Thanks guys, I appreciate all the comments!

We have completed our entry into the Diary of the Dead DVD contest and WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Please go to the following link, watch our movie, and VOTE! You vote by clicking on the BOOYAH! THUMBS UP icon located directly below the video.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29312335





Please, spread the word to everyone you know and make sure they vote. We need all the votes we can get! And make sure to tell them to CLICK ON THE BOOYAH! THUMBS UP ICON below the video to rate it!

We are EXTREMELY confident in our entry and we're sure you'll love it too!

Thanks so much for the support! If you have any questions at all, please feel free to message me but please SPREAD THE WORD and VOTE! This could be HUGE for everyone!

David, thanks for responding. I've noticed that many (most) interviews have the camera angled 30 to 45 degrees. What is the theory behind that?

Yes, you're right. I have a mic just out of view but I could still zoom in some more.

Also, if I could talk you into it, I would really like to see a still or even a short clip of how someone like yourself (who knows what they're doing) sets up an interview. I think I understand what your saying but if I saw it, I'd know exactly. If you don't have the time. No worries. Regardless, I appreciate the comment.

That was really good man. I liked it. The camera work was superb man. Very pro feel to it. I gave it a booyah for it deserves it!

Check out our entry man:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=29229861

If you like it, give it a vote man, if not then do what you think seems fair! haha, anyway, good stuff on your end man and damn good compression. What program did you use?

We had to take it down and re-enter b/c of technical reasons but here is the new link! Please click the "BOOYAH! THUMBS UP" button and vote!

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29312335

Thanks everyone!

The inexperienced operator alone could have been manageable, but there were several other problems with the second camera. It would not focus properly for most of the time, so the operator had to hold it on one person for a long time to get it to focus (couldn't use manual because it was to dark to easily focus it). But the big one is that the battery did not work at all, so it was tied down to a gigantic extension cord, so whenever the operator moved the camera, they had to to drag the cord out, which made the motion of the camera quite jerky. All of these problems should be fixed with he HV30 though.

This is a short film I made about a man with multiple personality disorder. I tried to do a David Fincher sort of suspense thing. Looking for feedback! Shot on an XL2, obviously. I'm considering entering it in a film festival here in San Francisco called Epidemic.

You can download it here: http://media.beta.samuraifilms.org/movie_files/two.mov

or watch it here: http://samuraifilms.org/#Jamie%20Scott%3A%20Dichotomy

Sam

Hi Sam,

The video is okay and the audio/music is nice. Your weak area seems to be the story. The story starts off quite slowly, plot points and character development seems lacking. But if your target audience is restricted to friends and the art houses, some will enjoy the diversion.

Good luck, Michael

The rotating camera thing is the coolest contraption I've ever seen, hands down. I'd have never come up with that. F'ing incredible.

I only watched the cinematography reel. My thoughts:

You didn't show a non-timelapse shot until 1:00 in, and I thought that was too long.

The whole thing could use some color correcting, but I don't know if that's a product of the encoding.

Finally, your best shots were all in the last :30. Show me what you've got up front, so I keep watching! End on one of those sunset timelapses.

Great reel!

Here is a :30 spot from our T.V. show. It is for The Deer & Turkey Show in Ohio!
Let me know what you think! Thanks in advance for the feed back.

http://thewildlifeonline.com/events.php

Haha, I should market my short as "something to watch while rendering." Thanks for taking a look Carl!


ALSO: I realized there was something weird with my audio mix after the QT compression, so I fixed it. At least in the downloadable file, can't really fix YouTube.

http://www.amfproductions.com/films/why-no-arms/

It looked good to me.

I had to laugh when guest speakers were mentioned right when it shows the three turkeys in the background.

Looked good.

I just finished this last night and am looking for some feedback. It's just a fun thing I did for an upcoming event at my church.

It's shot 100% on a Fig Rig, with a Canon XH-A1.

http://www.centerstreetproductions.com/uploads/trinity/womens-ministry.mov

Thanks for checking it out!

Hello all! I submitted a short film to this thread a few months and was very happy with the response I got from all the experienced folk here at dvinfo.net! The last film I submitted was called "chasing Ghosts" for those interested.

My new film is called "Latency". The images below are raw grabs from my Canon XL2 footage. My plans are to submit this short film to a Film Festival in Dallas, TX mid-May. I'd like to get a little feed back on these stills, please. I'll check the festival rules and ask if I can upload the film before the festival in May. If not, I'll def upload it after the festival.


http://uploader.ws/upload/200803/al1.jpg

http://uploader.ws/upload/200803/al2.jpg

http://uploader.ws/upload/200803/al3.jpg

http://uploader.ws/upload/200803/ed1.jpg
(this one has a reflection from my light kit... any ideas how i might go about removing it in post?)

http://uploader.ws/upload/200803/ed2.jpg

Hi! So we shot this music video in one day, one very long day. I edited it in two days. But I still think it turned out quite well. I would like to know some of your opinions! Many of the opinions on the first music video I posted up here were helpful.

Here's the link:

http://www.vimeo.com/751734

Thanks! It was fun to make!

Could use some color correction, IMO, but not bad.

wow... still no replies. Don't be shy guys. I wanna know the truth!

The trailer for my upcoming no/low budget feature "Dark Souls" is now online.

Check it out at:

http://www.caliburnproductions.com/DSTrailer.html

Cheers
Pat

Looks good. In particular i like 3 and 4 shot. The only thing are those vertical lines (but maybe is the compression) on the background.

Kevin,

I thought it was really nice - your video was appropriate for the song and it flowed pretty well - wasn't hard to watch.

Some lighting indoors might have helped some, and I probably would have tried to have a wider variety of shots of him playing the guitar - maybe closeup on hands, very long shots -- just mixing it up a bit. Seemed like there were two or three shots of that and that was it.

I really did enjoy it.

This was my second attempt at doing a live performance. I was by myself so I just set up an HV20 in the back on tripod and I worked with my v1 in the front. If I could do it again I would probably get there earlier and talk to the guy doing the lights because they didn't turn the lights on until the show started so I had to just leave the HV20 on auto in the back (didn't turn out to well). I also would have done a tighter shot with the hv20.

I had a problem with the HV20 shaking like crazy when they were playing loud. Anyone have any tips for that? I guess it is kind of inevitable in a small place with really loud music that its going to shake.

Any critique or tips would be great! (the plan is for the band to put their recorded audio overtop the video so I didn't need a direct feed) Thanks!

http://www.vimeo.com/754497

Looks good. In particular i like 3 and 4 shot. The only thing are those vertical lines (but maybe is the compression) on the background.

Thanks! I don't think the vertical lines are a compression issue... they're on the raw footage too! Why are they there? How do I get rid of them? Since it's a horror flick I may be able to get away with it this time. They add to the grittiness of the film. But for future reference I'd like to know what they are and how I can avoid them in the future

thanks Matt, I appreciate you taking the time.

Few days ago I happened to tape a recording session, it's in a few takes, two cameras, no additional light, the music is from a movie "Moscow doesn't believe in tears", one of a few Russian films that received an Oscar, back in 80th.

http://olegkalyan.ru/_Quicktime/Orkestra.mov

haha, awesome. I like it. Pretty gory. Nicely done, cuts looked very professional.

I'd watch it again

My short movies at the cinema

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There will be a new short movie evening
in the "Metropolis" cinema in Hamburg
at the april, 18th from the filmmakers group
"Filmstube Hamburg"

www.filmstube.de

The screening will start at 21.15.

You will see a lot of very good short movies
including
"Unusual", Director: Steffen Werske, HDV, 14:30 Min., D, 2008
and
"Eine Nacht mit Folgen", Director: Suntje Freier, DV, 7:30 Min., D, 2007

There are only 280 tickets
so don´t wait too long if you want to go to this event.

We all will have a great evening
and you all are invited to come.

Greetings to all of you from Steffen & Suntje from Hamburg, Germany

Messing around with Final Cut and Color here:

"Parkour Experiment"
http://www.vimeo.com/758431

Man, you make me jealous. That was really good, I now want to see it!!! It doesn't look like a low/no budget film. Great stuff. Looks like you have the most important thing: story.

Beatufiul.

Some interesting shots, Oleg. I watched it through a few times before I noticed the other camera was visible in the wide shots - funny how hard it is to spot.
This kind of film takes a lot of work and it's hard to get such clear shots with all the stands and other junk in a studio setting without using a crane. It's difficult enough on a tiered stage with gallery cameras in front and behind, long lenses and 4 or 5 cameras. Well done.

Which orchestra is it by the way?

Colin, thank you!
It's a Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Filarmony"
Conducted by Maxim Fedotov.
It was recorded in about 1.5 hours in I think 5 takes!

anyone? haha anything would be greatttt

I agree about getting a tighter shot with the HV20. I would also try to match the colors in post, the blacks on the HV20 weren't as deep as your other cam. Other than that, looks and sounds great.
Why didn't you upload in HD?

I watched it, from your own description it sounds like you pretty much nailed the problems....I can't understand why the tripod was shaking...Was there a PA monitor somewhere around the tripod...I've down a couple of live bands that were louder than these guys with no tripod shake. Lighting wasn't too bad, rarely are you going to get a well lit band. Overall it was OK. Could have bit tighter editing and perhaps some more interesting camera angles.

The band did not feel very energetic or even really committed to their music, this was my main difficulty with the piece.

finally some responses! Thank you both Lou and Chris for responding. I don't think a monitor was by the tripod but its very possible that i just didn't see it. The place I had the camera in the back was the only place it was allowed to be. They were pretty strict about where I was setting stuff up. I was planning on moving around a lot up on and around the stage but I sprained my ankle pretty badly 2 days before the shoot so I was pretty much standing in one spot. Next time I will definitely try to get some more angles because it definitely seemed boring and repetitive. Maybe this is a stupid question but what do you mean "Could have a bit tighter editing?"

Chris, I actually didn't end up shooting in HD. I probably should have but they just wanted to post these to youtube anyways. No dvd or anything. It just seemed easier/faster to do it in SD.

Not bad for a 2nd attempt at a live band. I agree that you really need a stable location for the wide cam and a slightly tighter shot would have been good. Did you have a nice heavy tripod? I think the weight would have added stability if so.

I liked the shot you tried out at the end with the light behind the guitarist. If you would have had some more of those shots to use throughout the piece it could have added some emotion that was lacking from the performance.

Might be a good idea to add a pre-recorded track over it, but you will have to do something about making it seem like the performance is live. Losing the natural room sound will hurt it's credibility as an event. Well you can always add another track for that.

Cheers, and keep shooting!

Hi there. Just finnished my short film, its shot completely on costarrican beaches and countryside, you should check it out, tell me what you think

youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8uC9Sy6NkFQ

high quality:
http://www.carambafilms.com/trailereng.mov

thanx

-Fede Lang

Since Stage6 is kaput, here's the video on Vimeo in 720p

http://www.vimeo.com/729626

Also I worked on one with my brother, here's the full 1 minute version

http://www.vimeo.com/738311

a video i did for velvet revolver contest.
check it out.
thanks

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=29827169

or you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIs7RvFvtgI

An experimental film that focuses on pacing more than visual quality. This film had virtually no budget, and compared to other no-budget films I've done, I don't think the camera angles are as good, but the pacing may be better. Any comments?

http://www.vimeo.com/764061

An experimental film that focuses on pacing more than visual quality. This film had virtually no budget, and compared to other no-budget films I've done, I don't think the camera angles are as good, but the pacing may be better. Any comments?

http://www.vimeo.com/764061


I like the moon zoom thing at both ends. It would be good to steady that somehow, the wiggle detracts from the effect. Maybe zoom into it, pause then pan down to the actors as the dialouge fades in as if they are entering form the left. Zooming out at the end then fading out as the credits fade in would be cool too.
The dialouge i think didn't work so well. It's hard to come up wth natural sounding script that doesn't come off as improv sounding.
Faked the stabbing well. Believeable and scary.
Keep up the good work.

The WW's serious tone and attitude regarding something so absurd as cheetos.... was hilarious. But yeah, when he went off later could have been a bit shorter. Less is more kind of thing.
very nice production.

I watched part of it, music wasn't my speed, but it looked good.
Cheers!

I liked it a lot. I'm not familiar with the sgpro, but I'm just now starting to look into all that stuff for the first time. Where can I find more info on it? Was this the DVX100, a, or b? I liked this a lot. It had a sad feeling of 'goodbye' to it.

PJ, Your footage looks great. I'd like to know more about the film. What did you shoot it on? What was your budget? What did you edit it on, etc.

Nice video, how did you do the effect at the end? What did you shoot it on?

Hello Everybody. I just wanted to inform everyone that our short film EYE FOR AN EYE was accepted and is currently competing for the Babelgum.com Online Film Festival - Looking For Genius Award. Please check it out and vote for it. The direct link to the film's website is - http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=112672. What you need to do is download the player, install it, then register to watch the films. You can always type EYE FOR AN EYE in the search tab as well to find out film. When you pull up the media player and the play the film, move the cursor over to the right to rate it. Five stars is the highest, and that rating would be most appreciated.

The film was shot with a Canon HV20 with a budget of $27, please forgive the compression. I sent them the film in 720P, but they heavily compressed it for online streaming. The actual film looks much better in HD or even on DVD. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

Hey Guys:

I've been very busy shooting and editing this spring, but wanted to show my latest work. I was contracted by a local non-profit, the Boulder County YWCA, to produce five short videos for their Hall of Fame Awards that were presented last night.

Here's the quarter-rez vids in Flash: http://www.browncowvideo.com/YWCA/videos.html I'll try to get some HD ones up on Viemo soon.

I hired a guy to assist me with a second cam in the shoot. He has the Sony V1U and I have the Canon A1. We captured in 1080/30p and I did the rough edits in PremierePro CS3 at 1280x720 then brought the footage into After Effects for keying with Keylight and adding various effects. I made the opening/closing curtain sequences with the Fractal Noise effect.

I shot the five background plates at the historical Chautauqua Park up against Boulder's famous Flatirons formation. My favorite one is the Dining Hall with the flag-waving and leaves rustling. Plates were blurred appropriately with Fast Blur to mimic 35mm film DOF.

Here's some full-def screen grabs:
http://www.browncowvideo.com/YWCA/fernwide.jpg
http://www.browncowvideo.com/YWCA/ferncu.jpg

I presented the videos last night on my Optoma 720p projector to about 500 people at the annual fundraiser/awards banquet. Files were 1280x720 10Mbps WMVs and looked pretty darn good on a 12' screen. The videos were very well-received and likely landed me more work.

A HD multi-cam greenscreen shoot is sure not something I want to do every project, as it's a major workflow challenge and ties up a lot in rendering time, but I'm very happy with the results.

Enjoy,
Brian Brown
BrownCow Productions

2 trailers and the first of many video blogs on our myspace now..

Would love you opinions...

http://www.myspace.com/shootthedjfilm

Cheers

Sean

Hello, thanks for the feedback guys, now to answer the questions. I shot it on a canon xl2. I'm not much of an effect guy.. but here's how I did it. I shot them all with her in the frame, then she leaves the frame. So I cut out the part where she leaves... and I told the rest to stay still. and then I added a simple transition.