These were shot over the past few months as I toured the U.S. in a 1973 VW bus. I threw these clips together for the VW community but thought I'd share them here as well. I put them together goofing around with MS Moviemaker. I'm currently working on a DVD tutorial for Premiere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M5nzGX9AWk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phg82Wz4qdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGQs15JRfsA

The general jist of this piece is a young father experiencing his own, sudden loss of life; his own. Everything we see is his own thoughts.

The link to the film is LEFT

SCROLL DOWN TO THE VIDEO MENU (No reg required)

http://auteurtheory.ning.com/


This was shot for DVXuser. Thoughts apppreciated, but no SUGAR please!

This is just a quick little thing me and my friends from the band The Spill Canvas put together for their fans. We made up the whole thing on the spot. The sun was going down so I white balanced on a light blue t-shirt to give it a sort of warm card look.

Anyway, nothing too exciting I just thought I would show it off.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3bFPuCtfIh4

canon fd mount
we used 20 2.8
24 2.0
28 2.0
50 1.4
90 macro 9.5
135 2.5
and 200 2.8

Thanks for that. I enjoyed watching them. Looks like some good places you went to.

John,

Well done... It's kind of hard to judge the cinematography because of the compression, but the whole thing has a surreal edge. Kind of a Jacobs Ladder sort of feel. I'd like to watch it again, but I find it a little disturbing... ahh! the power of the medium. But with a deceased father, and a son I play baseball with... maybe it's a little too close to home. I found the initial hospital follow shot to be eery.

If you hadn't given the 'jist' of the story, I would have been confused over what was happening but maybe that was just me.

Thanks for that. I enjoyed watching them. Looks like some good places you went to.

Yup. Saw some of your great country. I traveled almost 11,000 miles in the bus and am currently editing a VW styled travel doc. Glad you enjoyed the vids. Cheers.

Scott

Hey everyone,

I was doing some cleaning the other day and came across some old props I had, so me and my friends put together short skit in about two hours. It came out pretty good. It’s called “Snitch”, and it’s a short film (about 3 minutes) about a little boy with a tattle problem, with an unexpected twist.

www.greenbench.tv/videos/Snitch.wmv

Enjoy, feedback is appreciated, although I’m more interested in the content than the quality.

Equipment Used:
DVX100B
Oktava
Lowel Light Kit

Sincerely,
John Holland
www.greenbench.tv

Haha that was certainly...interesting lol

Yeah, unexpected. :)

John,

Well done... It's kind of hard to judge the cinematography because of the compression, but the whole thing has a surreal edge. Kind of a Jacobs Ladder sort of feel. I'd like to watch it again, but I find it a little disturbing... ahh! the power of the medium. But with a deceased father, and a son I play baseball with... maybe it's a little too close to home. I found the initial hospital follow shot to be eery.

If you hadn't given the 'jist' of the story, I would have been confused over what was happening but maybe that was just me.

Thank you Ken

I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and remark on it. It was a personal piece for me as well and I confess a bit on the surreal side. In post it became much more 'spooky' (for lack of better word) as I cut it together

Thanks again !

Ok. I got this box in the mail. It had a hard drive in it with video. I was asked to try and make something of it using only what was on the drive. Its a mix of mostly video with some photos thrown in and shaken around to make it look more like video.

Here is the result...

http://dieseladdict.blip.tv/file/199915/

I wish I had a better cut of the song. It is used with permission by the way. I don't like ending during vocals.

Comments welcome!

Chris

I thought it was pretty funny, I sure didn't expect that.

Hey Everyone,

I created a new short film "Cyn" for Steven Speilberg’s “On the Lot” and I had to do it from script to finished product in 6 days.
Done for well under $1000, Cyn brings together an amazing group of talented people. Without these remarkably talented friends and professionals,
Cyn would have never made it's 6 day schedule.

Check out the trailer: http://www.alittlecyn.com/trailer.html

Cyn is a trimmed down version of a longer script I created for my upcoming feature film project called “Red Princess Blues.”
As I developed the "Princess" short film I noticed that it had less and less in common with my characters and storyline from the feature project.

http://www.alittlecyn.com/cyn_images/DVX_STILLS1.jpg

http://www.alittlecyn.com/cyn_images/DVX_STILLS4.jpg

http://www.alittlecyn.com/cyn_images/DVX_STILLS2.jpg

Friday: Write the script and prep the shoot

Saturday: Casting and prep the shoot; also begin working on opening titles & prep visual effects

Sunday: Rehearse, Fight Choreography and Production Design the location

Monday: Shoot day

Tuesday: Editing and color correction; begin scoring process, sound design & visual effects

Wednesday: finish scoring, sound design, composites of visual effects and master output.


Cyn was shot on the Panasonic HVX200 in HD 720p Native using four 8 gig P2 cards. This allowedme to have my assistant editor/cameraman
Ricky Pierre-Louis to download the footage on a Final Cut Pro editing system while still on set. The workflow was amazingly fast and the images were beautiful.
I wanted to give it a very unique look in post so we really pushed the limited of the camera and image.

http://www.alittlecyn.com/cyn_images/DVX_STILLS3.jpg

Let me know what you think about the teaser. The official site is: http://www.alittlecyn.com

And thanks to everyone who supported and enjoyed the "BROKEN" DVD. I hope it help some of you out!

Keep your eye on the prize :thumbsup:
Alex Ferrari

http://www.allitlecyn.com
http://www.whatisbroken.com
http://www.numbrobot.com
http://www.enigmafactory.com

Official My Space Page - http://www.myspace.com/broken2006

Excellent. Powerful.

However, I wish you hadn't explained it in your post. I would like to have seen if I could have gotten it with no explanation.

why was it removed?

Ok, so this is a cut of my film 1 final. 16mm B+W bolex non-sync sound. we were allow anything and had to be under 6 min

let 'er rip. bad and good.

final screening will be soon, so Id like to have feedback before then so I can consider changes.

http://rileyharmon.com/temp/certain.mov h264 24MB, 4 min

Hi all,
This is the first time I have cut a reel together and it was hard as hell. I already see a lot I want to change and delete but I just wanted to get this far at least.
Please feel free to say anything about it and suggestions. I am more than open for critique.
Thanks!
Aram

Right click or command click and save to computer..
http://www.puffinfilms.com/Aram/Aram_DP_reel_Roughcut1.mov

::EDIT::

Here is a new edit but I'm still working on it.

http://www.puffinfilms.com/Aram/Aram_DP_reel_Roughcut2.mov

Very, very nice. I liked the colors, the effects, the compositions, the music and the lighting. To me it looked absolutely professional. However I was wondering why such a professional video has these shaky / bucking sites!? I am especially thinking about the shots in the park, but there have also been some other shots.

Regards, Oliver

Looks superb,very professional looking actually. Well done.

Very, very nice. I liked the colors, the effects, the compositions, the music and the lighting. To me it looked absolutely professional. However I was wondering why such a professional video has these shaky / bucking sites!? I am especially thinking about the shots in the park, but there have also been some other shots.

Regards, Oliver

Thanks for the comments guys. Keep em coming. The shaky shots were because I was shooting hand held with an adapter and rails on the camera and after a day of shooting your arm just can't keep it as steady as you want. I could stop the shake in post but I figured its not that bad. I did think about it though, maybe I will do it.

Hi Aram!

[...] I figured its not that bad. [...]

It's not bad at all - it is just some kind of contrast to the perfect looking rest of the vid. ;-)

Regards, Oliver

New version in first post. Comments very welcome. :)

This Sunday folks!!!

preety cool.... Did you make it to the on the lot show??

nice, great look, great sounddesign, will the complete version be online?

I'm looking forward to it. It seems like the Sci-Fi channel should be advertising this sort of event.

nice, great look, great sounddesign, will the complete version be online?

Thanks man! It will be making th festival circuit soon. I might have a DVD available or download, we'll see.

Thanks!

preety cool.... Did you make it to the on the lot show??

Thanks. Leaally can't tell you . You'll have to see on May22 on FOX. ; (

Some online tech problem has pushed it back to May. :(

"Hello Filmmakers,
It was just brought to my attention that
SciFi.com has decided to reschedule the Exposure Film Contest - it has been
pushed back to the following dates:

Sunday, 5/20 at 12am - 1:30am

Tuesday, 5/22 at 8:30am - 10am

Thursday, 5/24 at 3am - 4:30am"

Well you are home already so I'm guessing no.

But if you didn't....yikes....who would?

Amber was in my short film , I saw the small version of broken. Cool effects man.... Wish I had a friend that knew stuff like that.

Wow, that was cool!

I might have an opportunity to shoot out of one of these planes sometime in the next few months. How was it? Was it very hard to focus on the camera when you are up there in the air? I have never flown before, that is why I ask.

Cool stuff!
~Gabriel

This is a cover band that recently played at a club near home. Shot with the hv10 and the hxa1. The audio isnt the best but it was just another chance to make another music video. Enjoy!


http://home.surewest.net/jourdan/Cliffmillerhighlights.mov

I meant shot with hv10 and xha1.

This short film is a project I helped my screenwriting partner's little sister shoot for her highschool film class. We shot the whole thing in two hours on DV (using the hvx though). I found out about an hour before shooting that one of the two main guys wasn't going to show up, so I ended up having to act in it myself! Since I didn't have any of the script memorized, AND I was trying to figure out how we were goign to shoot the whole thing before the sun went down, we decided to take talking points from the script and essentially improvise the entire thing.

It was a really fun afternoon, back in the mindset of highschool film making, where you weren't worried about perfect lighting, blown images, or even boom mics in the frame... it was about having a good time, and teaching these kids a little bit about film making.

So, that said, it's not the prettiest piece out there, but people really seem to love it, and I think it's pretty hilarious myself (watch through to the end, it goes in a completely different direction than you'll be ready for). I hope you enjoy it! (don't forget to leave comments and ratings on youtube, Id love to get this in front of more people).

-Nick Harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdk08_qKi2s

ok, re-edited, more simplistic, more closely related to other work and thoughts

changing the way of film...drone film art
film, video, visual effects, hybridity (sp?)

www.rileyharmon.com/temp/dust.mov

"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

- brian eno

Hey Nick, that was pretty funny.. I remember doing improve in-front of camera. lol!

Thanks for posting it on youtube and not one of those other sites. :-) I can't ever get any of those other sites that have free hosting to work for me, I don't know why that it is, but it is.

I like the red hair.

You wouldn't happen to be related to Chris Harris, would you?

Funny stuff!
~Gabriel

dark ambient drone video wall projetion art

http://rileyharmon.com/temp/synapse_explosion.mov

Thank you so much! Unfortunately I am of no relation to this Chris Harris fellow, who I am sure is a swell guy.

As for the red hair, my grandfather always took credit, but I'm pretty sure it was more the viking blood that did it, rather than his affinity for his own red hair.

-Nick

You are covered in woodchips!

Reeeeally trippy lol... That was pretty cool looking though.

Xiao, can you tell us about your experiences with the letus? What is good about it and what don't you like about it.... the trailer looks good btw!

"Certain" showed promise, some underlying meaning. "Dust" was just some special effects for no apparent reason. You aren't really going to go with that re-edit are you.

Guys,

I'm a 'long-time' DVinfo addict and Chris Hurd fan from Austin. I make client films, commercial projects and my own films and I teach filmmaking here. At the end of each term we host NUDGE, (4.0) a micro-digital film festival and I'm posting this to invite you to come out (if you're in the area) to our screenings at Regal's Arbor Cinema on May 9 & 10. (I'm pasting in the press release and specifics below.) These projects, by the way, orginate on 16mm film, HD, HDV and DV.

Thanks,
Steve Mims
_______________________

Student Shorts to Premiere at Austin FilmWorks Nudge 4.0

Nudge 4.0, Austin FilmWork's end of term micro-digital film festival will premiere the final project films for Production One, Production 2HD, and the University of Texas RTF 368S Undergraduate Thesis class at Regal's Arbor Cinema on May 9 and 10. Admission is $6.00.

Final thesis films for the University of Texas RTF 368S class screen at 7:00pm on Wednesday May 9. (These films originated on 16mm film and/or HD.) Designed to be competitive, festival worthy films, the final projects from this class include: LESSONS OF THE TONGUE, DONNYBROOK, PEDERSON'S SAVINGS AND LOAN, HOUSE OF DARKNESS, OVEREXPOSED, RICHARD COCKSMITH and CHASM.

Final project films for Austin FilmWorks PRODUCTION ONE and TWO premiere at Nudge on Thursday, May 10 at 7:00. Production One is a fourteen-week introductory filmmaking class. Production Two(HD) is an advanced cinematography and editing class and the final films for this term are THE VISITORS and A DAY TO REMEMBER.

Nudge 4.0 marks the seventh installment of the Nudge Festival, which was first presented by Austin FilmWorks in May 2004. Nudge celebrates the challenges and opportunities of independent filmmaking and provides something of a motivation or 'nudge' to get going.

Nudge 4.0 sponsors include Regal's Arbor Cinema and Austin FilmWorks. Regal's Arbor cinema showcases independent and foreign films at 9828 Great Hills Drive. Austin FilmWorks has offered college-level filmmaking courses since 1993.

EVENT: NUDGE 4.0 micro digital film festival

DATE: Wednesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 10.

TIME: 7:00pm both evenings

LOCATION: Regal's Arbor Cinema Arts, 9828 Great Hills Trail, Admission: $6.00

CONTACT: Steve Mims (512) 750-4672 / stevemims@earthlink.net

ON-LINE INFO: www.austinfilmworks.com

okay, ive figured it all out, ill be posting the fine cut shortly

EDIT:

updated version http://rileyharmon.com/temp/certain.mov h264 24MB, 4 min

This is a short commercial I did with my dad's FX while testing my new Canon XL2 that I got today. It's a little shaky because I'm not used to the weight of the camera, but I would like some feedback on the video. Thanks.

Here it is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3997691361549498939&hl=en

Once again, Thanks
Nick Royer

Nick,

Like said before with your 20 min flight movie, Considering your time and effort
spent on tetsting your new XL ( congratulations ) utilising the test for
making an vehicle ad deserves a compliment.

I test my new cameras by shooting spiders and insects in the garden.

Your appetite for the industry as a 14 year old "moviemaker" will hopefully
inspire young and old.

Comment on ad / New vehicle,s don't leak oil on the floor.

Herman.

That's not oil. It's mud from the rain earlier that day that was under the car.

Nick,

My humble apology / "Looks" can be deceiving.


Herman.

Nick, not bad. I see improvements since your last work.
That's all that you should ask of yourself, try and get better with every project.

You're young, keep at it!

Nice work,

Mike