Its been a while since I shot anything so this is me getting back into it.
Its a film about a boy, a girl, a thief and a dragon.
Check it out here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWb6Kb3UC50

this is the first test vid from a short film about a legend surrounding the castle i work at. we want to recreate a semi-plausible silent film look, the whole thing will be intercut with footage from tourists / kids listening to the story being told.

http://www.unkreativ.at/julia/stummtest1.divx

would love to hear your thoughts, especially about

dust, scratches, etc.
white / black lines
vignetting
flickering
color

some additional screengrabs are here:

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=117282

I really like the trailer, and the voice of the narrator.It really wants to make me see the movie.But I don't like on the website to see the youtube version
I know its youtube but your encoding should be better.So maybe not show the youtube version if you cannot bring it better.For the mpeg it could be better again encoding or delivery quality.Work a bit harder on that. its not hollywood but your trailer can be the same quality if you do not have the same budget for the film.But I still would like to see the film, and its been a long time I had not a desire for a children movie.

Tried to do some more camera tests with my V1 this weekend, and attempted to do some shots with a shallow DoF.

Link : http://www.vimeo.com/822459

This was down the bottom of the garden of my fathers house. I setup the camera outside, but heard thunder, so open the garden shed in case it poured. As you can see from the footage, the heavens opened.

Lessons I learned from this :

1. Let tripod settle before recording, as max zoom amplifies movement
2. Any touching of the camera/tripod creates wobble (ie stand still)
3. Remove the lanc controller from the Tripod, so I dont add wobble when using it
4. Practice Focus pulling more. :)

There has been no post production changes made to the footage. I know some (if not all :() of the shots have a bit of a wobble. But I would appreciate comments on shot selection, or anything else you might wish to add.

Thanks in advance.

Niall

I have been experimenting (and I'm sure it has been done a million times) of creating the illusion of movement with a single image. This is an attempt on my part to make a reentry scene from space using lighting effects and pan on a single image.

www.blindchildproductions.com/Re_entry2.wmv

Hey, I thought they were both good. Deffinitely liked the Fear Factor-esqu one.

Either way, deffintely funny on both of them and they look like they were shot well.

I entered this contest as well. In fact I did one and helped my brother with his. If you're interested I'll put up the links for you.

Good luck and hope you had fun.

I liked that. I think it works so well as you are far away from the object you are animating over. It effectively becomes a background for your effects. Thanks.

Thanks David

Hey Oliver,

Pretty cool effect. Kind of slow for my taste, but I could see it as being used for an opening credits scene.

Check out my vid, I used some cool sfx in FCP. It's called, "Tunnel Vision"

The first one was ok, a little cheesy...but good none the less.

I think the second one got the message across a bit better, though.

A quick little fun clip I put together from footage I shot last weekend.

Shot with Canon S5 IS, edited in Vegas 8.0 Pro.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31263018

This is a video of me and some friends when we drove from Springfield, Missouri to Fayetteville, AR. For the most part, this project was for practice in editing. I haven't done any video projects for about 6 or 7 years, so it was nice to stretch my wings again.

Some of the verbal content may not be safe for work.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=29004290

nice smooth speed up and slow down. I tried to do that with a project i did a few weeks back and had to speed up and slow down in increments. Yours looked goooood and a lot smoother than mine... cheers for adding it

I appreciate the comment. Actually, I'd like to invest in a good neutral density filter so the shutter can stay open longer for each frame. That way the repeated frames will actually appear fluid rather than simply stacked. You can spot it pretty easily on the signs at the slow ends of the clip.

Hi all- just finished principle photography on our scottish thriller/horror feature, "The Dead Outside"

http://blog.thedeadoutside.co.uk
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206082/

Shot with XH-A1, Brevis, Nikon Primes, SG Follow Focus, Liliput 7" 800x480 TFT, Noga arm, cavision baseplate, custom carbon rails, 74Wh 12V Lithium battery for monitor, formatt fm-500 matte box, simple set of 52mm filters (all my primes are 52mm)-- Hoya ND2x, Hoya ND4x, Tiffen UltraCon 3.

Will keep you posted, particularly when we get as far as releasing stills, etc. :)

Kris

The screenshots look good, any chance to see the trailer?

Just a quick short i put together (to check out my cameras new macro function really) It's a combination of a lot of sand balanced on the edge of my pc desk and my nephews toy soldiers. You'l see what i mean, Hope you enjoy.

http://www.vimeo.com/824568

The link died. Sorry.
Here's the new one:

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31331195

There is a little contest going on on vimeo that I'm really determined to win so i can have that 1,000 for NAB next month=) Heres my entry, i dont think its on the actual contest page yet since its waiting approval, but just take a look at mine, and if you have a chance take a look at the others to see if i have a chance!
Mine: http://www.vimeo.com/842425
Contest Page: http://www.vimeo.com/loveatfirstbite
any comments appreciated =D
(I guess i should have mentioned this before i posted, but i shot it with my A1, thats why i put it in the A1 section i forgot to i guess =) )

Our film won Grand Prize in the Weinstein Co/George Romero Diary of the Dead" Contest. Our film will now be featured on the DVD release of "Diary of the Dead."

Check out the film here:

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


The good folks over at Horror-Movies.ca did a little story on it. Check it out here:

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_11278.html


For more information on the win, go here:

http://www.triple-e-productions.net/diarycontest.html

Thanks to all who supported!

Congrats! That is awesome.

Wow!!!
((Laff'n))
Loren, I've took a little time and viewed plenty of other contest entries and thus far your video is on top to me!!! ((still laff'n))
Thanks for sharing!

Greg

thank ya! thats wat i like to hear =)

I liked it, but when she's walking away where is the bag?
Keep it up.

yeah i know =/ well we didn't get the burger until half way through, i realized what we had done later in post =( thankss=)

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Fixed it. It should work now.

Hey guys,

Here is a promo I've just completed for a Fashion Show sponsored by a local newspaper (Louisville Eccentric Observer - LEO Weekly). All shots were done with an A1 and using a monopod as a stabilizer.

http://www.vimeo.com/833429

http://leoweekly.com/?q=promotions (it's the video at the top, and while you're at it, check out the pics too...some very hot models were involved in this one)

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Tony

Right at 16 seconds I thought you replaced the actor with a mannequin. I've never seen such dead eyes in a video before. That would be cool in a certain context.

Here are some of the recent spots I've done. They aren't great, but I'm learning as I go. The first is one for the company I work for and was done entirely in Motion 3. The second is for an audio/video component store and was edited edited in FCP, chroma keyed in Color and motion mattes and motion tracking was done in Motion 3.

http://www.gonadsgo.com/video/casscomm_standalone.mov
http://www.gonadsgo.com/video/sundownone.mov

I have my own issues with these spots, but I would like to hear from others on ways I could improve these and future spots.

Now posted on Vimeo. What a great site.

http://www.vimeo.com/840134

Matthew Overstreet
Writer/Producer/Director

Here is a 30 sec spot a friend of mine directed. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMWI6jPNjNw

Thanks John, I'll check it out.

Oliver

The mood is good. Definitely seems like a background piece for something else (credits, compositing). The movement of the lens flare could use some work to help make it more cohesive to the moving image, but other than that it's nice.

http://rileyharmon.com/11_07/2008/electronic-sculpture/

Electronic Sculpture interfaces with counterstrike

Here's a music video...

http://www.vimeo.com/835920

...created for my wife for an internet singing competition. If you like Rascal Flatts, you'll love this! It was a great project that really put my XH-A1 though its paces (lots of steadicams shots). Make sure the 'HD' button is active on the video at Vimeo -- looks WAY better than the standard def version.

If you like her perfomance, go give her a vote as well! :-)

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/VideosSeries/VideoView.aspx?vid=5002_85725688&=PBB_RascalFlatts_240_PPIMEMAIL_PPIMEMAIL&isep=1&pbapi=-1&pbvi=14572862

BTW -- the compression quality is horrible on the competition site, that's why I put it up on Vimeo for others to see (who have a more critical eye :-). Check out the Vimeo link first!

I'm not getting audio on the Vimeo site and it looks like you have a bad link for the other one.

Ken --

I just fixed the competition site link above -- should work now. You can see the video there, but the quality is VERY poor -- that's why I included the Vimeo link.

Not sure what the problem is with the Vimeo link (I can't get the audio either!) -- It's been fine for the last few days. Looking into it now...

I may have to reupload the Hd Vimeo version.

Thanks

Hi James,

Great stuff, really like the clean, simple approach - it belies your great camera work.

Still no audio though!

BTW - what were your encoding settings? I'm having real trouble outputting any of my work at anything like half-decent quality.

Sean

**UPDATE**

Just watched the video on the Brickfish site - really enjoyed it...

I might have been tempted to squeeze a lens flare in somewhere, but that's just me - and I might also have gone for a couple more moody close ups of her not singing...but that's a question of style and taste.

Again, I really like the clean approach - nothing over-produced or complex - just shot really, really well. Well done! S

I had no audio on your vimeo, I found the vimeo volume control, it was turned all the way down. turned it up and it sounded great :)

Yes -- *the audio on the video control/player (in Vimeo) was turned all the way down by default for some reason!* (bottom right of video player)

Once I turned it up -- all was well.

Thanks Allen

Sean --

Thanks for the constructive comments and compliments -- much appreciated. Yes, I probably could have put a few more non-singing shots in there, and perhaps another lens flare (I do have a couple in there :-)

Thanks again for the great feedback!

Try turning up the audio control on the Vimeo video player and see if that works...

This is our latest short - a poke at modern pharmaceutical advertising.

Would appreciate any and all feedback. You can check out all of our other shorts from the site as well.

http://www.thrillahill.com/ncfbm.html

Thank you John P. This was my first attempt at something like this. Thanks for taking the time to look at it and your comments.

Oliver

Hi Richard

Thanks for the comments, they are much appreciated. As i'm sure you know, it's hard to be objective when you're writing, producing and acting in the same production...especially when it's our first.

I think you're right about the music not helping with the trailer. It was actually a piece of music written for the intro of the film itself rather than specifically for the trailer. We'll make sure the actual release version of the trailer is much more focussed.

Thanks again.. the more input the better!

Sean

I've always watched only. A lot of great videos from you guys on this site.
I wanted to share a little too. My skills are getting better. In my opinion at least :)
This is 24p test with A1 and glidecam. I was always scared to shoot 24p, as I thought that there will be a lot of strobing effect, if I don't know how to do it well. But now I'm in love with 24p.

The other clips there are a little older (shot last year), so don't judge me on those...
There are 2 test clips there:
http://www.vimeo.com/843932
http://www.vimeo.com/847789

Any feedback would be appreciated.

I'm a high school student and this was made as a film lab in my Film Production class.
Assignment: No sound and the camera had to be the POV of a character.

Let me know what you think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX5fg3eaCgM

Excellent stuff. Very smooth and well composed! Question - which vest and arm do you use?

Daniel

Thanks Daniel.
For this one I didn't use the vest.
I'm using smooth shooter arm and vest. This was actually my first time ever without arm and vest.
My glidecam weighted 18 pounds before, for better stability with smooth shooter. Now I removed all the extra weights and tried it handheld for the first time. There is a lot more movement allowed, mostly with the dynamic shots.

30-sec preview for my forthcoming documentary. Shot on Canon HDV cameras if anyone cares. Thanks for looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4icdCfx97k

I uploaded the video to Vimeo so that it will play with better quality.

http://vimeo.com/860544