Abandoned City Part 3
 

Monarch Factory in Plano, IL.

Shot with a HV20, Letus Mini, 60mm 2.8 Canon Lens, Merlin Steadicam, and a Crystal Vision 0.5x.

http://www.vimeo.com/922497

Thanx for looking!
Mark

Thanks Tom..I am pleased with the results I am pushing the blacks and the shadows at bit. I shot this in just under 3 hours all planned ahead by storyboard it really helps. Might make a few tweaks to the grading but otherwise not much else.
Mark

I thought it was pretty good.

I kept thinking "he's just holding that dart in his neck the whole time".
HA!

I would work on lighting and some of the effects used. The muzzle flares on the guns looked like pictures rather than effects created with a particle system. Motion may not have the same depth of control as After Effects, but you can still pull off some impressive particle effects with it.

The personal data thingy looked pretty good I thought.

Overall it was not a bad little video. Didn't care for the music, but it didn't sway my opinion of the overall production.

Earth Day Short Film
 

A student-made short film I produced for Earth Day to show at my high school. Please leave any comments and/or constructive criticism! Questions are also welcome.

Michael Rapadas

http://www.vimeo.com/927317

Cheetos Commercial - Stomach Ache
 

Commercial I made for the Orange Underground Cheetos commercial contest.

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZQ6gdynXM

Higher Quality QT version:
http://www.savingthecity.com/v...b.mp4

For iPod, iPhone or iTunes:
http://www.savingthecity.com/v...e.m4v

Shot with a Canon XL2, ProAm crane, 3pc light kit, Letus 35 adapter, Sennheiser shotgun mic and Davis and Sanford Steadystick. Edited with FCP. Color and post effects done with Magic Bullet look suite. Music composed with Garage Band. Graphics done with Motion, FCP and CS2.

Took about four minutes to write, two days to plan, three hours to shoot and another three to edit. The deadline is the 27th though, so I had to crank it out.

Enjoy and tell me what you think!

Trouble in Montreal(after hockey game)
 

Just a video from a dvinfo member.
I am not very proud of what happened, but I had to film it.
done with Sony HVR-A1u, shutter 1/30th,widw angle 0737y, edited in imovie.
I had to take out the Xlr unit so the camera look more amateur, because I saw a tv crew from TQS had there camera thrown on the street(panasonic aj-hpx2000).And the last riot in 93 the first thing people did was burn the tv truck.This year no Satellite truck but hundreds of cellular.
uploaded as 1440x1080 mpeg 4

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqwM-XtCo8&fmt=18

Merci, Martin.

Quite disgusting what "celebration" means to some Montrealers.

Rattlesnake footage
 

This is one of my hobbies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUg2qOtXSZw

Any advice on how I can achieve higher quality footage on youtube? I shot that with an Xl1s, and the raw footage looked great on a 50" widescreen TV...

What would happen if you guys lost on the next round?

They don't make telephoto lenses long enough for this kind of work, IMHO! However, this link might help you out:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage...edux_gary.html

- vic

I'm sorry to say that, even though I live here, I almost wish they would lose. If they win the Stanley Cup, it will be chaos. Better to nip it in the bud.

I guess I am a little confused. Canadians start a riot when they WIN?

Sadly, yes. I guess it's pent up anger from being so polite all the time :-)

The police claim there are organized gangs that take advantage of the post game celebration to loot and vandalize. Sounds a bit fishy to me.

Few pieces of new work.
 

Here are a few things that iv finished editing recently. Shot them both quite a while ago but only recently had enough time to get stuck in with the edit.

Firstly a Skateboard piece, shot a while ago in a warehouse in Guildford...

Shot with my friend Anthont Bristol.

Shot on the Sony Z1's with no adapter.
Post workflow was capture HDV, transcode to DVCProHD 720p25 using Mpeg Streamclip. Edited in FCP

http://www.vimeo.com/901318


Next piece is a Boxing piece, shot in a studio when i was at Uni, with Anthony again. Again shot on the Z1 with no adapter. Same Post workflow. Edited in FCP and the compositing done in FCP.

Shot various boxing bits at a fast shutter, and some on a slow shutter then sped the slow shutter up speed stuff up to somewhere between 300% and 1000% and overlayed them to create the blurs.

This is just the first cut, need some tweaking, and will add some more slow motion into the mix to break up the pacing and have used the Skarda logo at the end for the time being (production house i work for), but dont know if this will stay yet.


http://www.vimeo.com/937586

Feedback greatly appreciated.

Ah, appreciate the link. I will look in to that...

Pet Rescue film
 

I used my A1 on this project I had to do for my Advanced Video Production class. It's for a contest on this organization called The Christophers. The theme of the video is "One Person Can Make A Difference." We found this lady in Sanford who has created a giant following. Her name is Judy and she started her group "Pet Rescue by Judy" to save animals that are about to be put down in pounds and spays and neuters all of the animals.

Here is the high-def vimeo version. http://vimeo.com/929367

There is also a youtube version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mklF_GARTrc

We want as many views on the youtube account to get this video out there and get more people interested in her cause. She is one of the few decent people left in this country, and she needs all of the help she can get.

Jerrod, I moved this from the XH Sample Clips to Show Your Work because it'll get wider viewing here.

Man, that's really cool. Well done!

Nice work Ben. Better than my real estate cr@p LOL ..Wish i was young again and had all the video technolgy we have now.

Great work Jerrod. I probably would have used a tripod on those opening shots, but overall you have done a great job on the editing.

I hope your camera was on the end of a very loooong boom.

Processed Thought - Short Edit
 

Here's a little abstract edit that is one interpretation of my take on a thought that may cross your mind in the midst of the day. Let me know what you think, feel, like, dislike and so forth. I like all feedback.

http://www.vimeo.com/937483

Enjoy

Talent!
 

Ben your work is great! The B/W edits look really clean, transition smoothly and look really professional. Did you crush the blacks when shooting or in post? Anyhow keep posting your work I enjoy it a lot.

Crushed the blacks down in post, Did the final grade using the 3way color corrector in FCP, Magic Bullet, and some 8 point garbage mattes where i wanted to do selective color correcting. Added some grain to it also, using the 'add noise' filter in FCP. Cant remember the exact settings i used, but i have them in my favourites if anyone wants to know. The eureka 4.0 plugin "film grain" is another regular plugin i use for adding grain on a final grade. Dunno if anyone twigged it but its the same guy in the boxing piece, just shot him twice, once in a hoddy and once without.

48 Hour Panasonic Showdown Winner - shot on an HPX-500
 

Hey all,

Earlier in the year the 48 Hour Film Project and Panasonic invited us and four other city winners to participate in the Panasonic HD Showdown. They shipped all five teams Panny HPX500 and gave us another 48 hours to make another film start to finish. The requirements we got that weekend were:

Genre: Road Movie
Line: "Remember it's a secret"
Prop: a piece of fruit
Character: Jack Fudd, Subcontractor

My co-creator Kevin Good and I both being songwriters, we had decided ahead of time that whatever we got, we'd also make it a musical.

The resulting film, "Lizzie Strada," is here:

http://www.crisislab.com/index.php?action=view&id=6 (some adult content there, but no nudity or foul language - sorry)

We won, which is awesome. And even more so, we are getting a brand new HVX200a from Panasonic this week as our prize.

Let me know what you think.


(this version is slightly changed from what we turned in... we put on new opening and closing credits, and we tweaked a couple edits and sound issues... but the film part is 97% like what we turned in)

Awesome -- congrats Barry! Thanks for sharing this with us,

Congrats Barry. While I was with Instant Films we talked to Panasonic a few years back about partnering with them to do the same thing, glad they finally got around to making it happen with the 48-hr folks.

Chris - thanks so much.

Charles - thanks also. Whatever happened to the instant films? That seemed so fun... I always wanted to come out that way and give it a try.

Still going on, they are about to have their 25th festival in a few weeks. I left the company two years ago for various reasons.

Richmond Lock
 

Hi Eveyone...My short Richmond Lock as inspired by a piece done by Philip Bloom can be found on my website www.londonmarkfilms.co.uk under the films section or follow the link on the home page.

Shortmovie - Meerblick
 

Hi!

I'm a german student and want to show of my work.
My course has produced a shortmovie (16min.) in five weeks, 1 week recording and 1.5 editing. I've done the filming and editing together with a good friend of mine. The actors speak German, but in a few days I'll post the translated text.

Meerblick (Ocean view) - To have a last look at the ocean!


Malte as a young self-confident boy, has high marks at school and withstands every problem.
Really everything?
He is confronted with death at the age of 17:
Malte's mother is going to die.
He cares after his mother in every single minute and anticipates Nele's every wish. Just as her last dream, to have a last look at the ocean.
The love towards his mother lets Malte move heaven and earth...


Filmed on my Sony PMW-EX1 in 1080p25 with 1/50s, without a filmadapter, just the stock-lens. Audio was gathered through a Sennheiser Me66 and a Sennheiser wireless system.
Many shots used a steadycam and sometimes a dolly.
At end of day shooting, the two 8GB SxS cards were downloaded onto my MacBookPro.
Editing and audio mixing happend on Final Cut Pro 6.0.2. The general look was given inside the camera and for final colorgrading I used Apple Color.

Video
FULL HD 1080p:
http://pingu2k.ath.cx/Meerblick%201080p.wmv

small HD 720p:
http://pingu2k.ath.cx/Meerblick%20720p.wmv

regular PAL for slow computers:
http://pingu2k.ath.cx/Meerblick%20pal.wmv

pico for tiny downloadratio:
http://pingu2k.ath.cx/Meerblick%20small.wmv


Making-Of Pictures:
http://pingu2k.ath.cx/gallery2/f/Kur...0Cross%20Media

I'm interested in comments technically and regarding content.

Happy viewing
Gregor

The Bastard Bear
 

here's a weird one guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWP1hGORis

shot on HVX in 480p. Audio is double system on the 702T at 24bit/48khz.

Edited and mixed in vegas.

new swedish rap video
 

I shot this music video for a swedish rapper with a Canon XM2 and edited with Premiere Pro CS3 and color grading done with Color Finesse 2. Hope to hear your thoughts, thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDsnlx-I52U&ftm=18

2008 VideoReel
 

Just finished my 2008 VideoReel. Sort of a combination of everything over the last year or so before I start work on a full-time project called Vermillion. Finalised some new colours, got the grain I am after. I also had a hand at Twixtor, and used it for a shot at 0:42. Seemed to turn out quite well, with a few noticable pieces of people or bike missing if you look closely:)

http://www.savatarclan.net/ollie_smi...eoreel2008.jpg
2008 VideoReel, 64.9MB 1:00, 800x450 H.264

Hope you enjoy!:)

Feature - FINALLY - released on DVD
 

Hi All -
Long story short after years of dealing with an inept distributor - an award winning feature I made several years ago is - at long last - available on DVD.

read the story - I'm sure many of you can relate!

Check out the site. If you want to pick up a copy - thanks - if not feel free to pass the url on to friends, enemies, lovers, haters and various message boards.

http://www.ratbastardmovie.com



thanks
Mike

UPDATE: Why is my video doing this?
 

The camera seems to be working fine now, although it does jitter when panning after I capture the footage to my computer, but when I burn a DVD it looks smooth on the TV now. I am thinking that is due to my computer even though I have a Hyper Threading Pentium 4 / 3.4GHz with 3.25GB of RAM and 70% of my application hard drive space available as I keep all my data on external drives.

Here are the service details from Canon:
"It was found that the internal component was dusty. The playback image was distorted from time to time. The internal component was replaced. Other electrical adjustments, inspections, and cleaning, mechanical adjustments and parts replacements were carried out."

The cost was: $271.53. (all labor even though they said they replaced a part) Who knows...

Here is the original thread:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=118999

Oh ya, Canon was very quick getting this done.

Also, I have only done 1 test with the camera so if anything changes I will update you all. Thanks again for your help.

Whooah! That was cool. Love the story, editing, pacing, etc. Great job.

Nice
 

Hey Oliver,

I like the overall look and feeling of your reel. You have some great shots. I also like the film flare effects. What camera did you shoot this with?

Also, the logo at the end was done really well! I kind of wanted the background to fade out as the logo stayed on screen, but that's just my 2 cents.

Check out my Demo Reel, thanks.

John

Congrats Barry!

The 48-hour judging can be fickle. Glad to see they picked a deserving winner!