Show Your Work 2006
 

"The Portait" All shot with ZR40 - Horror

Hi all,

I just wanted to post up my latest work which I shot with a Canon ZR40. The only other things we used were some florescent lights and foam boards. Everything is else we improvised, trying to work with a shoe string budget. I found a composer from Craigslist who also did the voice over.

22mb Streaming .MOV
http://www.rollingedit.com/final_episode.htm

Comments are welcome, let me know what you think. Thanks.

New Music Video
 

Hey guys,

this is my first post here, so before posting the vid I made last week, i would like to tell you something about me. My name is Josh, I am from Duesseldorf, Germany, I am 17 and I love the whole process of making movies like the most of you guys I think.

For a schoolband I had to make a music video the last three days, including cutting from 0000 to 0900 last night. I hope that was it worth. We had no budget, no big plan, the guys did never stand in front of a camera before. It was really guerilla filmmaking. So here is the flick, I would really like to get some replies. Whatever good or bad.

http://www.tushilden-basketball.de/Blick_ins_licht.mov

P.S. please do not criticise the music, criticise the pictures!

I can't edit my post, can I? So here is the new link: http://reflect-artworks.de.vu//proje...icht_video.php

I would be very happy if someone would reply!

well done!
i like it. so tell us, what equipment did you use?

Ausgezeichnet! Good composition and nice cutting. The only suggestion I have would be to get the camera moving more. Some of the shots are a bit too static for the high-energy feel of the band. But, overall, it's a good piece of work. Congratulations!

thanks for the replies, guys. Yeah, it's a bit static, but I was afraid of getting too unsteady shots... Maybe I should have tried it more often to get a good moving shot. Next time ;)

I shot it with a XL1... No S or anything. Most of the time I used the 3x Wideangle lense... Or the normal 16x. I shot in the 16:9 modus.

Cheated
 

Hey guys,

Here is trailor to a short film we just finished.
Give it a couple minutes to download completely before playing.

Shot on an FX1.

http://www.pjrules.com/matt/cheated%20trailer1.avi

Let me know what you think!

-Andy

Well done. That is a lot of work for 3 days. I like a lot of the camera work, more the outdoor stuff. I'd suggest not repeating elements, it looks like you ran out of choices, which may be the case. Also, if possible in the future try using 2 cameras. One close, one wide, or one still and the other moving, or what ever. It gives you way more choices of clips for the same amount of time shooting.

Keep up the good work.

Just some of my 3D animations for everyone to laugh at
 

Hello,
Was just browsing through some of my old university work (i did a Computer Animation course) and thought i would post 3 of them for the fun of it.

Final Project done in Softimage XSI:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.k...nalproject.htm

Character Animation module done in Softimage XSI:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.k...ranimation.htm

And some early work from my first year done in 3DS MAX:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.k...themilkman.htm

Enjoy

Your framing of the story parts is excellent. Nice shots, telling the story in the cut with a good eye for what is naturally cinematic. The band performance stuff is not dynamic enough, more moves, more angles, WAY more tight shots. That is the easy stuff and you can learn it with practice, the thing that you cant "learn" is a natural ability to see the shot and that you seem to have...



ash =o)

If you are going to have a slow moving trailer with no talking, voice over, etc. you better have some big dynamic cinematic shots packed with emotion. Dont think you got there. Showing people's lips moving without hearing what they are saying is almost always a mistake, in film school they called it "lip flap."

If I am being brutal, there was not much that worked with this trailer. If you are going to go with a score like that, the visuals much match oe else your production value sticks out like a sore thumb. Try going with another piece of music and splicing in some good performances of the actors, the words alone are not enough, maybe try some slow motion.

A trailer does not always have to clearly identify the story but it ALWAYS has to make you want to watch the movie. For indie film makers it is a real struggle because you dont have access to big name actors, a huge crew, etc. but you still have to find something compelling and the trailer as it stands now doesnt have anything that would compel people to want to see the film...



ash =o)

I thought the trailer wasn't that bad.
I didn't mind not hearing what they said, I rather had the feeling of: now I know they will argue, and if I see the movie I'll know what about.

Hey Ash,

Thanks for the post.
We are a bunch of TV Broadcasting students with no proper 'film' training. This was a fun project to work on.

This isn't a simple relationship movie. There is a HUGE twist that we tried to hint at in the trailer to intice people to watch. Did that not come through?

I have passed your recomendations along to the editor.

Thanks!

...Andy

Most contemporary trailers feature the best bits of the product. Most are fast and pacey - the slower, gentler style works if there are things to look at apart from the obvious. As an example the girl on the phone, upset. Why not take a much smaller chunk and slo-mo it showing the facial expression of sadness. One question - why black and white? It has the 'look' of tv, not film, in shooting and framing - so the b&w is an oddity. The other thing in a short trailer like this is that far too much time is spent on black & titles - waste of time, in my view.

The test I always use is "do I want to watch this?" and I'm sorry to say the answer, for me, would be no.

My garden show
 

http://www.salenz.com/movie/www.sale...2005.11.27.mpg

Can be played by software dvd player i.e. powerdvd, Microsoft Media player etc.

File size around 80mb.

Regards
Leigh

I tried to veiw your video, but just got the Q?. What codec did you use?

It is mainconcept mpeg2 decoder.

Regards
Leigh

No real implication of a twist... try a drastic music change with a reaction shot or some sound design (forboding sounds with a stark dark finish).


ash =o)

I can't view any of the files in quicktime or winamp.

New technology themed internet show
 

Hi there friendly dvinfo members. I recently shot a test/pilot episode for a technology themed internet show I am working on. Unfortunately I had to host by myself, but next time a good friend of mine is going to co-host and I hope that it gives it a much more casual feel.

Take a look. It's kind of a rough cut. I'm planning on sweetening the audio up tonight. There is a some nose from the laptop's fan in one of the segments but I think I can get rid of it with Soundtrack Pro. We'll see!

It's in mpeg4 and you can download it here:

http://www.techedgetv.com/?postid=2

My first bike stunt show feature video
 

This is my first time filming a bike stunt show, for one of my friends, on my own with no time for second retakes.

Please provide me with some feedback on what you think as I'd like to improve on my future videos. I know I blew out some of the scenes and the color is a bit too saturated, I think. Excuse the profanity from the music used; I had a tough time choosing a song first of all.

My only complaint is when I encoded it to *.wmv the video looks significantly darker than the uncompressed avi file. My settings was 2-pass VBR; Avg Bitrate was 1900 and Max bitrate was 3000. How do you guys get such a good quality when you encode it to *.wmv? What are your settings?

I used a Panasonic DVC30 shot in the Cinema Gamma scene setting.

Any comments will be appreciated, thanks.

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...A3BE3SOH7EOG9A
50Megs

The look is totally fine. The editing and music need to be more dynamic, all dissolves just gets a little boring. Generally a dissolve is to show time lapse or for emotional impact. You have lots of great wide shots, try mixing in some tight shots as well, mainly to help with editing as you will want to be wide to show the tricks. Not bad for a first effort....



ash =o)

I gave it a look. Pretty cool. I don't mind the dissolves so much, but maybe a few quicker cuts could liven it up a bit.

I just got them to work on my other pc... nice work! -- for a single person, the animation is certainly nothing to laugh at.

Very nice, I'm currently trying to find a course where they teach Maya animation right now, and since I'm still in Grade 10, I need to find somewhere to train me for that kind of stuff after school. (and it must be in vancouver) I need suggestions. Art Institute of Vancouver? BCIT?

Newbie submitting work to the masses.
 

Got my xl2 about 4 months ago. This video was only the 3rd thing I filmed with it so I'm still getting accustomed to the camera and all of the magical things it can do.

Check this out and give me your thoughts.

Quicktime
http://www.nohands-studios.net/video...20a%20Fool.mov

Windows
http://www.nohands-studios.net/video...20a%20Fool.wmv

Sheridan, I have not viewed your work (downloading now) but the best board to post this is our DV for the MAsses board, that's where everyone posts his work:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/forumdisplay.php?f=39

Good luck!

Yup, moved to DV for the Masses where you'll get more viewers.

Thanks for your comments guys.

This was 2 years ago. Dont really do the animation much anymore.

Im from the UK so couldn't suggest a good institute, sorry

XL2 grabs from a sci-fi I'm shooting
 

Hey, everyone. Here's a link to some grabs from a sci-fi I'm currently shooting. These are pulls from raw video with no cc. Any and all comments are welcome. Apologies, though for the low rez of the pics. Just cruddy grabs.

http://www.indiefilmer.com/nuke/modu...iewtopic&t=100

nice colouring and lighting :)

Great use of the glue gun!

Looks good man!
Is that big ass gun looking thing made out of PVC fittings? If so, excellent work.
Do we get to see a trailer? :)

Doh! I didn't even recognize it! I was looking at it wondering how much that sucker cost to buy. :)

Yep, PVC fittings and pretty much anything else I could get my hands on. In the scene it flashes by fairly quickly so the uneducated won't catch what's going on. There's also a 1988 RCA VHS camcorder that gave it's life to be part of the rail gun.
And yeah, at first I didn't know what Richard was talking about. Glue gun? But you must be talking about the injection gun at the guy's neck. That's pretty funny because I hadn't noticed how much it looked like one.
Actually it started life as some kind of a metal casing used for a real laser device. I added the whole front end piece and the metal cylinder on the bottom.
I'll try and post some footage as soon as possible.
Thanks for the comments!

My First Hip-Hop Video
 

Just finished my first hip-hop video for a client. Tell me what you think.


http://csxinfo.net/palumbo/TUN%20-%20Cleveland.mov

If the other video you posted, of your friends' band, was your first video, then this is your second... ?

It's much nicer than your other one, which wasn't bad, especially considering you had a zero budget. At age 18 with clearly a low budget on this one too, I have to say it's out-frickin-standing. I am sure whatever you do next will be even better.

Keep it up! We want to see VMA's by the time you are 23! :-)

thanks alot man! yep, this is my second music video. glad u remembered. haha. But yea, basically no budget but everything turned out pretty good. i should be getting my adapter and DVX in a month or so. so more stuff surely will be coming. im already working on the next video which is actually for R. Kelly's old keyboard player. so alot of people will be seeing this one for sure. Whats everyone else think and is there anything im doing that i should steer away from that you notice?

First video in the marketplace
 

I have not yet activated this as yet, would like your alls honest opinions. From this page, with the available information and trailer would you buy this video?

Thanks for the input

Jim Montgomery

http://www.customflix.com/Store/Show...isPreview=true

Looking good!
 

Jim,

Your footage is always spectacular, and I am always impressed with it and your mastery of AE and or other programs. I don’t know your audience though, DVD sales or for the Outdoor channel or what? With this trailer, I would include a kill shot and make it slightly longer.

Best of luck!

Mike