Good job, Michael. I love to see other High school students stuff (I'm in High School).

Keep up the great (and funny) Work!
~Gabriel~

Frames from Hip-Hop Video (Xl2)
 

Well, It's been awile but i just started filming for the hip-hop video. The footage i have so far is just for the Chorus. There is still a TON to film but i just wanted to see what people thought so far.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...87/ABomb10.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb1.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb2.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb3.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb4.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb5.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb6.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb7.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb8.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...187/ABomb9.jpg

Uh...I just did post when it premieres. Friday, Sept 29, 8:00PM ET/PT.

When will it air in HD? no clue.

My first After Effects
 

Hi,

My very first After Effects .8 second Promo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkAf-Qq5q1o

What do you think? I based it on a tutorial.

Another @2t V!d30
 

another art video, watch it alone, without distractions, after it has loaded completely, click on the blue and red dots icon, http://rileyharmon.com/site_9_06/start.html

im digging making art videos, so much more experience for a viewer, going to start doing installations

let me know how you all felt after watching it

peace all

Just playing around
 

I was just playing around today and made this short video:

http://www.advancedmedialab.com/download.html

It is 46.4 MB and I know that is large. It is wide screen and full size.

I just downloaded it as a test and it took under 5 minutes sustaining 312 KB per sec.

Let me know what you think.

what genre of film is this?

I like the shot of the lake. What lens did you use for this?

Mike

Mike,

I used the standard 20X on my XL2. The lake is Lake Travis. The downtown (obviously) and the hilltop are both San Francisco.

Estes Park Film Festival Announces Winners!
 

The Estes Park Film Festival is pleased to announce the winners of the first ever film festival in Estes Park, Colorado.
The Estes Park Film Festival concluded on September 17th with newcomer Monty Lapica’s powerful film Self Medicated winning both Best Feature and Audience Award. Based on true events, Self Medicated is about an out of control youth who is sent against his will to a corrupt psychiatric hospital. Stacy Marr’s Getting Lucky about one woman’s attempt at internet dating took home the Best Short Film Award while Donna Musil’s Brats: Our Journey Home, the first documentary about growing up as a military brat, won Best Documentary.
Celebrating their inaugural year, the 2006 Estes Park Film Festival showcased 9 feature-length films and 26 short films from across the country. The festival took place at the Historic Park Theatre in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado from September 15th - 17th, 2006 with an awards ceremony on the final night. In addition to the films, the Estes Park Film Festival also served as a fundraising event to help raise money to renovate and restore the Historic Park Theatre to its original cinematic elegance. Festival attendees and filmmakers traveled from as far away as California and Florida to enjoy the films, parties, and awards gala at Estes Park’s premier event. Organizers are already planning for next year’s festival which will take place September 14th-16th, 2007 at the Historic Park Theatre.

Below is a list of all the festival winners.
Best Feature Self Medicated – Monty Lapica
Best Short Film Getting Lucky - Stacy Marr
Best Documentary Brats: Our Journey Home - Donna Musil
Best Student Film Test - Lorne Pribbeno
Best New Filmmakers Mike Vanderwyst, Jason Durdon, and Jeff Frye
Best Actor Nicky Korba – 3:16
Audience Award for a Feature Film Self Medicated – Monty Lapica

Visit our new web site www.estesparkfilm.com to view pictures of our inaugural film festival or to learn about our 2nd Annual Film Festival!

BROKEN guys producing DVX documentary w/ LOST TV Star
 

Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the support guys. We are working on releasing a Special Edition BROKEN DVD for the holidays so keep your eyes out.

While we are working on BROKEN the feature and a few other projects, I found some time to produce a killer documentary called "Behind Forgotten Eyes" Narrated by LOST's Yonn-jin Kim. Check out the trailer on the website: http://www.behindforgotteneyes.com

Completely shot on the DVX 100a and edited/color corrected on Final Cut Pro 5. Let us know what you think of the trailer. We are working a a newer one but the one we have up gives you an idea. FYI: I did not edit the trailer ; )

http://www.enigmafactory.com/ftp/Myspace_BFE_AD.jpg

Also, to see what else The Enigma Factory is up to waddle over to: http://www.enigmafactory.com

Thanks again for all the good wishes.

I'm not exactly sure what your asking. but its a hip-hop Music video.

Any other comments? Thoughts, suggestions?

Congrats on gaining some success dude! Seems like it would be a kickass project, but a little depressing. Although I shall check it out someday, I just need to get Broken first. It sucks that I can't afford stuff anymore... stupid school and saving up for... keeps me from doing what I love (buying DVD's)

Spec commercial I directed last month
 

Here's a spec. spot I wrote and directed a month ago. It's not finalized yet, but this is close. A member of this site, Vincent Pascoe was my DP.

http://www.dontpanik.tv/Clients/Greg/Monster_v6.mov

Constructive criticism welcome as this spot hasn't been completely 'locked' yet, so nitpicks, so long as they're constructive, are welcome. Can't reshoot anything, but can tweak editing, though.

It was good, funny, and interning. The only thing that I noticed bad was the compression. There was a bit of it it seemed like... but I don't know much, so my reply probably is not helpful.

~Gabriel~

It looks really good! I like it. Everything is clean, fast paced, and looks like it could be a real monster commercial. What was this shot on?

It was shot on 35mm. Thanks for the kind words.

Greg,

That's nice. I really like the look, the writing and the acting - too rare a combination sometimes.

My only constructive feedback is on angles. The push-in pov shot on the underling is nice alone, but cut to the boss footage it doesn't work as well for me. Then when the boss sits we switch to an over-the-shoulder view of the underling. It is a little jarring coming from the pov. I think I would have liked it better seeing the underling waiting for the boss from the same angle (looking off screen left instead of directly at the camera) the whole time. Not sure if you have that shot though...

That's a nitpick though... the piece is really nice. Kudos.

Where did you get the alpaca?

Nice work. If that wasn't already a real office, it's good set design. And the lighting looks natural enough. And the actors performed well, too.

Ironic: Getting a piece out there to get a job about a company that gets people jobs.

And I would have said "llama", too.

Great job! I had no Idea about most of that stuff!

I have one question for you, how much does this pay?

Thanks!
~Gabriel~

I didn't know about most of this stuff before I started working on it. Left out of my history books and classes.

Pay? Depends on your degree of skill and where you are located. Here in LA it is between $1600 and $3000. I am not saying where in that range I fit.

Gialloesque
 

This was my entry to the recent Horror Channel 2 minute horror competition. It is entitled "Gialloesque" and is a Giallo inspired horror thriller in the vein of Dario Argento.

Please let me know what you think. Cheers.

http://www.savefile.com/files/120893

Spec-Comm concept, please some feedback
 

Lyst
I basically had to come up with a concept.
This is not a finished ad, and I'll have to reshoot if it ever goes live,
but I had to come up with an idea for a new Norwegian cheese brand.

"Lyst" means "lust" and "desire".
In Norway, the milkproduct industry is basically dominated by one brand.
This is the "New kid on the block"
Please let me know what you think!

Shot in 720. Won't do that again...

It's here (11Mb) (please right-click & download)

http://vulture.no/testvid/lyst.mov

Gunleik
_____________

Good job. Keep up the good work.
Richard

Offline - in production -;)
 

I've taken the file offline, as it will be re-shot for nation tv... -;)

Gunleik

Incredible Wedding Video, Need constructive criticism
 

Hey guys, i've just shot a wedding video for a friend of mine who had a wonderful wedding the other day. She couldn'd find any wedding videographer that was cheap enough so she asked if i could shoot it for her, which i thought would be the hardest and most nerv racking thing i'd do but being a good i said yes, not know what I was in for. well any way i'd just edited a short montage of a photo shoot on the beach the bride and groom did with the photgrapher, i'd love if you guys or girls(lol) could give me some advice or any criticism about the video.

I shot with a Sony Z1, i didnt use any mini35 adapters or extra lighting or reflectors. I just shot handheld with the Z1 and I just shot them naturally with out asking them to pose or act out partiular parts. I followed them wherever they went, and tried my best not to be obtrusive.

http://www.filefactory.com/dlf/f/51f...0e360e97188994
This is the link to the video and its only 7 mb big. It goes for a about 4 mins it would be great if any of you could take the time to watch and critic it.
Thanks


Thanks again

Funny works - check the site mobijokes.tv
 

Hey all,
WE just launched a new site, www.mobijokes.tv

do check it out and tell me what you think!?

This seems to be slipping through the net.

I would really appreciate some feedback. It means an awful lot to me. Thanks guys.

I liked it. Killer player front end. Funny classics done as shorts!

I love it! Great image quality but the video played very jumpy. Extremely humorous. I'll check it out again later.

thanks for the kind feeds guys...anyone else seen it?

Me like.
A lot!

What cameras and software are you on?

For the car shoot - how was your lightening done?

Does not matter that much, the stories (cept from the purely animated piece) were good, effective and pointed. Great!

Gunleik

Very funny! Loved them all....

Great opening shot in the one with the cop. Well done!

Tubing HD - Shot with FX1
 

***This is the sequel to the tubing video i posted last year, the thread is here

This year completely trumps last year in terms of editing and footage. We had the Wego Kite tube for a weekend and got some great footage from that (the camera wasn't on when my brother fell from 35ft in the air, which is why we only had it for one weekend). Everything is filmed by a Sony-FX1 by people who hardly know how to use a camera (i had to be tubing!), and no, this year I didn't take that camera behind the boat :-)

Tubing HD - http://www.fansn.com/media.php?item=88

Let me know what you think!

That ought to be outlawed. You guys are having entirely too much fun...

"Cat Fight..." viewed 10,600 times
 

I know, more shameless self promotion. That's what this forum segment is for though, right?

So, I did this funn little shoot almost exactly 2 months ago now and for some crazy reason, it has now been watched and/or downloaded by 10,600 people. That's 179.66 people per day! We had fun with it, it isn't technically perfect, people have scolded me for not giving the audience any "release" from the tension, it's too long, I should have put a fake screaching bird sound over the shot of the Raven, etc. and yet, almost 180 people (averaged) are watching this each day. I guess people must be finding something interesting about it.

I will say I have written a much better second part of the story, a 30 minute sequel that I am still trying to recast one part for. Hopefully, as the weather is starting to turn here in central Ohio, we can kick this out next spring? Maybe sooner. It will have some butt-kicking, women disposing of useless ex-boyfriends in unusual ways and my favorite bit, death by kitchen implements.

Anyway, if you want to join the other 10,600 plus folks, you can catch "Cat Fight at OK and Corral" from my web site at http://www.DeepBlueEdit.com

It ain't perfect but it sure was fun to shoot. More and better coming your way soon as we hone our skills.

Sean McHenry

To be honest... it wasn't that scary for me. The quality was top notch though, and I really liked the way that you shot the movie. I just think that it needed to be darker, much too bright for my liking.

I also didn't quite get the ending. Didn't seem to make sense to me. I'll watch it one more time...
I get the whole alphabet thing, but I feel like it's missing something.

Mike

Scene from Horror Movie I'm finishing
 

I have been cutting a horror short that i posted about here some time ago. Here is a rough cut of one of the scenes.

Let me know what you think, please. I know the ADR sucks and will be replaced by better, but I am interested to hear any thoughts.

Thanks

Oh, here's the link.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ztUXcj5H8

Duh