Show Your Work 2007

[Jeremy Teman]

HV20 HVX200, one day in Santa Cruz, CA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxOgUSBTBs4

[Marcus Marchesseault]

Nice. I like the mix of close and distant shots. The long lens of the rider flying up and disappearing behind hills was really cool.

[Ben Coughlan]

Hi everybody, pretty new to all this forum stuff, but recently put a little showreel together, just finishing my degree in digital screen arts (One week left) and had to put a showreel together for my last module, has to be in next week, would be cool to get some feedback from people and just for some people to see it and let me know what they think. Its up on yousendit as i dont have any web space to put it up on. honest opinions! oh and i used the wrong clip for the shots in the bar where you can see the lines of the composite of the light plates, thats been changed now. Cheers.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UV...dGpRR2MwTVE9PQ

[Ben Coughlan]

think that link might have expired, please try this one.

http://www.yousendit.com/download/UV...dGpRR2MwTVE9PQ

[Marcus Marchesseault]

The camera work is great. What came into my mind watching that as a demo reel that includes corporate video is, "How about his audio?". I don't know why, but I wanted to hear some dialog to make sure it would be clearly audible and not mushy with lots of room reflections.

Also, the effect in the opening shot partly covered/blurred your company name.

[Mark Shea]

thanks for your comments Robert.
I am still using a beat up old XL1, sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic and edit on a mac (FCP) Ready to upgrade camera, but waiting for a 1/3 chip cam (like the panasonic) that captures uncompressed HD to a hard drive or other solution (such as p2) and has a big zoom lens (16x - 20x) With what I do, a big zoom allows me to get candid street shots without unwanted attention. I also used a lightweight velbon tripod, hasnt got a true fluid head, and really too light for the XL, but light in the backpack. On the camino http://www.overlander.tv/2007/good-w...f-saint-james/, I got my gear weight down to 18 kilos, that included everything!!

nice site that vagabonding one, thanks for the link

[Jourdan McClure]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLA9M38NYKU

[Herman Van Deventer]

Brutal, raw, flesh ripping performance by the lead singer.

Cool stuff !

Social comment / A single increase in fuel prices because of war, ripple effect
to the third world countries where food price hikes lately leave cannabalistic expressions in the eyes of African population.

Peace / Herman.

[Jourdan McClure]

thanks for taking the time to view it

[Mike Watson]

This is my furthest reach into the "surreal" video feel, and I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on it. It's a :30 spot for a volunteer group we're a part of.

http://www.mikewatsonproductions.com...eneric2007.mov

Enjoy!

Mike Watson

[Steven Gotz]

I liked it. It was very well put together.

Perhaps the text could have remained on the screen a moment longer for all of them except the last one. That one seemed to last longer.

[Mike Horrigan]

Really nice!!

Very professional.

Mike

[Greg Trenton]

Here's a short trailer I worked on for an author named Michael T. Owens. He was featured on yahoo news a couple of years ago. The theme of the trailer is based on his book "A Dream Come True." Anyway, here's the link:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=2033183482

[Justin Tomchuk]

I agree with Marcus, I could not clearly read your company name, maybe move the two words a little more apart from one another.

The video was excellent, I was expecting something sub-standard for some reason and was pleasantly surprised. The shots were well done but a little cliche such as the piano keys shot and the point to sky forest shot.

I thought the video showed the woman with the black hat too much, and the last corporate video shot with the guy was maybe too long but it's still fine if you leave them.

The music you chose was a good choice and it looks like you synced the clips with the music which makes it an excellent video. The music was good, except that it was very repetitive and I wish the piano tune had more variation to it's melody. Hardly your fault though if you didn't make the music yourself.

I would like if it had some audio clips from the videos like Marcus said. You may be keen to focus the video on your cinematographic and editing skills but your audio skills were not showcased.

It's one of the better reels I have seen.
Justin

[Chris Medico]

We went on the One Lap again this year. This is the once a year race by Brock Yates of the Cannon Ball Run movie fame.

Viacom came out to cover a driver in the event this year as well and they are going to feature it on an episode of Born Country on CMT. Its an hour long show and the episode featuring the event should air on July 27.

We shot some of the video they will feature in the show. We were doing our own coverage of the event for our website and they wanted us to shoot some in car video for them. We also gave them some glidecam footage of their car and some interview footage of the guy with the fake deer on the hood of this Escalade (you'll have to watch this to really understand it).

I'm currently working to get the footage put together for a modest release DVD of this years event.

If anyone would like to check out our web stuff I would be very happy to have some feedback on what we can do better. http://2007oloa.blip.tv

I'm also excited to see how much of what we shot gets into the show on CMT. There are lots of stories there about a few video amateurs trying to deal with a large media company. How do these people sleep at night?????

Chris