Good job, Michael. I love to see other High school students stuff (I'm in High School).

Keep up the great (and funny) Work!
~Gabriel~

Well, It's been awile but i just started filming for the hip-hop video. The footage i have so far is just for the Chorus. There is still a TON to film but i just wanted to see what people thought so far.

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Thats cool Shane. I'm a big history buff and am addicted to that channel. Please post when it will premiere so I can keep an eye out for it. I am curious how this will look in HD as well.

Uh...I just did post when it premieres. Friday, Sept 29, 8:00PM ET/PT.

When will it air in HD? no clue.

Hi,

My very first After Effects .8 second Promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkAf-Qq5q1o

What do you think? I based it on a tutorial.

another art video, watch it alone, without distractions, after it has loaded completely, click on the blue and red dots icon, http://rileyharmon.com/site_9_06/start.html

im digging making art videos, so much more experience for a viewer, going to start doing installations

let me know how you all felt after watching it

peace all

I was just playing around today and made this short video:

http://www.advancedmedialab.com/download.html

It is 46.4 MB and I know that is large. It is wide screen and full size.

I just downloaded it as a test and it took under 5 minutes sustaining 312 KB per sec.

Let me know what you think.

what genre of film is this?

I like the shot of the lake. What lens did you use for this?

Mike

Mike,

I used the standard 20X on my XL2. The lake is Lake Travis. The downtown (obviously) and the hilltop are both San Francisco.

The Estes Park Film Festival is pleased to announce the winners of the first ever film festival in Estes Park, Colorado.
The Estes Park Film Festival concluded on September 17th with newcomer Monty Lapica’s powerful film Self Medicated winning both Best Feature and Audience Award. Based on true events, Self Medicated is about an out of control youth who is sent against his will to a corrupt psychiatric hospital. Stacy Marr’s Getting Lucky about one woman’s attempt at internet dating took home the Best Short Film Award while Donna Musil’s Brats: Our Journey Home, the first documentary about growing up as a military brat, won Best Documentary.
Celebrating their inaugural year, the 2006 Estes Park Film Festival showcased 9 feature-length films and 26 short films from across the country. The festival took place at the Historic Park Theatre in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado from September 15th - 17th, 2006 with an awards ceremony on the final night. In addition to the films, the Estes Park Film Festival also served as a fundraising event to help raise money to renovate and restore the Historic Park Theatre to its original cinematic elegance. Festival attendees and filmmakers traveled from as far away as California and Florida to enjoy the films, parties, and awards gala at Estes Park’s premier event. Organizers are already planning for next year’s festival which will take place September 14th-16th, 2007 at the Historic Park Theatre.

Below is a list of all the festival winners.
Best Feature Self Medicated – Monty Lapica
Best Short Film Getting Lucky - Stacy Marr
Best Documentary Brats: Our Journey Home - Donna Musil
Best Student Film Test - Lorne Pribbeno
Best New Filmmakers Mike Vanderwyst, Jason Durdon, and Jeff Frye
Best Actor Nicky Korba – 3:16
Audience Award for a Feature Film Self Medicated – Monty Lapica

Visit our new web site www.estesparkfilm.com to view pictures of our inaugural film festival or to learn about our 2nd Annual Film Festival!

Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the support guys. We are working on releasing a Special Edition BROKEN DVD for the holidays so keep your eyes out.

While we are working on BROKEN the feature and a few other projects, I found some time to produce a killer documentary called "Behind Forgotten Eyes" Narrated by LOST's Yonn-jin Kim. Check out the trailer on the website: http://www.behindforgotteneyes.com

Completely shot on the DVX 100a and edited/color corrected on Final Cut Pro 5. Let us know what you think of the trailer. We are working a a newer one but the one we have up gives you an idea. FYI: I did not edit the trailer ; )

http://www.enigmafactory.com/ftp/Myspace_BFE_AD.jpg

Also, to see what else The Enigma Factory is up to waddle over to: http://www.enigmafactory.com

Thanks again for all the good wishes.

I'm not exactly sure what your asking. but its a hip-hop Music video.

Any other comments? Thoughts, suggestions?

Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the support guys. We are working on releasing a Special Edition BROKEN DVD for the holidays so keep your eyes out.

While we are working on BROKEN the feature and a few other projects, I found some time to produce a killer documentary called "Behind Forgotten Eyes" Narrated by LOST's Yonn-jin Kim. Check out the trailer on the website: http://www.behindforgotteneyes.com

Completely shot on the DVX 100a and edited/color corrected on Final Cut Pro 5. Let us know what you think of the trailer. We are working a a newer one but the one we have up gives you an idea. FYI: I did not edit the trailer ; )

http://www.enigmafactory.com/ftp/Myspace_BFE_AD.jpg

Also, to see what else The Enigma Factory is up to waddle over to: http://www.enigmafactory.com

Thanks again for all the good wishes.

Congrats on gaining some success dude! Seems like it would be a kickass project, but a little depressing. Although I shall check it out someday, I just need to get Broken first. It sucks that I can't afford stuff anymore... stupid school and saving up for... keeps me from doing what I love (buying DVD's)

Here's a spec. spot I wrote and directed a month ago. It's not finalized yet, but this is close. A member of this site, Vincent Pascoe was my DP.

http://www.dontpanik.tv/Clients/Greg/Monster_v6.mov

Constructive criticism welcome as this spot hasn't been completely 'locked' yet, so nitpicks, so long as they're constructive, are welcome. Can't reshoot anything, but can tweak editing, though.

It was good, funny, and interning. The only thing that I noticed bad was the compression. There was a bit of it it seemed like... but I don't know much, so my reply probably is not helpful.

~Gabriel~

It looks really good! I like it. Everything is clean, fast paced, and looks like it could be a real monster commercial. What was this shot on?

It was shot on 35mm. Thanks for the kind words.

Greg,

That's nice. I really like the look, the writing and the acting - too rare a combination sometimes.

My only constructive feedback is on angles. The push-in pov shot on the underling is nice alone, but cut to the boss footage it doesn't work as well for me. Then when the boss sits we switch to an over-the-shoulder view of the underling. It is a little jarring coming from the pov. I think I would have liked it better seeing the underling waiting for the boss from the same angle (looking off screen left instead of directly at the camera) the whole time. Not sure if you have that shot though...

That's a nitpick though... the piece is really nice. Kudos.

Where did you get the alpaca?

Nice work. If that wasn't already a real office, it's good set design. And the lighting looks natural enough. And the actors performed well, too.

Ironic: Getting a piece out there to get a job about a company that gets people jobs.

And I would have said "llama", too.

Great job! I had no Idea about most of that stuff!

I have one question for you, how much does this pay?

Thanks!
~Gabriel~

I didn't know about most of this stuff before I started working on it. Left out of my history books and classes.

Pay? Depends on your degree of skill and where you are located. Here in LA it is between $1600 and $3000. I am not saying where in that range I fit.

This was my entry to the recent Horror Channel 2 minute horror competition. It is entitled "Gialloesque" and is a Giallo inspired horror thriller in the vein of Dario Argento.

Please let me know what you think. Cheers.

http://www.savefile.com/files/120893

Lyst
I basically had to come up with a concept.
This is not a finished ad, and I'll have to reshoot if it ever goes live,
but I had to come up with an idea for a new Norwegian cheese brand.

"Lyst" means "lust" and "desire".
In Norway, the milkproduct industry is basically dominated by one brand.
This is the "New kid on the block"
Please let me know what you think!

Shot in 720. Won't do that again...

It's here (11Mb) (please right-click & download)

http://vulture.no/testvid/lyst.mov

Gunleik
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Good job. Keep up the good work.
Richard

I've taken the file offline, as it will be re-shot for nation tv... -;)

Gunleik

Hey guys, i've just shot a wedding video for a friend of mine who had a wonderful wedding the other day. She couldn'd find any wedding videographer that was cheap enough so she asked if i could shoot it for her, which i thought would be the hardest and most nerv racking thing i'd do but being a good i said yes, not know what I was in for. well any way i'd just edited a short montage of a photo shoot on the beach the bride and groom did with the photgrapher, i'd love if you guys or girls(lol) could give me some advice or any criticism about the video.

I shot with a Sony Z1, i didnt use any mini35 adapters or extra lighting or reflectors. I just shot handheld with the Z1 and I just shot them naturally with out asking them to pose or act out partiular parts. I followed them wherever they went, and tried my best not to be obtrusive.

http://www.filefactory.com/dlf/f/51fa95/b/3/h/060e360e97188994
This is the link to the video and its only 7 mb big. It goes for a about 4 mins it would be great if any of you could take the time to watch and critic it.
Thanks


Thanks again

Hey all,
WE just launched a new site, www.mobijokes.tv

do check it out and tell me what you think!?

This seems to be slipping through the net.

I would really appreciate some feedback. It means an awful lot to me. Thanks guys.

I liked it. Killer player front end. Funny classics done as shorts!

I love it! Great image quality but the video played very jumpy. Extremely humorous. I'll check it out again later.

thanks for the kind feeds guys...anyone else seen it?

Me like.
A lot!

What cameras and software are you on?

For the car shoot - how was your lightening done?

Does not matter that much, the stories (cept from the purely animated piece) were good, effective and pointed. Great!

Gunleik

Very funny! Loved them all....

Great opening shot in the one with the cop. Well done!

***This is the sequel to the tubing video i posted last year, the thread is here (http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=58305&highlight=tubing)

This year completely trumps last year in terms of editing and footage. We had the Wego Kite tube for a weekend and got some great footage from that (the camera wasn't on when my brother fell from 35ft in the air, which is why we only had it for one weekend). Everything is filmed by a Sony-FX1 by people who hardly know how to use a camera (i had to be tubing!), and no, this year I didn't take that camera behind the boat :-)

Tubing HD - http://www.fansn.com/media.php?item=88

Let me know what you think!

That ought to be outlawed. You guys are having entirely too much fun...

I know, more shameless self promotion. That's what this forum segment is for though, right?

So, I did this funn little shoot almost exactly 2 months ago now and for some crazy reason, it has now been watched and/or downloaded by 10,600 people. That's 179.66 people per day! We had fun with it, it isn't technically perfect, people have scolded me for not giving the audience any "release" from the tension, it's too long, I should have put a fake screaching bird sound over the shot of the Raven, etc. and yet, almost 180 people (averaged) are watching this each day. I guess people must be finding something interesting about it.

I will say I have written a much better second part of the story, a 30 minute sequel that I am still trying to recast one part for. Hopefully, as the weather is starting to turn here in central Ohio, we can kick this out next spring? Maybe sooner. It will have some butt-kicking, women disposing of useless ex-boyfriends in unusual ways and my favorite bit, death by kitchen implements.

Anyway, if you want to join the other 10,600 plus folks, you can catch "Cat Fight at OK and Corral" from my web site at http://www.DeepBlueEdit.com

It ain't perfect but it sure was fun to shoot. More and better coming your way soon as we hone our skills.

Sean McHenry

To be honest... it wasn't that scary for me. The quality was top notch though, and I really liked the way that you shot the movie. I just think that it needed to be darker, much too bright for my liking.

I also didn't quite get the ending. Didn't seem to make sense to me. I'll watch it one more time...
I get the whole alphabet thing, but I feel like it's missing something.

Mike

I have been cutting a horror short that i posted about here some time ago. Here is a rough cut of one of the scenes.

Let me know what you think, please. I know the ADR sucks and will be replaced by better, but I am interested to hear any thoughts.

Thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ztUXcj5H8

Duh

As you know The thing that really makes a horror work is good lighting and good sound. I thought your lighting was pretty well done and like you said your ADR needs work but the rest of the sound was good.

The only other thing i would say is when you cut back to the girl it's always the same shot, i felt the need for a wide shot or two to show her there all alone but thats no big deal.

if anyone posts a horror i usually take the time to watch it cause its one of the hardest genres to pull off well.

You did a good job well done.

Andy.

The lighting scheme and music were very effective but there was something missing in the build up of tension. I can't put my finger on it. It wasn't scary or tense enough. In the context of the movie it probably works but as an isolated scene it's lacking a narrative pull. Good work though. Nicely made. I look forward to seeing the full movie.

On a related matter I have just posted my short Gialloesque (see posts below) on Youtube so please check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mljloKf0cL0

Great composition in yours and lighting. I can see what your saying. I hope it is the narrative. I changed the scene recently. I composited the foot prints to appear as he is looking at them. That sort of thing.

Haha! that kite tube is awesome!

Hi,

I'm entering a kind of contest, where they select you on ground if you are a promising filmmaker. You can submit a short (max about 5 minutes) or a trailer. And if I don't have enough time to make a new short, I'm planning to send one of these, but I can't choose! So, I'm looking for opinions.


First one is this, I already posted it in the past, this is the link to the earlier thread with link, it's a finished short:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=64639&highlight=tunnels


The second one is a loose scene out of a bigger script I wrote. Again, the voice over is Dutch, but it's a pretty short scene in which a character explains how his father once was a professor of an academy, wanted to make clones and got banned by his fellow-professors because of those ideas, but went one making them any way, and taking over a city with them.
This is the link:

http://www.16plus.be/node/1268

Can someone help me pick!
Any feedback will be apreciated, thanks in advance!

I think its going to be hard to say due to the fact it is in a different language. Slow scences without knowing what is going on is easier to dismiss than fast cuts.
I thought the quality of the second one was better (the desk with the illustrations on it was so clear), but the quality could be in how you uploaded and rendered them. I liked the cuts and angles of the second one better, the style and how they blended with the imagry and music.
The first movie seemed to linger to long and the cuts seemed to noticable but that could have been to build tension I could not get without the dialog. The clown seemed to be a metaphor for the man running but I don't know.

Without dialog I would say the second one.

Good ending. Thanks to your music playing during the credits, you could visualize the final confrontation as they walk towards each other, glockin' their guns ready for some bad ass fuggy fuggy.

I'm betting you made up your own answer in your head as to what you think is next for the characters

They team up instead right, for the big fat kill.

and for some crazy reason, it has now been watched and/or downloaded by 10,600 people
If your wondering why people are watching this before they know anything about it, then it could be due to two words in your title, Cat Fight. Guys like seeing women glitchin' out against each other.

Looking forward to the second part Sean. Should be fun to shoot and a whole lot more ambitious. Nice guns by the way.

Thanks for the feedback. I know about using copyrighted music, but the site it's posted one, it's allowed because they had it arranged with the goverment here, and for the contest you can send something with unlicensed copyrighted music, but then you have the disadvantage that they can't put it on their website to get feedbacks. Not that they NEED that for their decision, but they CAN look to it for opinions. (yeah it's a 12 page submitting paper with all the rules :-p)

I was MAYBE thinking about dubbing the second film, the black and white scene, because the only language that is spoken is 'f*ck you', so I could dub the voice over (if I have the original editing project somewhere, which I actually doubt). The contest said there couldn't be 'excessive language and violence' in the movies, so I don't know what they exactly mean with excessive.

BTW: Liam, 13 Angels... is indeed one of the best songs of Silver Mt Zion EVER, you just can't stop listening to it!

Best regards,

Yea great song. I remixed it into a collage of sound to make a new track when I was going through my avant garde faze in 2001/2. I'm back on the mentalist beat abuse now.

I was going to offer you if you wanted some free sound design for your film Tunnels when I first posted but then thought I just don't have time since there are so many contests for people like us right now, which is a blessing to make us do something, otherwise I just talk the talk and never get anything done apart from sitting in a room learning software, that's pretty much been my life these past few years in respect to film-making. So staying up all night till 6 am to shoot in a tunnel is exactly what I'm talking about and it's great to see your enthusiasm.

There is a haunting and long, very long tunnel that I have been meaning to shoot in since the summer. It's located here in London close to where Chris Cunningham shot his music video Come To Daddy for Aphex Twin. I can't remember where though but the address and picture is in the magazine Time Out. Lying around here somewhere.

One last Tunnel related snip, Orbital have a great song called Tunnel Vision which I'd love to use for film so I bagsey that too. Avanto.

Hi Liam,

how did you know we stayed up so late for shooting in the tunnel?
IT was actualy 5h30 am, and not 6h am, when we wrapped, but still ;-)

Or was it just an assumption?
If it was: right on.
We needed the tunnel to be empty, so shooting at night was our best option when you have no budget. We shot between 21hpm and 5h30 am.

Best regards,