That's really cool!

That is very cool!... sorry to hear about the camera though.

That really was pretty cool.

Very cool!!! Now, how did you do it???????

Rough Trailer for "Redhead"
 

Hey guys, heres a rough trailer for a movie we've been working on. Sound is all temped in as placeholder but I wanted to see if I could get some general feedback on the trailer. It still doesnt have tightened frames, CC or anything like that either. I'm only going to leave the cut up for a couple days. One question I'd love to hear back on is "what do you think the movie is about after watching the trailer?"

http://jeremyhughes77.com/_qt/redheadtrailer1.mov

Thanks!
Jeremy

Great job! I love the preview, and I especially love the text effect at the end

I honestly don't know what it's about... kinda hard to tell, but it kinda reminds me of the movie "Stay" that came out recently. My audio is terrible here at work, so I missed a lot of the dialog. I'll have to watch it again when I get home.

When do you think this movie will be finished? The trailer is intriguing!

It started out slow but it really picked up and won me over. That was a great trailer, it makes me want to see the feature.

Cools as good a word as any I'll go with that.

Andy.

Uhh.... that was,?

Well, I just don't know what to say.

Yeah its a very slow download speed.

I'm downloading it anyway cause im interested to see it if it is selling........I'll let you know my thoughts in a few days whein its downloaded.

(man I love sarcasm whoever said it's the lowest form of witt just didn't have a sense of humour)

Andy.

hmm...

you started off like you had a plan with your question about what you would get if you crossed saddam hussein with the doctor then you kinda went off in a slant and gave us an evil santa instead which was unexpected.

If you're selling it then good on you!

my suggestion is write a short story like you would do in school but remember you are going to film it so don't put anything in it you don't have or can't get like f16 fighters or car crashes etc etc.

Then find places that look really nice like woodlands or if your in the city things that have good dynamics and are interesting to look at like fountains or landscaped gardens.

If you have a coherent story and some nice places then your on to a good start. Keep at it.

Andy.
BTW how come you have 131 posts but are still regular crew....i've never seen that before?

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Jeremy,

Nice work. The trailer is effective. Here's my impressions of what the story
might be:

--I really liked the beginning half of the trailer...the soft stuff about the
love story and following a dream. You got a blue collar guy with a musical gift, meets a girl, probably resists the girl b/c he's wounded from the past or something....all good stuff.
--The turn in tone worries me a little. This dude Sam from her past seems to transform the main source of conflict from being emotion based in real life dilemmas to being physically based via the threat of violence, which risks being phony for sake of having conflict in your story. It takes Good Will Hunting and transforms it into "a bad guy is gonna get me" movie. Two totally different genres in my opinion. Not that it can't be pulled off. I just think it's hard and hope you did it. (assuming I'm on the right track here. if not, ignore this.)

So it seems like the story is about being torn about following your dream, which is out of town, or sticking with the girl. I'm sure she has a reason she can't leave. And now he's got Sam trying to kill him. So he needs to resolve this bad dude situation and convince her to leave so they can go be musicians together.

At least, those are my impressions from your trailer.

Thanks guys,

A new trailer will be up in a few weeks. So I will post details here when that one comes out.

Cheers,

Janssen Herr
www.janssenherr.com

A few comments
 

I'll give it to you for getting your short film made, and it looks fairly professional, that's a major plus. On the other hand, I have some constructive criticisms, if you'll allow me to be blunt.

1) The joke goes on way too long. You had a good build up as she started to figure out what was going on, and the strangeness kept building up. When she discovered she was involved in some kind of satanic rite or rape, or whatever, the tension should have been cranked up in the music as well as the desperation of the character. The editing already seemed to reflect this, but she remained blasé about her situation.

2) Why would your main character even THINK of severing her OWN arm, when she could have clearly either killed or knocked unconscious either of her captors with all of those readily available tools? Your script and hero character needs to be much smarter or much dumber than that. If the main character is much dumber than the audience, then she should do something really dumb. Like maybe try to stab the guy crushing her arm, miss him, and accidentally stab her own arm... just a suggestion... but I'd rather have seen her attack and dismember the sleeping guy, if you're trying to rip-off the gratuitous gore of "Saw". If the whole point of the movie was to have a character cut their own limb off, you did it, but not in a very funny or believable way. It might help if you imagine yourself in their situation, then what might go wrong... repeatedly?

3) Finally... get the girl in your next movie... with a more refined concept or script. It will practically sell itself. ;)

Good luck!

Obviously, you never heard the "coyote ugly" joke. That's where you wake up next to someone soooooo ugly, you would rather chew off your arm, than risk waking them. Long way to the punchline, but pretty inventive.

The song Halycon on and on is my favorite one from Orbital. Things get more focused as the trailer goes on. Just a little tightening up and it would be great.
Nice effort.

Maybe some good voiceover too...

Brevis35+FX1+70-200 F4.5 (daylight test)
 

Here you go, guys. I shot this with a 70-200 f4.5. The footage is all very shaky because the fx1+brevis+70-200 is a freaking bazooka. It's extremely hard to pull focus, take care of the shutter, iris, nd filter, etc and hold this heavy artilary. Anyway, I think that the brevis works the best with day light. Too bad the Hd file was too heavy to post. Here is the SD version:

http://rapidshare.de/files/30079926/...t_SD.divx.html

P.S - No color correction. The only thing that was done on post was to rotate the footage.

I posted over at dvx on this, but getting an f4.5 70-200 to work on the adapter with zoom is pretty cool. This must be a pretty sweet lens.

No, I never heard of that joke. Maybe the title of the piece should have been Coyote Ugly (or something else relevant).

The Woodward Dream Cruise
 

For those of you unfamiliar with this event, it's the ultimate classic/muscle car cruise-in. Taking place the third Saturday in August on the legendary Woodward Avenue in suburban Detroit, it's the only traffic jam you'll ever actually WANT to be in. The entire length of Woodward north of Detroit, nearly 20 miles, becomes a sea of classic cars & trucks (mostly American), hot rods, street machines, and people in "normal" cars checking out the action - it's the ultimate "run what you brung" event.

I usually shoot weddings, so I'm normally not able to attend, but I had this day off this year, so I brought the camera rig and started shooting. Check out this footage, a montage of burnouts and impromptu drag races at the north end of the cruise in Pontiac, Michigan. I made two versions - both are the same except the music track.

1) For us old f*rts, here it is with a classic rock soundtrack (Steve Miller - Living In The USA):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTjSfhlVkuU

2) For the young 'uns (aw, heck, it's a great song for all ages!), here's the same thing with a modern rock soundtrack (Nickelback - Animals):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLIp5l4JLnk

It's going on a well-known auto enthusiast site (jalopnik.com) in the morning (8/21).

For those of you outside the U.S.: If you thought Americans might be a bit crazy, this video will remove all doubt.

Gotta love that good ol' American V-8 horsepower!

I wish I could have brought my 87 IROC-Z28.

I used to live in the metro area but then never had a car to "cruise". Now I have one but live down in Ohio. Oh well, such is life. Thanks for posting the clip.

Jeff

Jeff, a classic/muscle car is not required to enjoy the cruise. When I left, I decided to go ahead and take Woodward all the way home, and I did it in my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee. When I passed the area where I had been filming, kids were screaming at me to "light 'em up!" Yeah, right...I have a V6 and all wheel drive - the only thing I'm lighting up might be a cigarette.

Oh, Ohioans are welcome, y'know...

For comparison purposes here is a shot without the brevis in the same location: http://rapidshare.de/files/30152097/..._win9.wmv.html

When you look at the 2 videos it looks like they were shot with 2 totaly different cameras.

Makes a Great Gift . . .
 

Howdy,

Would love to get any feedback on the attached "infommercial."

Thanks.

Jason

http://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail.jsp?film_id=2450

Hey guys,

Thanks for looking at the trailer. I've gotten some good feedback over the past week on what impressions people are getting. I've got some good ideas for how to retool this rough into something better!

Quick overview of the story. The story at its heart is about making choices and unchecked aggression. We immediately setup the movie in the beginning with that tone. Jeff, you're comments are fairly close. And we do genre blend - but I think its effective. The writer-director did a great job of setting up the two sides. In the end, Ian has to make choices. Does he allow himself to be with Ally or does he let Sam, Ally's ex-boyfriend, get to him and ruin anything he could have a chance at having? There's pride issues here.

I think its setup in a realistic way as well and does some new things very well. When I get a new trailer cut, I'll post it online again.

Nick, we're currently just locking picture and moving into post - mainly sound and score but also the color correction and a couple sutble effects shots. Hopefully in a month or two.

Thanks everyone!

I cant get to the file - can you repost it?

A Day in the Life...
 

Hey people can you have a look at this short film i have just finished editing.
Can you please tell me how i can make this better etc


(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REQUIRES THE LATEST QUICKTIME PLAYER BECAUSE OF THE H.284 CODEC)

http://logikstudios.co.uk/films/ADITLO_EP01_page.html

Final Apple Ad of series
 

Howdy...

Well, we've come full circle, and it's time to release our final Apple Ad. We hope you've enjoyed the series.... Thanks for watching...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ZTCZW_cRw

Edited with Vegas, of course...

Best,

Benjamin

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http://www.neo-fight.tv [The "Techno-Debate" Video Podcast]

Hello Dino,

Finally got home and had a look at your film.

Not bad for a 48 hour film. I especially liked the choice of shots and atmosphere that they created. I also liked the twist at the end.

I didn't understand why the detectives knew there was a crime at that house. Actually when the two were being arrested I thought the police were there for another reason altogether and figured the story would take the tact of a misunderstanding between the police and the two guys.

However considering how long you had to put together the story, film and edit it I think you did a great job.

Hate to admit it being a died in the wool mac head, but the new game ad was damn funny. I, however, am a curiosity in the mac world as I manage a 300 node (all Macintosh) distributed network building and serving databases to the tune of $1Million+/Month with 99.999% uptime, so the "no good for work" thing never rings true for me in these arguments.


But the "no games" thing hurts real bad! Thanks for rubbing salt in the wound ;)

i'm a mac head, but i think these are cute....

the spoof i would really like to see is both computers doing their usual user-loyal back n forth and then both freezing and ultimately crashing simultaneously. now that would be truth in advertising!

my first music video
 

From BottomLine's first release, Weapon of Choice. Pick a flavor.

QuickTime http://tjborekvideo.com/video/tBL/tBL_Classic.mov

Windows Media http://tjborekvideo.com/video/tBL/tB...c_MED_wide.wmv

The driving scene looks much darker on a computer than on TV. Knock the Media Player Brightness control up to 10 or so for best results.

I wish we could have done more with the stage footage in the last third, different camera angles, but I couldn't get Nate to perform the song twice, and he was only budgeted for single-camera coverage. All in all, I'm pleased. The few test audiences I screened the video to grasped the concept. I don't think everyone will get it.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.


T.J.

It doesn't seem like there's a "concept". It looks like a performance driven video to me.

N-e-way, I like the video. I laughed when I saw the old man in the chair. The song is awful, and I didn't see the point of having the girl at the end. Overall, I thought the production was good....

I take it the concept is that the old man is him and he's remembering cause he's stood the test of time?

He doesn't look like he wants to be there infront of the camera, he looks very unanimated. I agree with Sheldon the song is awful, i'm more of a 'who' or 'Zeppelin' fan myself but hey that aint your fault.

The video was good you had some nice shots in there, keep it up.

Andy.

When you say he wouldn't perform the song twice... he refused to do it twice? Or because of some budget/logistical constraints you couldn't do it twice...?

If he refused to do it twice, that's f'ing retarded... shows his lack of enthusiasm for his music career, which shows in his boring performance in the video. And I agree, the song is awful.

I thought the video was well shot. Some better than others in certain areas. I understood the concept, but I think you could have gone more in detail with it.

Not too shabby for a first try. Keep shooting man!

My first Chroma work
 

Hi,

Forget the subject matter - take a look and let me have your opinion of the chromawork that I have done?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1087275444

Thanks

Lets' split this into two parts........

The artist - not my cup of tea and perhaps another wannabe.......

The video - great! Well shot, well produced and a good solid production. My only (slight) criticism is that you should be a bit more 'rad' in your shots with a few strange camera angles etc.

Good though.

Japan and Scotland
 

Here is link to some demo-reels that I have produced about the area I live in in Japan.
They were all shot in DVcam format and after editing with Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6.1 encoded for the web.
http://www.gaijin-eyes.com/ (ENTER the site, then click on "Movie Clips"

The second link is to a few demo-reels from a visit to my homeland - Scotland - this year.
They were shot in HD format with a Sony Z1, edited with LE6.1 then downconverted and encoded for the web.
http://www.gaijin-eyes.com/liquid/HDconvert/index.htm

I am always open to comments and suggestions - whether they are positive or negative.
However, negative comments are appreciated more if they are accompanied by some constructive suggestions to improve the work in question...... :-)

Documentary: Life, Death, & In Between
 

Check it:
http://rileyharmon.com/8_20_06/life_death.html