Hi Tunde,

Thanks. :) More to come soon. I was lighting designer on this one. Shot by Johnny Tsang of edgewater pictures and directed by William Lappe.
It was shot on the HVX in SD mode with the Brevis35 adapter.

I'm wrapping up a music video and trying to update my reel. I need some advice on the new now updated demo. I'm primarily (like so many others others) interested in directing, but I am a professional editor, and shot all but one of the projects myself. I am also mostly interested in work on music videos at this time (realistically), but also write and shoot short films.

http://mlfilm.com/video/demo.mov

Have at it...

i assume you want us to view this as a DIRECTORS reel ?

i really couldn't tell anything about Directing from the reel ...i think it's a good intro - now i would like to see longer sections from the music video's ...

Hi Everyone!

I've been a lurker on this site for awhile now and love reading the threads.

I have a new film project that I have been working on for the last 3 years for teaching kids and adults - but mostly students - how to come up with a great film idea fast. I taught this on the graduate level to 3D animators and became focused on creating a process for teaching visual storytelling. You need to think about your story from a production standpoint if you are going to be making the film yourself.

Can great storytelling skills be taught? What is missing in most indie films these days? I think the stories are lacking in many. Is it more important to have the best camera for your film or the best idea? I am story nut so you know where I stand.

Anyhow, I would love to get feedback on the online 94 minute step-by-step process. You can take any film or story idea you are working on through the steps. There is a free workbook you can download too at www.myflik.com. It is part of a longer workshop that takes you through writing a feature script with a focus on microbudget digital filmmaking using DV, 2D and 3D. Reading screenwriting books is very different than coming up with an great story idea and making a film.

Let me know what you think. Happy filmmaking!

I've had these on the internet since they were finished, the first one since 2005 and the second since 2006. I love to make films and would love to get decent actors to work with.

This was my very first effort of making a short film, zero budget, bit of a wierd one this is, I know of some faults with it, but this was a massive learning curve for me.

http://dutchfilms.russthedutch.net/movies/aqotlrg.wmv

The second film I did was longer and more story based, even with a bit of proper dialog although the mic wasn't great and I've since brought a new one.

This one I think has a much better feel to it, again but of a wierd one and I learned alot in After Effects to get it how I envisioned.

http://dutchfilms.russthedutch.net/movies/fetch_wmv320.wmv

I'd like some feedback on them to read what people think. I am very proud of them.

Thanks for watching, I'd love to hear from you all because you people will help me improve.

Thanks

Hello, Sherri.
You might want to think about posting this over at DVXuser.com as well as they have a scriptwriting specific forum over there.

Hello, Sherri. I have your book and think it is great for kids wanting to make films. The presentation is very enticing.

Sherri,

I visited your site, and will be buying your book. I like your concept.

I know most here like cinema and short films but thought someone might want to see what the adrelain junkies we are like to watch! There was a typo in the video though it should say length 8.1 miles. I hate typos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz7P3FILghY

This here is just a raw footage waiting for the editing to be done!!
HOOOOOOOLD OOOOOOON!!

just curious what this was shot with? Presume a CMOS HDV camcorder?

just curious what this was shot with? Presume a CMOS HDV camcorder?

It was shot with an APTEK digital camera, The lipstick portion of the camera didn't show up in the mail so we strapped the camera to the rollbar! Most cameras only last two seasons way to much vibration. That is why the screen shakes so bad due to the rough water and high engine vibration.

That makes my hands sweat just watching it.

Here are three videos that I created for a haunted attraction in NH. The video work was performed with a Canon XL2. I combined the video with photos.

I'd like to know what people think?

There are three parts:

http://hauntedoverload.blip.tv/file/130721/

http://hauntedoverload.blip.tv/file/130402/

http://hauntedoverload.blip.tv/file/305715/

Tim,

Nice job... Well shot and edited. Nice blend of interview footage/crowd shots etc. Cool subject to shoot. Pretty extreme amount of credits at the end, but you had the interviewer going still so it didn't matter.

Looks like it will be wild with the new venue this year.

Thank you Ken. I appreciate it!

Yo,
I just finished shooting a truck show for my employer. I was there all day covering the event and ended up with about 3.5 hours of footage. I'm just using a cheap Canon ZR85.

So I just went through and logged all of the footage. Now to start telling a story and putting it all together. I'll be using Adobe Premier Elements for editing.

Below is the vid I did last year. It ended up right around 22 minutes and I was more than happy with the results. I used the same Canon ZR85 and iMovie (the creative dept. here had a spare Mac that I used.)

We never did any video work before I did this truck show video, and the whole company (myself included) considered the video a "success."

This year they bought me my own PC and got me Premier, so they are spending at least a little bit of money on me. Plus I've started doing product information vids to put on our website. Hopefully I can get an XL2 worked into next year's budget...:)

Anyways, I'll post the new one when I'm done putting it together.

Here's last year's video. It's 22 minutes long and YouTube only allows 10 minutes, so it's broken into three parts: And my product info vids are on the same YouTube channel, so check those out too (if you're trying to go to sleep...:))

Part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqcyAJKaKPY

Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqRagUk98k

Part 3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fg-Llagv2I

I really appreciate any feedback. I haven't messed with any video work since High School and that was 10 years ago, and we used 3/4" tape, and it wasn't digital, and so on...Thanks!!

At first I thought when they were coming up on plane at the start of the race that it was at full throttle. I guess the engine is so powerful that it wold probably just cavitate if you just slammed on the throttle. That is one angry sounding beast!

I don't think the CMOS shutter really had a negative impact on the video. It wobbled a bit but things like that are understandable given the conditions. I agree that another camera angle with a bit of side view would give a nice indication of speed. Maybe a second cam at 3/4 view aft would work since it would get a shot of some wake and the riverbank at the same time?

Hey everyone. The past week I was grouped up with a local musician to produce a music video in 3-4 days, and tonight it was screened at the Seahorse Tavern in Halifax. The event was organized by the Atlantic Film Festival and Norwood Cheek.

The musician is Mark Bragg, his band was unable to make the shoot but I think the video itself turned out very well.

Please let me know what you think!
http://tomchukfilms.com/blaps/Mark_Bragg_Justin_Tomchuk.wmv

Thanks,
Justin

At first I thought when they were coming up on plane at the start of the race that it was at full throttle. I guess the engine is so powerful that it wold probably just cavitate if you just slammed on the throttle. That is one angry sounding beast!

I don't think the CMOS shutter really had a negative impact on the video. It wobbled a bit but things like that are understandable given the conditions. I agree that another camera angle with a bit of side view would give a nice indication of speed. Maybe a second cam at 3/4 view aft would work since it would get a shot of some wake and the riverbank at the same time?

The view through a hard mounted lipstick camera(Helmet camera) from Sony the camera is very impressive. There is no shaking at all. Mounting has everything to do with asourbing all of the shock. The best thing to use is a towel believe it or not. I would like to use 3 cameras next time 1 looking at a profile view of the driver, 1 looking straight ahead,1 facing the rear of the boat off center.

This is being broadcast on Wednesday this week on Channel 5.

I shot it in Wales yesterday, edited it today.

Using the JVC hd201e, Brevis 35 (old version, as my new one refuses to charge for some reason) CF1L and 3 lenses. Zeiss 50mm, 85mm and Sigma 20mm.

All vignettes are done in post as is colour correction.

All shot with available light!

http://web.mac.com/philip.bloom/Philip_Bloom/35mm_Shorts_2.html

thanks,

Phil

Did I watch the right thing? I clicked on the link and was led to a short of people and images around the lock on a Sunday at dusk.

You could pass that off for film, if that is your intention. Was all that vignetting intentional? It did not look like it. You know it can be corrected in post.

I also think the Four Seasons is an overused piece of classical music.

Keep up the good work...

er...no...that's called "Richmond Lock" as listed.

The short is still actually in the process of being uploaded to the web server...any moment now...you will know because there is a girl in it called Ali who suffers from anorexia.

SORRY ABOUT THIS: iweb crashed just as it was finishing uploading, now having problems with it

Just watched it, interesting story. Beautifully shot and told!

I have recently read up on Karen Carpenter and her battle with Anorexia.
After she put the weight back on her heart gave out on her at the age of 32. The years of starvation wore her body down.

It is incredible to see that decades later this problem still exists and very little ground has been made.

Sad...



Very professional looking clip.

Mike

If anyone lives in the UK it should be broadcast on Channel 5 at around 1100, 1730 and 1900 this Wednesday 26th September.

If it changes I will let you know.

Phil

Nice job, as usual. In this case the visuals really are an important part of the story to illustrate the seriousness of the disease.

Hi.

Just thought I would post this for some feedback or comments.
Used a small hd cam so unfortunately manual control was difficult and unable to do focus pulls.

www.derienzo-videoproductions.co.uk/la dolce vita.wmv

Thank you.
John De Rienzo

Not bad. Just sort of a montage? Nice visuals, though.

What was this shot with?

It looks like it was interlaced and you used Magic Bullet to deinterlace. If you pause it in several areas with frees, you can see the warping effect (eg 2:38). I feel your pain there. It's been trouble for me too recently.

Editing flows well with the music.

The shine effects add to the mood well.

The mood does jump around from shot to shot, with light rays in one then medium exposure in the next, though.

Hi Daniel,

Thx for your reply. Yes it is a montage!! I should have stated that.

Yes de-interlaced with magic bullet, and yes some niggles, but still prefer it this way!

Because we were on holiday, I would never bring my pro gear with me, so had to make do with a sony HC3e with nightmare manual controls, but hey, its just our holiday!

Thought I would share it anyway. I would have been more inclined tio use the ray effect on more shots, but then I start to panic...do not want to turn it into some kind of special effect video!

Thx again.

John De Rienzo

The ray effects seemed suited for the shots you chose, but just didn't match the shots on either side. A bit of transition would help there (having them fade at the end or fade out at the start of the next clip, etc.).

Yeah, deinterlaced is better. Just no fun when it's all warped.

Thanks Andy!! Nice work you got yourself there too! good job!



boss video that mate....well done, won't see much better quality footage from the dvx1oob, heres mine...different genre..

http://www.myspace.com/thereelpunk

all shot with dvx100b..not bad but it's a start, anyway i replied to share this...

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/youtube_compressor_gary.html


thats a great step-by-step to get the most out of uploading that vid to myspace/youtube...best of luck and well done again :)

Here is a quick short film I made with my HVR-V1U. There's a little self-deprecation here, but perhaps there's a few of you DVD-addicts that can relate to this! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpr4eF2Uzk

Im working on a music video for a band from kansas. There EP will be released in October. The drummer wrote this song about his best friend who became ill and passed away suddenly. There are still some small tweaks in the works but your thoughts and comments would be great.

http://www.mdfilms.net/aFarewell5.mov

Thanks so much for your time

Mike D

congrats for getting featured on youtube!

This is a new short scene ive just finished doing, please let me know what you think mainly in the areas of;

Camera work
Sound
Acting
picture
editing

The actor wanted it modeled on the "Shameless" type editing and camera work as seen on Channel 4.
follow the below link to see it.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2062285512

Thanks for the input.

I don't watch TV, and I don't receive C4 so I don't know what you were trying to model it on, but I assume all the shaking and zooming is intentional. I don't like it too much but it's your work. I didn't like the way it shook. It just wasn't very aesthetic to my eyes.

The sound was clear, and I really enjoyed listening to their working class accents (was it substantially different from their real ones?) One thing I did not like is that the ambient sound seemed to be looped. It would have been better if you had recorded some real pub sound.

The lighting was a bit flat too but I assume it was part of the style. I like more dramatic lighting myself. It just seemed so drab. I do realize that they were in a tight spot so there might not have been any place to put the lights.

So that's it from me...

Main Video Page http://stage6.divx.com/RATV-HD/video/1686952/

Direct Download (may need rename to .avi) http://video.stage6.com/1686952/.divx

Beware of the bloopers, not for the serious at heart... Otherwise, it's got a LOT of 60i->24p slow-mo.

Please stop by and see my "Witt's Daughter" Trailer at

http://www.myspace.com/crowdedmetrofilms

Let me know what you think! If you want, please don't hesitate to join my friends.

Best wishes,
Carole

hey guys, i recently shot this dry subtly humourous dialogue based short. it was tricky because we wanted to shoot it in a moving car and so we built a door mount to hold the camera outside the car and though i was pleased that my camera didnt fall off and meet its doom with the asphalt, i was dissapointed that it shook so much, i realise what i have to do to improve it but i thought i'd share the film with you guys anyways cause i'd like to hear some comments(positive and negative).
the compression looks kinda shit, and i apologize(i also blame youtube). and its a slow start with poor acting as it was distracting for the driver to be remembering his lines and knowing that he's got the fate of my camera dangling outside his window, in his hands.
we rushed the shoot it and didnt spend too much time rehearsing, which as you will see was an obvious mistake. but productionwise, i'd like to hear some feedback from you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0N3JdAffak

thanks for taking the time.
-bryan

Comment on mine and I'll comment on yours. ;)

Seriously though, it was pretty good. The acting seemed a little forced at times. The camera was also quite shaky. Every bump you hit while driving really showed up.

I really liked the script though. Very well written. Some of the camera angles were quite nice as well.

I'm not 100% on the ending though.

Overall, it kept my attention and I enjoyed it.

Keep it up...

Mike

Not bad. I really liked the look of it, seemed pretty authentic.
As a teaser... not too bad. I'm not sure if the child looks uncomfortable enough.

Not enough seen to judge though.

Looks good so far...

Mike

Hey all,

Another skit knocked out. This one was fun and I got to play with some new equipment.

www.greenbench.tv/videos/Wallet.wmv

DVX100B
Glidecam 2000
G2 Wireless Lavs
Sound Devices MixPre
Oktava
Lowel Lighting Kits

Enjoy!

Thanks for taking a look. I really appreciate it. I liked the short. The compositions were very nice. It was well shot.

Thanks again for taking a look. That was just a first pass of a teaser. I will be posting a later one when I've finished editing the film.

Take care

Behold The Alliance is a metal act from Disgorge Media in Kansas City Missouri, we shot this video Between KC and Orlando (where i live now)

Take a look and let me know what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7iaz5KVIQ




Ill post some stills later in the day, we had alot of fun shooting this!

Before reading your sig I was thinking that this was shot on the FX7. Am I right? The color and the long lens shots (very nice) look familiar.

I'm currently working on a documentary for Manheim BIC. So far we've shot nearly 80 hours of footage(w/ a firestore) and just wrapped principal photography last week. I threw this trailer together for their counsel meeting last Sunday. I've read some negative reviews about the firestore, but I haven't experienced any problems. I love it. Anyway your thoughts or questions on the trailer would be appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QszDOr8G0k4

Actually, it was with an HC7. But I use a tripod rig that make it seem like a bigger camera. Nearly all the shots were done with this special tripod rig (or basically, holding two legs of the tripod.)

Thanks for the input, i might make some changes later

anyone else?

I did this some time ago and thought I would offer it up for thoughts on what people think.

The brief was to make a short documentry titled "Portrait of a Person" We could do whatever we wanted but we could not show this person. Instead we needed to get across their job and character through other images.
I chose to work on a local Artist.
Please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance, movie is below on my myspace.


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2062325590

Here are a few stills from the video.

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