marc

ps. kevin we should keep in touch for local productions...

good job! a few comments... try weaving the opera music into the background from the very beginning so it foreshadows its use and builds the mood to the climax. make the commercial a complete mini opera. you should be able to tell the whole story with parts of an opera. happiness, sadness, loneliness, madness, etc. you've got a lot to work with here. the opera part seems too separate from the beginning of the commercial.

also, the starbucks commercial was ok but i think it sold me more on the orange juice than the coffee. review the story you told and you will see that the OJ seems to be what perks this guy up and makes his morning great. most people wouldnt be that happy and energetic in the morning WITHOUT the starbucks coffee and that is what you need to sell/tell the audience isnt it?
one small tech thing...rack focus to the cup much much sooner. that is your hero shot and it needs as much screen time as possible (especially if this was a PAYING client who is spending a bunch of money to see their product!) revisit this story line and see if you can rework it into a better story. here is a thought...maybe you can have him wake up sleepy until he gets his coffee and when he smells the aroma you can do a fast cut quick time montage of a great morning (like you have already started) wake up sequence like he is remembering all of the best mornings of his life in one flashback. now he is awake and happy. he sets the cup down (your original shot but with a quicker rack focus) and tag line. just a thought!

slightly off topic but i checked out some of the other stuff and wondered what technique did you use for your timelapse stuff on the burnside music video? i havent found the best way to get it using the current dv cameras. i dont like their interval recording (.5 sec every 30 sec is the least you can do and it looks choppy.) i have heard some people using digital still cameras and recording to a laptop but havent tried that yet. ( ihave a digital rebel) some others (myself included) have filmed in real time and them sped up footage which is ok but chews up a lot of tape and hard drive space. adobe premiere used to have interval recording but left it out of Prpo! DvRack might be an option but dont want to spend 500bucks to find out right now! what about you?

good luck on your next projects! hope my comments help!

marc
www.zenimage.com

thank you for the feedback jake
we used a dsr-570 for that movie. it really renders great colors i wonder if it would do a nice job if blown up. that's when i REALLY realised how much this category of cam can't even compare with dvx and such.
i will definitely edit a subtitled version pretty soon...

peace

I guess it would be boring if you weren't part of the cast or crew. This was a 3 minute recap of the Saturday's events that we played Sunday morning before that days shoot. I only had 1 hour to filter through all the days footage to put this together (including making a DVD) which is why the quality of the cuts is poor. The makeup clip was created for the makeup artist to add to his portfolio.

I thought it could be of interest here but I apologize for posting it. Lessons learned. Thanks for your honesty Dylan.

Jim- Don't mind Dylan, he's just pining for Kim Catrell ;)
However, I too was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction... or 3.

I'll look into whether there's a non-competitive category or not. The festival will be held on the downtown danbury campus (the one on white street). I'll keep you posted.

As for local productions, I'm always looking for stuff to work on- sounds good!!

Thanks Marc. Now that's what I call constructive criticism! I appreciate it.

As for the Opera: I agree with you, but the song is timed, and the spot was based on, the fact that the laugh is exactly 15 seconds into the song so you hear it as it is. If I had a found a different song, yes, what you mentioned would have worked well. But the gimmick is based on the structure, so I guess it is what it is.

Starbucks: Yeah, the rack focus could have been earlier. The smell the aroma and happy bit? Well, yes, perhaps a big client would have wanted it that way, but that idea's a bit cliché' for me and I wanted to do just a little dissection of someone’s morning that turned into a spot. We had initially planed to do a shot of him at an actual Starbucks but couldn't get in one long enough to get the shot. Maybe that would have helped though. Thanks very much for your ideas and comments though. I'll keep them in mind next time out.

For the time lapse: It's just regular speed ramps done in post. I didn't have a cam that did interval recordings, so I just sped up the footage that was shot for a few minutes on a good steady tripod. That was it. Hope that helps.

Good luck to you too!

Sorry for being a downer Jim. I re-read my post and it came off harsher than I wanted. I think I felt cheated because I expected a bevy of bouncy busty beauties bonking boobies.

It does need to be shorter though.

Riley,
I agree wit Rhett, do you want this to be solemn or inspiring? In many cases, music can decide that. Something from a technical point...the general rule of thumb on opening titles like yours is to keep it up there just long enough for people to read it - if you end up recutting this, tighten up those titles and I think you will like the result. Another approach some might take is to have students reading them while they are on screen.

Nice look to the piece...keep up the good work.

-Robert

www.thedunesproject.com

to sample video element
click on photos -> video

warning: do not try to decipher

just sharing, dave.

1 - Aargh, not that music again! :)

2 - The first girl that speaks just gets faded out - This looks crude (if not rude). Allow her to finish a sentence and then cut to the next student. If she goes on and on for a long time, include someone else on the promo!

3 - Nice work, liked specially the part with the people moving at high speed in the corridor, while you track smoothly towards the student's back.

Hi

Here is a link to my film. Any insight on what I can do better next time would be helpful.

http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=1&CONTENT_ID=215461&FILTER_KEY=87397&page=content&user=wpetti

It was shot with a sony vx1000 (with a broken viewfinder) and edited using iMovie and Premiere 6 but mostly on iMovie. It is approx 5min in length.

Willis

I was hired to shoot several interviews down on the convention floor for different venders at the 2005 Photonics West Convention in San Jose CA. It was a one camera shoot. So I had the tallent go through the interview 3 times and got 3 different angles. I used a single Arri 650 and 2 wired lav mics. This is the best interview, in the other interviews the B roll was scarce. I should have shot more. I'm always surprised though when I see the final video...the xl-1 viewfinder is really sketchy.

http://spie.ndgo.net/exhibitcast/pw05/continuum/index.html

Bryan,
Looks good. Pretty utilitarian, but I'm guessing that is they are looking for - well lit, good sound, and the editing was generally seamless. Can I ask what lav mikes you used and if you like them...I'm in the market for some new (wired) ones and they sounded good.

-Robert

Thanks Robert,
Both of my mics I found on ebay. The mic on the interviewer was a sony ECM 66-B...the mic I used on the person being interviewed was a sony ECM-77B

Hello Dave and welcome aboard DVInfo.net!

For what it is I thought it looked good, professional. Artsy though,
but that was the whole point I assumed.

I liked it quite a bit, especially for a first film! At first with the phone call I was a little worried, because it was reminiscent of the beer commercials with the "wazzzzzzup" but that's ok. I laughed really hard at the scene where he was getting his hair ready for bed, as well as getting into bed! Very nice. I really liked the mood shift as well. For the most part I was pleased with the night time lighting, except when the burglar is entering the house... it looks like dawn/dusk a little bit, again no biggy. Lastly I didn't like being able to see the strings attached to the main characters hair when he was frightened, perhaps fishing line would have worked better? The confrontation scene was also very funny. All in all I had a wonderful five minutes, thank you! Great work!

this is a demo reel I made awhile back for a doc that is still in production. I'm getting ready to rework it for more funding and would like any suggestions for changes

http://homepage.mac.com/koreaboy/iMovieTheater1.html

bests

Hi Tony, this is going to be a very powerfull documentry.
Here is some contructive critisism:

1. I would open up with an interview with one of the women. As it is now the trailer is a bit of mystery for the first third. By opening with an interview instead of the old footage it will make it seem more relevant to today and more personal. Maybe use the same scene as the ending but with a voice over of a woman.


2. I am interested if this documentry goes into the women getting an apology from the japanese government. If it does I would make that more clear.

great job/ noble subject/ style cheers,

Thanks for viewing the movie.

The scenes in the night time footage were actually shot during the day and with some canadian tire flood lights and we put the blue light effect in post-production (hence the use of Premiere 6).

The strings on the hair is something we struggled with as well, but at the time we shot it, we couldn't find any fishing wire, so we have since justified it by saying it adds to the cheesyness of the movie.

I am glad you laughed at all the right spots.

I finally got around to watching your movie (busy busy). I was a bit
lost on the story to tell the truth. I have no idea why the shooting
suddenly started. I also thought the beginning moved to slow and
some talking there could've been cut etc.

Some additional thoughts:

- it usually feels more natural if people are interrupted while talking (ie, the gun shot happens) instead of when a line is (just) finished (looks a bit staged)

- during the conversation at the card game you cross the line of action, which looks confusing

On the latter see the following thread for more info:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38334

As Rob said, the 180' line was crossed in the scene right before the climax.

I'd like to hear the chip spinning on the floor at the end. That would add some dramatic atmosphere.

As for the story, I can't tell if the main character is trying to be a hero in the end or if he's just suicidal. Maybe it's like that ER episode from a few years ago where an intern or resident ended up dying on EL tracks, and it was left as an open question whether he jumped or was pushed.

thanks Rob,
It was my first project using my new vx2100 and magic bullet. I had been using a trv-17 for several years so it was hard to show restraint with my cam.
it is "artsy", but a lot less artsy than most of my work.

DVi Community,

Hey Everyone,

Hope you are all well! "Bert Prentice, C.E.O." is in competition in Cinequest Online. Below is the link for our film, you can vote, review and watch the film there.

http://www.cinequestonline.org/2005/theater/detail_view.php?m=429

Here is the page for the full online Viewer's Voice festival.

http://www.cinequestonline.org/2005/theater/viewers_voice.php

Please send the link to all your friends as well, write a great review and vote "Bert Prentice, C.E.O." as best short film!!


Unfortunately for some crazy reason the festival could not get the films to play on Macs. Sorry for this inconvenience.


"Bert" will also be screening at the DC Independent Film Festival in March.

I will have exact dates and more details to pass on soon.

Enjoy the film and let me know what you think.

Thanks for your support.

Derrick

Here is a video that was for a multimedia presentation at my work, olive garden.... where I'm a waiter....

Anyway, some of it might not be totally clear but it is mildly entertaining.

http://3ffilms.com/html/films.htm Just click on the red word Training.