hey steve,

i thought everything you guys did was great. the footage of the movie looks great, and i'm a big fan of drama. the video montage is great, then i watched the video journal from beginning to end. i've worked on big budget sets, but i'm such a big fan of low budget movies. great job on the editing, it's a lot to go through in five days.

take care,
steven

This is the first time I've posted a video of my own, although I've been shooting for a while. My band was goofing around today, and in our boredom we created a video. If i could only get ideas when the dv challenges roll around, i'd be even happier. I use a Sony TRV18 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. I also used the CineLook plug to cover the poor quality of my camea.

thanks for any response.

http://www.thetimelinepost.com/videos/thetattoowazootreatment.mov

Hey everyone,

I have a new episode of Under The Bridge out now. It's an internet TV show I produce about the local music scene here in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Episode 9 (the newest one) is the best I've done so far and I'm very happy with it.

It was shot with a Sony Z1, edited on Premiere Pro and compressed with Windows Media Encoder. There was a Panasonic DVX100 used as a second camera for the All Purpose Voltage Heroes interview.

Any feedback would be appreciated!

Thanks,

-mark

Under The Bridge: http://underthebridge.mumps.ca/

I liked it, Mark. The piece hangs together well and has a professional look and feel. I do think some things sequences could be edited more tightly -- like the chimps. Maybe we don't need to see all of the giggling. Less is more.

Canada has a murder capitol? Who knew?

A film I produced and co-wrote.

www.treasureofthetemplars.com

Website will be updated soon.

Hey congratulations! what was the process to get your film on netflix? would like to find out. :)

Thanks for your feedback, Peter. A couple people have said they didn't really understand why they were laughing so much. I've never really edited anything like that before so it'll take a couple episodes for me to get a feel for it (and especially to be able to know how the viewers will react to everything).

It's hard for anyone, even people who have been doing it for a long time and esp. hard when one is working mostly by oneself -- that's why there are directors, producers, test screenings etc.

I find that most of my intial edits can generally be tightened considerably without doing much damage to the story.

The movie is being released through another distributor, not NetFlix.

32 views so far, no replies? is it that bad? i can take it.

very nice sir, keep it up, i like the underground style

Carbon Nation wins grand prize in 2005 VideoMaker magzine short film contest. I believe they are having a webcast about it on their website at 10am on 1/27/06 and it will be published in the May 2006. My media control psa was also honored in a new category they created. rileyharmon.com

Yeah, that's something I'm going to have to work at. 2-cam interviews are definitely the way to go. In case you're wondering, the only reason the wide shot cam for the All Purpose Voltage Heroes interview was black and white is because the footage was hot and it wasn't matching up with my footage.

Lots of first-time things to work out but I think each episodes going to keep getting a bit tighter.

It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce the nomination of my Saab Salomon film, "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie," for Best Editing at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006. I was nominated for Best Director. We were awarded Best Soundtrack! "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie" was one of the 26 films to be selected from over 300 films to participate in the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006 held during the Sundance Film Festival.

The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Fuel TV in March.




X-Dance
X-Dance is the Academy Awards of the action sports world.

Each year, the world's top action sport filmmakers and athletes, cutting-edge bands and DJs, and key figures from the entertainment industry gather under one roof to celebrate action sports culture at the x-dance Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001, x-dance coincides each year with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and screens the best of the best in action sports film, along with post-screening Q&A's and panels with athletes, filmmakers and industry icons.

Running concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, X-Dance was held in Park City, Utah, on January 20-24th, 2006.


The Adrenaline Hunters
They are restless souls, the Adrenaline Hunters. Over the past 3 years we have filmed these athletes in some of the most beautiful, inaccessible, wild and uncompromising terrain on the surface of this diverse world: torrents, forests, mountains, seas, snow, rocks, dirt, water, and air with bikes, parachutes, kayaks, skis, boards and bare hands. Their exploits have been immortalized on 1 million DVD’s distributed internationally, and have won awards at the Mountain Film Festival in 2004 & 2005.


Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie
Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie is a 52-minute film featuring the best of Salomon's Adrenaline Hunters' exploits mixed with music from Labels Records like Asian Dub Foundation, and cutting-edge groups such as Steriogram, Rubin STEINER, Thunderball and many more.

Through winter and summer, across the endlessly varied landscapes in search of perfection... not just for the rush, but to unlock the philosophy of The Edge.

Against these unadulterated backdrops, the athletes look more like animals than humans. Like a gecko clinging to a wall, Klem Loskot moves sinuously up a sheer rock cliff. Jerome Ruby leaps from the lonely, lofty summit of a sandstone spire and swoops towards the desert below, more falcon than man. David Arnaud descends raging mountain rivers as fluidly and powerfully as the fish that call it home.

Australia, Canada, Madagascar, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, the United States, and Vietnam provide the organic arenas for their high performance antics.

Watch the trailer here: http://advaloreminternational.com


x-dance Action Sports Film Festival
http://x-dance.com

I captured and rendered my first video using the Windows Media HD 1080 30p resolution. Its a 3.5 minute surf video from the finals of the Globe Pro surfing contest in Sebastion Florida.

I posted it up to my site at www.AdventureOnline.TV/ch9.php

Its a pretty big file, 200 Meg, so give it 30sec to a minute to start playing (with a broadband connection of course!).

Must have taken you at least 8 hours to render, or 4.

Jack,

The m2t clip was 1.9 gig, the proxy dv file was 2.2 gig.

The video is 3 min 30 secs and it took one hour and 31 min to render.

On Saturday there was a VW cruise with 100+ cars so I figured I would break out the Sticky Pod for the first time.

Here is the video: http://www.pimpedwheels.com/pchcruise/pch.wmv

One suggestion I have is when using the knuckle to the camera it seems like the camera will wobble more, and then I tried using my bogen quick release plate and it made the video very stable and I feel more safe having the camera going 80+ MPH.

http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod1.jpg
http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod2.jpg

This is the plate I use:
http://www.evsonline.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=577&Category _Code=4B2&Product_Count=0

The trap is set, the victim chosen ... but will they fall for the bait?

http://www.engelbrecht.ch/Missing/movie.shtml

Comments and critics welcome.

This is our fifth short. It was really a learning exercise to try to build suspense and apply some of the things I learnt about action sequences from "Objects in Mirror".

Thanks in advance,

Geoff

I really liked the sound and music, very atmospheric. Camera work and editing wasn't that great. Some jump-cuts and unclear shots. The first time we see the missing poster - shouldn't it be a CU (it's too far) and show the girl to confuse the audience?

Photography was nice but nothing amazing.

Plot was okay for a 2min. short but a bit predictable. It doesn't make sense for the girl to run into the dark tunnel when she's being chased by someone! The car driver should have left the car too - he nearly ran her over.

Sorry if I'm being a bit anal but I feel I would have enjoyed it more if you polished it a bit.

Thanks for the comments Dave.

The first time we see the missing poster - shouldn't it be a CU (it's too far) and show the girl to confuse the audience?

I don't understand what you mean regarding showing the girl?

It doesn't make sense for the girl to run into the dark tunnel when she's being chased by someone!

I guess that depends on who is chasing who.

Best Regards,

Geoff

Hey everyone,

The trailer for the latest short film from MapTorch FIlms, the people who brought you THE WARNING, is now online. Go check it out at www.maptorch.com/the_bag_trailer.htm. Please feel free to share your thoughts on it.

Thanks for watching!

Alec

The trailer stopped playing about half-way through. Might be my connection, I'm not sure. I have a pretty good connection.

Hi,
Liked the trailer, looked well shot, although I didn't like the animated title cards (they look too video for me)

Hi everyone, just posting a question to those that have compiled reels in the past or are about to...
I have alot of stock footage from a variety of projects and am looking to produce a reel myself.

What do you suggest to put in it:?

How long should it be?

Should it be the best looking images - or crafted film shoot shots - or just a medley of images cut and edited in a way to showcase ones style..

welcome any thoughts and advice on this..

Thanks

Quinn

Thanks for watching guys. That's the sesond comment I've gotten on the titles. I just learned the 3D program I was using and I thought they came out good but I guess I have some work to do.

If it stopped playing it may just be because it was streaming and it had to buffer again.

I will be putting the movie up on the site at the end of February.

Alec

The trailer stopped playing about half-way through. Might be my connection, I'm not sure. I have a pretty good connection.
For me too.

Should it be the best looking images - or crafted film shoot shots - or just a medley of images cut and edited in a way to showcase ones style..Quinn

Umm...yes, yes and yes. Not being facetious here, but that's all good. I keep mine to around 7 minutes and include a brief (under 1 minute) montage at the beginning as an overview, then longer segments to follow. I'm a little unusual in that I like to include dialogue here and there, as I think the constant music tracks I see in most reels sort of lulls me into a stupor, where the dialogue helps bind the images to a story which is how they were intended (and the viewer can always turn off the soundtrack if they choose).

If interested you can see them here (http://www.demoreelnetwork.com/chupap/index.shtml).

I think it's because it's streaming and it has to buffer again half way through. I'll post a link where you can right click and save it to yoiur desktop, that way you can download the whole thing and watch it whenever you want. It shouldn't take long to download, it's only around 3 meg.

Charles,

thanks for the reply and for the link, thats just what i was after a low down and some images to back it up, have taken in alot of your other posts here so thanks for replying..

i guess its about putting something together and then adding and subtracting as and where need - (client depending)..

.. ps: the rear veiw mirror rack focus in your reel was cool man.. steadicam footage was awesome too.. jut got one and had some fun outside last week,, handheld version and not 'wind' friendly.. all a learning curve..

thanks again
Q

what is your "thing" director, editor , DP, producer, production company ? etc .. each would have a slightly different type reel ...
in General !! keep it all the BEST ...
when i view reels ( hiring ) i figure the worst section/spot/clip is the BEST i'm going to get from you/company and most of the time OK is not good enough ... don't make it too long .. a 10 min reel with knock out material is great .. a 10 min reel with OK material is tooooooo long ... remember if they want to see more they'll ask for more ...

Some interesting exceptions:

A- If you've only done student work, don't send in your demo reel.
An editor I know who was looking for assistant editors (for a job of only a few days) would've hired some of the applicants until he saw their reels.

B- One camerman I know doesn't even have a demo reel and gets all his jobs from word of mouth.

Demo reels for camera may not be that great (for the person hiring), since it doesn't show the takes the cameraperson blew.

2- Anyways, I would figure out who your audience is, and what they are looking for.

3- If people ask for demo reels, they might get a huge stack to go through. Typically they will just skim through the reel... put the very best stuff at the first 15 seconds. If it's for a small job, they may not even go through your entire reel.

steadicam footage was awesome too.. jut got one and had some fun outside last week,, handheld version and not 'wind' friendly.. all a learning curve..
Q

Sadly no Steadicam is wind-friendly (or more accurately, no wind is Steadicam-friendly!) but the key is having someone carry a wind block for you--a double net works wonders (less turbulence than with a solid).

Finally got finished and looking forward to kicking it off in March. If anyone is interested here is the trailer.

http://www.phigmentphilms.com

Thanks.

Hello,

I'm a new DP just about out of film school. I have some of my work available here:

http://www.jpcine.com/portfolio/portfolio.html

I know there are some very experienced and knowledgeable DP's that frequent this site. I'd really appreciate any opinions/comments regarding my work. I'm very happy to hear criticism but please keep it constructive.

Thanks,

JP

The first annual Estes Park Film Festival still has many openings for your film submissions! We are looking for the best independent feature films, documentaries, and short films in all genres. Films accepted into the festival will be eligible to compete for cash prizes up to $1,000, and a chance to attend one of the most exciting events in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado. To enter your film please visit www.sdientertainment.com If you have any questions please e-mail us at info@sdientertainment.com. We hope to see you at the festival!

The Estes Park Film Festival will take place at The Historic Park Theatre September 15th through the 17th, 2006 with an awards ceremony on the final night! The Festival will showcase an amazing blend of independent feature length films, short films, and documentaries. Estes Park, Colorado, Gateway to the Rocky Mountain National Park, is the perfect back-drop for a film festival. Millions of people visit each year to enjoy the shops, golf courses, beautiful mountain scenery, horseback riding, and numerous hiking trails. In addition to the films the Estes Park Film Festival will also serve as a fundraising event to help renovate and restore The Historic Park Theatre to its original cinematic elegance.



Regular Submission Deadline: January 2nd, 2006 – May 1st, 2006:

$30 Features / $20 Shorts / $15 Students

Late Submission Deadline: May 2nd, 2006 – June 1st, 2006:

$35 Features / $25 Shorts / $20 Students

Entries postmarked after the late deadline will not be accepted.

All student film entries must include a photocopy of a valid student I.D.

Hi John
I'm not really a DP so I can't speak too technically about your work, suffice to say if I was looking for a DP your name would be on the list! Theres a real energy and style about your work, although I must say you seem happier on DV than on 16mm (which is not a bad thing)

Hey guys. We wanted to do a film about alien invasion for fun, so here is the teaser trailer for it. Let us know what you think...

(RIGHT-CLICK SAVE AS...)

http://www.danielbroadway.michaelfrisk.com/TRAILER/invasion_teaser.mov

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/PixelMagic/CU-Jonathan-in-CAR.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/PixelMagic/UFO_Firing.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/PixelMagic/ALIEN_HIT_CROWBAR.jpg

Moved thread to our showcase forum

Looks like fun. How long is your running time?

It will be around 6-7 minutes long once finished.

What did you use to build the aliens?

A friend of mine at Frantic Films built the alien in 3ds max.

Quickly put together, mostly improvised. Shot with the DVX on 24p...


http://www.mattramphal.com/room.htm

"I may be a pervert" that was my favorite.

I posted some grabs and such a month or so ago but I just finished the trailer for my film Out To Lunch. It's really my first film outside of small 5 minute pieces I have done by myself. A couple of my friend's and I (all around 18) wrote the script and cast out of the drama dept. of my school. This is also my first major project with the DVX. It goes without saying that it's rough around the edges but it is such a blast doing it. We are finishing filming next week and premiering toward the end of March. This trailer will be shown at a huge school-wide assembly (that's another story) and we will hopefully get a lot of people to come and see it. So here it is:

WMV:
Large (http://www.stickypod.com/stickypod_upload/uploads/OTL%20Trailer%20Large.wmv) (18 Meg)

Small (http://www.stickypod.com/stickypod_upload/uploads/OTL%20Trailer%20Small.wmv) (9 Meg)

Any/all feedback wanted! Thanks for looking!

I don't know how many members here have experience dealing with national networks like Discovery or Scripps etc, but I'm in the process of selling a travel/food show and would like to know what other options there are in terms of potential clients. So far we have targeted National Geo, Discovery, Scripps, PBS and Oxygen...

I know of a few networks that are just starting out and are desperate for good content. Anyone have any more to add? Has to be sort of outdoorsy, think travel channel, host is a female...Hope that info helps..
Muchly appreciated

Hello all! This weekend our production group (par-t-com) participated in a 48 hour film competition here at Ohio University. There were around 28 teams involved in the competition and nearly all of them finished on time. Here were the items we were given:

genre: mockumentary
prop: paper airplane
line: "he's just not that into you"

The result can be viewed here http://par-t-com.net/rough_road.mov. I DP'd the project along with color correction and audio mixing. I got the chance to implement my own DIY mini35 adapter for the first time and I was quite impressed with the results. I can't wait to get out there and shoot more footage with it. At any rate, we took first and were extremely thankful that our work was that well received. It could't have been done without everyone on our crew! At any rate, feedback is welcomed! Thanks for viewing the short.

That was awesome! I was into it the whole time. Nothing dragged too long or felt out of place. I think it would have been funny if the guy had been weary those goofy chemistry goggles when he was 'air testing' his paper plane, but it was funny that his eyes were drying out too.

My only complaint would be that it could have use a little bit of color correction maybe and a little better lighting. Very minimal complaint, though.

Great work!

The concept was great! Loved the acting - you guys should turn that into a longer piece. Everything about it was fun. The other airplane guy reminded me of Dwight from the office for some reason - funny stuff. The outside shots looked great with that adapter. The inside ones looked like they could have been amped up a bit more. Did you guys shoot around Athens?