Bull website and trailer at DVinfo.net

K. Tessman · February 12th, 2008, 01:37 AM

Bull is an independent feature film written, produced, and directed by Kent Tessman (me), and photographed by DV Info's resident ProHD guru Tim Dashwood. It stars Craig Lauzon (Air Farce Live), Lindsey Deluce, Simon Reynolds (Instant Star, The Sentinel), and Maury Chaykin (Entourage, Dances With Wolves). The main production camera was the GY-HD100.

I'd posted a little about the VFX work that went into Bull on here a little while ago, but now a trailer as well as some more information about the film -- including a fairly detailed production journal talking about taking the film from inception through finishing, with lots of technical info -- can be found at:

www.bullthemovie.com

Hope you find it interesting.

Marc Colemont · February 12th, 2008, 03:16 AM

Looks great! Is it possible to give more info about the used scene files?

Liam Hall · February 12th, 2008, 03:17 AM

Great job Kent. The website is fabulous and a great insight into the making of your movie; the trailer looks good too.

Anyone getting an independent feature shot, edited and ready for distribution deserves a pat on the back and a ripple of applause. I wish you every success with your feature.

Liam.

David Scattergood · February 12th, 2008, 04:17 AM

Fantastic Kent.
Quite an inspiration. I caught the VFX posts a while back and it's great to see it all come together as in the trailer.
I'm sure I'll find the production journal interesting and helpful also.
I'll second Liam's pat on the back (you'll soon have a sore back!) - kudos to you and team Kent.
Good luck and keep us updated with it's progress.

Alan Ortiz · February 12th, 2008, 09:15 AM

very nice! can't wait to see it. your colorist did a great job with the HDV footage, and the website is great. congratulations!

K. Tessman · February 12th, 2008, 11:10 PM

Thanks for the kind words.

As far as scene files and camera settings go, I'll leave those to Tim to address, since he was the man behind the camera.

We did discuss early on that certain aspects of the look of Bull would be developed in post and what sort of image we would need to start from. We both knew it would be key to get as good an original image as possible.

Personally I'm a big believer -- especially in 2008 with an all-digital pipeline -- in getting as much pure information in the image as possible, whatever the ultimately desired look. This is especially important in HDV. With a good starting image, you're able to do some really interesting things when it comes to post.

Jimi King · February 13th, 2008, 01:32 AM

Very nice.What can you tell us about the audio set-up at the location?The mic,mixer and all............
I really liked the sound and your site.
Congratulations and good luck with the project.

Tim Dashwood · February 14th, 2008, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marc Colemont

Looks great! Is it possible to give more info about the used scene files?

I spent a couple of hours detailing what I could remember and then hit submit before I realized my DSL line had dropped the connection. Unfortunately I can't get it back so I'll have to answer this (again) when I find some more time on the weekend.

K. Tessman · February 15th, 2008, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimi King

What can you tell us about the audio set-up at the location?The mic,mixer and all

The production journal goes into a little bit of detail on both the recording setup (under The Technical) and how it was dealt with in post (under Music and Sound), but just to summarize, what our location sound recordist did was record audio to a separate 4-track digital hard-disk recorder, usually with a boom and one or more wireless mics. I don't have on hand the actual models of the recorder or microphones.

In the dialogue mix (done during editing in Premiere), I generally used the wireless tracks to add bottom end to the boom, and manually cut out all the clothing noise, etc. from the lavs. Almost all of the dialogue in the finished mix is sync location audio, which is actually pretty surprising especially considering some of the noisier environments we shot in.

Jimi King · February 16th, 2008, 12:05 AM

Very nice.Keep up the good work.

Scott Lovejoy · July 12th, 2009, 09:30 PM

Hey Kent,

I haven't been on the forums in a while, but I just saw the trailer on Apple's trailer site, and remember the title from a conversation I had with Tim Dashwood. I dig it, but felt the trailer went on a little too long, regardless, a late congrats is in order.

February 12th, 2008, 01:37 AM	#1
K. Tessman Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 66	Bull website and trailer *Bull* is an independent feature film written, produced, and directed by Kent Tessman (me), and photographed by DV Info's resident ProHD guru Tim Dashwood. It stars Craig Lauzon (Air Farce Live), Lindsey Deluce, Simon Reynolds (Instant Star, The Sentinel), and Maury Chaykin (Entourage, Dances With Wolves). The main production camera was the GY-HD100. I'd posted a little about the VFX work that went into Bull on here a little while ago, but now a trailer as well as some more information about the film -- including a fairly detailed production journal talking about taking the film from inception through finishing, with lots of technical info -- can be found at: www.bullthemovie.com Hope you find it interesting.

February 12th, 2008, 03:16 AM	#2
Marc Colemont Major Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Belgium Posts: 695	Looks great! Is it possible to give more info about the used scene files? __________________ Marc Colemont - Belgium - http://www.mc-productions.be JVC GY-HM850's, HM890, HM600

February 12th, 2008, 03:17 AM	#3
Liam Hall Major Player Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London, England Posts: 969	Great job Kent. The website is fabulous and a great insight into the making of your movie; the trailer looks good too. Anyone getting an independent feature shot, edited and ready for distribution deserves a pat on the back and a ripple of applause. I wish you every success with your feature. Liam. __________________ Writer-Director-DOP www.liamhall.net

February 12th, 2008, 04:17 AM	#4
David Scattergood Major Player Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 755	Fantastic Kent. Quite an inspiration. I caught the VFX posts a while back and it's great to see it all come together as in the trailer. I'm sure I'll find the production journal interesting and helpful also. I'll second Liam's pat on the back (you'll soon have a sore back!) - kudos to you and team Kent. Good luck and keep us updated with it's progress.

February 12th, 2008, 09:15 AM	#5
Alan Ortiz Major Player Join Date: May 2006 Location: Washington, D.C. Posts: 392	very nice! can't wait to see it. your colorist did a great job with the HDV footage, and the website is great. congratulations!

February 12th, 2008, 11:10 PM	#6
K. Tessman Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 66	Thanks for the kind words. As far as scene files and camera settings go, I'll leave those to Tim to address, since he was the man behind the camera. We did discuss early on that certain aspects of the look of Bull would be developed in post and what sort of image we would need to start from. We both knew it would be key to get as good an original image as possible. Personally I'm a big believer -- especially in 2008 with an all-digital pipeline -- in getting as much pure information in the image as possible, whatever the ultimately desired look. This is especially important in HDV. With a good starting image, you're able to do some really interesting things when it comes to post.

February 13th, 2008, 01:32 AM	#7
Jimi King Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Long Beach New York Posts: 36	Very nice.What can you tell us about the audio set-up at the location?The mic,mixer and all............ I really liked the sound and your site. Congratulations and good luck with the project.

February 16th, 2008, 12:05 AM	#10
Jimi King Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Long Beach New York Posts: 36	Very nice.Keep up the good work.

July 12th, 2009, 09:30 PM	#11
Scott Lovejoy Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 73	Hey Kent, I haven't been on the forums in a while, but I just saw the trailer on Apple's trailer site, and remember the title from a conversation I had with Tim Dashwood. I dig it, but felt the trailer went on a little too long, regardless, a late congrats is in order.