I guess this kind of footage is more rare than I first thought.

How about some shepherds in a field at night?

Kadir,

Really great and thanks for sharing! I will try your recipe and see what it looks like on the screen.

I've always done color correction using contrast & brightness, another nice touch is changing saturation but not necessarily hue. You can see a trailer I shot with the VX1000 which had correction done to it on my site or here:

Quicktime: www.starcentral.ca/trailers/sophie.mov
AVI www.starcentral.ca/trailers/sophie.avi

I also shot long (usually 20 feet or more from the subject) and the effect of "depth" was achieved on some shots like the close ups at the funeral scene.

Check it out and let me know what you guys think.

Thanks.

Hey Kadir: you do some great work! the vignetting effect in many of the shots, was that done in post? or in camera? Also, what kidn of lens did you use with your XL1s? alot of the shots had great DOF

I edited some footage from a thing we recorded a month ago. While looking for dropout I saw something flash by.

I don't know what it is, but I would guess it's some kind of insect.

http://www.atamashi.com/Weird.wmv

What do you guys say? Anyone ever seen this pheomenon before on your own footage? I know some call them "RODS"
or "Flying Rods"

It almost looked like dirt being thrown from the man's shoe, in the way it originates from his spinning kick. Some might say it was the spirit of a departed person. It certainly wasn't an insect.

UFO, or secret Black Ops jet fighter. Either way, you'd better dissapear before the MIB's show up for you.

I suspect it is an insect or a hummingbird. If you look at the slow motion version you can see the object change direction. Dirt can't do that. Hummingbirds reach speeds around 70 m.p.h. (112 k.p.h.). More than fast enough to produce the flash seen in your footage.

To Keith: It's not dirt, if you look closely in the beginning it changes direction several times.

To Dylan: Yeah, You never saw me!

To Jeff: I live in Sweden, We don't have any hummingbirds here. It's to cold for them.

I'm still puzzled. After som serious viewing I know it travles between them and the camera. (Not behind them) so it has to be small.

Ghost.

Sorry, I thought Sweden had one species of hummingbird. But you do have several species of bee-eaters and rollers that are also very fast flyers and only slightly larger than hummingbirds.

Perhaps we do, I'm not sure about that. I'll look in to it if you want?

I'm quite sure this thing passes infront of them (and not behind)
A bird (any bird) should be quite a lot bigger passing infront of them?

Let's say this thing passes behind them (and is a bird) I have a friend that's good with math, he calculated it's going at a rate of
1600 meters per second. (That's 5249.6 feet per second)
or 57600 km/h (35792 mph)

His math is off. There's 5280 feet in a mile. Your calculations say the object is going a mile per second. Your camera never would have recorded sequential frames of the object.

BTW, the trailer is phat...but I also think the ill concepts demo reel is awesome too....

all done with your DVX?

All vids done on the DVX100.. demo reel is OK eh!... im putting a new one up soon even better! I have some awesome green LASRER shots with smoke and snow foam from a Rave! Looks like matrix but better... hard to explain but i have to show u kids wat it looks like!

here's trailer from friends project i worked on awhile back ...

16mm - there is a little hi 8 in some effects but with other film elements very difficult to see.

CGI & Effects was created in Animation Master, after effects, photoshop. all done on desktop computers

i only have a VHS copy so quality is so-so ..
it was camera framed for 4x3 but somebody letterboxed it ...

i included a link that has few stills for couple blue screen shots (before/after)

clip - WMV9 copy/paste link then either stream or download

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/donatello@pacbell.net/vwp2?.tok=bc5kQx_Aa.AUsqVt&.dir=/trailers&.dnm=Telepresence.wmv&.src=bc

stills
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/donatello@pacbell.net/lst2?.tok=bcr8tv_AJ7WR7gwK&.dir=/CC+vegas&.src=ph

If this kind of thing interests you, you can click on the link below and view our video Christmas card
http://www.gooddogproductions.com/samples.htm

It does require a broadband connection.

An early Merry Christmas to one and all.

First week of December we will be shooting a pilot/spec episode for local cable access in the San Bernardino Ca area.
The typical "ride along" show like "COPS" etc but we will travel with a different agency each week. (Local fire, Sheriff's Dept, Forestry, etc).
Any of you seasoned pros have any advice, PLEASE let me know! This is a stretch from training, docs, and weddings.

Jim

i would like to announce that a video i made is now on mtv.com it is for the band Anti-Flag you can check it out at :


http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/anti_flag/artist.jhtml

post some feedback of what you think.

my website www.scrambledvisual.com

p.s. it was shot with a sony dsr300.

More detail: Two man crew, 2 GL2's, Azden sgm-2, 2 shifts with each group. Hope to have more variety and more of a Real People vibe to the project.
For the pilot we are riding with the local Crest Forest Fire Department. These guys spent a week straight fighting "The Old Fire" in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Again, for any of you with this type of experience, I am open to any and all suggestions.

http://www.discthemovie.com/

The sketch comedy group I was in in college shot this film the summer after we graduated, and it's finally all completed after going over and over it to make sure we did everything we wanted to. It's an 80's-style comedy sports movie (kind of like The Mighty Ducks) about ultimate frisbee, and it was shot partially on an XL1 (since our original DP quit unexpectedly) but mostly on a VX2000.

The best part is that we're actually going to get to premiere it in an actual theatre. We originally did a screening at our college in April, but we realized that we needed to go over it again and edit some of the crap out. So now we're done, we're showing it on December 3rd, and we've even got the DVD out at the manufacturer's right now. I'm really excited for this to finally get shown. I'm also really excited that now I'm going to be on IMDB. <g>

Here's the other best part, though. The total cost of producing the movie itself (so not counting the DVD or the theatre) was only $1500... of course, we had the cameras beforehand.

Sweet video! Good shooting, good editing and flow. I like the parts with the homeless guy, reminded me of an older music vid by Bob Dylan... i think. Keep it up!

yeah, it was rather funny when we were explaining to the homeless man that is was going to be throwing the signs down he asked "like that Bob Dylan guy?".

Good

Looking quite nice. I'm guessing the original 16mm version
looks better?

Anyone?

Too bad that it's Real only. I'm refusing to install that player
because I've had very very bad experiences with it on previous
systems. Let me know if you get other formats up somewhere.

<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : Too bad that it's Real only. I'm refusing to install that player
because I've had very very bad experiences with it on previous
systems. Let me know if you get other formats up somewhere. -->>>

ditto for me too








oh yea MTV SUX!!!


...congratulations ;)

i know. real player does suck. i will post the link to the video once it is on our site.

This play was performed by high school students and is a version of Cinderella with a different comedic twist. As you will see there are males playing some of the female roles and it is quite funny and edgey.

The video below was mixed live with 4 XL-1s (standard) and mastered to a Panasonic AG-DV2000P DV deck from a truck. Post production was performed with Premiere 5.1c. Each camera ISO recorded its own POV for post. A jib was used in the live mix as well. Close-ups with Steadicam were shot during the full dress rehearsal the night before the first of three performance dates. We taped the mix on the second performance night. The close-ups were cut seamlessly into the mix in post and turned out quite well making it more like a film being by being embedded with the actors. These actors were so close with their blocking and mannerisms that the pre-recorded close-up shots matched very well. There are a lot of colors, much like Dr. Seuss, in the sets as well as different lighting changes. Sometimes the lighting is terribly hot while others it is just perfect such as with the deep blues in the ballroom scenes. These cameras performed very well with good contrast scenes. The cameras were left on Auto (not full auto) with the operators ocassionally adjusting exposure. I wish the play was specifically lit for video so all of it would have been even and clean. There was no rehearsal for us, the video crew, because of short notice and budget so there were mistakes as expected. I was able to fix a lot of that in post and tighten the edits in dialogue scenes. We received a single audio feed from an independent interior audio board mixing all of the stage and body mics. So, any audio dropouts or open/dead mics was not us. Overall it was a great show and some of these kids (actors) will go somewhere in this industry if they stick with it. Scenes labeled with Steadicam and/or Jib indicate heavier use of these tools in those particular scenes. This play is also a great expample as to how these cameras can perform under these various lighting conditions.

Note: The audio may be low without computer speakers with an amplifier, otherwise it is fine.


Opening - Jib

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/opening/OPENING1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/opening/OPENING56K.asx


Dining Room - Steadicam

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/diningroom/DININGROOM1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/diningroom/DININGROOM56K.asx


Cinderella & Mice - Steadicam

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/dancingmice/DANCINGMICE1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/dancingmice/DANCINGMICE56K.asx


Kitchen & Palace - Steadicam & Jib

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/kitchen-palace/KITCHEN-PALACE1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/kitchen-palace/KITCHEN-PALACE56K.asx


The Tutor - Steadicam

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/tutor/TUTOR1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/tutor/TUTOR56K.asx


Royal Announcement

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/announcement/ANNOUNCEMENT1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/announcement/ANNOUNCEMENT56K.asx


Music Box - Steadicam & Jib

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/musicbox/MUSICBOX1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/musicbox/MUSICBOX56K.asx


Sisters Preparation

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/sistersprep/SISTERSPREP1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/sistersprep/SISTERSPREP56K.asx


The Palace

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/palace/PALACE1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/palace/PALACE56K.asx


Fairy Godfather

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/ferrygodfather/FERRYGODFATHER1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/ferrygodfather/FERRYGODFATHER56K.asx


King Size - Steadicam

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/kingsize/KINGSIZE1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/kingsize/KINGSIZE56K.asx


The Romp & Ball - Steadicam (360 shot) & Jib

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/romp-ball/ROMP-BALL1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/romp-ball/ROMP-BALL56K.asx


Catty Ladies - Steadicam

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/cattyladies/CATTYLADIES1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/cattyladies/CATTYLADIES56K.asx


The Search

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/search/SEARCH1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/search/SEARCH56K.asx


Indecisive Blues & Credits - Steadicam & Jib

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/blues-credits/BLUES-CREDITS1000K.asx

http://161.58.78.36/asx/dvinfo/cinderella/blues-credits/BLUES-CREDITS56K.asx

Howdy Jim. I would recommend having plenty of appearance releases ready for liability protection. Make sure to get plenty of cover video for edits and roll on all the narrative audio you can get because you can always cover that with B-roll video. Make sure to have plenty of batteries because not all calls will amount to anything but you never know what will happen so roll on it until you're sure. That is one of the biggest frustrations, burning camera and light batteries and it turns out to be nothing. The good thing is you can always roll the tape back.

You need to get lead ins such as "we're in route to..." whether it's staged or not, the audience will not know, and also get on camera, in car or stand ups, follow ups/explanations for what just happened. If it's staged and at night, make sure the lights are flashing and/or the sirens are screaming to blend with the real footage of the incident. It's always good to have a siren audio loop if it's not appropriate to run it for the re-enactment. Just have them go to a remote area and run the siren for about 60 seconds. This can be mixed with the narration seamlessly in post for realism. The lead in and follow up can be cut together with B-roll and is a good way to intro and exit.

It is important to shoot for the edit. Occassionally when there is a natural pause in dialogue or composition, immediately snap to another shot and maybe slowly or whip pan back into the dialogue scene rolling continuously to avoid missing audio. This will cut together nicely and give you a multi-camera look. This takes some practice with anticipation and timing and sometimes it will burn you every now and then. You will learn a lot of what to do and not do on the pilot. You will be in the edit saying to yourself, what was I thinking and you will be ready for the next round from what you learned from the first shoot with what works and what doesn't.

Please be respectful of any victims' feelings and stop rolling if they say stop. You are viewing them at one of the worst moments of their lives. You do not want to interfere and make the situation worse. You may see some really tragic images so just use decent, good judgement. Oh yes, if you're with the police and you go onto private property, be ready to be sued. My rule was not to shoot on private property without consent. Some people don't mind if you're shooting a criminal that has been caught. But they may not like it if they themselves are the subjects, such as with domestic calls. If you have some time take a peek at the reality program that I produced many years ago. It was just like "COPS" but for the local area. Have fun and be careful. It can be very dangerous!

www.taskforce.tv

James,
Thanks! I will definitely heed your advice and I totally agree with you on the respect for victims etc. Your technical and composition advice is very helpful. Checked out your site and our programs have a lot of similarities. Hope ours turns out as good!
Thanks again,
Jim

Wanda Fulweather (http://homepage.mac.com/iblog/.Movies/fulweather.mov): 5MB QuickTime file

This was originally shot as part of a children's Christmas musical as a mock weather report to introduce another video about a shoebox Christmas gift ministry. I shot my daughter in front of a green screen and composited in everything else. Rain and Snow are from After Effects and the rest is footage shot by me, all on a GL2, and composited with FCP3.

The smaller size and compression of the QuickTime hide the green spill on my daughter's blonde hair, but I was pretty happy with the Chroma Keying I was able to pull off in FCP. If I had it to do over again, I would have lit the set differently and gotten more separation between her and the green screen.

The film I worked on in Paris last year has been accepted as an official entry at the SKIP CITY International D-Cinema Festival (http://www.skipcity-dcf.jp/index_en.html) in Japan.

Any members from there, or otherwise know where that is?

Apparently SKIP CITY is a recently developed industrial park and incubator for high technology media companies.

It's just north of Tokyo.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/tokyo_topo_1977.jpg

congrats on getting your film accepted.

Congratulations, Robert. Let me know the details of when your film will be shown and I'll go check it out.

This film isn't *really* mine, but it was made with my camera (and I helped out with some of the shots) for a guerilla film-making competition we organised at my University. The film was shot and edited within 48 hours of receiving the title by people who mostly hadn't done any film-making before. I'm still not sure I fully understand the plot, and some of the acting is woeful, but otherwise I think it's pretty good all things considered.

It's going to be on my webspace a while so the people who made it can show it to their friends, so I thought I might as well stick it up here. If anyone has any questions I'll try and answer them, and any criticisms I'll probably agree with :o)

So without further ado:

http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/kc281/lostweekend_300k.mp4

(14MB's by the way)

Enjoy,
Kieran

I was not certain why the dude wanted to return the paper to the papergirl so badly. There was absolutely no coherency whatsoever anywhere. I like how I can hear the quietest of sounds in the bar but not the voices from the conversation.

To be quite honest, your movie does make me want to do something completely random and bizarre, yet still entertaining to watch. It gets people talking about the movie, it's easy and fun to do (no script required), and you can claim that anyone who doesn't "get it" just isn't capable of understanding true art. In the end, though, it's all about humor. Laugh at the bizarreness of it all.

Thanks for the laugh! :)

Completely with you on that one :o)

The plot, as I've heard it, is this:

Guy wants to go out because it's a Friday night, but when he goes outside it's Saturday morning, as we discover when he gets hit by saturday morning's paper. At that point all narrative coherence disintegrates. He then runs after the paperboy (it was a boy - blame it on the compression) to find out why it's saturday morning. You see he's in shock because it's still Friday night inside his house. But the paperboy goes off and so the guy stops to go to the pub. By this point his state of shock has bizarrely disappeared completely and he's no longer bothered that it's Saturday morning instead of Friday night. But he should have been because when he starts chatting up the girl and buys her a drink it suddenly becomes Saturday night, so that when he turns to give her a drink someone else is there who's not too happy about it and chases him into the toilet. But while he's in the toilet it turns into Sunday morning, as you can tell from the prodigious use of colour correction in the bar. He's confused and so he goes and sits on a bench and looks at the paper trying to fathom out what's happened. Then the paperboy goes past him again and he follows in the hope of answers. Cue more misery and he decides to get the bus home. Then he sees that the bus is going to take him into Monday and it suddenly clicks - he's been in some bizarre time warp! - so he goes all the way home, back through the days, and when he gets there the paperboy arrives again because it's saturday morning, but he doesn't have the paper because the main character guy still has it - you see - and the main character ends up throwing the paper at the paperboy, blaming him for his woes.

What the?

Exactly.

The reason there's no dialogue in the bar is that they forgot to turn on the shotgun mic. They had already recorded ambient bar noise though, so it got stuck in during the editing as a joke, precisely because you can't hear what the actors are saying. Also the bus was almost a very clever joke. Originally it was going to come right outside the church, until it was discovered that buses only stopped outside the church every hour. The point being that the bus' role in the story is as a deus ex machina, and they thought it was funny to have the machine coming to god if you see what I mean..

But hey, more randomness I say, down with narrative structure!

Kieran

Thanks for the map, Rik. It looks like no more than a half-hour drive from central Tokyo, is that right?

John, I'll let you know when I have more details. The festival is in March 2004.

Haha!! I guess you've never been to Tokyo before ay Robert? Nowhere in Tokyo takes just half and hour!! Hell, I live in what is considered the country and it sometimes takes me 10 mins just to get out of my driveway. If you are coming here for the festival then forget driving cars altogether, a, rental is bloody expensive and b, it's a different ballgame driving round Tokyo, kinda like NY but with out any rhyme or reason.

The train system here is one of the best in the world and would be the best way to get around. It gets 'a little crowded' at rush hour but is efficient and reliable.

Here's a link to JR's Tokyo (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e-info/map_a4ol.pdf) rail map. Would probably only take 15mins

Adrian's right. I imagine door-to-door for me would be about two hours to get there. And I live in central Tokyo!

That's why I like living in Osaka, everything is so close, I can ride my bike to Namba in about 15 min. Umeda is only 13 min. away by train, heck, I even one time rode my bike to the Canon Service center in only 8 min. It's one stop over in Morinomiya. The longest ride I take is the train to Kyoto, only an hour from my place.

On the subject of Japan, right now Resfest is in full swing down here in the Big O. been checking it out, my friend does PR work for Resfest Japan so he got me a festival pass, just saw the documentary Stoked tonight, great flick. He introduced me to the woman in charge of Japan Resfest, I gave her a copy of the short film a friend and I submitted but didn't get accepted to Resfest. I was surprised by some of the shorts that got in, not very good.

Did you guys check out Resfest?

I'm still not sure I fully understand the plot, and some of the acting is woeful, but otherwise I think it's pretty good all things considered.
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I love your review.

I originally interpreted it to mean the guy had another weekend of getting nowhere in life. Partied the week away and still didn't get the girl. Then Monday rolls around and it's back to work/school.

Overall I didn't think there was anything random or unstructured at all. I'd even submit it to a festival and wouldn't be surprised if it won something.

This is my first edit production and I'd like some feedback. Camera was shakey (hand held for obvious reasons) as the wind was insane this day. This is a basic edit deal synched with music. I'd like to build on this in the future with some more cinematic effects, but you gotta start somewhere.

This is a promo for "helmetharbor.com", a local motorcycle apparel shop. They have their own race team, and this is the intro for a short 20 minute documentary about the team and the club race scene. The total production will be completed in a week or so and the shop owner is having 2000 glass mastered disks printed up. Pretty cool for a first gig.

This is a 7 MB windows media file.

http://www.kkingdigital.com/video/team_bling_01.wmv

Thanks for the feedback.

cool video dude. really good for you first project. shooting was really good too, didn't mind the shaking at all, it kinda made the clip a little more intense.
what i would have done though is made the edits alot faster and compressed the clip down to about 45 seconds to a minute, using the absolute best footage you have. sometimes i shoot some stuff without the image stabilizer on to make the shot really shaky, and also do some really fast cut aways with the camera so all you see is the subject then all of a sudden the camera pulls away really fast, this makes for some really intense transitions when you edit.
also you should try positioning your text off to the left or right. centering your text looks kinda bland. kinda like basic camera compostion, putting stuff in the center is amature looking.
once again, good video, just offering some suggestions.

corey

Kevin,

Good work. Just some thoughts....at the end, when you are going through many different shots, you might try timing them exactly with the music, especially in consideration of what the drums are doing. This is a great effect, and I was kind of looking for it when the music started "hitting" a little bit more. Also, your fades (to black) lasted a little too long IMHO. I would set those a little faster. Otherwise nice work and choice of music! Good Luck...

Clay

I'm a rookie and entered one of my short video's into a worldwide IMovie contest. I just found out that I won 3rd place. I used a Sony one chip DV camera and IMovie 2.1 for editing. I'm pumped;)

Check it out...."Water Games at Sea World"

http://www.internetvideomag.com/articles2003/iMovie_Winners_2003.htm

Hi all,

Finally got my website online at www.adrianseah.com. 3 of my films

Talking with Fishes

Last Day of Work

Bizarre Love Stories: Thursday

... are online at the 'FILMS' link. Please do check it out and let me know what you guys think.

Cheers,

Adrian

I love the "slice of life" feeling you've got going with your body of work thus far. Was BLST completed after LDOW? You nailed the editing in that one in my opinion, very precise and professional. Thanks for posting these.