Their Previous movie was very good. University Heights. I will be ordering this one too.

If your interested in seeing the end result of what a DVX100 can do & since the selection of DVX100 produced DVDs is limited to: Dixie Chicks Concert, K Street, Art History, Market 175, University Heights & some documentary about planes This is really a niche market :)

Plus they are from Iowa!

I actually have several microphones, including a Sennheiser ME66 shotgun with boom pole, but for this little movie did not use it, as it was not scripted. We were just fooling around and often times I find that when making a movie casually, the technical stuff can get in the way. We just wanted to film a little short and throw it together in an hour or so. Thanks for your suggestions, and perhaps in the future we will script something and use all my equipment!

So Corey, what settings are you using on the GL2 to get the filmic look you wanted? (if you don't mind sharing)


Paul

I liked the story and the special effects.

The echo was probably only noticable to my untrained ear because you pointed it out. I don't think it dramatically detracted from the film.

The only thing I didn't like was the two camera angles which you switched between. I became a bit dizzy after a while. It would have been nice to have a few more angles.

Regards,

Geoff

Let's see...I do remember taking that video into After Effects and applying the S-curve, however, the video had a pretty good film effect right out of the camera. For the opening shot I had a pretty high shutterspeed so I could get the colors of the clouds and the silouhettes of the people, and that was pretty much it. For the Beach sequence I did the same thing, only I zoomed in so I could blur out the beach in the background and focus in on the silouhettes. Other than this, I didn't do anything but the standard white balance and shutterspeed adjustments - always making sure to have the most open aperature I could, and zoomed in as much as I could to get a good DOF. Then the after effects dealie really took care of the rest.

Whoa that's so weird. I was in this play about 4 years ago. I was part of a comedy theater festival and this was one of the plays I was in. I was the character you have staged on the left. I thought this sounded familiar when I read your description.

Small world.....

To free up some band width on my website last night I uploaded my first film "The Review" to the ZED website and was suprised at the fast response of people. I had hesitated to do so before as it is a bit cheesy and full of obvious technical mistakes.

But if you are interested in taking a look the address is:

http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=2&CONTENT_ID=222072&FILTER_KEY=65801&page=content&user=angel13

Although it is old I'd love to hear any comments you have.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Geoff

A little bit late with the reply, but I thought it was interesting. Some
nice shots in there and the old damaged look was very nice!

Didn't follow the story too much though <g>

I thought it was well done for a first piece, however it went on
too long for my liking and I didn't watch most of the last 25% of
the movie. The "joke" wasn't too funny after a while etc...

<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : the old damaged look was very nice!

Didn't follow the story too much though <g> -->>>


That was not a "film look", this was shot with TRI-X and PLUS-X black & white super 8 film and telecine'd by THE TRANSFER STATION in CA.

There is no story. It's just a random assemblage of bad footage set to music to convince people that maybe I did have some kid of story in mind, when in fact it's just all the underexposed, out of focus shots from another movie I did.

It's art for art's sake.

I still liked the look of this "art"!

Is this film available to watch somewhere else? I don't want to
register to yet another site just to watch someone's work! From
the lack of response I'd say others feel the same way....

First: why did you ZIP these? It only complicates matters for people
who want to watch your stuff and it really didn't help in the filesize
department except for the Laura episode.

On to the movies. I thought the Laura episode was interesting
looks wise, but the story etc. could've used some work in my
opinion. Small and simple is good, but this wasn't enough <g>

Lesson 2 was nice, I liked the mirror idea. However, the more
cheesy effects lateron where a let down.

I have seen the Mojado before.

Doing a search I see you have posted these before:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35749

If I where you I would just post a link to a new movie when you
create one. Otherwise a post feels overwhelming if people see
you have multiple movies and it waste some time as well if people
have already seen earlier work (like myself).

Looked cool.

All of the words reminded me of the seven deadly sins theme like in Se7en.

Looked cool.

How'd you do that monster voice effect halfway through?

Simple "Flange" setting with Adobe Audition (formely Cool Edit Pro) audio program.

I used to have fun with Adober After Effects to creat title sequences for no apparent reason.

Thanks all!

I have this short on DVD and it rocks!

Congrats

Rob, there are no other sites. I hope you'll be able to see it and I hope the fact that you have to register is not hindering anybody else.

Post your work and I will see it whether I have to register or not.



Peter,

I'm glad you have the DVD. Thanks for checking "Bert" out and seeing our film.

Your support is greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

Derrick

Well, I actually did register and went through the whole download and then it told me that I need to "update" my digital rights management software and I told it to go away.

If you want people to watch it, you should put it up somewhere else.

What's happening DV community? Check out this video I shoot in Dayton, OH. Slowly but surely I think Im getting better at this filmmaking thing. It was shoot with a Canon GL2. Let me know what you think.

http://www.steakmotionpictures.com/starvin_edit.wmv

It looked okay. However, I would try to increase the contrast a bit
with some color curves (shaped very slightly like an stretched S).

Thanks Rob;

Lighten up man! the Laura short was like a knock knock joke, Victor Logan (the author) is like that, you either find it genious or stupid.

My intention was to give a message in which people could access all shorts, it would be a tad difficult to customize it so it would fit your particular experience. Plus I have a screen grab from each short (or I try) so you can skip what you have seen already.

About Lesson 2, I shared the same oppinion, I voiced it to Ian, the director, and he told me that he actually changed that part. A new version should appear online shortly.

The reason its Zipped is so it won't be streamed from the site, instead of renaming the extension I decided to zip, there are some computers in which you can't change the extension, depending on your Windows setup.

Thanks again.

Looks like Ice Cube.

However the video left me a litte 'starving for action'.

I think it falls into the same trap I fall into during music videos - it just becomes the boring watching some guy rap/sing. Not much story. No cool choreography/dancing.

However the video was well done and put together.

How many other music videos have you done?

This was my 4th music video. I am not content with the rapper just singing to the camera type of video, developing a storyline and having some additional special fx is something I definately need to work on in the future. I guess you live and you learn.

Yeah I just finished my third one.

I really thought it was going to be good while I was in production, but now I severly dislike it.

I thoroughly convinced the only way to make a good music video is just to keep making them and making them...


The persistance will pay off!

The film is being submitted by the producers to various festivals and is being looked at by the big cable companies for their program line up.

I was hired for the piece. The producers are handling the submissions, publicity, and viewing venues. "Bert" should be available for your viewing at a later date.

Thanks for taking a look and your support.

Cheers!

Derrick

"Bert Prentice CEO" is coming to your neighborhood MARCH 6, 2PM. If you are in Washington DC or near the area.

http://www.dciff.org/films_2005.cfm?var=shorts

Thanks!

I totally understand where you coming from Brandon. But you got to learn to crawl, before you walk, and hopefully we both can be running with this filmmaking thing in the near future. Where can I see some of your work?

I will try to post it in the next couple of days.

It was the first one I was able to lead the production on instead of just edit.

The band is very happy with it - so I guess it was successful.

I guess the more I hang out around here and view some of the incredible things being put together I get more critical of my own work.

Do you have site hosting your previous videos?

Thanks for the reply Rob.

I'm afraid Professor Blacenco was a bit long winded. All of the characters are based on people I know and I suppose part of the humour requires you to know these people. I'm sorry it didn't interest you enough to stick it out till the end.

The major problem I saw with the film after making it is that it really doesn't play out like a story. It kind of rambles on as you say without any real climax

Nevertheless it managed a much better response than I ever expected on the CBC website. Within an hour it had 4 votes of 5 stars and was number 1 in their ranking for a few days. Someone must have liked it despite its many faults. This was certainly encouraging for me to keep at it.

Regards,

Geoff

Yeah. It's http://www.steakmotionpictures.com

Shot two new projects in recent weeks on the GS400. Intense Math, for the Phoenix Film Project Screen Wars (http://www.phoenixfilmproject.com/screenwars/) comedy challenge, and Applied Genomics Technologies Corporation, for the Almost Famous Film Festival 48 Hour Film Challenge (http://www.ballboy.net/). There are stills and more info at the following URLs.

http://tryavoidance.blogspot.com/2005/02/intense-math-part-i.html
http://tryavoidance.blogspot.com/2005/02/agtc-part-i.html

These were both shot with GS400, manual mode, picture adjustments cranked all the way down, Sony ECM-MSD1 microphone. Both of these projects were shot at the Burton Barr branch of the Phoenix Public Library.

Intense Math was shot in the main auditorium, which we had reserved for the shoot. I bought the Raynox XL3000-PRO (http://raynox.co.jp/comparison/video/comp_xlwide.htm#xl-3000) ultra-wide angle lens for this project, and used it for a different look at the end of the film, for some shots we couldn't have gotten otherwise. The lens has a great angle of view, with definite barrell distortion, but not as much as a fish-eye, thus the ultra wide angle distinction. Certainly for use for stylized shots only, but I may get one of their .7x lenses for general use. Also used some halogen work lights from WalMart for a few shots.

AGTC was shot throughout the library using the same setup, but available light only. Wide angle lens was used only when needed, for shots of elevator bays, and inside a bathroom stall.

As soon as these screen, in the coming weeks, I'll be able to post them online. Thanks for checking it out.

Obviously buddies having a good time on a trip together. Pointless, perhaps. But I didn't mind.

There's no story here, but it's plain you guys like each other. I enjoyed watching it for that alone. Maybe because I just came back from a night out drinking with my friends.

Plus, the cutting was not too bad. Low resolution and so-so audio notwithstanding.

Nice.

Michael

Hi, your footage screenshots look really promising. I especially look forward to see Applied Genomics Technologies Corporation online. Great locations and a nice color feeling, very cinematic. Also nice to see some short movie work shot with the GS400.

Shot with a GL-2. Got a "Hollywood Reporter" magazine write-up.

NOW PLAYING "Hacker Hunter".

Tycoon gets ripped off by North-Korean hackers. Then hires vampire and gets his revenge. (violent content)

FREE preview till 3-25-05

You'll need broadband and RealPlayer 9 or 10 to view.

http://www.g-films.com/preview.html

http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?CONTENT_ID=225393&page=content&user=icantyetsee

My first project ever. I used the optura xi on it and imovie to edit. Screamy vocals and such just so you know. Might have to save as when launching the video.

Hello everyone,

My name is Anthony Faust and I am a filmmaker in D.C. I finished a short called "Cemetery", which is playing at the 2005 D.C Independent Film Festival. I'd like to get feedback on the website I've made for the film. The address is www.cemeterymovie.net.

Any feedback is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Anthony Faust

Looked good, I thought it had good editing and I liked the lighting, I think it was enough.

Just wondering how you did the effect where the camera shakes really fast, I loved that.

I like the design.

I'm not a fan of the "roll over the pink dots" to see more information. I don't like the 'exploring' type websites. Frankly, I don't have that much time and it is faster if you tell me what the yellow dots are right off the bat. (I'm not sure if they fit some theme. It wasn't apparent to me).

I like the storyboard section where you can scroll down the script and see what storyboards pertain to what part.

I would rather that you have some sort of short blurb describing the movie from the first or second screen in. That would save me the trouble of whether or not I want to see more of the website.

The graphics are good.

Navigation: a back and forward set of buttons would be appropriate when you are going back and forth through a section. I don't want to have to look to see how I can go back, especially when it is built into a Flash interface and the normal back button on the browser doesn't apply.

VERY cool.

The only difficulties I saw were:
- the "Take a tour of the cemetery / Roll over the dots" text at the bottom of the main panel looks more like menu choices rather than instructions, so confused me for a moment when they turned out not to be hotlinks.
- not all of the storyboard photos appeared to function. In case it might have something to do with it, I'll mention that I use latest version of IE and ZoneAlarm Suite.

But again, awesome job. Beautifully done.

I'm glad you liked it. I wish that I could've had better lighting in the begining, but the venue's lights worked really well for the performance parts. As for the shakey effect, it's called Earthquake on iMovie. I'm not a huge fan of too many or certain types of effects, but I liked it in this instance.

Most people here (myself including) vouch to never install the
real player software and will not see your movie. Any chance
you can offer it in something like QuickTime or Windows Media?

Yes, Real Player is like a virus that pretends to be friendly. I can't stand it.

WMV or MOV will do nicely...

Very nice website. However I think it would be great if you placed a trailer or clip of the film in there. If there is one I couldn't find it...

Sounds like you had a bad experience with RealPlayer 8 or a previous version. RealPlayer is now updated to version 10 and many Mac users are impressed by version 10's cross-platform smoothness. They've removed many of the bugs that the previous version had. I've taken all four current players(QuickTime, Windows Media, Real and Flash) to the mat, and in all honesty, RealPlayer 10 is the clearest per bandwith. If you'e concerned about it unwantely becoming the default for most of your media formats, all you have to say is no when it asks you. QuickTime also tries to unwantely become the default player for most of your media formats. You should give Real10 a chance. You can always remove it. I've chosen Real cause I'm streaming with a security program that denies direct downloads from a standard http server. It can only stream.

Really like the site!
Trailer would be nice.
What camera was used?
Couldn't find any kind of info about that.

Oh what you can do with a GL-2 and a bunch of green screen curtains and your friends.

http://www.sequentialpictures.com/moviestarwarsepisode3.html

Some friends turned me on to this link. Pretty funny.

(I thought that it was a PD-150, originally)

Here´s a simple test with a very cheap ring light:

http://us.share.geocities.com/gumonstro/gabriel.zip

I was holding it, cause I didn´t have time to think about a solution to fix it around the lens of my pd170.

The leading actor is my 2yo brother

Gustavo,
please share more details and a picture of the ring light. did you build it yourself? is it made for some other industry and you are adapting it to video?
thank you,
marc

The ring light is a circular florescent light you can buy at any hardware store. I didn´t fix it around the lens, I holded it while recording. I´m still looking for a solution for this problem.

damn fine job. really good imagination. i liked it.