Mike

If you want the "money" shot you have to buy the dvd! Actually the hog is a kill.

They would only allow a 1 minute trailer......

Thanks for the kind words and continued support, maybe we can do a fishing video, hmmm.....

Jim

So who needs a good laugh today?
 

This is a commercial spoof that I did a few days ago for my video production class. Give me some feedback. May not be worksafe! (has a few choice words)

www.millenniumbmx.com/service.wmv

RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS....

Jim,

I actually pulled it up and watched it again, as it did not seem that long! But, you are right, one minute! Like I said, I really enjoy the stuff.

A fishing video?! Need a second camera? Always a pleasure! Speaking of fishing, did Dave send you the "Rod Holder Wanted Email? If he did, did he send you my response? If not let me know and I'll send it to you. If you liked the first part, you will love my response!

Have a great night bud.

Mike

Here's a lower quality version for the slower folks

www.millenniumbmx.com/service1.wmv

Holiday Video
 

Video was passed onto me. Thought some people might enjoy it?
http://www.evadingreality.com/video/...fWinter-SM.wmv

"Giant Sucking Sound" won an award
 

okay, so this is kind of goofy, but i just learned that this ultra short video won the top award in a film festival sponsored by Boulder's cable access channel. so it isn't exactly sundance, but hey! someone's watching it!

i shot this last summer for laughs when i was goofing around with my GL2 in the park.

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/37255

or

http://ia300116.us.archive.org/1/ite...Widescreen.mov

QT 7 H.264 format strikes again! (at least, i think it is. it was awhile ago...)

You have my permission to go out and get one of these then...

Winner of a Major Award

:D


Cool for you! (downloading it now to watch)

that absolutely, positivly, KICKS, MAJOR, A$$

This is what happens when you don't keep professional lighting tecnnicians gainfully employed. :-)

Great sequence!

-gb-

thanks for watching, george. the leg lamp major award is just about the right certificate, for what this video is....

as i mentioned, it's sort of a goofy thing, but whenever anyone says, hey, i liked your video, it always feels nice!

Short Movie "Self Made"
 

Finally am getting around to updating my personal web site and realized I'd never posted the "long cut" of my DVC#3 entry, as I said I would. It ain't perfect -- not even close -- but I'm happy enough given that it was a first-effort, mad-scramble-cuz-I-had-to-work-on-the-weekend panic production. Anyway, the long cut is between 5 and 6 minutes long including credits and a lot better to view since I encoded it at a higher bitrate.

Here's the link, hope y'all enjoy it:

http://www.geosynchrony.com/Movies.htm

If you don't enjoy it, try this instead:

Pete's Home Page

Cheers!

I did feel like putting the beat down on the guys with the dog. What were they thinking? That hydralic was going to put that dog underwater. I knew the moment they threw the stick. Idiots.

Still was fun.

that dog was a wonder dog. i get your point and felt the same way initially, the first time his owner tossed the stick, but he probably jumped in the hole a dozen times and seemed to be one of those dogs with a ton of energy who enjoys a big physical challenge. i'm sure he ate well and slept soundly that night.

the day after i shot the footage for this, the city of boulder shut down the creek to inner tubing for a few weeks, which they had never done before.

Tips:

1, I think you should have asked them to provide you some"HOT" chicks (10 minimum). HipHop can not do with out hot chicks in their music videos.
2, More cars with Rims. Try to request some more nice cars with rims. Escalades,
3, The convertable car they used has nice rims but you did not shoot it. It would have been nice to do a shot from the rim to the driver or something similar (in slow mo though)
4, More bling blings are needed on the artist's neck. You could also do a closeup shot on that bling as well.
5, More shots from different locations, etc club scence like the Three 6 Mafia music video, fly. A house, downtown streets, a hood restaurant, a popular joint in cleveland, etc.
6, and watch BET a lot before you shoot any Hip Hop video. At least spend a whole week watching every music video they show and pay attention to every detail shots, what the shots means, if it is nice, unique, etc and try to create your own shots from what you have acquired.



Rating: 7 out of 10
You being 18yrs: 9 out of 10

Giuseppe, the video was sweet, hot, and spicey. My girlfriend was proud of your work men!. You even helped me let her see why I have been focusing more on this video thingy.

R. Kelly's old keyboard player??????.. huh?????

Advice: Try to network yourself as much as possible into those broadcasting stations (MTV and BET) through this video you are about to shoot and let us know how we too can get our music videos up on those stations.

Maybe the keyboard player left because he got pissed.

Get it?? Oh I kill myself!

Jim,
How about some honest advise about the logo? The text in the middle is hard to read. Maybe some white outer glow would help it stand out. As for the clip... well done, even though I hate to see those animals getting shot with arrows.

Paul

I have another post on the board related to the price of the video and why it is how it is.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...8&goto=newpost

At this point, im not doing videos for myself anymore, and actually getting paid by clients. so all the money comes out of there pockets. Sure thing the girls/bling and cars was considered but you cant get all that for free which is why it wasnt in the video. The car shot was all 1 take. We didnt even know that guy actually. We just asked if we could do a take of the song and he stated "anything for the city of Cleveland". So basically it's up to the client on what will be in the video.

I just completed a commercial for him (Lafayette Carthon) and we'll see where its aired. The music video should be completed in no longer then a month im guessing.

Iowa Filmmakers win development deal with MTV Films
 

First of all -- thank you to everyone who voted for our films in MTV's Best Film on Campus competition. I have some great news -- Bryan & I won for our "University Heights" trailer!! MTVu played a great prank on me, and you'll be able to check that out next week at http://www.mtvu.com. For now, check out the press release below.

Thanks again to everyone who has helped us out thus far. Bryan & I are incredibly grateful for the support.

IOWA FILMMAKERS WIN MTV’S BEST FILM ON CAMPUS CONTEST
UI juniors’ win development deal with MTV Films; film judged by Hollywood directors and MTV staff

December 6, 2005

Iowa-based filmmakers and University of Iowa juniors Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, both 21, have won MTVu’s Best Film on Campus: Trailer Challenge competition.

Beck & Woods had two films in the top five; their trailer for “University Heights” was chosen for the grand prize by Hollywood directors John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) and Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman), MTV staff and online voters.

Beck & Woods win a development deal with MTV Films and a home theatre system.

On December 1, MTVu producers called Beck, notifying him that while the “University Heights” trailer lost, the “Her Summer” trailer had won the grand prize. Then, with help from Beck, MTVu arranged to surprise Woods with the news – by flying out to Iowa City and filming the whole event.

However, when Beck visited Woods’ apartment to surprise him, he was greeted by MTVu staff, several news cameras, friends, and cast and crew from “University Heights.” It turned out that MTVu set up the prank with Woods, and that their trailer for “University Heights” actually won.

“It was incredible,” Beck said. “Here I thought we were surprising Bryan, and instead I’m the one who gets surprised! I just couldn’t believe what was happening.”

Beck & Woods now will have the opportunity to develop a project with MTV Films.

“I can’t stress how grateful we are for this opportunity,” Woods stated. “It’s one of those things that seem so out of reach, but now we’re one step closer.”

Along with the three directors and MTV staff, online voters played a large part in choosing the winner.

“We’ve had so much support throughout this contest. It’s been really amazing,” Beck said. “Bryan and I want to thank everybody for helping us out, and for making our dream a little more of a reality.”

MTVu will be airing segments of the surprise online at http://www.mtvu.com beginning next week.

First Project: Invitation
 

I posted this, a couple weeks ago, in the section specific to the camera used for the project (Panasonic PV-GS65). I just discovered this section of the forum and realized it was a better place to post my work. So I'm trying again, for those of you who didn't get a chance to see this.

I am fairly new to filmmaking, only been involved with it for 3 years now (the first two of which were focused mainly on screenwriting) - all of which has consisted of reading and learning. I just completed my first film, it is a 3-minute narrative with no dialog. As I mentioned, it was shot on a consumer 3-CCD Panasonic PV-GS65 and it was edited with Sony Vegas Video 5.

You can view the film here:
http://www.narrowroadentertainment.c...tion_final.wmv

Thanks for taking the time to view this, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts/comments/criticisms so I can grow as a filmmaker.

Thanks,
Larry

Wow, very impressive for your first short. some comments:

Acting:
I'm assuming having no dialog help, but good work with the little girl. I'm im always amazed by people who get subtle work out of kids.

Editing:
during during the long shot of the girl standing in the field, your bottom widscreen bar jumps around. The shot near the end where the kids dissolve into frame needs more time, and i wasnt a fan of the color correction. I'm assuming you put it through some filmlook process to adjust the curve, it looked a little to contrasty to me (the shaded areas of the film lack detail)

Camera:
Great camera work. i liked the angles and the dolly shot. looks like you used a lot of natural light, im definitely a fan of that asthetic. though in the future pick up a reflector or two for bouncing around that sunlight.

Overall, I really liked it. much more inpressive than my first short :)

I figured it out before it was over =) Great idea... The biggest issue I had was the lady's sweatshirt bothered me. Guess thats from being in Ohio and seeing so many - heh.

I really liked the long dolly shot up to where she posted the flyer on the tree. Did you lay down track to get that?

Thank you both for your comments, I'm glad you like the film - that was my number 1 goal, to make a film people enjoyed. But, I also appreciate the technical comments as it helps me improve.

Jay - The no dialog was a huge help when working with children, but I found it enjoyable nonetheless :) Actually, I found it very easy to work with the children as long as I thought in terms of what I needed them to do and relayed only that information to them. I would say things like, "Stand right here...ok when I say "Go" run as fast as you can that way until I say stop." Or I would roll camera and say, "Who wants a cupcake?" they would all raise their hand and say "Me! Me!" Then I would say, "Which one do you want?" and they would all point at the one they want, with great anticipation in their eyes. It worked well for me.

Thanks for pointing out the jumping widescreen crop, I hadn't noticed that. I'm working on cleaning up things as people point them out so I have a really nice, fully polished film. I'll add that to the list of things to fix. The kids "dissolving" into frame was simply to cover a framing mistake. You can see their heads at the beginning of the shot and I wanted to have them run in after a brief delay. So I had to do some masking and overlay the ground over them, then fade them in as they ran. It didn't turn out exactly how I wanted, but I think it works ok.

The color correction has been a very subjective thing. Some people, myself included, really love it as it is. Others, like yourself and my father, don't care for it. I wanted a kind of "dreamy" feel to the piece as it is a parable, I hoped the desaturated/muted colors would draw your attention away from the details (also because it was a cheap camera) and focus the attention more on the story. The glow was added to make it more dream-like. To each his own, I guess.. I understand your reasons for not liking it, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one point.

I did use all natural light and on closeups I used a diffusion screen which I built myself. I agree I needed to use reflectors to bounce light back into the scene, especially when using the diffuser. Unfortunately, I didn't fully understand what the diffuser would do until I was in the middle of framing the shot in the field with people standing around and the deadline for the film looming. Live and learn I guess. I have picked up some white foamboard to bounce light around next time, I'm also looking into some simple lighting kits to add the extra punch next time.

Jeremy - Sorry about the sweatshirt, that was actually my last pickup shot. I filmed it the day I had to submit the film, so I had to hurry so I had time to edit it in and render the final film.

The dolly was an interesting thing. I don't currently have a real dolly (retail or DIY), but my dad has this nice garden cart. It is a green metal mesh platform riding on good size pneumatic wheels with a handle coming out the front. I stood the tripod on the platform, set the cart on the sidewalk, and had my niece (the young girl) walk on the grass, right next to the sidewalk). I made sure I framed from the knees up and then pulled the cart as she walked. It looks like she is walking down the sidewalk next to the park. However, I couldn't pull the cart and hold the tripod/camera, so it was extremely shaky. So much so, that I was going to cut the shot.

But I found VirtualDub and the Deshaker plugin...as you can see it works very well. In fact on the DVD I made for the cast I put a clip in the "bonus features" :) that shows the before and after shot, because it is such a drastic difference. I'll have to dig that clip out and post it later.

Thanks again for the comments and criticism. I appreciate both.

Thanks,
Larry

This is amazing news!!! Congratulations! Is there some link where I could see your trailer?

new film label in D.C
 

Hello everyone,

I've launched the website for my film label, 4312 Productions. The website is www.4312productions.com.

I'm looking for all sorts of people to contact me, potential investors, producers, actors, etc.

Check out the website for more information and I look forward to hearing from you,
Anthony Faust

Popcast.com
 

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My Reel completed with Pinnacle Studio 9 plus
 

Hello guys:

I just recently finished my 3 minute reel on Pinnacle Studio Plus ver 9.4 - Will be switching to Vegas 6 in a few weeks. I would like your constructive criticism on my footage, shot in XL2 24p & 30p.

You can download the file here it's 12.2mb wmv, I rendered it at 538kbps

http://iwevo.station196.com/reel.lowres.wmv

ps. Pinnacle Locks up all the time during rendering - poor program, I guess you cannot expect much out of a $100 program.

Runing a Pentium 4 3.2ghz, 2gb 533mhz ram, PCI express Nvidia Gforce 6800 256mb ram, 960gb SATA Drive 7200rpm 8mb buffer, 800mhz fsb,

Thanks in advance !!

Ty

The Dorm. New Webseries.
 

Hey Guys,

A friend and I are creating a webseries for an MTVu grant contest.

Here's the pilot. It's called 'The Dorm' and it's a take off on 'The Office' about a group of students and their self-centered RA.

Enjoy.

http://www.meydenbauerentertainment.com/TheDorm.mov

Josh

What exactly is this reel for?

What is the reel for?
 

Hello Josh:

I would like to use it to get commercial jobs shooting buildings, should I do something different?


Ty

Manx wavesport short
 

My website has a short film of some surfing/kayaking action shot on the Isle of man(UK)
The full length film is out middle of next year and is called "5mm" and is a mix of surfing/music/culture shot on super8 and miniDV. All the water action was captured on a Canon XM2(GL2) and a Sony PD-170 in underwater housings(Ikelite)

www.phatmanfilms.com

Feel free to comment!

Nobody? Nobody likes it? Nobody hates it?

Music Video, Chair is Rock
 

Chair is Rock is a synth band i have with my roommate Karl.
I directed/edited this music video for our song called CRT Soundsystem. (A tribute to LCD Soundsystem.)

But anyways, critique me, I really want people to let me know what they think of it, I always want to better myself to surpass the other students in my school.

It was shot with a VX2000, edited in Premiere Pro 1.5, and ran through Magic Bullet's look suite. We wanted an "avant garde" european feel to it. Although it came out like pure insanity.

Enjoy. You can see me on the right being entranced in playing the music like a goon.

http://karlojanpa.manglerproductions.../CRT_chair.mov

1) your lighting was terrible. the shadows the dudes cast on the kitchen wall were extremely noticeable and annoying.
2) your editing pace was way to slow for the beat of the song
3) it was kinda funny, but you could have gone much further with some of the ideas, like more of the dancing light guy.
4) if you are going for strange, you need to be way more out there. quite frankly the video was really boring.

i don't mean to sound harsh at all so don't take it like that. you wanted critiquing so i'm telling you what i would want to hear.

Oops, I probably should have noted that we are in no way serious about the whole thing. I appreciate the criticism, but I'm just saying it's not a full pro quality video. We did it in our kitchen in one day!

The tight shots are actually quite good but the main locations with the harsh lighting looks bad and is shot bad. Your wides, just arent wide enough and the stark light with shadows everywhere just doesnt work. That is the biggest mistake for beginners, not going wide enough. Medium shots are boring... mix tight and wide...

I agree with more of the Xmas light dude... I would have shot him with a low shutter or put a strobe effect if you were going for that Euro feel.



ash =o)

I think it is a little too dry. The performance of the lead is great at times and just OK at other times. Could just be the web compression but the sound was a little weird, also try adding some ambient noise or foley work and perhaps cut it a little more aggressive. I would warm up the colors in the opening scene as well.


ash =o)

Thanks Georg!

I'm not sure if this direct link to MTVU will still work, but you can try it:
http://www.mtvu.com/uber/player.jhtml?vid=64096

Otherwise, I have another version of the trailer linked from my site (the only difference is the titles are a little rough)

Window Media: http://www.blueboxlimited.com/multim...htrailer03.wmv

Quicktime: http://www.blueboxlimited.com/multimedia/uhtrailer.html

The video segments are now online! Unfortunately the surprise video isn't that long, but they included some stuff from the "University Heights" DVD, such as the outtakes and our Project Greenlight videos.

Here's the direct link: http://www.mtvu.com/uber/index.jhtml?id=1517745

"Out To Lunch" Trailer
 

Hey,

This is my first serious project with the DVX. It's a 40-45 minute comedy (starting small, huh!) with 15 actors and a budget of $100 mainly going for food to feed them. Right now we are two weeks into production with a couple more to follow after Christmas. Here is a little trailer I slapped together. If you have a minute, tell me what you think please!

Large (10 meg)

Small (3 meg)

Also, I know that the story isn't reveled too well. There are a few lines that would open up the story but they haven't been filmed yet. I will update it to be more complete later. And yes, I know about the boom mic.

Looks good. It makes me want to see more.