http://homepage.mac.com/trickymoose/iMovieTheater2.html

this one is working

Hey everybody. Thought you might like to have a look at my new Directors website. It has almost all of the music videos and short films I've directed to date. Comments are always appreciated!

Thanks!

http://www.jacobhensberry.com

Long time lurker, first time poster. I see a TON of wedding videos on here and although I am really inspired by what I see, I am really interested in seeing some examples of some Sports Highlight videos if anybody has any that they would like to share I would sure appreciate it.

Thanks,
Thomas
www.crossbarphoto.com

He was using Vegas 5 but now I think he is cutting with FCPHD. The video was shot with the DVX100A

Hey Everybody,

I just finished a new short film called Fast Currency. It's the first short I've done in a while so I'm intrested see what people think of it. You can have a look at it here:

http://www.jacobhensberry.com/work.htm

It's kind of a big Download, but the player is really fast so it shouldn't be a problem.

We shot this with the always great Panasonic DVX 100 and used mostly available light with the acception of a 4 bank Kino Flow to fill in once in a while. We also used a borrowed Senhiser ME66 mic wich I think is one of the best there is. With some of the harsh location stuff we had to deal with, it really saved the day. I directed and edited it.

It was shot by our friend George Su who recently posted his excellent Music video for Johnny Hi Fi.

Enjoy!

Damn, the real talent there was getting all that stock footage to use. I wouldn't even know where to start to collect that sort of stuff. Nice editing job.

well directed Jake. quite hilarious really. i really enjoyed how you built the anticipation of the moment. thanks for the post.

made me want to go out today and tell everyone to just .... LIGHTEN UP! :D

Thanks Mike! Yeah, it was an attempt to do something visually appealing and yet really not so serious, so I appreciate the comment. If you've done anything recently, I'll be sure to check it out if you post.

Jake

I've moved the thread to the showcase forum. Anyone have a
sports video they'd like to show?

Episode 3 is finally up...

That was an excellent short. Osbeck rivals Rowan Atkinson. Where can I see more of the series?

<<<-- Originally posted by Scott Ellifritt : That was an excellent short. Osbeck rivals Rowan Atkinson. Where can I see more of the series? -->>>

www.themannproject.com - 1 new one a month...

Thanks Peter.

Rob,

Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the 'showcase' forum?

Joseph

I've never made a demo reel, and didn't have access to hardly any of the commercials I had made at the last station I worked at, so I had to work with what i did have, how does this look? be honest

http://www.supafraud.com/demo2.wmv

I'd shrink the logo section, shrink the transitions between sections, drop out the technical stuff about the BetaSP, miniDV in between the commercial clips.


I like the no canned art warning in the beginning. Glad you added that, made me appreciate everything I was seeing more.


Overall, good. Just needs a little tweaking.

Hey im new here my name is Jason Eisener and i am a young filmmaker from Nova Scotia Canada.

heres a teaser trailer to my new film "The Teeth Beneath"
http://www.proskates.com/trailer2.htm

Its about a skateboard shop that has to deal with a monster in the basement.

hope you enjoy, please let me know what you think.

looks like good times. i would like to see the final product!

Hello,

I just posted a short film I worked on. I was the DP and editor. Shot on my Panasonic DV-GS400. This film was part of the Phoenix Film Project 2004 Fall Film Challenge.

The Glove Box
Directed by Gabriel Loyer

http://www.727records.com/theglovebox.wmv - 8 MB WMV

This film was made a little while back which I had the pleasure of working on. It was shot with my mini35 rig which at the time used a XL1s PAL version. The film was written and directed by Joseph De Leo of www.deleoproductions.com

www.starcentral.ca/trailers/PilGarlic.wmv Runtime: 11:00

Enjoy, and feedback is always welcome! Thank you.

I liked the visuals, especially the ones in the metro. Actually I thought the complete scene in the metro was very good, it had a kind of uneasy feeling to it, and it was great with the nun suddenly starting to sing. From then on I think the film is rather going downhill, story-wise. It was nice with the revealing at the end, but I was anticipating to a more strange surrealistic story after the opening scene in the metro.

But visuals were really fine, the shots with the reflection of the woman in the glass of the metro are very mysterious and beautiful. The shot through the tunnel is very nice to. Oh, to just cut the crap: I really loved the opening sequence.
And I liked the tittles to, especcially the ones at the beginning. I don't know why.

(Must have been a hell focusing in a metro with a XL1S/MINI35?)

a typical teenage movie with bad actors. But it is always fun to see amateur horror movies. I enjoy them more than those 1000 millions horror movies. they suck. KEep on filming, you will make it in the horror world!

<<<-- Originally posted by Scott Ellifritt : Where can I see more of the series? -->>>


We're shooting 2 more this weekend, so we'll have several new ones for the next few months.

the site (www.themannproject.com) is getting updated a lot lately with new info.

First of all, make you homepage a little bit more inviting to play with, cause the website is a bit out of date in graphical perspective.

The movie was cool. Some scenes were interesting and very pro, but some were really video-style looking. I like the last scene with the interesting summer feeling (nice colour there). Th eimages were really happy ones showing tons of laughters and joys...very warm but also very normal. Try to be more outgoing with your videos. The videos are just so typical. Again, the last scene was interesting.

ps: I don't know why you put the other videos. They are tooo way small. I watched the ocean video and well, what was that about?

ummm.... I had a '58 Rambler Ambassador once that had a glove box like that. And the hood, well don't even ASK about the hood.

Nicely done!

--Ralph

very nice thanks . dp

Clever Josh.

The only thing that pulled my attention away from the flow of the story was near the end the change of the lighting in the car was too gross... like from mid-day sun to late afternoon sun.
Following that the interior car lighting for the two actors was also poor.

Everything else seemed fine. So maybe a little polish up on your lighting would do it.

Lee

Thanks for the constructive criticism, it is appreciated.

Josh

Good Morning!

Please check out my work on:

http://www.dewarempirefilms.com

"ALL THE WOMEN I'VE LOVED" (4 Min, Book Trailer)
"BEFORE TWELVE" (23 Min, Short)

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks for taking time to view, enjoy, and comment on.

Cheers.

"All the Women I've Loved" by Byron Harmon, based on his book, published by Simon and Schuster. Premiered in New York City to a rousing industry audience of 400. Rights to feature were purchased.

"Before Twelve" by Milton Dewar, based on his short story, and feature project.

"Autobiography of a Suicide" has been broken into three parts. "Ring Toss" and "Free Walk" and "Blood Porcelin". Part one and two being submitted to festivals.

All of the above were filmed on the Canon XL1S.

Enjoy.

I just started working on this project. Its just for myself. Once I heard this music track, I knew I wanted to create something like this. I wanted to see what everyone thought. This is only a preview. There is much more to come. Thanks for checking it out.

From birth, childhood and beyond, full of different emotions. We come into this world alone, we leave it alone. "One" is someone's life flashing before them in a series of brief memories.

http://mdfilms.net/content/shortfilms/7.mov

Michael
MDFilms

Hey, Derreck, I looked at the trailer from Before Twelve. I thought there were really interesting things in it, but sometimes it cuts a little bit too quck, and at the end it's like a little slow for a trailer. Although I really was frightened, when before the end that woman suddenly shocks out of bed :-)

What did you do on the movies? DOP? Cut the trailer?

Good luck!

EDIT: sorry Derreck, I saw you where the DOP.
I thought the second trailer, of the woman, really wasn't good. But I have to admit that could have good be because I REALLY don't like that music :-) :-)

Good luck :-)

You've got to love Sigur Ros :-p good music choice.
(I actually commend Godspeed You Black Emperor, they also make lengthy filmic tracks, but more apocalyptic and more complex. Sigur Rus is smooth music, perfect to dream away and to fall asleep (in a good way). Godspeed is more music that very slowly goes to a climax.
Anyhow, maybe you already all know this and I'm just repeating things for you :-p

My comment on the thing is: I liked many shots, but not the ones with the blond woman. I thought they kind of made the special poetic mood to go away.

Good luck, some very fine images!

Mathieu,

Thanks for checking "Before Twelve" It is a horror/drama.

I was director of photography on both pieces. "Before Twelve" had a very raw Lowell DP Kit, 3 Open Face 1000W w/ Barndoors, and a couple of additions.

"All the Women I Loved" I used a Arri Light Kit w/ 4 1000W Fresnels, 2 650W Fresnels, 2 300W Fresnels, 3 Chimeras, and a couple of china globes.

Cheers!

EDIT: Saw your edit, M. The "All the Women..." was associated with music industry professionals.

Thanks and Cheers!

I agree. Sigur Ros is grand.

But, Michael, i think someone already beat you to the punch

http://reelhouse.com/reelhousereel/showreel.html

Michael, your piece is obviously not a sample reel. I prefer the family images you captured to random "effects" cuts.

Stringing images together at random can of itself begin to suggest an arc of development---of story. Combining music as atmospheric & ambivalent as you chose can pull all kinds of emotional strings in us, but where does it lead?

I'd be interested to see what you came up with to evoke a similar feel for place (home) and time (contemplation? infancy? naps on a gloomy afternoon?) without music. Practical audio effects could be as powerful.

Anyway, just wanted to recognize that you're not trying to sell anything, but make a movie ... maybe even a work of art.

JS

I just recently re-designed my website and finally updated some new videos. Any critiques are welcome. Thanks for your time.

http://www.terraform.tv


Corey

Nice and simple.

I would clean up the text formatting a bit.

Also, you have no header information or meta tags.

Keith,

I'm not much of a web designer so what does "text formatting" mean?

Corey

I just don't like the straight arial fonts that you have.

And in your contact page there is an extra line space between one of your headings and the content.

Otherwise, it is fine.

Corey, did you have another site before this one?

The Before twelve trailer was going along really well, but the ending is a little mixed. When the girl sat up in bed, I thought it was more a chance for something major to happen, for a suddenly flurry of heart stopping action or something. I would also say that using "previously scary" music takes away a little from the originality of the project.

All The Women I Loved trailer is MUCH better, the first part up to the yellow screen is very entertaining and would make me want to see the movie. The second half really wasn't as entertaining to me personally, but I understand the use of this sort of clip, so no issues really.

Overall, the look of both projects seems to be in keeping with the material, and the quality of the images is very nice indeed. Nice selection of shots, angles, and framing :-)

Alex

i do find it a bit odd that these trailers give copy right notice about cannot be used / copied they are protected under copy right etc and YET this company is using copyrighted music which they give no credit = i would guess they have no rights ..

i find it hard that they would charge somebody $6-10K to make these trailers ( based on the persons booK ) and then use music they have no rights !!!

One looks like it was made by Bunuel, another by Leger, another by Michael Snow...the fact they were made by the same guy blew my mind.

http://www.softcitizen.com/videos/Dieselnew_ab2.mov
http://www.softcitizen.com/videos/Solvent_ab2.mov
http://www.softcitizen.com/videos/7_minutes_ab2.mov

http://www.softcitizen.com/directors.php?director=Jaron%20Albertin

I'm a bit confused: you have three clips and three names on who
made them. Then you start talking about two of them being made
by the same guy? Huh?

Thanks, Alex for taking a look and your comments. My soul purpose was to give the director quality of choices. I story-boarded all the work and worked from that as a blueprint. Of course after scouting the location and taking lots of still photographs, marking light locations, and power supply, etc.

Don, right. The company is a part of the music industry and some of the people on the film are the recording artists themselves. They signed wavers. I'm currently working on a few videos for the groups that allowed their music to be in the films. Bottom line, the notice should be contained in text in the film.

Legal ramifications are very real and I like to eliminate them. My work as a director of photography is meant to be seen, not locked away in the legal world. I will bring this to their attention the next time I speak with them.

Thanks for the look and comments. I hope you enjoyed them.

Cheers!

Sorry, Rob.

Meant to say:

1st video with the horse is shot in the STYLE of Luis Bunuel's early surrealist work un chien andalu.
2nd one with the black figures is reminiscent of Ferdinand Leger's simple montages Ballet Mechanique.
3rd one with the single take reminded me of Micheal Snow's wavelength and <--->.

In these videos, he (Jaron Albertin, dir.) so silkily emulated these filmmakers that it's as though they were shot by 3 different chaps not one.

That impressed me.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting those!

What struck me is not that Albertin emulated the above-named film-makers, but that there seemed to be such a powerfully consistent style among all of his videos.

But perhaps that's because most music videos I see today have abandoned the playful, absurdist, and surreal aesthetic of the 80's. So along comes this guy who may (as you say) have captured the looks of Buñuel, Léger, and Snow, but because the current fashion in music video looks nothing like them--in fact, seems antithetical to them--they all look the same. Does that make any sense? I mean, all the currently fashionable stuff, be it tweaked, CGI-enhanced, representational, gloss; or gritty, bleach-bypassed narrative; or even soft-lit filmic stuff with floating pianos; none of it looks like Albertin's stuff. At all. He's got a big field to play in because as clever as most music videos are, they really don't challenge the viewer like Albertin does.

Michael

(who would love to be challenged with counterexamples--this stuff is cool!)

Watching them over and over again, they're so mesmerizing.

He lives here in Toronto, I wonder if I should email him to say hello and that I want to be just like him when I grow up....hold it, I'm older than him...ok I hate him now.