Thanks for the feedback JeepBastard ! I really appreciate it and i need it :)

Ivan

Nice work, Ivan, it shows a lot of thought and effort. Thank you for posting it and poviding the link. I hope we get to see more of your work.

Mac users, download DivX for Mac http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=12844&db=mac to view the files.

Jeff

Heya All,

I have been doing some test footage for a short in pre-production with the two actors who will be in the production.

So i thought i would slap some temp music to it, and get you guys/girls opinions. My biggest attempt to capture the look of the mid-70's bad movie/tv show.

The footage was done at 3am, with a lot of pre-christmass drinks.

Total time spent on this was 32 minutes and 8 seconds of shooting. Editing took around 30 minutes.

Anyways here is a direct link http://www.motionaftereffect.com/disco/discosmall.mov (9 meg)

(this seems to work much better if right clicked on and selected as save as, or whatever mac users do, as i did not prepare it for streaming, and played at double size)

The actual site [motion after effect] is currently being designed, should be up in around a week, i would pay someone in control a lot of money for a 35 hour day, where does the time go!!

Thanx All,

Zac

p.s Btw Chris, if possible, can u change my name from Kermie klien to Zac S. Thanks.

p.p.s the clothes the stars are wearing are actually hand me downs from my father, every piece shown was purchased between 1974-1977, and if you can see the hat the character Russle is wearing, it was actually purchased in LA in 1975 and was a real prop from the Jackson 5 variety show, we don't know which one wore it, as they all had one.

Hahaha! That was very entertaining. But then, I'm a sucker for some good ol' fashioned pimp humor set to disco backbeats...

I'd love to see where this is going...

Out of curiosity, what type of equipment did you use? (camera, lighting, software, etc.).

Out of curiosity, what type of equipment did you use? (camera, lighting, software, etc.).

Camera - A pal Sony pd-150 on a manfrotto tripod.

Lighting- this was a very specialised and scientific setup, it consisted of a badly parked car with it's high beams on. (grins)
Otherwise was ambient street lamp light with an off white balance to skew the colour scheme.

Software- It was cut with vegas video, titles were done in adobe after effects, with a film fx plugin to creat the dirt, I also shifted the red slightly, and de-interlaced.

Not sure what else there is to say, the music atm is just temp music, i really want to use all original stuff, but as i said this is just test footage.

Zac

Nice, even remembered the pork chop side burns.

This looked/sounded an awful lot like an intro to an infamous John 'Johnny Wadd' Holmes porno flick. (Yes, I saw it, back in my mispent 70s era youth).
He played a detective in that one too. Did your dad role some old 8mm films to inspire you? (just kidding).
Pretty cool stuff.

It's was a fun romp.
thanks for sharing.


(dont be afraid to turn up the gain at night for test footage like this! movement in the dark is lost!)

I just finished my first television commercials (OK, cable TV).

Interesting. Used real actors, a Hollywood actor as the director, a DSR-300, and a AT835B shotgun on a boom pole. Easy setups with 2 locations.

Voiceover was recorded on an AT4043SE studio microphone through a Shure 267 mixer and into a Sony MD recorder.

In making the master tape on DVCam for transfer to BetaSP, I set tone at -6 dB as shown on my DSR-20 VU meters and then kept the audio just under that.

Everything transfered very nicely to BetaSP with the audio right where it should be.

DV would have worked just as well and I could have shot it on my PD-150 for all the good the higher-quality DSR-300 will do by the time the commercial hits the viewer's 13" TV set. Still, the customer liked the camera size.

There appears to be a lot of potential business for small-town business commercials. It doesn't pay a lot but I think it can be fairly steady work.

The cable network (AT&T) said they didn't care if I brokered air time for my commercials and that I could sub-divide the 30 second spots into shorter lengths for clients that couldn't afford the longer commercials and air time charges. Since AT&T charges $1300 for a 30 second commercial, that leaves a lot of room for a small operation like mine.

So after the 1st, I'm going to try selling 10 second commercials to the local folks. I'll let you know how it goes.

Mike you can do what i did to land my first job ever.

I got a 12 year old HUGE s-vhs camera, got the job, then used a pd150 :)

heh heh

Zac

Then again, i didn't get payed, it was a thing for closed circuit uni tv.

... U know that had to be the most right on footage of the 70's I have ever seen!!!! LOL Reminds me of Starsky and Hutch

Looks like you had fun doing it! :)

I would do two things to it. One, get rid of the "film effects". Two, keep the music, but get rid of the rest of the sound.
Apart from that, it's cool!

I can imagine, heh. Sounds like fun! The short was fun Paul! Great
work!!