3rd place in Iron Filmmaker 2007 at DVinfo.net

Jason Boyce · April 30th, 2007, 02:20 PM

Last Thursday at 10am began our Iron Filmmaker Challenge. They gave us the ingredients and we had 24 hours to turn in a short film based on those ingredients.

This year the premise was that the town totem pole had been desecrated and a curse had been placed upon the town. The rest was up to us.

Here are a few stills. I will have the short up when the editor finishes with the extended cut (we had to cut out a ton to make it into the time limit):

http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_IV.jpg
http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_I.jpg
http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_III.jpg
http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_II.jpg

Immediately after the screening, we were approached by a guy who just finished producing a feature, shot it on the XDCAM and wanted to know how we got video to look like that. He said he almost thought it was film and then talked about the XDCAM for a while and how much more like film it looks, etc.

But we got a really great reception and though last year we placed higher (2nd), that's still two consecutive years in a row we placed, and I still think we can eventually walk off with first.

Here is the video:
http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Escape_From_Livermore.mov

Also, here's our entry last year, we took 2nd: http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Murder_My_Kitten.mov

Mike Schrengohst · April 30th, 2007, 03:42 PM

Hello Jason,

That was an interesting look. How did you achieve it?

Jason Boyce · April 30th, 2007, 06:43 PM

Hey Mike,

We used Barry Green's Bronze Scene File w/ +6db gain and weather that was just on the verge of raining (it wound up doing so a few hours after we finished, in the middle of editing)

The Bronze Scene File sort of simulates the skip bleach effect on 16mm, and the gain adds a bit of noise that looks close enough to grain.

April 30th, 2007, 02:20 PM	#1
Jason Boyce Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 77	3rd place in Iron Filmmaker 2007 Last Thursday at 10am began our Iron Filmmaker Challenge. They gave us the ingredients and we had 24 hours to turn in a short film based on those ingredients. This year the premise was that the town totem pole had been desecrated and a curse had been placed upon the town. The rest was up to us. Here are a few stills. I will have the short up when the editor finishes with the extended cut (we had to cut out a ton to make it into the time limit): http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_IV.jpg http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_I.jpg http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_III.jpg http://www.jlboyce.com/pix/EFM_II.jpg Immediately after the screening, we were approached by a guy who just finished producing a feature, shot it on the XDCAM and wanted to know how we got video to look like that. He said he almost thought it was film and then talked about the XDCAM for a while and how much more like film it looks, etc. But we got a really great reception and though last year we placed higher (2nd), that's still two consecutive years in a row we placed, and I still think we can eventually walk off with first. Here is the video: http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Escape_From_Livermore.mov Also, here's our entry last year, we took 2nd: http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Murder_My_Kitten.mov

April 30th, 2007, 03:42 PM	#2
Mike Schrengohst Major Player Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 355	Hello Jason, That was an interesting look. How did you achieve it? __________________ Mike Schrengohst dvd.pro@verizon.net

April 30th, 2007, 06:43 PM	#3
Jason Boyce Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 77	Hey Mike, We used Barry Green's Bronze Scene File w/ +6db gain and weather that was just on the verge of raining (it wound up doing so a few hours after we finished, in the middle of editing) The Bronze Scene File sort of simulates the skip bleach effect on 16mm, and the gain adds a bit of noise that looks close enough to grain.