Show Your Work 2006

Riley Harmon · January 27th, 2006, 03:53 AM

very nice sir, keep it up, i like the underground style

Riley Harmon · January 27th, 2006, 03:56 AM

Carbon Nation wins grand prize in 2005 VideoMaker magzine short film contest. I believe they are having a webcast about it on their website at 10am on 1/27/06 and it will be published in the May 2006. My media control psa was also honored in a new category they created. rileyharmon.com

Mark Utley · January 27th, 2006, 05:27 PM

Yeah, that's something I'm going to have to work at. 2-cam interviews are definitely the way to go. In case you're wondering, the only reason the wide shot cam for the All Purpose Voltage Heroes interview was black and white is because the footage was hot and it wasn't matching up with my footage.

Lots of first-time things to work out but I think each episodes going to keep getting a bit tighter.

Victor Muh · January 28th, 2006, 12:43 PM

It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce the nomination of my Saab Salomon film, "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie," for Best Editing at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006. I was nominated for Best Director. We were awarded Best Soundtrack! "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie" was one of the 26 films to be selected from over 300 films to participate in the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006 held during the Sundance Film Festival.

The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Fuel TV in March.

X-Dance
X-Dance is the Academy Awards of the action sports world.

Each year, the world's top action sport filmmakers and athletes, cutting-edge bands and DJs, and key figures from the entertainment industry gather under one roof to celebrate action sports culture at the x-dance Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001, x-dance coincides each year with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and screens the best of the best in action sports film, along with post-screening Q&A's and panels with athletes, filmmakers and industry icons.

Running concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, X-Dance was held in Park City, Utah, on January 20-24th, 2006.

The Adrenaline Hunters
They are restless souls, the Adrenaline Hunters. Over the past 3 years we have filmed these athletes in some of the most beautiful, inaccessible, wild and uncompromising terrain on the surface of this diverse world: torrents, forests, mountains, seas, snow, rocks, dirt, water, and air with bikes, parachutes, kayaks, skis, boards and bare hands. Their exploits have been immortalized on 1 million DVD’s distributed internationally, and have won awards at the Mountain Film Festival in 2004 & 2005.

Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie
Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie is a 52-minute film featuring the best of Salomon's Adrenaline Hunters' exploits mixed with music from Labels Records like Asian Dub Foundation, and cutting-edge groups such as Steriogram, Rubin STEINER, Thunderball and many more.

Through winter and summer, across the endlessly varied landscapes in search of perfection... not just for the rush, but to unlock the philosophy of The Edge.

Against these unadulterated backdrops, the athletes look more like animals than humans. Like a gecko clinging to a wall, Klem Loskot moves sinuously up a sheer rock cliff. Jerome Ruby leaps from the lonely, lofty summit of a sandstone spire and swoops towards the desert below, more falcon than man. David Arnaud descends raging mountain rivers as fluidly and powerfully as the fish that call it home.

Australia, Canada, Madagascar, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, the United States, and Vietnam provide the organic arenas for their high performance antics.

Watch the trailer here: http://advaloreminternational.com

x-dance Action Sports Film Festival
http://x-dance.com

Brian Karr · January 29th, 2006, 08:40 AM

I captured and rendered my first video using the Windows Media HD 1080 30p resolution. Its a 3.5 minute surf video from the finals of the Globe Pro surfing contest in Sebastion Florida.

I posted it up to my site at www.AdventureOnline.TV/ch9.php

Its a pretty big file, 200 Meg, so give it 30sec to a minute to start playing (with a broadband connection of course!).

Jack Zhang · January 29th, 2006, 05:55 PM

Must have taken you at least 8 hours to render, or 4.

Brian Karr · January 29th, 2006, 06:12 PM

Jack,

The m2t clip was 1.9 gig, the proxy dv file was 2.2 gig.

The video is 3 min 30 secs and it took one hour and 31 min to render.

Max Wilson · January 30th, 2006, 10:45 AM

On Saturday there was a VW cruise with 100+ cars so I figured I would break out the Sticky Pod for the first time.

Here is the video: http://www.pimpedwheels.com/pchcruise/pch.wmv

One suggestion I have is when using the knuckle to the camera it seems like the camera will wobble more, and then I tried using my bogen quick release plate and it made the video very stable and I feel more safe having the camera going 80+ MPH.

http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod1.jpg
http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod2.jpg

This is the plate I use:
http://www.evsonline.com/merchant2/m...e=577&Category _Code=4B2&Product_Count=0

Geoffrey Engelbrecht · January 30th, 2006, 10:52 AM

The trap is set, the victim chosen ... but will they fall for the bait?

http://www.engelbrecht.ch/Missing/movie.shtml

Comments and critics welcome.

This is our fifth short. It was really a learning exercise to try to build suspense and apply some of the things I learnt about action sequences from "Objects in Mirror".

Thanks in advance,

Geoff

Dave Ferdinand · January 30th, 2006, 04:50 PM

I really liked the sound and music, very atmospheric. Camera work and editing wasn't that great. Some jump-cuts and unclear shots. The first time we see the missing poster - shouldn't it be a CU (it's too far) and show the girl to confuse the audience?

Photography was nice but nothing amazing.

Plot was okay for a 2min. short but a bit predictable. It doesn't make sense for the girl to run into the dark tunnel when she's being chased by someone! The car driver should have left the car too - he nearly ran her over.

Sorry if I'm being a bit anal but I feel I would have enjoyed it more if you polished it a bit.

Geoffrey Engelbrecht · January 30th, 2006, 05:14 PM

Thanks for the comments Dave.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Ferdinand

The first time we see the missing poster - shouldn't it be a CU (it's too far) and show the girl to confuse the audience?

I don't understand what you mean regarding showing the girl?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Ferdinand

It doesn't make sense for the girl to run into the dark tunnel when she's being chased by someone!

I guess that depends on who is chasing who.

Best Regards,

Geoff

Alec Rossel · February 1st, 2006, 09:22 PM

Hey everyone,

The trailer for the latest short film from MapTorch FIlms, the people who brought you THE WARNING, is now online. Go check it out at www.maptorch.com/the_bag_trailer.htm. Please feel free to share your thoughts on it.

Thanks for watching!

Alec

Travis Cossel · February 2nd, 2006, 02:34 AM

The trailer stopped playing about half-way through. Might be my connection, I'm not sure. I have a pretty good connection.

Paul Jefferies · February 2nd, 2006, 06:07 AM

Hi,
Liked the trailer, looked well shot, although I didn't like the animated title cards (they look too video for me)

Quinn OConnell · February 2nd, 2006, 06:50 AM

Hi everyone, just posting a question to those that have compiled reels in the past or are about to...
I have alot of stock footage from a variety of projects and am looking to produce a reel myself.

What do you suggest to put in it:?

How long should it be?

Should it be the best looking images - or crafted film shoot shots - or just a medley of images cut and edited in a way to showcase ones style..

welcome any thoughts and advice on this..

Thanks

Quinn

January 27th, 2006, 03:56 AM	#62
Riley Harmon Major Player Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 424	VideoMaker 2k5 Carbon Nation wins grand prize in 2005 VideoMaker magzine short film contest. I believe they are having a webcast about it on their website at 10am on 1/27/06 and it will be published in the May 2006. My media control psa was also honored in a new category they created. rileyharmon.com

January 27th, 2006, 05:27 PM	#63
Mark Utley Major Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Posts: 479	Yeah, that's something I'm going to have to work at. 2-cam interviews are definitely the way to go. In case you're wondering, the only reason the wide shot cam for the All Purpose Voltage Heroes interview was black and white is because the footage was hot and it wasn't matching up with my footage. Lots of first-time things to work out but I think each episodes going to keep getting a bit tighter. __________________ Mark Utley

January 28th, 2006, 12:43 PM	#64
Victor Muh Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Paris, France Posts: 126	Sundance Gets a Jolt of Adrenaline During X-Dance! It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce the nomination of my Saab Salomon film, "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie," for Best Editing at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006. I was nominated for Best Director. We were awarded Best Soundtrack! "Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie" was one of the 26 films to be selected from over 300 films to participate in the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival 2006 held during the Sundance Film Festival. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Fuel TV in March. X-Dance X-Dance is the Academy Awards of the action sports world. Each year, the world's top action sport filmmakers and athletes, cutting-edge bands and DJs, and key figures from the entertainment industry gather under one roof to celebrate action sports culture at the x-dance Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001, x-dance coincides each year with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and screens the best of the best in action sports film, along with post-screening Q&A's and panels with athletes, filmmakers and industry icons. Running concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, X-Dance was held in Park City, Utah, on January 20-24th, 2006. The Adrenaline Hunters They are restless souls, the Adrenaline Hunters. Over the past 3 years we have filmed these athletes in some of the most beautiful, inaccessible, wild and uncompromising terrain on the surface of this diverse world: torrents, forests, mountains, seas, snow, rocks, dirt, water, and air with bikes, parachutes, kayaks, skis, boards and bare hands. Their exploits have been immortalized on 1 million DVD’s distributed internationally, and have won awards at the Mountain Film Festival in 2004 & 2005. Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie Adrenaline Hunters - The Movie is a 52-minute film featuring the best of Salomon's Adrenaline Hunters' exploits mixed with music from Labels Records like Asian Dub Foundation, and cutting-edge groups such as Steriogram, Rubin STEINER, Thunderball and many more. Through winter and summer, across the endlessly varied landscapes in search of perfection... not just for the rush, but to unlock the philosophy of The Edge. Against these unadulterated backdrops, the athletes look more like animals than humans. Like a gecko clinging to a wall, Klem Loskot moves sinuously up a sheer rock cliff. Jerome Ruby leaps from the lonely, lofty summit of a sandstone spire and swoops towards the desert below, more falcon than man. David Arnaud descends raging mountain rivers as fluidly and powerfully as the fish that call it home. Australia, Canada, Madagascar, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, the United States, and Vietnam provide the organic arenas for their high performance antics. Watch the trailer here: http://advaloreminternational.com x-dance Action Sports Film Festival http://x-dance.com __________________ Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein http://advaloreminternational.com

January 29th, 2006, 08:40 AM	#65
Brian Karr Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rockledge, Florida Posts: 36	HD video using Windows Media I captured and rendered my first video using the Windows Media HD 1080 30p resolution. Its a 3.5 minute surf video from the finals of the Globe Pro surfing contest in Sebastion Florida. I posted it up to my site at www.AdventureOnline.TV/ch9.php Its a pretty big file, 200 Meg, so give it 30sec to a minute to start playing (with a broadband connection of course!). __________________ Brian K www.vimeo.com/briankarr

January 29th, 2006, 06:12 PM	#67
Brian Karr Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rockledge, Florida Posts: 36	Jack, The m2t clip was 1.9 gig, the proxy dv file was 2.2 gig. The video is 3 min 30 secs and it took one hour and 31 min to render. __________________ Brian K www.vimeo.com/briankarr

January 27th, 2006, 03:53 AM	#61
Riley Harmon Major Player Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 424	very nice sir, keep it up, i like the underground style

January 29th, 2006, 05:55 PM	#66
Jack Zhang Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 3,053	Must have taken you at least 8 hours to render, or 4.

January 30th, 2006, 10:45 AM	#68
Max Wilson Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 62	PCH Cruise On Saturday there was a VW cruise with 100+ cars so I figured I would break out the Sticky Pod for the first time. Here is the video: http://www.pimpedwheels.com/pchcruise/pch.wmv One suggestion I have is when using the knuckle to the camera it seems like the camera will wobble more, and then I tried using my bogen quick release plate and it made the video very stable and I feel more safe having the camera going 80+ MPH. http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod1.jpg http://www.pimpedwheels.com/images/stickypod2.jpg This is the plate I use: http://www.evsonline.com/merchant2/m...e=577&Category _Code=4B2&Product_Count=0

January 30th, 2006, 10:52 AM	#69
Geoffrey Engelbrecht Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Switzerland Posts: 56	Missing The trap is set, the victim chosen ... but will they fall for the bait? http://www.engelbrecht.ch/Missing/movie.shtml Comments and critics welcome. This is our fifth short. It was really a learning exercise to try to build suspense and apply some of the things I learnt about action sequences from "Objects in Mirror". Thanks in advance, Geoff

January 30th, 2006, 04:50 PM	#70
Dave Ferdinand Major Player Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 359	I really liked the sound and music, very atmospheric. Camera work and editing wasn't that great. Some jump-cuts and unclear shots. The first time we see the missing poster - shouldn't it be a CU (it's too far) and show the girl to confuse the audience? Photography was nice but nothing amazing. Plot was okay for a 2min. short but a bit predictable. It doesn't make sense for the girl to run into the dark tunnel when she's being chased by someone! The car driver should have left the car too - he nearly ran her over. Sorry if I'm being a bit anal but I feel I would have enjoyed it more if you polished it a bit. __________________ Do or do not, there is no try.

February 1st, 2006, 09:22 PM	#72
Alec Rossel New Boot Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 18	THE BAG Trailer online! Hey everyone, The trailer for the latest short film from MapTorch FIlms, the people who brought you THE WARNING, is now online. Go check it out at www.maptorch.com/the_bag_trailer.htm. Please feel free to share your thoughts on it. Thanks for watching! Alec

February 2nd, 2006, 02:34 AM	#73
Travis Cossel Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 2,933	The trailer stopped playing about half-way through. Might be my connection, I'm not sure. I have a pretty good connection. __________________ Black Label Films www.blacklabelweddingfilms.com

February 2nd, 2006, 06:07 AM	#74
Paul Jefferies Major Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Croydon, England Posts: 277	Hi, Liked the trailer, looked well shot, although I didn't like the animated title cards (they look too video for me)

February 2nd, 2006, 06:50 AM	#75
Quinn OConnell Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 94	Showreels - Whats The Lowdown* Hi everyone, just posting a question to those that have compiled reels in the past or are about to... I have alot of stock footage from a variety of projects and am looking to produce a reel myself. What do you suggest to put in it:? How long should it be? Should it be the best looking images - or crafted film shoot shots - or just a medley of images cut and edited in a way to showcase ones style.. welcome any thoughts and advice on this.. Thanks Quinn