"One"
 

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

New website
 

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 !!!

Music videos I wish I made...
 

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...ron%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.

First Web Video - Feedback Please!
 

Please let me know your opinion on the video quality, and more importantly the functionality of the player.

This is designed for Windows Media Player 9.

http://www.ehomeparade.com

Thanks in advance!

It played perfectly for me, Tim, and given the data rate (I got it at about 226 kbps) the quality was good. Audio was also balanced and clear.

David Hurdon

Highlight reel the H2O Odyssey Awards show
 

I have 3.5 hours of footage from the H2O film festival Odyssey Awards from 6 different cameras. 4 of them were sony PD 150s and one was a cannon XL-1 that was on stage and a one chip cannon that was floating around.

Please take a look at the 5 minute clip that I edited from the raw footage and please provide any comments.

You'll need the latest version of Windows Media Player and a Broadband connection to properly see the clip.

Thanks a lot,

http://www.roaddoggz.com/examples/h2...light_reel.php

"One" updated
 

"one" has been updated.

This project is going to be a short. Its called "one" because no matter how many people you know, love or meet, you must feel everything on your own. I want each viewer to feel something different. So many different emotions throughout life, but only as "one" we feel them.
Looking through something else's eyes but seeing yourself as well.

I dont own a crane. I use my tripod like a crane to get the overhead shoots. Using my body as the base, then making my moves. It works very well.

If you would like to see more of this project, goto http://www.mdfilms.net
then click the "short films" tab, "one" is the first project listed.

Thank you for your time and support.

Flash mini doco series
 

I'd be interested to see what people think of this flash mini doco series I did for the ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/victoria/ararat/

It is a story about my hometown in Australia and the changes it has undergone through it's history

Flash is a great way to keep file size down without having to resort to a key hole image size.

I didn't watch the whole thing, but I bookmarked it so I can watch it later. So far it looks pretty awesome.

I really enjoyed watching that. I thought the images were powerful, the music Sigur Ros, was perfect. I don't know if this is just a technical glitch on my computer, but it ended very abruptly. Overall there are some nicely composed images in there. One that comes to mind is the girl sleeping. I also liked the sequence with the man praying and then falling asleep.

hi Michael!

I like yuor work, even though I think it's all a bit similar.. Maybe you should try to change pace or color correct a bit differently on your next project? I'll be checking it out..

Thanks David,

Guess people aren't big on feedback here.

new music video
 

Check out this music video I produced a few weeks back. This is a christian music video with an amazingly good "Jesus" look alike! Please give me some feedback!

One major thing I need to improve on is lighting...anyone have any helpful sites to send me or know of any training videos that might help?

Music Video is called "Time After Time"
http://www.eppdidit.com/Music_Videos/music_videos.html

Feel free to roam around and comment on any other videos from my site!

Best,
Epp

IMO, The "MAN" could have shown at bit of empathy with HIS decision to spare the girl and take the boy. Push the envelope next time and don't be afraid interpret on your own what the "humanitarian" JC would do. Other than expanding HIS character some, I thought you had a nice piece.

There's a good lighting DVD called DV Enlightenment and you can find it on http://dvcreators.net/lighting/

By the way, is that a lamp infringing on camera left?

thanks tony
To keep file size down I used a technique someone showed me....I circle the area I want the viewers eye to focus on (eg a person's face) I them feather the circle (12px) them I inverse it and blur the remaining image. Sometimes doing this would nearly halve file size. My aim was to keep the mini docos around or under 2mb

New wedding portfolio.
 

I have just posted my new portfolio, all music video clips was shoot on Canon Xl1s and edit on Adobe Premiere Pro.

Comment or criticism is welcome. I need honest opinions. Feel free to fire away the good and the bad.

The video is at:
http://www.zoom-studio.net/en/index1.php?link=portfolio&galeria=video&menu=video_marcin_m


Thanks

Marcin

I am curious... how do you get permission to use the music?

Alex

Demo reel - Looking for an opinion
 

Hey guys, I'm relatively new to the board, so figure i'd make an introduction. My name is Sean Porter, I've been a cinematographer here in seattle for quite some time working both on commercial productions as well as independent films shot on the westcoast. my most recent work has all been shot (uncorrected) via the panasonic DVX - so it may be of some relevance to the board. Anyway - please offer any and all comments.

Wing is my keygrip (technical director) steadicam operator.

http://www.winggee.com

tia and look forward to meeting you all.

Sean Porter

PILGARLIC & 16X9 adapter
 

In addition to a previous thread by my DOP Dennis Hingsberg, I just want to announce that my short film PILGARLIC is now a part of the official selection of the Toronto Online Film Festival 2004.

The film may now be viewed with its new modified/remastered soundtrack.

Within the next week you may able to view the short on either www.3btv.com in the UK, or, www.undergroundfilm.org.
Feel free to check it out.

Also, does anyone out there own a Sony VX2000, and if so, have you ever used a 16X9 wide angle adapter?

I would appreciate any thoughts or comments on how effective this procedure is for shooting and film blow-up.

Thank you all.

Joseph E. De Leo
DE LEO PRODUCTIONS INC.
www.deleoproductions.com

you don't.

A search for "anamorphic" in the VX-2100/PD-170 forum should point you in the right direction... http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/search.ph...der=descending

FWIW, I was considering such an adaptor for my VX-2000 a couple years ago. The problem is that they are expensive and have a number of limitations. So instead I purchased a Sony PDX-10 as a second camera and have been very happy with that decision.

wide angle adapter and vx-2000
 

I have the Sony $400 version and use it all the time, especially in 4x3.
I have just come out of the commercial world and am getting ready to shoot some indie stuff. This will be my first atempt at 16x9 and the wide angle will be used in that as well.

I also have a Pana pv-gs70 3 chip and have a Sony wide angle adapter for it as well.
As my writing partner says, you can tell so much more of the story this way.

Jay

You had some very good and nice shots in there. But overal I felt
it was too dark (hard to see at some times) with too much
brightness (levels) variations and a lot of vignetting (homemade
35mm adaptor?)