From Russia with ACTION - Webisode 4
 

We just released the latest installment of From Russia with ACTION!

http://colonelcrush.com/movie/index/00220401

I'm the composer. My favorite moment is at the end - I use the USSR National Anthem melody in a minor key for the "big moment." The alien scene is fun too...

Place to show work
 

Hello, This is my first post. I was curious if anyone can recommend the best way to show videos and still images via a hosting service on the web. I'm looking for good quality without a lot of ads, or no ads, and not too pricey. I'm an independent video/photo artist who hasn't put work online yet and wants to do it the right way from the beginning.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Strongwoman Competition
 

This is a short video of the 2007 Second Annual Central Jersey Strongest Man competition that features Jalaine Ulsh, one of four women competing that day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlrLolh-vxo


Comments and criticism are welcome. My biggest concern is the length. Is it too long? If, so where would you make the cuts?

www.mikepulcinella.com

Gregory, I have mine posted at Vimeo. They seem to work for me but someone may have a better option.

Promo for a new series
 

http://www.invisionitstudios.com/Home.html

OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-x5Fxva5XQ

Thanks for watching

We're coming out with a series sometime soon. This is just our little promo video.

Xl2 M2 Documentary test footy
 

Tested the M2 for an upcoming documentary im working on with it. Tell me what you think and ask if you have any questions. All advice welcome.

www.nbfilms.us/chagrin.mov
27mb

Nikon 36-72 3.5 constant
Nikon 50mm 2.0
Vivitar 28mm 2.8
80-200 3.9 constant

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My stock footage (DV and CG animations)
 

Hi,

Visit the www.revostock.com and check out my stock footage (DV and CG animations) at

http://www.revostock.com/ViewProfile.html?&ID=5027

Regards

Margus

Beautiful footage and nice depth. I also work with the M2 w/ the HVX and the light loss IS a big problem. During some of the shots with you and the lady it seems a little too dark. (or maybe that's the style you are trying to achieve, i'm not quite sure.) Perhaps increase aperture (logically :) ) or even use a reflector to fill in the side without enough light to balance the shot. Great looking footage, however!

We shot this with a Sony A1U
 

You can check it out here: www.insidersclubonline.com

Don't mind the audio, my film guy didn't know how to work the lavalier mic so we're re-shooting my wife.

What do you think of the quality, lighting, etc?

Great - I'm convinced!
 

Ricky,

Forget the camera work, your wife is a great presenter!

It's a great piece of direct communication - and it really brings a website to life...I'm constantly surprised why so few websites do it.

Lighting worked for me - as did the plain white background. The mixes are a little hit 'n miss because she moves a bit in the frame...how about a dissolve to white and then back again to make the transitions a little easier on the eye.

Sean

thanks, some of the shots were a little dark, we were running out of light and waited forreevor to shoot. Got a crane so i'll be using that in future projects. im excited :)

the lighting works for me. Clean and simple. And I agree, your wife is very natural in front of the camera.

I think it looks pretty good.

The transitions are distracting.

Try a very short white transition in place of the disolves. That will make it look like a flash and go well with the background.

I think a bit more dynamic camera moves with more cuts would increase the pace and excitement of the video. Avoid going full "roller coaster" style like the reality shows do. It would be too much.

If you have a steadycam try to do some smooth moves from left to right and back while she looks ahead. Intercut that stuff with the basic straight shot in short segments using the white flash transition. I think that would make a good looking video with lots of interest.

I agree that she has a good presence on camera. I think you should keep her. ;)

Chris

Better Version
 

This is better ending. (More "polished")

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3IzA63FkPuc

Thanks again

Martial Artsy - short action comedy
 

hey guys,
here's a short film i made last year. i shot on the hvx200.
http://www.atomfilms.com/film/martial_artsy.jsp
thanks for looking.

Donut Shop Hero Trailer
 

This is the trailer for my film Donut Shop Hero. It was shot on the HVX200 with the Redrock M2 and Nikon primes. I hope you like it!

http://harrisfilms.com/WordPress/?page_id=9

-Nick Harris

Hahaha. That looks, so funny! Are you going to finish it? Or are you just going to leave it at a Trailer?

I was not able to hear it, but I will play it again tomorrow when I have access to sound.

What did you use for the guns? They looked rather real!

Best of luck to you and your future projects! Keep up the great work!
~Gabriel

Thank you! I'm glad I could make you laugh even without sound, feels like quite an accomplishment.

Yeah, we're working on the edit, but wanted to just get the trailer out of the way before diving in, just to get something out there.

We shot for 6 weekends, so 12 days for a 27 page script. We have TONS of footage to go through and piece together. As much as I'm looking forward to it, it's also so overwhelming... god help me when it's a feature, haha!

Oh, about the guns... we bought them online (I'd have to check my records for the specific website). But they are classified as "blank" guns. They are technically real, have all the mechanisms to fire, but the barrel is completely solid, there' no hole. They came with Orange tips, but we carved them out.

That allowed us to some smoke and fire, and a little kick when they fired. The hardest thing was resisting the urge to constantly pop out the cylinder, spin it, and snap it back in. When guns are around, I'm perpetually 7 years old, haha!

I like the premise of the story, it's pretty original and funny. I hate this phrase, but it looks like a "feel-good" movie. Plus, your actors seem well rehearsed and your shots are great. Keep it up, I can't wait to see the whole thing!

8 minute documentary
 

posted this in the XH-A1 section..but thought i'd post here too..

Just finished a short 8 minute piece that preludes an hour long piece of the same topic. Followed the youth missions team from my church down to panama city and the san blas islands and documented their work (and fun). Shot it with a canon xh-a1..everything else done in vegas 7.

(and it is 400 something MB..so it's kind of big..i'm going to put a smaller version up tomorrow sometime)

www.jerfilm.com/documentaries/panama/index.htm

let me know what you think...

thanks
jeremiah

Showroom Video
 

Hi all.

A stone business has a nice showroom they wanted to show off on their website. So on spec I did the following by myself with a GL2, tripod, a wide adapter (sometimes) and a couple lights on stands. Editing in Final Cut Suite, music from Soundtrack Pro's libraries. I will buy better music if the client will pay for it.

http://weykervideo.com/video/corporate.wmv

The reflections on the polished stone are annoying but I didn't have the time/tools to clamp lights to the ceiling frame where the built-in lights were an point them down. I did diffuse my lights-on-stands I in most shots. If I go back I may well try and up-lamp the exisiting overhead fixtures to get more light.

That vignette effect in the last shot across the table is to hide a light stand, so it needs to stay.

Any advice on things I could do to make it better in post is welcome.

--Shayne Weyker

http://weykervideo.com

I really like it. Cool camerawork, great colors and locations and good idea. I think only the acting/ dialoge was a little bit fake every now and then, but besides that real fun to watch !

Ulrik

Im Sorry
 

I just got a page of crazy text when I tried to watch it. Could just be my computer I dont know.

should work...just checked the link...did you turn the crazy text option off? ...just kidding... :o)

I forwarded it to a friend who's a professional artist and loves anime...he'll chortle heartily! Well done.

"Midnight Catch" - latest from CineVera Pictures
 

The first minute of a longer short film we plan on making this summer. This is just to show the mood/look of the piece.

http://www.cineverapictures.com/clip...ightCatch.html

Estes Park Film Festival Official Selections
 

The 2nd Annual Estes Park Film Festival Announces Official Selections

Showcasing over 50 independent films from around the world, the 2nd Annual Estes Park Film Festival will take place September 14-16 at the Historic Park Theatre in downtown Estes Park, Colorado. Built in 1913, the Park Theatre is one of the oldest movie theatres still operating in America. In addition to the Park Theatre, suspense and horror films will screen at the Historic Stanley Hotel, which is famous for its inspirational role in Stephen King's book & film, "The Shining". Student films will also screen at the Lake Shore Lodge as part of our Student Filmmaker Showcase. Included in this year’s line-up is the hilarious comedy “Life with Fiona” about Scott Parker who's unlucky in love - that is, until he meets the woman of his dreams. Joe D’Augustine’s “One Night with You” is about down-on-his-luck Jake Tarlow (Mark Boone Junior) who has to get reclusive writer Hunter Burnell (Michael Parks) to an important meeting in what will probably be the last great time of his life. Other feature films include the quirky documentary “Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea” about California’s newest ecological time bomb, and at the Stanley Hotel “The 4th Dimension” explores the dark and lonely world between dreams and reality.

Short Films include the poignant story “Trail End” about Hank (Barry Corbin) and his last ride across Kansas with the help of his best friend Chip -- an old Appaloosa. A lonely, high functioning mentally challenged man falls in love with a 900 sex-line operator, and through that call, both find redemption in the funny and inspiring “My Name is Wallace”. At the Student Filmmaker Showcase an old man comes back home and tries to reconcile himself with his family who are all immortal and never age in “The Old Son”. Other short films include Sheila Schroeder’s newest documentary “Crunch!”, the apocalyptic “Café at the Crossroads”, and the mysterious “Twilight of Youth”.

Many of the filmmakers will be on hand to introduce their films and will take part in a Q&A on the creative process of getting their films from script to screen. There will also be plenty of parties where you can mingle with the filmmakers and other film enthusiasts. Ticket information and the complete schedule of film screenings, workshops, parties, and panel discussions are available on the festival web site: www.estesparkfilm.com.

Below is the complete list of festival films:
Historic Park Theatre

Feature Films - First Ascent, Bill’s Big Pumpkins, Life with Fiona, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Last Stop for Paul, Juncture, One Night with You, For Right or Wrong, and Running Deep

Short Films - A Single Beam of Light, The Park Theatre Family Album, Caught in Paint, Athina, The Sandcreek Massacre, Geocache, Snowies, My Name Is Wallace, Super-Anon, Break-up Bob, Crunch, Mr. Extion, Highway Amazon ,Steve McQueen & Me, Die Flugbegleiterin, Home for Good, Twilight of Youth, The Deceiver, Loaded, Sleep in Heavenly Peace,Thorndike, Charles and Paulette, Trail End, Serenade, Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand, Post Traumatic, Agniezka, and The Father, Unblinking

The Historic Stanley Hotel Suspense & Horror Showcase

Short Films - Café at the Crossroads, Woman's Intuition, The Window, Rose Colored Glasses, Descent into Madness, and One Choice

Feature Films - The 4th Dimension

Lake Shore Lodge Student Filmmaker Showcase

Pieces, Scaling Up, The Detention Teacher, The Cock & Bull Story, Joy, Rough Cut, and The Old Son

Two of my friends have films in this festival. Wish I could be there. Wish I could have submitted something again, but I was too busy shooting corporate stuff and a triathlon. Next year, next year. I should have a little something to submit. A few little somethings!

Sean runs a great festival. Y'all oughta submit stuff, all you DVCers and UWOLers. Estes Park is a great place to visit. Elk everywhere. Good coffee. Great films.

RANE's VIDEO CONTEST
 

I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS VIDEO CONTEST KINDA OF LATE JUST A FEW DAYS AGO AND PUT THIS TOGETHER FOR THE CONTEST.


TAKE A LOOK TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.

IF YOU HAVE ANY EXTRA TIME VOTE IF YOU CAN I COULD USE ALL THE HELP I CAN GET WITH THE LATE ENTRY!!!!!


THE CONTEST ENDS ON TOMORROW THE 31ST AT MIDNIGHTS.

THANKS TO ALL FOR HELPING!!!!!
TO VOTE AND CHECK OUT OTHER CONTESTANTS. (THERE ARE ONLY A FEW)

http://rootsrockvideo.imeem.com/vide...edown_contest/

HI REZ VIDEO-
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/dacole/p...DEOCONTEST.mov

Incense in True Slow-Motion
 

Just finished a new set of vids for stock footage:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu..._colorized.jpg

All thanks to JVC HDV. you can see the clip in motion here:

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_clos...php?id=3757040

(i wish i was allowed to post images here!)

Love the final result. Would you care to divulge a little bit of your process? Without, of course, revealing trade secrets.

Really, quite beautiful.

"Snake" - Anger. Oppression. Right and wrong.
 

Snake (4:39) - Who will speak the truth.
http://elmerlang.com/Snake.html

An early Elmer Lang film.





http://elmerlang.com - H2E Productions - 50+ films
"You don't get to be a hero by lollygaggin' around" - Lang family motto

The Broken Quiet (Shot on HVR-Z1U)
 

Here's the trailer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G2zNJ9e01NA

It's now fixed. Danged website!

Promotional Video for Social Service Organization
 

Here's the You Tube link for a promotional video for the Highland County Community Action Agency's Senior Nutrition Program that I did earlier this year. It's about 7 minutes. Please let me know what you think and I am definitely open to constructive criticism... That's why I posted it. I am looking for feedback that will make me better from the people on this forum. But please, don't be rude :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjjMtxv56ys

Thanks,
Kevin

High Energy Fight Scenes (GS500)
 

Here's our latest Webisode, including two fight scenes - one with a maniacal Koala-bot!

http://colonelcrush.com/movie/index/00220501

Personally, I think the music is the real key to generating adrenaline, but I would say that. I'm the composer. ;)

Very nice.

pretty neat! maybe one day i could use some stock effects/composites like that! keep it up

that koala was freaky man!

you did a good job with the score... by the way, what software do you use to make the music?

I've watched a couple episodes and a mini-movie (snakes on a car - loved it) and it looks like you guys are having lots of fun doing all this, which is what filmmaking is all about. Just wanna ask, how long does it take you guys to write, shoot and edit a webisode?