Thanks Lori, actually I've won the Heineken Red Star Award (I was truly blown away by that) and Best Lead Actor (Michael Tassoni). Congrats on "The Watermelon" and I have no doubt I'll see it soon at a place near me ;)
Daniel

I recently made this short teaser for our recruitment department.

YouTube - Testing the Audi R8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YjywcHPKmU)


Hope you like it!

regards,
Erwin

Very nice!

This short psychological thriller was recorder earlier this year with an HVX 200 set-up with a Brevis Flip using Canon primes...28, 35, 50 and 85.
Karma's Choice - Trailer - OurFilmSpace.com (http://www.ourfilmspace.com/video/video/show?id=2045657%3AVideo%3A80557)
Hope you like it!

Hello people!

Im done with my first homepage, and I would like to know what you think about the web design, filming and editing so I could be better in what im doing.

Freelance HD video produksjon av - bryllup - party - extremesport - kick-off - musikk (http://www.thomasdekinder.com)

Hi everyone - just completed a new short film called 'Inanimate Objects' - it can be viewed via Youtube at:
YouTube - Inanimate Objects (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxRusveZdM)
Running time: 3 minutes

That was trippy.
I really enjoyed that. Excellent use of sound.

Thanks Dennis.

Hey Guys,

I just recently entered a 24 Hour Contest (in September) and the results are in!

I didn't win, but my team got "Third Runner Up" and an award for "Best Editing".

Our short is titled, "Buried Promises".

It was shot in HD, 24F using the Canon XH-A1 , a tripod, a steadicam rig and available lighting only.

Here is the link where you can view the short:

Film Racing | Buried Promises (http://www.filmracing.com/Films/2008/dc/BuriedPromises.htm)

And the awards:

Film Racing | Washington, DC 2008 Films (http://www.filmracing.com/Films/competitions/washingtondc2008.htm)

Thanks!

John

Here is a video that I produced for Haunted Overload a professional haunted attraction in NH. This is a spoof on American Idol. 95% Green Screen. Shot with a XL H1.

I appologize for the sluggish playback on slow speed interet connections. I hope to have it up on youtube and google video soon.

Haunted Overload on blip.tv (http://hauntedoverload.blip.tv/)


For more information on Haunted Overload please visit.

http://www.hauntedoverload.com

Thanks...

Tim

You find the videos at "arbeid" and the page works best with Internett explorer.

Great short. The sound, editting and overall concept were perfectly executed!

The Echo By Joe Shaw On ExposureRoom (http://exposureroom.com/echo)

The Echo is a new short film by director Joe Shaw. Cinematography is by Philip Bloom.

Shot with the trusty Letus Extreme and Sony EX1 combo.

An unsettling drama about a young man who seeks out his childhood priest (Robert Duncan) to make a disturbing confession.

Shot in one day on Folkestone Harbour.

Read all about the making of the film in this article - Joe Shaw's Articles - THE ECHO - The Making of a Short Film (http://exposureroom.com/members/jshaw300.aspx/articles/post/47)

I had a week in the snow and caught this on the last day. It's an annual event and EVERYONE ends up absolutely 'rat arsed'.

Perisher Blue - Pub to Pub on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/1961118)

I'll do a long version but I thought this was a reasonable teaser - anyone see anything that needs fixing up?

Hello, Forum.

I'm new to these parts and I'm going to provide a link to my first short called The Woods.

Please feel free to offer any constructive criticism where you see fit.

The Woods on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/1880203)

Thanks,

Trey

Anyone?

It's not going to blow you away or anything, but I'd say it's worth a look.

Trey

Thanks Ivo.

That was a trip! I always suspected that my statues came to life when I wasn't looking...thanks for making that a reality.
Great camerawork, editing and grading. The sound effects were spot on. I give it an A+

Very creative & impressive short

Hey everyone just wanted to say that Finally, after a year and a half... our first ever feature film VEGASLAND is on DVD. The project was shot all on DVX with several visual effects and a storyline in the vein of training day, collateral. We were able to complete the film under $2k and was funded right out of our own pockets. Most of the scenes were shot between 9pm-3am... one camera, one boom mic and a lot of imagination.

Anyway, we've prepared several trailers found here: vegasland on blip.tv (http://vegasland.blip.tv)

Vegasland: A YUZZI Brothers Film, Indie, Independent Film, Las Vegas (http://www.vegaslandmovie.com/)

but please check out our main web site which we've packed with behind the scenes, posters, etc...

some things we were able to sneak in:
- swat teams
- casino implosions
- scorpion torture
- green screen
- guns, blood & digital blood
- all original music
- boxing gym scene
- desert fight scene

http://www.vegaslandmovie.com/images/posters/montage2th.jpg

hope you enjoy our indie endeavor! now on to the next 3 feature films!

(oops the title was cut off-- Hollywood Film Festival)

My film was beautifully shot with a Panasonic HVX 200, by cinematographer, Jeffrey Siljenberg, last year and is not hitting the festival circuit. It just got reviewed and I had to post it, I'm so excited!

Here's the welcome video
:: The Midnight Palace :: - Home (http://www.midnightpalace.com/)

Here's the review
:: The Midnight Palace :: - Film Review: Witt's Daughter (2008) (http://www.midnightpalace.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203)

Online Review of "Witt's Daughter" How cool is this? Gary Sweeney who runs the website for "The Midnight Palace" a website devoted to the celebration of films from the Golden age of Hollywood, saw Witt's Daughter and reviewed it! Please stop by and take a look at the review, including a little video that I made talking about Witt's Daughter.

Please stop by and show the Palace some love

Witt's Daughter screens at the Hollywood film Festival on October 25, 2008 at 11:pm at the Arclight Theatre in Hollywood. Tickets can be gotten online at https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ArcLight/faces/MovieDetails.jsp;jsessionid=9C66CDA2C3EE56C7A7D6F00FAEF86966.node1?movieName=HFF%26%2358%3B+SHORTS+P ROG+2&pageInfo=HFF
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Congratulations.... looks like you have a very special piece of work there.

Fantastic review. I'll try and make it to the screening.

Fantastic review. I'll try and make it to the screening.

It would be nice to see you if you do make it! Thanks both of you for your kind words of encouragement.

Best,
Carole

ahh that looks nice good job.

A paranormal road trip into the Nevada Desert in search of aliens, ET and Area 51.

Needless to say, the "Truth" may be out there...
but we didn't find it.

YouTube - The Search For Area 51 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSNCzWOSIF0)

You should have tried to build up the dramatic tension more somehow though. IDK how! All the workers from when the crashes happened are deceased I think, though some just died in the last few years, and when they were getting really old, and weren't scared anymore of what the gubmint could do to them, they revealed some weird stuff. ( Don't remember source of course)

What cam and so forth did you use?

THanks

I thought it it was pretty damn cool. You had a great cast. Makeup was really nice too.

terrific! - good variety of shots, interesting premis.

- I was wondering about the text at the start, maybe that should have been in quotation marks. There was a really long transition before the scene relaxing by the tree and a couple of other transitions that could have been shorter.

I really liked the dialogue when they were first relaxing, I assume it was ad libbed - it was just natural conversation that wasn't important and then became significant with the shot from above.

The foreign language was too slow, maybe a lot of that should have been shot from a distance and the audio speeded up to sound more 'natural' with close-ups on certain words.

I don't know that the ending was clear enough for me - what were you trying to say? what was your point?

These comments are ONLY to make you think, please don't take them as 'informed' they are simply my thoughts on the film.

I really liked the film but haven't been 'effusive' in my praise because, to me that serves no point - you're looking for things you can improve.

Thanks a lot, my man.

I'm glad you liked it.

Trey

I thought it it was pretty damn cool. You had a great cast. Makeup was really nice too.

Thanks for watching it, Erik.

Trey

Here is a slideshow I made plus a summary video for a recent wedding I did.

Its about 70/30 Canon XH-A1 and HVX 200a. No color correction on any of it (actually I did correct one shot, see if you can spot it).

Thanks for any feedback!

http://www.vimeo.com/1989932

http://www.vimeo.com/1980427

Thanks Oren & Charlie.

com'on guys - I'm going to use this to get some work so I need to make it as good as I can - what need's fixing?

Hey there Paul.

You've got some nice shots in there. I've always been a fan of shooting in the winter when it's not too windy. The guy in the gorilla suit trying to ski was brilliant!

However, I'm not really sure what I just watched. And I think that is a problem. Without reading the few details in your post, I would have had NO CLUE what was going on. So for starters, I might suggest re-cutting this to be more effective at telling a story.

For example, show an establishing shot or two of a sign or banner that gives us a sense of location/purpose.

Also, Carl Orff didn't really do it for me on this piece. It seemed like people were having a good ole time. Those don't work together. Find music that complements the tone/feeling of your piece and conveys the story better. There was a cognitive dissonance between your audio and your visuals. The slow-motion of the race starting was somewhat dramatic, and it seemed to work there, but no where did I feel it was appropriate.

I'm not sure what other footage you have, but audiobytes would be helpful.

I was not digging the scrolling text at the front. Keep it simple.

Just a few thoughts. Hopefully someone else might have some suggestions too. Good luck.

So, I just purchased and built a new computer, and was looking for a project to work on to test the system when I was randomly contacted by a smaller film group in town. They were running a 24 hour film contest, and contacted me 3 hours before it started. We were to use a prompt they gave us, an object they gave us, come up with a script, cast, shoot, edit and produce a DVD in under 24 hours. This is what I made in 13 hours:

Revelation, on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/2015087)

Comments are welcome, but I already know I'm in desperate need of a steadycam, and the acting is... well we had 24 hours, so go with that :).

Sony HDR-HC9, Premiere Pro 3, Magic Bullet Looks (there's one crazy yellow shot in there somewhere).

There were 8 groups that participated, and mine was selected as the winning entry.

The Genre as "Apocalypse", the theme was "We're gonna die tomorrow", and the object we had to use was a "Box".

I sort of went the religious route, despite not being religious. Anyway, enough nervous blabbing from me.

Great job !! Amazing what can be done under extreme pressure....

No kidding! I was amazed that it turned out the way it did. I was terribly worried. Anyway, thanks for watching. I greatly appreciate it.

Max, I'm sorry to be so late in replying to your question, but I just now noticed it! For some reason, this site doesn't send me email updates to thread discussions.

Anyway, to answer your question, after over 25,000 miles and 85 videos, we've had ONE problem -- the security guys at Warner Bros. in LA didn't want us filming on the back lot. I guess it's a little ironic that the one place we had a problem was an area dedicated to filming.

To date, all of our video has been shot with small HDV cams like the HV20 and HC3. They are such low profile cameras that they don't attract much attention. Most businesses don't care, and many actually enjoy the attention.

Thanks Mike - It was shot as a last minute thing and I want to send it to the organisers of the race and get invited next year.

I take your point about the music - they had a band playing a lot of current stuff but I was looking for something with light and dark to compliment the quiet of the snowfields in the morning with the madness of the race itself - I'll have a hunt around and find something that's a better fit. I do have some reasonable audio, so I'll include a bit of that.

Please view this video on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2035069)

I have seen other video samples on this site. Most of them show the prep work like make-up, the chruch, the brides house etc.

This video is more of a preview. Is it considered to be more novice work? Also, I have noticed that not many video intros have any special effects, but this one does. Are special fx novice also???

(video not finished. in the beginning where the high heels and other b-roll is shown there will be titles)

suggestions and criticism are encouraged

It would help if the video wasn't encoded as private. We can't see it.

Here is the link on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/2035069)

sorry about that.

I don't generally do weddings so I won't comment on the content but what I did notice effects. I think the blur frame was too strong. Softening the edges will help. You also have great variations in lighting which you'll need to fix as best you can.

I did like the moves at the very beginning over the shoes and the like.

I agree re: the blur around the edge of the frame. I'm not against a little vignetting, but it goes quite a bit into the frame and is distracting. When I use effects like that the point is to draw the attention of the viewer to the centre of the frame, and when it's that strong it draws the viewers attention away. The movement in those shots is good, though.
In response to your original post, I don't consider effects novice. In fact, 99% of shots that wind up in my stuff is effected in some way, if even a little white balance correction. Cheesy special effects are a different story. I wouldn't say the effects you used are cheesy, just need a little adjustment.

The shot that begins at :40 - I wouldn't include it since there are some heads cut off and I'm not quite sure what the focus of the shot is supposed to be. The camera then just drifts off to nothing. If you include the shot, I would cut away before the movement at the end. Maybe slow it down a bit as well, along with a few other clips. I like realtime footage but I often find myself slowing my own stuff down to as slow as 25 percent if there is very little movement. Let's you cut a little bit of the shakes out.

Finally, I recommend paying a bit more attention to the storytelling part of the edit. It looks like when you finish this is the introduction to their main feature? The shot choice seems random. Here's a shot from the photo shoot - here are some detail shots of the bride's shoes - here's a shot of the couple posing. I'm not sure what to suggest since I'm not sure what you shot the day off, so I suppose I can just suggest that you consider how each shot ties into the other in terms of the timeline of the day and the timeline in your story. I really wish I could find the words to describe what I'm trying to say better, but until then I'll leave it as a vague statement :)

One more quick thing - I noticed some combing in the video near the end. It's not a bad idea to deinterlace your video when you're exporting it for web use. On the DVD that won't be a problem

Sorry if I sound discouraging in any way. You said this video is a novice piece of work and my first couple of weddings turned out much worse so you should feel proud. :) I do encourage you to keep at it.

9 Minute webisode from Lake Superior Rally last weekend, and the build and debut of our new rally car.

Let me know what you think!

YouTube - Matt Johnston Rallysport Webisode #1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKBZiZ3dw78)

Hi everyone,

For filmschool I had to make a short film about passion, this is what I made:
In de wolken on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/1986972)

Please let me know if you liked it or not!

Kind regards,
Ivo

I liked it. A little predictable as I knew where the storyline was going. But it was still a nice story and filmed very well.

Wow, that was great Ivo! You have some really nice shots in this film, the ending was perfect and I love how the title has a double meaning. It reminds us of what it is like to be a kid again and to dream the fantastic which I myself did a lot of when I was young.
Great work!

I did a little vlog on the last minute happenings on the way to the film festival-- you can check it out here :-) Hope to see you tonight if you're available!

There’s always a last minute thing-isn’t there? Witt’s Bits (http://www.crowdedmetrofilms.com/crowded_metro_films_blog/?p=498)

Carole