Show Your Work 2007

Andrew Todd · January 12th, 2007, 02:16 PM

http://www.box.net/public/mb3nj4lhs1

just a preview of a film we're almost done shooting

(this was deleted cuz i had it double posted in the letus forum.. i took out that post and put this one back because theres more non-letus shots than letus shots in this preview. thanks)

Peter John Ross · January 13th, 2007, 11:41 PM

3 free Filmmaking educational videos for beginners

SHOT TYPES
http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/shottypes.htm

180 DEGREE RULE
http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/180degree.htm

FAST & SLOW CUTTING
http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/fastslow.htm

These are aimed towards complete beginners and will be marketed to High School and early colleges for sales with this type of video in a series on DVD.

We shot in HDV with the JVC HD110 camera in both 24P and 30P modes and I edited in Avid Xpress Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 along with some work in After Effects. Mike Tavares was the shooter for me and the BMW was on loan from Buzz Productions. The crane shots come courtesy of Sean McHenry & Deep Blue Edit, plus TJ Cooley helped a lot on the shoot.

Thanks all.
Peter John Ross
www.sonnyboo.com

Andrew Todd · January 14th, 2007, 01:09 AM

feedback on the shots.. anyone?

Jason Dirks · January 14th, 2007, 09:19 AM

Hey folks,

A quick short I threw together with a couple of friends over a free weekend last summer. There's some obvious things I'd like to fix . . . however, since it is a mock-infommercial we wanted to retain that cheesy feel. This certainly made for a lot less pressure in the trying-to-make-it-look-really-cool department.

Would love to get some feedback. Here's the link. Thanks.

http://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail....id=2450&list=1

Brian Luce · January 14th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Hey I've written, produced, and directed lots of infomercials. Comedy is the hardest thing. I think this would be better if it was about half as long. I liked the notion of connecting him to the vacuum cleaner. and i appreciate that you didn't find the need for graphic vulgarity.
Kudos to whoever picked the music--it's perfect--we use to spend days mulling through that kind of generic garbage. It makes my skin crawl hearing it.

Here's an opening for a infomercial i did for a recliner. I was trying to be funny.
http://tinyurl.com/ye7qbp

And here's a mock infomercial by the morris brothers that I think is funny/silly.
http://tinyurl.com/yc6anx

They've got a REALLY funny one on that sight called reginald santori. I think the guy who stars in these videos is a genuine comic talent with potential hollywood chops.

How did you render it? file size? resolution? etc

Gunleik Groven · January 14th, 2007, 05:41 PM

Link doesn't work...

Gunleik

Gunleik Groven · January 14th, 2007, 05:47 PM

Nice footy, audio & CC

Dunno really about the movie.
Is it a short? (when finished)

Gunleik

Steve Maller · January 14th, 2007, 05:53 PM

YouTube says "This video has been removed by the user."

Brian Luce · January 14th, 2007, 06:04 PM

Hmmmmm...one of these should work...

http://tinyurl.com/vst6m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRypCKxCsj0

Andrew Todd · January 14th, 2007, 06:09 PM

thanks... when finished itll be a short.. no color correction used at all.. all manipulation of the white balance.

Gary Hanna · January 14th, 2007, 08:29 PM

that bad huh?

Jason Dirks · January 14th, 2007, 08:47 PM

Hey Brian,

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, again, I saw an opportunity for a lot of things to do different . . . one of which was to tighten it up and make it shorter. We really wanted to preserve that goofy feel that a lot of the infommercials of even a few years ago had. Ridiculous invention, crappy acting and cheesy music and scenes overall. I definitely wanted to keep it "innocent" so to speak. Even though it's for a very personal product, I wanted to keep it fun and relatively PG.

On the subject of the music. That was all done by Chris (the co-director) in his home studio. It turned out phenomenal. He did a great job and he took the music in a different direction than I originally thought, but it ended up being the right choice.

To your point about the length, I should've kept it to :30 or 1:00 max in keeping w/ traditional infommercial length. May try recutting . . but then again this was kind of a quick exercise.

Did the all the cutting in Final Cut. Rendered using Sorenson Video 3 and compressed the audio w/ IMA 4:1. If I remember correctly, I think we ended up with about a 40 meg file (320 x 240). The site we posted to capped it to I think 50 or maybe 80. So the nice thing was we were able to keep a nice amount of detail.

Giuseppe Palumbo · January 15th, 2007, 02:24 AM

Hey Everyone!
I just Finished my reel and would like to know what everyone thinks. I used AE for some of the titles and Vegas to Edit. The Footage is mostly XL2 and GL2 footage.

SAVE TARGET AS

http://blip.tv/file/get/PeppeNB-NewBeginningReel907.mov

If you have more time, check out my site to!
www.nbfilms.us

Mark Bournes · January 15th, 2007, 07:26 AM

My 2 cents...I liked your reel, the only thing is I feel like you went too long on the music video part. I got it in the 1st 30 seconds. I had to wait too long to see what other kinds of work you do, ie...commercials and promotional video.
I also checked out your website. Very nice. Easy to navigate and find contact information. Nice job.

Giuseppe Palumbo · January 15th, 2007, 12:29 PM

Yea, i know the music video part is alot longer then the others but that's my target and what i want to do the most. I dont really have alot of commercials/promotional videos to show.

Thanks on the website to!

January 12th, 2007, 02:16 PM	#46
Andrew Todd Major Player Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Saint John, CANADA Posts: 633	my immortality (preview) http://www.box.net/public/mb3nj4lhs1 just a preview of a film we're almost done shooting (this was deleted cuz i had it double posted in the letus forum.. i took out that post and put this one back because theres more non-letus shots than letus shots in this preview. thanks) __________________ video : xl2 / letus35xl / bogen 503 photo- canon 1dmkII - bronica etrsi

January 13th, 2007, 11:41 PM	#47
Peter John Ross Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Hollywood, OHIO Posts: 149	The whole series of these 3 free Filmmaking educational videos for beginners SHOT TYPES http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/shottypes.htm 180 DEGREE RULE http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/180degree.htm FAST & SLOW CUTTING http://www.sonnyboo.com/onlinemovies/fastslow.htm These are aimed towards complete beginners and will be marketed to High School and early colleges for sales with this type of video in a series on DVD. We shot in HDV with the JVC HD110 camera in both 24P and 30P modes and I edited in Avid Xpress Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 along with some work in After Effects. Mike Tavares was the shooter for me and the BMW was on loan from Buzz Productions. The crane shots come courtesy of Sean McHenry & Deep Blue Edit, plus TJ Cooley helped a lot on the shoot. Thanks all. Peter John Ross www.sonnyboo.com

January 14th, 2007, 01:09 AM	#48
Andrew Todd Major Player Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Saint John, CANADA Posts: 633	feedback on the shots.. anyone? __________________ video : xl2 / letus35xl / bogen 503 photo- canon 1dmkII - bronica etrsi

January 14th, 2007, 09:19 AM	#49
Jason Dirks Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 27	Mock-Infommercial "The Wangtastic" Hey folks, A quick short I threw together with a couple of friends over a free weekend last summer. There's some obvious things I'd like to fix . . . however, since it is a mock-infommercial we wanted to retain that cheesy feel. This certainly made for a lot less pressure in the trying-to-make-it-look-really-cool department. Would love to get some feedback. Here's the link. Thanks. http://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail....id=2450&list=1

January 14th, 2007, 05:41 PM	#51
Gunleik Groven Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Espa - Norway Posts: 151	Link doesn't work... Gunleik __________________ Red? Sure!

January 14th, 2007, 02:48 PM	#50
Brian Luce Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,290	Hey I've written, produced, and directed lots of infomercials. Comedy is the hardest thing. I think this would be better if it was about half as long. I liked the notion of connecting him to the vacuum cleaner. and i appreciate that you didn't find the need for graphic vulgarity. Kudos to whoever picked the music--it's perfect--we use to spend days mulling through that kind of generic garbage. It makes my skin crawl hearing it. Here's an opening for a infomercial i did for a recliner. I was trying to be funny. http://tinyurl.com/ye7qbp And here's a mock infomercial by the morris brothers that I think is funny/silly. http://tinyurl.com/yc6anx They've got a REALLY funny one on that sight called reginald santori. I think the guy who stars in these videos is a genuine comic talent with potential hollywood chops. How did you render it? file size? resolution? etc

January 14th, 2007, 05:47 PM	#52
Gunleik Groven Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Espa - Norway Posts: 151	Nice footy, audio & CC Dunno really about the movie. Is it a short? (when finished) Gunleik __________________ Red? Sure!

January 14th, 2007, 05:53 PM	#53
Steve Maller Major Player Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Burlingame, CA USA Posts: 285	YouTube says "This video has been removed by the user." __________________ me@facebook: http://facebook.com/stevemallerphotography

January 14th, 2007, 06:04 PM	#54
Brian Luce Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,290	Hmmmmm...one of these should work... http://tinyurl.com/vst6m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRypCKxCsj0

January 14th, 2007, 06:09 PM	#55
Andrew Todd Major Player Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Saint John, CANADA Posts: 633	thanks... when finished itll be a short.. no color correction used at all.. all manipulation of the white balance. __________________ video : xl2 / letus35xl / bogen 503 photo- canon 1dmkII - bronica etrsi

January 14th, 2007, 08:29 PM	#56
Gary Hanna Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: United States Posts: 137	that bad huh?

January 14th, 2007, 08:47 PM	#57
Jason Dirks Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 27	Hey Brian, Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, again, I saw an opportunity for a lot of things to do different . . . one of which was to tighten it up and make it shorter. We really wanted to preserve that goofy feel that a lot of the infommercials of even a few years ago had. Ridiculous invention, crappy acting and cheesy music and scenes overall. I definitely wanted to keep it "innocent" so to speak. Even though it's for a very personal product, I wanted to keep it fun and relatively PG. On the subject of the music. That was all done by Chris (the co-director) in his home studio. It turned out phenomenal. He did a great job and he took the music in a different direction than I originally thought, but it ended up being the right choice. To your point about the length, I should've kept it to :30 or 1:00 max in keeping w/ traditional infommercial length. May try recutting . . but then again this was kind of a quick exercise. Did the all the cutting in Final Cut. Rendered using Sorenson Video 3 and compressed the audio w/ IMA 4:1. If I remember correctly, I think we ended up with about a 40 meg file (320 x 240). The site we posted to capped it to I think 50 or maybe 80. So the nice thing was we were able to keep a nice amount of detail.

January 15th, 2007, 02:24 AM	#58
Giuseppe Palumbo Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 199 Images: 7	Please Watch my New Reel! :) Hey Everyone! I just Finished my reel and would like to know what everyone thinks. I used AE for some of the titles and Vegas to Edit. The Footage is mostly XL2 and GL2 footage. SAVE TARGET AS http://blip.tv/file/get/PeppeNB-NewBeginningReel907.mov If you have more time, check out my site to! www.nbfilms.us __________________ AIM - N film B www.nbfilms.us Last edited by Giuseppe Palumbo; January 15th, 2007 at 06:52 PM.

January 15th, 2007, 07:26 AM	#59
Mark Bournes Major Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jupiter, FL Posts: 565	My 2 cents...I liked your reel, the only thing is I feel like you went too long on the music video part. I got it in the 1st 30 seconds. I had to wait too long to see what other kinds of work you do, ie...commercials and promotional video. I also checked out your website. Very nice. Easy to navigate and find contact information. Nice job. __________________ Mark www.sharkvp.com

January 15th, 2007, 12:29 PM	#60
Giuseppe Palumbo Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 199 Images: 7	Yea, i know the music video part is alot longer then the others but that's my target and what i want to do the most. I dont really have alot of commercials/promotional videos to show. Thanks on the website to! __________________ AIM - N film B www.nbfilms.us