This is my very first demo reel so i'm open to feedback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldTnY-uj7ho

Please see this thread with link to film and discussion of same:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?p=809949#post809949

Every year I produce promotional videos for a haunted attraction called "Haunted Overload" in Lee New Hampshire. Shooting on site is pretty much "run & gun" with almost zero lighting. This video was shot with an XL2 at 24P (lots of gain) and a cheap Sony Hi-8 using night vision camcorder. Some shots (i.e. Opening Headless Horseman Scene) were shot with the XL2 utilizing the LetusXL with 50mm Nikon Lens. Still photography was also incorporated into the video.

The video is 16 minutes long. Here is the link.

http://blip.tv/file/606485/

Thanks..

http://www.vimeo.com/617201

A micro-sketch filmed on a whim. Stay happy.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/939635/2007_worlds_jetboat_racing/

Should I spend the $$ on Digital juice for transitions??

Filming some sled races this weeknd..should be fun.. -30 C

Just three minutes is all. Subjects almost a mile away. JVC HD200 with Nikon 300mm 2.8 ED glass. Brian Luce helped shoot it. Tough suspending yourself on a muddy cliff for seven hours. Felt like a train ran us over by day's end.

Enjoy

http://www.reelsense.net

Wow! Intimidating waves, for sure. Score at intro did a great job of getting the focus & adrenaline up.

here is my video for a contest 94.9 the sound had. my video below lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtu4qWil-mU


here is the winners video that won 5000.00 !!!! If his was actually better i wouldn't be so mad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luSBS6NiQro

Thats defentley not the title i posted ha


should say "Cincinnati radio station TV commercial contest video"

Dave-

I liked yours better. Yours looked more professional too!

Dave, you got robbed!. IMO, your video is pretty damn good. Concept very good from a marketing point of view, and execution without much to criticize. Far superior to the 'winning' video.

A few things working on aside from commercial work.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvztI2MrE0

http://rileyharmon.com/news4.html ( X_X )

My original post said Wedding Trailer. This turned out to be a documentary and less wedding footage. Please feedback your thoughts.

Thanks again

I find the Youtube clip to be WAY too talky! I jumped out of it after about a minute or so but then went back to give it a second chance. It's interesting but it takes too long to see what you are talking about and then you are silent while we watch the demonstration of the game. I would suggest that you begin to show the game while you are still explaining it. Overlap the two. One of the great things about editing is that you can condense things.

As for the receipt section...same criticism. Your explanation is fine but you should show a close up pan of the receipts as you talk about them. You are standing in the dark, give me something to watch while I listen to you, it is VIDEO after all!

Good luck with your project!

they arent my videos, i just did my work and some art video website sonarta.com made interviews at the show. i was just there to show stuff

I see. You obviously put a lot of thought into your art, you need to find a videographer/editor that puts as much thought into theirs. You are not being presented as well as you could be, is all I'm saying.

Also, if you put a video on a video forum you should expect that the video technique will get critiqued, not just the content.

My first real test of my new (and first) HDV camcorder. Shot on Saturday afternoon through the back door (through the glass!).

http://www.4shared.com/file/35644476/80dde395/Bird_Feeder.html?dirPwdVerified=6feae3b4

(48MB; 20 seconds; m2t)

shorter version of an original version that I made .

It is a bit easier for the eyes and smoother than the longer version,

http://blip.tv/file/472200?filename=DavidChia-FrankfurtAutoShow2007ShorterVersion630.mov

Just how far would you go to save a couple bucks?!

This video was selected as one of the 10 finalists in a Nationwide (Canada) Video Contest by ING Direct.

To see the video, click on this link: http://www.ingdirect.ca/superstarsaver/watch.html.

Once there, click on the grey ‘Vote’ tab:

1 – click on “Next Video >>” until you come across the video called “Sauvez A Bout de Souffle!” (Save Til You’re Out of Breath! Don't worry, the video has subtitles!)

2 - or type “Sauvez” in the “Search for a video:” box at the bottom, and then click on the small icon that appears underneath.

If you like my video, please vote for it!
To vote, simply click on the ‘thumbs up’ icon. To see a larger version of the video, click on the "Post a Response" button, which takes you to the video on YouTube. There you can leave comments and give the video a star rating (although voting can only be done with the thumbs up icon). I’d love to know what you think!

Voting goes on until January 30th. Everyone can vote for my video once a day, so please visit the site and vote as many days as you can!

Thanks for your comments and thanks for your votes!

Cheers,

Pierre Louis Beranek

So i met a guy from boston last week that has a small stunt team. My friend David and I hung out for a few hours with him and decided to choreograph and film something on the spot. Here it is


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3bqy3fKzO4

That was great Nathan. Looks like a lot of fun. Did they have that choreographed or was it improvised on the spot.

Hey everybody,

I need some feedback on this 30 second commercial. It will be going up on various networks, so any constructive criticism would be much appreciated!

http://www.rpmproductions.info/videos/samples/p17.mov

Thanks,
Ryan

I like it. Beautiful images, and well shot. Incredible color, and good lighting.

Suggestions:

I'd like to see shots of her doing the chef-thing in the beginning, where she says she's a chef.

I'd like to see shots of a great bar and great live music when she mentions those things.

The end, where she transitions from "this is an interview" mode to saying "Parallel 17, a vietnameese restaurant located at..." is weird. Get a VO guy for that part, or just do it via text. As it stands, it breaks the flow of the spot, and it has good flow up to that point.

Also, I'd like to see a couple more shots of the food, because it looked REALLY good.

Better than about 90% of the local restaurant spots around here. Good job.

Why the push in/pull out shot of the photo of the guy on the motorcycle?
Looks clean other than that...

Thanks Mike for the feedback. The "chef-thing" idea I like, and I do have some footage of her in the kitchen. I haven't been able to get any material on the live music, but the shots when she's talking about the bar are of the bar. Maybe I should throw in a wider shot of the bar at that point? She is currently trying to get me some pics of her dishes and I may have to go back in and shoot some band footage. The break in the flow at the end was somewhat intentional to pull the viewers attention back into what the meaning of it all is. So many commercials go unnoticed because they don't make a statement, but maybe I should think about re-working it a little bit. Thank you again for all of your suggestions, they are great!

Charlie, the push in/pull out shot was put in cause I thought it was a nice touch. Now that I look at it some more, maybe I should stick with the slow pan across the pic that I had in there before. I'll mull it over.

This is exactly why critique is so vital, you begin to see things that you have lost in the countless hours of looking at the same footage over and over again. It's great to have a second, third, tenth set of eyes.

Thanks again,
Ryan

I agree about using the VO, however I think that how you keep her on screen during the beginning is fine. I'm afraid if you added her being chefy when she says it, it'll appear way too hacked apart, not give her enough establishing face time.

As well, the out of focus->into focus shot towards the end is kind of distracting. That was the only shot in the commercial that draws my ADD brain away from what is being said. :)

Carl

choreographed in about an hour. Then filmed in another hour or so. Was alot of fun :)

Whats up guys?
I purchased my Canon A1 a couple months back and decided to shoot this short little film just to have some fun.

A little background to the short film::

I have a little neighbor, who just turned 6, that looks up to me and he always comes over and wants to hang out. He saw a couple of my airsoft guns laying around from the day before when i went airsofting, and he wanted play with them.
He then saw my Canon A1, and wanted to make a movie with all the guns. So i said, eh what the heck, lets just mess around and see if we can throw something together because he thought it was cool.

"The Assassination" is a short dramatic sort of comedy, and was shot in the matter of like 15 minutes of messing around with my cam.
This is the first film i actually edited together and published.
So, I thought id share it with you and get your guys feedback.

Link is below. Let me know what you think.
Still learning everything about the cam and all the tricks and trades to getting the best picture.

Hope you enjoy!

--------------------------------

"THE ASSASSINATION"
Two men go one, only one comes out.

**need DivX installed to watch**

http://www.stage6.com/user/Mitzenfauker/video/1955237/The-Assassination

I really like the music selection. It lent itself to a very dramatic slow-mo feel... good stuff. I'm sure your neighbor enjoyed it, maybe you've created a new future videogeek. =D

C

Kids playing with guns... wow! Execution scene at the end. Cool message. Killing is fun. :-( Was that the "funny" part of the story?

Besides from that - nice colors. However some additional angels instead of the use of the zoom button would have been nice. I also would have appreciated a more careful arrangement of the pictures and a shorter in- and outro.

Just got this from Withoutabox

Dear Paul,
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Critically acclaimed and award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee serves as the Festival's Honorary Judge, and will personally select the winning films. Lee has championed Babelgum for giving filmmakers the freedom to screen their work globally, with few limits - a valuable outlet that was not available in his day. "I was from the prehistoric age," Lee says himself, "You have no excuse now. If you have a film and you're talented and someone is not seeing it, it's your fault."

Seven winning filmmakers will be personally honored by Lee at the awards ceremony and gala luncheon taking place at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2008. Each winner also receives a cash prize of 20,000 Euros (approximately $29,000 USD). What's more, all submitted films will be shown on the dedicated online Babelgum channel, effectively providing filmmakers free, global visibility as well as profit from advertising and pay-per-view revenues.

View the listing, read on to learn more - then go to the Babelgum website and upload your film today!


Verrrrrry interesting!
(obscure laugh-in reference)

No, the message isn't so much funny, yea i know there is killing and the kid playing with the guns, i guess it isnt so much a comedy.
Somewhat comedic how it turns out though in a way.

More of a drama now that i look at it.

thanks for the comments though guys.

This is the first film I will have released in 2 years online for download since all I have made were features. I need to start making more shorts!


Plot:
(I'm going to keep the sypnosis short)
Alan Fung and Sammi Tsang, 2 lovers who have shared a strong romance for 3 months, have learned that one another is, in fact, married to others. The couple discusses what the next step in their relationship should be and they come to the conclusion that they must break the news to their respected spouses.

I would classify the film as a dark romance but that's just my view on it. The film is another one of my Asian cinema influenced films. It started with inspiration from Wong Kar Wai's "In the Mood for Love" and it slowly because something pretty original and hopefully enlightening.

Running Time: 24 minutes.

Language: In Cantonese with English subtitles.


Download:
http://eddielebron.com/loveless.html



Alternative Link Available upon request.



Stills:

http://www.platinumcinema.com/platinum/LLStill1.jpg

http://www.platinumcinema.com/platinum/LLstill2.jpg

http://www.platinumcinema.com/platinum/LLstill3.jpg

http://www.platinumcinema.com/platinum/LLstill4.jpg



Reviews for the film thus far have been great so hopefully people here will enjoy it!

Hi there:)

My friend and I went on a ride on his ATV. We actually planned on a location "hunt" for our lightsaberfilm, but the weather was really nice so we figured.. why not shoot some nice and cosy footage with the incredible SGpro..


So this is, as I said, just some "feel good" footage that I wanted to share

I hope you take some of your time to download it.
And really I hope you like it!


(Recommended to watch in VLC player)
http://www.xuate.com/finaltur2.mov


Of course I managed to flip the gain swith to M unconsciously (is that spelling correct?)... So half of the footage was affected by that.

well i wasnt expecting that at all, stunning, just stunning. Excellent composition and film like appearance, if those shots were on a steadycam i would have thought i was watching a silent trailer, i love it.

Eric, keep it up and yes I would like to see more.

Beautiful and kind of romantic! It must have been a wonderful day!?

Could you tell me, what kind of post effects, like color blending, you applied to the film?

Regards, Oliver

Thank you very much for the kind remarks:)

Well first of all I used a camera that shoots in 25p.. And on top of that I used a 35mm adapter:)

I also adjusted the colors and pushed the contrast to the max on some shots with Magic Bullet Looks.

http://www.vimeo.com/643104

This is from a project I am doing for a theatre play, where there are family super 8 films projected during the play.
Work in progress.
Tell me what you think.

Speaking as someone who shoots Super 8, the format is wrong (Super 8 is 4:3 not 16:9) The color is washed out and the latitude is too shallow(even for reversal stock) - and youve blown highlights. The 'fuzz/flare/bloom highlights is a little overdone too. Scratches and flickers are present in 'old films' not in 'newly shot' films- so they may or may not be relevant to your needs.

The Depth of Field especially in the first sequence with the two women on the park bench is incredibly shallow for a Super 8 Camera - remember the size of the film frame is about the same size as a 1/3 inch chip - so there is correspondingly deep depth of field. Don't get me wrong, the shot LOOKS great! But its not 'super 8'.

As something to be projected as if it were Super 8, I think the average theatre goer will accept it. Not many specialists sitting in the audience.

Yes, I know super 8 is 4:3, but I decided to shoot 16:9 as it is the camera's native format, and then convert to 4:3. It's just not done yet.
Could you elaborate a bit on "the latitude is too shallow" ?

see we shot this short as practice when we received our equipment

Picture: recorded on the HVX 200 at 720p/24fps with the default f6

sound: the 416 boom going into the Sound Devices 302 and into the SD 702 at 24bit/48khz


Idea: script is done in 5 minutes, just for practice and fun.

reward: experience and lotsa fun

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

This is the film of a close friend of mine. The film is called Visitors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3x3GrNgyyg

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Angie

I enjoyed that.
What was it shot with?

thanks for the compliment!

He shot it with an XL2

Hi Guys,
Here is the trailer for my new sport film.

http://because.flyozone.com/en/trailer/?PHPSESSID=b987236159476bc062c45e120bced61a

Coments are apreciated..

H

Absolutely amazing! Especially as I am also a paraglider pilot and Ozone is one of my favorite brands! Especially since my favorite paragliding movie is "Never Ending Thermal" and the Ozone gliders in there look really great and also seem to be very well to handle. :-)

I would appreciate if you could tell me something about your camera and especially how you created the time lapse and panning around 0:25...

Oliver

The interior shots needed to be white balanced.

It was filmed with a Zu1 on HDV and i panned on After effects.
Its amazing what you can achieve with extra resolution!

Cheers

Herminio

Hi Herminio!

It was filmed with a Zu1 on HDV and i panned on After effects.
Its amazing what you can achieve with extra resolution! [...]

Thank you very much for this information - your movie is really great. Keep on with the good work.

Cheers, Oliver