Hello!

My movie shows some kind of different interpretation of the theme "The wild".

I have made a short documentation about the fascinating and beautiful training with a hound. None of the two dog owners is a hunter, however they love to be outdoors with their dog and do some training. Just for fun - obviously for all three of them. :-)

You can find the movie in UWOL resolution on the UWOL website, the 720p WMV-version can be downloaded here:

http://www.freedive.de/video/hound_training.zip 108 MB

Just dowload and unzip it. And - have fun! :-D

I am looking forward to your feedback, especially as this was the first time for me to do a movie, following some kind of story-book.

Regards,

Great job Oliver. As the owner of two Labs that I'm training I really enjoyed your film.
The one thing I might add is to be careful when stacking audio tracks as things can get very loud very quickly.
Once again, I really enjoyed your entry.

Bruce

I think you've made a great training video for dogs, Oliver.
The mix between german and english work fine and gives it a touch of being different and professional. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting and informative film....for me however it is Off topic, unless I've missed something. Some nice shots in there although the white balance seemed to be a little yellow in a few of them, also the audio levels went a stray especially with the noise of the stream.

Good job.

Hi!

Thank you very much for your helpful feedback, especially regarding the sound. Next time I will take more care of this issue. :-)

Off topic - hmmm - as the theme was 'The wild' and not 'Wilderness' and because I knew that everybody will shoot footage about the wilderness, I thought a little documentation about a 'wild' dog, out there in the 'wilderness', would meet the theme and be something different.

Regards,

Oliver

Hi Oliver:

Good film with great cinematography. I agree with Mat that it doesn't quite fit the theme and the narration was lost with the stream in the background. It was however, an all around good film.

Cat

Great training video Oliver.
And the use of both German and English made it even better.
I'm looking forward to see your future uwol videos.

I was struck as being "off theme", initially, but can see how use of the dog is necessary in the wilds, too. The dogs are great to watch with the camera angles chosen. Super job... I have to say the European contingent is becoming formidable in this competition and its a lot of fun to see it !!

I enjoyed the film, really felt what it was like to be a dog out enjoying the wild. For me it seemed on topic, since you could either see it as being from a canine perspective, and there's no reason a dog can't be wild. Or from the point of view of the people out enjoying the woods with him.

I couldn't catch the very last narration over the stream, but other than that, the audio worked well, with narration and natural sounds. The footage was very nice, giving a clear view of the dog and how it moves. It was a good instructional video, but also fun to watch just to see the joie de vivre of the dog outdoors.

Ruth

although the white balance seemed to be a little yellow in a few of them

I confess I haven't seen the movie, but I thought it interesting that you would mention 'a little yellow' in the WB. I guess they're officially called 'YELLOW' labs for a reason. Just a little humor Mat, don't take me too seriously. BTW, I have a beautiful, well trained female black lab.

-gb-

Being "dogless" at this time, but nevertheless a lover and respecter of dogs, I thoroughly enjoyed your film.

Cinematography was very well done with a variety of angles, several of which got us down to the dog's level of perspective.

The dog did well, too. Appeared to follow direction as any good actor and "star" should.

I like what you showed us.

a dog video, outstanding! my favorite genre, automatic winner! the rest of you punters need to get out there and get some dog footage.

here's a link to my DVC dog short, since we're all lab-lovers here:

http://ia300131.us.archive.org/2/items/planetEproductionsincdirMErsoz_13/AllGoodDogsWideScreen.mov


labs rule!

greg boston, i'm glad to finally see Misty in full color. it's about time. she *is* a handsome girl.

greg boston, i'm glad to finally see Misty in full color. it's about time. she *is* a handsome girl.

I thought I had already showed her picture here somewhere. I was using her the other night for camera practice. Having her run away and towards me on retrieve makes for a nice manual zoom/focus exercise. She is far and away the best animal I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.

BTW, that pic is a frame grab from the JVC100.

-gb-

Just had a chance to watch it. Of course I love it, but I'm biased. Very true about Labs wanting to have a job all the time. They love to work and please their master. Using the plastic grocery bags (not heavily loaded), Misty helps carry groceries from the car in the garage to the kitchen.

I've never had a dog this smart and it's scary sometimes just how much she 'gets it'.

Okay, enough gushing for now.

-gb-

Amazing, interesting and throughly enjoyable film. I can guarantee my wife will be in tears when she sees it ( she loves labradors!!). The editing was spot on, as i didnt notice a thing and just sat back and enjoyed it.I did feel the narration was a little rushed in places, but your use of english and the audio levels over the interviews was perfect.
Thanks, I really enjoyed that!!!

Cheers,

Very nice video Oliver! I enjoyed it!

I personally think the WB made it look cooler... But then again, I like strange colors...

Beautiful dog... I love labs... :)

Very nice editing. I did notice a few things in the audio though... But its not a big deal...

Keep up the great work!
~Gabriel

Oliver,
a very nice and informative video. Technically very good. Not sure if it's within the theme though.
The combined german/english narrating was professionally done.
Keep up your good work!

Oliver,

I enjoyed the training video!!!

A hunting dog is a rather wild creature, and much like wild kids, they need to be trained or no one likes them!! In this sense it is kind of on topic/

good job!!

Nicely edited, framed, and shot. Seems like you could sell this type of film to the right market, dog training videos. Who knows?


Thank you for the piece,

Jeff

Hi Oliver:

I confess a bit of a retraction from what I said earlier about being a bit off-topic. I reviewed your film quite early on after seeing films that were very much within the scope of the traditional wild. So yours seemed really off-topic then. But since then, after reviewing all of the films, there is such a diverse contribution to the wild that yours falls well within this extended bracket of wild interpretation! In fact, I think anyone can argue that anything could be interpreted as the wild and was probably Mereyem's reason for selecting it. So I apologize, and you stick to your guns. Thanks for the contribution and for your interpretation of the wild! Besides, the filming was awesome!

Cat

I have seen your film in Uwol hound and the film from Australia on
Videocommunuty.Realy nice film,like your work.

best regards
vidar vedaa

regarding what catherine said about on/off-topic....i would say that a large portion of my experiences in "the wild" or the wilderness have been colored by having a beautiful yellow dog to share those experiences with. at least in the U.S., wherever outdoorsy folks gather, you can bet there's a pack of hounds. especially of the lab persuasion. i have spent a lot of time "out there" with my good dog, violet. more so than with any other individual being.

granted, a training video is a little loosely attached...but i think an inherent part of our attraction to these hunting breeds, in particular, is driven by that most wild of all instincts....

Hello

and thank you very much for all the criticism on my little film - the positive as well as the negative. Both helps me to understand what I have to stick to and what I have to change. Simply: how to get better.

What I have to improve or at least to think about:

- sound --> definately
- colours --> hmm... I did a manual white balance before each single shot, but added some "warm tones" to generate the feeling of a warm, relaxing, summer day. Obviously not all of you liked it. ;-)
- the theme --> another hmmm... a dog is a wild creature by its nature. Men is kind of wild too, especially a hunter who at least partly unleashes the 'wild thing' that sleeps in all of us. So - both go together hunting and bundle their wild skills to be even more succesfull by working together. The video also wasn't meant to be a pure training video - it was also supposed to show the teamwork between dog and men.

Well - this was my idea and my thinking... :-) Since I received the first answers regarding that I have missed the theme, I am wondering if I or the others have misunderstood Meryem's announcement, that underlines the 'wide open to interpretation':

[...] THE WILD

yes, that's it! whatever means you can think of to depict this concept--whether animal, mineral, or vegetable. (Or even human, for those of you who didn't get enough of our previous theme.) We're looking for the entry which best explores this mysterious, ineffable thing which summons us into nature and the outdoors.

It's very wide open to interpretation in terms of content, but your very challenging job is to try to approach the essence. [...]

I am going to create a new version of the video when I get back to Germany with improved sound and less 'warm tones'.

Thanks again for your comments - they are very appreciated! :-D

Regards, Oliver

hey oliver: just thinking about your mini-controversy regarding the theme a bit...there will always be movies that fit the film "more" and films that fit the theme "less"--representing the theme is, after all, a large part of the Challenge.

i think in choosing dogs as your topic, it moves your movie "more" in the direction of THE WILD....but i think that presenting a training video moves it towards the "less"--in other words, i don't think it's the topic you've selected as much as the genre you've selected which is confusing your audience regarding it's appropriateness to the theme. training videos are about controlling and harnessing THE WILD, rather than representing what is wild.

i'm offering this up to you, because i think as video producers, one of the trickiest things is getting clear about who are audience is and how they will receive what we do. your production values and content are excellent. and i personally have no problem with a dog video! in fact, it's my favorite video topic of them all! would you like to hear me rhapsodize about my favorite yellow lab, violet, the best dog in the world???? (sorry, misty...). i think what is confusing a few of your viewers is not the topic but the genre selection.

just trying to help out here....