Trailer Made for a school project in Vegas 4 with my GL2. Some shots with a Century Optics .3x Ultra Fisheye...Tell me what you think.

http://s90140792.onlinehome.us/Destination%20Life.htm

I liked that video alot. I've just chugged through a couple music videos my self and yours looked very well thought out.

I voted for you.

Awesome trailer in my opinion. I also use a GL2, but I find Vegas really hard to use, so I'm with Preimere Pro. I was wondering what settings your GL2 was on when you guys shot that...

So you just shot the trailer? Or is there an actual project behind?
Sorry if it is a dumb question, but as practice, just making a trailer is great!
I liked the look of it. A little too long in my oppinion.
Good job!

The shooting is nice, the images are nice, but really this isn't a trailer.

Trailers are suppose to tease, reveal a plot line, make you curious to see what the movie is about. You reveal tension, interplay between characters, and often push the most commercial aspects of a movie.

This struck me more as a music video faking being a trailer for style, rather than a true trailer. I saw no story, no plot, no character interaction, no real tension... just some guy walking to a sort of strange death being hit by the only car in a huge parking lot. It also went WAY too long (trailer times are usually in increments of 30 seconds, maxing about 2 minutes)

As I said: the images are nice, the techniques used in editing very smooth, the camera work nice, the colors are nice and deep.

Alex

This is a music video I shoot over the summer and just completed editing not too long ago. Take a look at it and let me know what you think. Thanks

http://www.steakmotionpictures.com/thebest.wmv

Parental Advisory: Explicit lyrics. :)

Nice clean shots, nice color... I am not a huge fan of the "guy singing to the camera" routine, but you managed to keep it visually interesting. Not sure if it compliments his message or obscures it, but that is a whole other discussion.

Alex

http://www.sodesune.com/trailer.mov

It's just kind of a joke, me and my cousin decided to spend some time making a movie. Tell me what you think.

I did a music video there to max I'll have to check it out you can watch mine too if your there

it's under Kyle Kauss and Matt bulr video

Heya, i've made a little suspense short called Hunted.
The file is 12mb mpg , pls watch and most importantly post a reply on what you guys think of it.

Criticism WANTED.

http://www.imagestation.com/video/view.html?id=4122439732&dl=1

(hmm...somehow i can't make a hotlink to it, copy link and paste in browser...should be able to "save as")

I didn't really get the feeling that anybody was being "hunted". The music was good though, it sounded familiar, who did it?

I didn't feel "Hunted"... maybe "confronted" or "High noon in the forest"... but the hunted part was less than obvious.

For something like Hunted to work, your characters have to put forth panic, fear, and agitation. You can also help that be editing to create tension - fast shots, quick cuts, scrambled images, running, breathing, tripping, etc. To really create terror, you need to show terror, and create a more frantic pace that suggests terror. You also need to get your camera closer to the subjects, as it is hard to portray terror from a distance. Terror is a very personal emotion, and it is very "close".

The idea is simple and nice. The images generally are decent... nothing on the purely techinical that I would complain about too much.

Nice try... now go add some terror! :-)

Alex

Hi

I did not feel any suspense, I am sorry.
Yeah I liked the music too, it is a famous western piece.
I think you you should have made it a tad longer and put a bit more story into it.
Just my 2cents.

I don't recognise the music. The ending music sound VERY VERY VERY much like Once Upon A Time In The West from Morricone, but it isn't that.

And I am sorry to agree with some other people here, the 'hunting' part didn't really worked out.
Good luck in upcoming projects!

Type [ url ] before the URL, and [ /url ] at the end, just take out all the spaces.

<<<-- Originally posted by Mathieu Ghekiere : I don't recognise the music. The ending music sound VERY VERY VERY much like Once Upon A Time In The West from Morricone, but it isn't that. -->>>

You're close, it was from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. :)

I liked the short, but like the others, I didn't get much suspense from it. Tighter editing might help.

Hello, everyone. I was wondering if anyone out there can help me host this clip? I hope someone can. The last link wasn't working properly. This link will only work for seven days. Thanks, Glenn. Oh, and please dont "Click to remove the File". That goes without saying, but eh? I hope everyone enjoys it.
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JQAOGN1ZJU8H1KB5TP71SEQGG

Decent video.

Liked the sync of you flashing around different graffiti to the beat at times.

I'm a big rap listener, but I did not like this particiular song/style.

Might try choping the whole frame rate of the video to ~25fps or so. It helps get rid of the too fluid feel. (I guess thats called the 'video look).

I find I usually posterize the framerate in most of the music video projects I've participated in.

Were you paid by the artist or by their producer?

Keep up the videos!

WOW! I guess you would run out of bandwidth with a 103MB video sitting on the web.
I hate WMP files because they rarely work properly (on a Mac or PC). I had to download the file instead of watching it streaming and it only played for 51 seconds before it froze, so other than a few (2) credits, I didn't get to see much. The quality looked pretty good but you might try to get the file size down a little more (I have no idea how long it is in running time). That may help you with your hosting issues.
Wish I could watch it.

Thanks, I'll do a .Mov version.

I think the statement "rarely works properly" is not true. I've
only had problems with corrupt WMV files (like this one, it IS
corrupt!) and WMV is used dialy and works great. Yes, it may
require a beefy computer (especially for HD WMV), but it works
just as good as MOV. Ofcourse I am on PC, but I know of lots of
Mac people who play WMV without problems as well.

That said, the file is huge and corrupt indeed. The file (according
to my WMP is almost 20 minutes long, so that sounds pretty good
for the filesize).

Couldn't see too much of it either due to the corruption. It was
probably not uploaded properly to the server.

I actually was not paid a dime for this particular video. The rappers are friends of mine and Im trying to build to my reel so I can have recent work to show to potential clients.

If you use this for part of your reel only use a few seconds of it.

OK... I had to start over with my comment because I didn't feel I was being fair.

To start off, the music overpowered the vocals to the point it seemed to be an afterthought. They need to get back to the studio for a remix session.
The shots were interesting and the editing was pretty unusual (in a good way) but this video didn't tell any kind of story. It was just a couple of guys in front of a wall with some graffiti on it. The graffiti didn't even seem to have anything to do with the vocals.
I'm not really a big fan of this kind of music but I watched it twice. Once with the audio and once without. Without the music I was bored silly after a few seconds, with the music I was just lost. I heard them saying something but had no idea what it was other than some blabbering and a curse word every few seconds.
Make the video tell a story, preferably one that has something to do with the song. The guys rapping in front of the wall is a nice look but use some cutaways to make sense of the song. It's obvious you have the technical skills to put together something of quality, just use those skills to tell a story now. Otherwise it's just a well edited home movie of some guys rapping in one location. With this style of music it makes it much easier to follow the dialog if you have images to back it up.

Otherwise, nice job.

You can use yousendit.com temporarily... You can upload up to 1GB (no joke), but the file will go down after 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever comes first.

Some sites like zed.ca, triggerstreet.com, etc. also host film stuff. You might be able to get it on there. I haven't tried those personally. 100MB might be a bit of a stretch.

You can also try bboyworld.com's forum... I'm sure you'll be able to find someone with the bandwidth and server space to host your clip. I know they'll be very interested to see your documentary (it's a very active forum for bboys/breakdancers with lots of clips there) and hopefully someone will have the server space and such to host your doc. (Bboying is one of my hobbies so I'd definitely love to see your documentary.)

In a similar vein, you could also try asking over at freestylesession.com's message board (another very active forum for bboys).

2- Windows Media will give you the best compression for a free tool. Try lower resolution, lower quality video, mono 22khz/32khz audio, etc. Some encoding programs also let you blur the video before encoding... this can help a lot. You can do this manually with a blur filter in your editing program.

Glenn, thanks a lot for all your advice. I am definately going to check out those sites. I am trying to avoid the b-boy community, for now. Bboyworld has hosted some of my other videos, but I just want to get some feedback from the DV community first.

I prefer the progressive download over streaming any day. It leaves too much to the server load and network traffic. The only way I can consistently view WMV files is to "save target as" and download it to my computer before I view it. That is on my Mac or my PC's and at dozens of sites all over the web.
I don't know about larger storage limits but sites like Geocities offer some free web hosting you could look into to help out. Unfortunately it may not give enough space.
Hey here's an idea, maybe you could get a free 60 day trial account at mac.com and use it to host your video. I don't know the details of the trial service but I know the pay service allows 250MB web space.
The yousendit.com idea is a good one too but you might have to do it a few times.

I hope you get it up soon.

New!!
Directors Cut
New music and suggestions noted.
www.bigelement.net/test2.wmv

Old one
Version 1
www.bigelement.net/test.wmv

Dear Mr & Mrs Albritton:

Please accept our deepest sympathies.

We know that Jody had a promising career ahead of him as a filmmaker and while this modest effort was all he had a chance to create on this earth, it demonstrates a clear understanding of dramatic structure, a profound and trenchant weltanschauung ... and a really sick sense of humor!

In future, we advise you not let any of your other family members drink while filmmaking.

JS

Man you were bored! Hmmmm, or maybe I was bored. I actually tried to watch it 3 times before I had to just download it (just couldn't get past 5 seconds before it went into eternal buffering). Pretty cute though. Sync the opening and closing of the mailbox with the crashing cymbal beat of the music a little better and it will flow easier (you could speed up and slow down the footage like you did on the return from the mailbox). Otherwise it was a nice exercise and helped me burn up another few minutes of 2004.

Have a good New Year!

Happy new year all. Glad I could be of some service, you can laugh at the video or you can laugh at me for making the video.