looks awesome.

Well done, great colors and tracking movement of some decidedly hard to follow subject matter. What software did you use for titling at the beginning?

That’s really nice, Oliver. I watched it several times, not only to study shots but because the whole piece has a great feel to it. The segment with the grass…even though it had nothing to do with the bikes it was very cool—especially when I slowed it down. I would have used it, too. :)

Thanks for sharing with us.

Top notch! I loved it. Your sense of composition is very strong. Every shot was beautiful. You'll do well at whatever you choose to do next!

HV 20 Horror movie
 

It's called Ultimate Curse, and the trailer is here:

http://www.createspace.com/240220

Ultimate Curse is the story of an evil force that makes friends mutilate friends, and lovers eat the very flesh of their loved ones.

If you want to buy the whole 93 minute movie (and help me make another one,) you can do so by visting this E-store:

http://www.createspace.com/240220

Thanks!

please help me think of a topic for a short film!
 

Ok i am taking a digital video in school and next year we are doing a city wide contest type of thing. anyway for the previous year we did a 15 minuite western with a story taken from a shakespere play. we only had two weeks to make up the story and everything and shoot it, and it turned out suprisingly good, the western look i was going for was perfect, the location costumes and everything was great, the acting was the only thing lacking.
anyway for next year i wanna film all throughout the summer so we can get a good 20-30 minuite movie thats alot more well done.
we already have some great locations picked out, one is up in the mountains very far away from any towns or anything man made other than two small cabins. its very beautiful scenery, with a pond mabye 200 ft by 200 ft. very big open medows, and also heavily wooded areas, and also a pretty good sized river. another is a big lake, with a large glacier above it though its a smaller area with occasional tourists. the last place we found is in the mountains too, it is miles of rolling hills and mountains and a huge meadow miles long with trees surroinding it, and it has a large old house probably more than 100 years old in the middle.
there are plenty of other places around where we live in colorado, there are plenty of big lakes, mountains, woods, old mining buildings, houses, ghost towns etc.
i really like films that take place in a different time period, that could be from the 70's or 1000 years ago.
and keep in mind that we are all pretty young, like around 17-21, some of us could play it off as a 13 year old and some could play it off as a 30 year old but nobody too old. and we have like 3 girls. we got like 15 people total 5 that could do it all the time, and the rest would mainly be extras or have small parts.
we want something with a little action, some suspense, and drama, and mabye some comedy. but nothing that take amazing acting, we have mabye 2 or 3 people who are pretty damn good at acting, but thats it.

we already have some ideas, but none that we can agree on yet, and we want some more ideas, we want to know pretty soon so we have plenty of time to write a script, find costumes, locations etc.
so if you have any ideas that would be really great!

oh yeah and for equipment we have a vx1000, vx2100, some cheap handi cams, and some 3ccd handicam type camera, pretty limited lighting, 2 fluid head tripods, and two cheapo tripods. plenty of guns or pretty much any type of weapon from any time period, and a relative that owns a costume shop.

A quick look at your towns history shows a dark chapter from the past which you could re work, make it very sinister and evil, a good opertunity to add some ideas of your own and base it around the murder trials for example instead of poison change it to something more shocking. Plus its of local interest and might do well.

AVERY MURDER TRIALS

MUSEUM (GLENDURA) SCRAPBOOK

Article: "Franklin C. Avery's Impact on Fort Collins."

1890s

William Avery's death (Franklin's brother) in 1890 was thought to be gastritis, a stomach disorder. But twelve days after his death his wife, Mary, secretly married her lover, Frank Millington, in Hastings, Nebraska. William H. Avery was worth over $100,000. The lovers were acquitted on charges of feeding William enough arsenic which, according to one expert, was enough to kill 50 people. The strongest point in their defense was the fact that the prosecution could not prove that William had not administered the poison to himself, despite a chemist's testimony that 14 year old Pearl, daughter of the deadman, had purchased a box of "Rough on Bats," a substance which is one-third arsenic. Pearl denied she had ever purchased the poison, and the jury took her at her word. The lovers were acquitted.

http://history.fcgov.com/archive/Tim...useum/1890.htm

alternatively you could just go to your relatives costume shop and pick the most interesting costumes and base the story around them.

Andy.

Comedic Suspense
 

"Delivery on Elm Street"

"Some friends order pizza, but have no cash. Somebody must pay."

I think our short works best when the actors play it straight in this parody of the horror/suspense genre. The comedy comes from the ridiculous premise, and a few well delivered lines - as well as the cellphone gag.

We deliver the ending straight up. Pure comedies rarely have good endings. A suspense film is nothing without its ending.

http://colonelcrush.com/movie/index/00230001

Nice job! Very entertaining. I thought the editing and sound were very good, and I like the way you kept the story moving along, all the way to the very end. The acting was ok, but overall a nice short story. [EDIT] I also enjoyed the other shorts on your site.

Thanks for the replies so far everyone! Gives me a bit of confidence in a move toward a medium I've never shot:)

The titling at the start was done in 3DS Max 5, many years ago though. I just want to keep logos consistent so have resisted the urge to update it to a more modern look.

My short animation.
 

Hello there. My short animated film called Tentacle's Heroes is finally online over at Atom Films. Please check it out, although it's the first time I have ever made an animated film, so please don't expect it to look great LOL. You can view it here:

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/tentacles_heroes.jsp

Thanks.

> "The acting was ok."

Agreed. I think everybody had assumed that the acting needed to be over the top to push the comedy. Looking at the finished product, the acting worked best when they played it straight and within the genre. For instance, the "Jesus" line was over the top, but within the genre, so it worked well. The transition from boredom to fear was weaker, since it wasn't authentic, nor cliche - just campy.

Anyway, these were some good lessons learned.

Adventure comedy series pilot
 

Myspace and FOX have this contest for a chunk of change and a
development deal with FOX for a TV series pilot. We had to submit 5-7
minutes of our pilot to convince them we're the onces for the job.

When I saw this contest, and already had a video shot and cut to submit, I
thought "why the hell not?"

We went and did some pickup shots a year after the initial shoot,
recut what we had, tightened it up, got a score done, and came out
with what I feel is a pretty nice little package!

So please please PLEASE go to the link below and VOTE "Thumbs up" on
my video if you don't want your whole family blown up in a boating
"accident".

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=21661723

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ACTUALLY VOTE, AND NOT JUST WATCH, IF YOU CAN!

Thanks!
Nick Harris

PS: I apologize for threatening your families, I feel kinda bad about that. I suppose I could have asked you to vote for my video without threatening a high octane speed boat chase somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, which climaxes with two boats colliding mid air at speeds of no less than 85 mph (i don't know nautical terms for speed, but I'm pretty sure that's like 10,000 knots), and raining down stolen Vatican gold bars once headed for the black market, but now the bottom of the ocean. I apologize for that. It was wrong of
me.

Pretty funny. I liked it!

i thought it was really funny, entertaining and works perfectly, i especially like the lip synchin. What program did you use?

Okay, there were a few parts that still bugged me, and I ended up going through the whole thing looking for places to cut. Managed to lose another 2.5 minutes. New vox on the end song, too.

http://www.joshbass.com/alarmclock.wmv

wow, that was just knockout!
great video & sound work :)

Thanks for the comments.

I used Flash MX to animate it. Then imported the individual animated parts into Premiere Pro 2 and edited it. I don't have a sound studio so we recorded the voices by making a tent out of a duvet and recording the lines under it LOL. It kind of worked okay.

Anyway, thanks for watching :)

Looking for a Fireplace clip.....
 

Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not.......

I am trying to find a HQ video clip of a fireplace. I want to turn my 42" LCD TV into a Fireplace :) By burning the video on DVD and playing it I might get what I am after. Anyone know where I can get a clip like this?

Google fireplace video .. I got lots of links to DVDs, clips, all that stuff, some in HD

Yep, I did that... Just wanted to see if anyone here on DVinfo had one. Try keep it local ;)

Airbus 380 landing with Sony a1u
 

Hello
This is a video of the Airbus 380 landing in Montreal
Filmed with Sony A1u, wide angle 0737y, but no foam mic.
Edit on Final cut 5

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_SMNjz4N4

In the 80s a TV station in Montreal, used to have a fireplace on screen
when it was off the air.

<yawn>
u need to check your exposure. Things were pretty dark

Too much zooming, arbitrary pull-outs. Especially at the critical moment that the plane flew over, the camera pulls out wide for no apparent reason. Shaky handheld also. Editing could be a lot tighter as well. No reason to keep the location audio (which is primarily wind noise) in there all the time, just pull it down whenever there's nothing else on the track.

My first short "Chasing Ghosts"
 

I shot my first short film a few months ago. PLEASE PLEASE give me some constructive criticism! I used a Canon XL2 on this project. As for lighting; I used natural light and a home built lighting system using florescent bulbs. The only thing that REALLY REALLY bothers me about this short is the slight venetian blind effect I got on the shots where there's allot of movement... next time I will be sure to clean the heads BEFORE filming! Anyway, please let me know your thoughts on composition, editing, lighting, plot.... and anything else I'm leaving out! All shooting, editing, scoring, and ADR work for this short was complete in two days.

Production time: 7 hours / Post Production time: 12 hours

"Chasing Ghosts"
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fusea...deoid=16218204

Thank you for the lessons.
 

You are saying what I knew, but I did not think you would see.
the shakee is mostly because the camera is held with my arms extend
over my head because of the fence. overexposure because I was scared of being overexposure so I underexpose to much.

Justin,

Your link didn't work. I think it got abbreviated.

This should work: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...deoid=16218204

That "venetian blind effect" that bothers you is your video interlacing. Somehow your odd and even lines probably got switched somewhere in the render. I don't know what you edit it with, but you could probably go back and change that. Or just deinterlace the whole thing. Especially if it's just going to be for online distribution.

My constructive criticism would just say that you could probably tighten up parts of the edit a bit. It felt like I had to wait a little too long to get the reaction from the other person during the dialogue scenes.

Other than that, I'd say you were pretty successful at producing a "cheesy black and white horror film!"

Hmm, it looks eye-level to me. Perhaps if you had positioned yourself next to the fence, you might have had an easier time shooting the craft landing?

You set yourself up a little bit, Martin, by labeling your video "the definitive clip". This would imply that it beats out all others, including those done presumably by the local/national media who were there, so the level of expectation is high.

There are a few rules-of-thumb when shooting events, such as avoiding zooming and then zooming back out again unless new information is added by doing so. Even if you had this on tape, you can simply eliminate the repetitious part of the shot when you edit.

Outside of the actual landing, if you do choose to build up the piece with other footage, it should tell some sort of story. I'm not sure what shots of the cars driving along the highway contributes to that, but I might have liked to have seen some of the excitement and interest in the bystander's faces.

Kitesurf video BATMAN CHORNICLES
 

hello this is my last work - demo movie for Filip"Batman"Dymkowski - Polish kitesurfer.
Most of shots made on canon xm2, some shots wich I got from raider are from some shity handycam (prassonisi shots).

Edited in FCP and After Effects
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http://www.dzida.com/videlo/BATMAN_CHRONICLES_07.mov enjoy!!!

my web site www.dzida.com You can find on it more kite and windsurfing stuff from polish sea

best regards
Lukas Balinski

I absolutely agree! I bet if I trimmed the clips a bit, that would solve the dialogue problem! I'll def have to try to deinterlace the footage! That’s good news! lol I thought my footage was ruined. Anyone else have any constructive criticism to offer? ....... Feel free to tell me about the parts you liked too!!

Re-Cut of my DV Challenge Entry - "I'm Sorry"
 

This is the extended cut of my winning entry for the DVC10.

Added a couple of scenes, better look and effects.

Camera: Sony VX2100
Mic: RODE Video Mic (not the best for the job but its all I had) Actually got a new RODE NT3 with my winnings and I'm loving it oh so much!
Editing done with Sony Vegas, After Effects w/Magic Bullet

I'd love some feedback of course. What ya liked, and what to add?

http://www.706studios.com/media.html

Congrats and good job on your first short!

As far as constructive criticism, it seemed like there were some issues with dialogue sync in the room when he's tied.... could be myspace tho. I agree too that some of the dialogue could be tighter as far as the cuts, but all in all, great job for your first short film!

C

Justin i really enjoyed it, its an unusual film and the mix of the private dick feel and the supernatural feel is interesting. There was something about the guy in the chair when he spoke he remided me of the character from twelve monkeys, you know the voice in bruce willis's head.

Good Job, Rodriguez would be proud.

Andy.

I love that movie lol! The guy in the chair is one of my main partners! I'm going tell him about the Twelve Monkeys comment.. He'll get a kick out of that! I'm glad you enjoyed the film Andy!

Justin

A couple of Music Videos
 

I've been on DVInfo.net for a while and thought it was time to share some of the music videos I've been producing and editing. Both videos were directed by Rajneel Singh.

The following two music videos were both shot on the Varicam, and the DVCProHD files were edited on Final Cut Pro on an 2ghz Intel Imac (although the second one, My Favourite Thought, had substantial rotoscoping and some effects work done on it, primarily on an 8 Core Mac Pro, and was also graded in Color on the Mac Pro. Comparatively the first music video, Bitter was graded using GNattress plugins.)

Just going to link to the respective Youtube videos for now, please forgive the encoding on the second one, it's a little dark.

Bitter - Slipping Tongue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33eOsQJCds

My Favourite Thought - Donald Reid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WWHxTbycKQ

our ideas so far are......
a bunch of kids go camping for a week, something goes wrong, they get lost, someone goes crazy, monster thing is trying to kill them (we have a high lift for a car and we can get vw beetle sized boulders to roll down hills and knock over trees, it looks like jurassic park, from far away, you can see tree tops falling and shaking. and dont worry, 90% of the trees are dead, thats how they fall down)
or we have some objective, like trying to get somewhere/something.
. or we just try and do a movie based in the 1200's or something in Europe, though that usually means lots of people. but we were thinking the setting could be like in the begining of braveheart or something, like a small village. so we only need like 10 people. though we cant think of a story to go along with the setting. we could also do something based in early America.

The boulder thing sounds pretty dangerous not to mention illegal.....whos land is it you do this on and are they happy about it?

Btw funny you should mention braveheart cause I live in that little village at the start of the movie, its called Lanark, i was born there 300 yards from where william wallaces house stood.

Andy.

They both were pretty awesome! But, My Favorite Thought is def the better in my opinion. I loved the elevator! It was like, "I wonder what's in the elevator this time"! The stairs were a little repetitive and dark, but I thought the concept was pretty original.