From the shorts I watched yours was in a league of its own.
Great film

48 Hour Film VICTORY!
 

WATCH IT HERE

http://www.psynema.com/phillycrew/cl...74191e006d8e24


Canon XH A1 + Glidecam for PHiladelphia 48 Hour April 25-27


Winner
Best Directing $500.00
Audience Choice Award

Two of the people I worked with run ProjectTwenty1 http://www.projecttwenty1.com which runs over 21 days this summer, so if you want more leeway, check it out!


Team Psynema:

Gary Hanna: Dir/Camera/Editor (Me)

Derek Dressler: Writer

Stephanie Yuhas: Writer/Producer/Extra/Title Animation

Matt Conant: Gaffer/DP/Extra("pretty sure that voids the warranty")/Producer

Rosalie Kenny: Extra(Cell Phone girl)/Editor

Natalie Sandone: Lead Actress

Dale John Jacobs: Lead Actor

Jordan Oplinger: Camera/Editor/End Title FX/Photographer

Lee Rosenfeldt: Photographer/Title Animation

Keith Lyons: Actor

Dave Beroff: Extra/PA

Mike Samula: Actor (Repairman)

Tamer Tewfik: Music

Justin Freeland Sokol: Music

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Fine this time.

And I was just about to buy a new one for my home. I'll never be able to look at appliances in the same light again.

Very well done. Didn't notice the technical expertise because I was so involved in the story. That's what is meant to happen in cinema after all.

Moved to the appropriate forum.

don't believe the hype
 

Hi everyone,



I've shot recently a fake commercial for hoaxbuster.com

Since I don't own the rights for the music, I've made up a fake brand ("hoaxtracker.com") in order to avoid bugging the rights owners (EMI Virgin or something).

One of the two actors is Greg Bouchelaghem, Cage Warrior 2006 vice-champion of the world.


The short is shot with HVX200 + Redrock HD mini 35 kit + Nikon lenses (50mm for the most of it).

The video is here :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59...e-the-hype_fun

that is awesome, loved it..very well done..looks great and the music/video interaction is superb

"Shoots" trailer
 

Aloha
i wrote this screen play, bought a GL2 and shot it.
along the way i learned a lot of thing i should have know before i started.
the trailer is a minute 15 seconds, the feature 83 minutes.
would love to find a larger audience
enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By5A4I9PRTo

tito

Airstream RV Video Blog!
 

If you've ever considered owning an RV or Airstream travel trailer, you might find my blog of interest:

http://www.thelonglonghoneymoon.com/?p=1

My wife and I bought our Airstream last year, and took it over 15,000 miles around North America. I'm in the process of transferring all our films onto the website, but you'll get the idea.

Cool site, My family is about to head off from Los Angeles all the way to Ohio with our 35ft Motohome and 1988 Jeep Cherokee in tow.

I'm planing on stopping at many places on the path and make it a online series.

Did any of the businesses you went into have any problems with you filming?

i like it. i kinda wanna see the feature

EYE FOR AN EYE - Five Minute Dramatic Short
 

Check out our short film on the Doorstop Film Project at the following link: http://www.thedoorpost.com/?film=c8a...79020529689e2e

It was shot on a Canon HV20 on a budget of $27. It's quick and easy to register and vote, and a 5-star vote for our film would be greatly appreciated.

Rogelio Salinas III

Not Bad.
 

Not bad. I thought the cinematography was solid. Nice high contrast lighting. WOW! There were some editorial decisions that took me out of the story. The various insert shots (close up of hands tied, gun, picture) could have been omitted. The duration could have been shorter and the music cut out of the car flashback was abrupt when it ended.

From a writing stance, I'd avoid cliched dialog like "Please God", "You killed my family", "Don't kill me". On the story side, I did enjoy the ending which I felt was the strongest element. Although, the end Voice Over brought me out of it. With dialog, remember, less is more. Use words to tell the story if you must and make them unconventional because as stated above, we've heard all these in movies before.

Overall, the script was cliched but very well executed considering the budget and setup. I think you're talented, just bring up your writing with your technical knowledge and let them grow together.

Best Regards,
-C

Thanks Brendan !

Wedding Video and Slideshow with Canon XH-A1
 

Here are some wedding shorts I did. Tell me what you think. Shot with a Canon XH-A1 at -3db gain with VIVID RGB preset, 24f. Thanks!!!!

http://www.vimeo.com/861675

http://www.vimeo.com/856896

It was my first one and I did it for free, but since I put it up on my website I have booked a couple weddings. They said they liked my editing!

Trailer for promotional film
 

This is a short trailer for a promotional film I am making for the Montessori St Nicholas Charity. It features Tana Ramsay (wife of Gordon) who is a trained Montessori teacher.

http://www.film-it.net/client/montes...ler_v203-1.wmv

It was shot on an XL2 with a Mini35 adapter and a set of Nikon prime cine lenses.

The trailer was very hastily put together in Sony Vegas using a Cinescore music bed (which won't be used in the final piece). The full piece is to be released on 27th June. This trailer is really for the client to see the style of the piece (thankfully they are happy!) and will be put up on their website as a teaser later this week.

Comments welcomed.

Cheers.

Ian . . .

Thank you for checking out the film Chris. The close ups of the tied hands were intended to show that the captor notices the wedding ring on his captive's left hand. The film was actually longer, but it had to be cut down to 5 minutes or less to be eligible for the contest. We also shot the entire movie over a two day period for a total of 5hrs on the sets, with no time for rehearsals before the shoot. Some of the dialogue was also improvised on the set. There were a few things, of course, that I would have changed, but we were done shooting by the time I noticed them. For example, once I started editing, I did not realize the character said "Please God" as many times as he did. Overall though, I am satisfied with how the film turned out. Thanks once again for the feedback, it is really appreciated.

As has been said before the editing could be tightened up a little, you linger just a beat to long on some shots. Overall it was well done and I wish you luck.

But ... and there is always a but ... you know you gave away the rights to your film. I am almost certain that the festival can even sell your work if they so chooose. Read the terms carefully.

Nice work! I am shooting my first wedding in June, I hope it turns out as well as yours.

Nice work!!

That boxing piece was great, I watched it a few times in a row.

What is the music? It fits really well...

You did a great job with this, Jerrod. I almost didn’t watch it because I was afraid it would include sad info and bring back old memories. Thanks for keeping it happy.

Judy is an amazing woman. I co-founded a group where we did this same thing (we also tried to place dogs before they ended up in the shelters), yet I burned out after six years from all the shelter sadness and dealing with deadbeat people. Of course, I also ended up keeping four dogs, so the human occupants in my home sort of helped make the decision that rescue was not the ideal job for me.

Anyway, I appreciate you getting her mission on YouTube. I’ll start passing it around, and you’re right—she needs all the help she can get.

Critique My Interviews!
 

Hello,

Please take a look at my intervew footage ...

http://exposureroom.com/members/Tasi...f3ea1eba2b3bb/

I used quicktime h264 to compress the footage but unforutnaly it always washes out the video? So the lighitng on the tape is actually much higher contrast than what you see here. I'll try to use another codec to compress the video and upload that as well.

But give me just a general critique on the video that you see here. I know it's not perfect but at my skill level i dont know what to do to improve what i have here.

Mostly i want input on my lighting but if you have background sugjestions, framing or audio sugjestions ... let em rip!

Thanks!

I am still a newbie to video, as a casual watcher, here is what I noticed. the subject was on the right side of the screen, looking to his right. The title opens in the area the subject was facing. when the title disappeared, I felt my eyes drawn to the wrinkles in the backdrop of the left side of the screen.

I personally prefer the look where the background is much dimmer which draws less attention to it. My preference are the interviews where it is just blackness behind them. Overall though I thought they were composed and well lit on the subjects.

I know what you mean about the darker backgrounds ... i have a light with a really dark filter on it but it dosent seem to be enough? I guess i'll have to buy a dimmer for it and see how that works.

I would also love to have more depth of field and a blurry background but i'm stuck using a Z1U at this point.

Here is the video compressed with MPEG4 instead of H264 ... this version has much better saturation and contrast.

http://exposureroom.com/members/Tasi...030e4f190c9ee/

Dear Gregor,

The making of pictures link gives a "not found" error.

Outstanding. Very emotional. Worked beautifully for me.

Side note: EX1 proves a worthy film-making tool even without 35mm adaptor. Portraits were cleverly chosen against fairly uniform backgrounds which reduced the necessity of shallow DOF. In these circumstances the out of focus areas are blurred enough not to distract. "Desaturated realism" look with classic filmlike 25p motion cadence (Germany is PAL country, every film on telly is sped up to 25p).

Good luck with the festivals, I see prices waiting for you.

Thomas

PS: Very well encoded - good quality, noticed no disturbing artifacts.

Dance show
 

Hello everyone,
Please take a look at my short (6.5 min) video I made for my wife's niece - Zaneta. I used one camera ( Sony HC1), then edit in Premier Pro CS3 with Aspect HD. I tried to get a "two camera feel". Let me know what you think.
http://www.vimeo.com/974193

Sorry for the late reply,

The music is Four Tet "no more moschitoes" I cut a major part of the track out, used the Intro and Outro of the track basically.

You can change
 

You can change – Shot on the South Bank - London. This was unplanned short and my thanks go to Philip Bloom one for his cameo appearances but also allowing me to tag along this day. We had a few permission problems with security but they were resolved which then allowed limited access to shoot so both he and I took advantage. Set to the music of ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ by The Verve. Thank you also to everyone for their support on my last short If I lay here – Enjoy this one the next is in pre-production.

can be found under the films section at www.londonmarkfilms.co.uk

Subterranean iPhone Blues
 

A fun little video I made about a week ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0FlWrxLf5o


Shot on a Z1

Enjoy

Okay, the film is finished and it's available to download from the movies website: http://silentpaprika.kapsi.fi/evil

It would be fun to hear some comments and critique

Nokia
 

Whilst on Holiday my Wife got over excited with taking stills on her new nokia, so I captured most of it ,added extra footage, and made this!

Any thoughts, comments, on filming and editing appreciated.

Thank you.

http://www.derienzo-videoproductions.co.uk/nokia.wmv

Du Jiang Yan Irrigation System (HD)
 

http://www.vimeo.com/1007932

Shot July 30th, 2007.

This place is close to the epicenter of the recent 7.9 earthquake, where 900 students died when a school collapsed. This footage might serve as a archive if the structures are no longer there anymore.

Shot in 60i on a HC7, post-processed via interpolate de-interlacing to 60p then slowing it down to 48p and discarding one frame to end up at 24p.

The music is beautiful.
It's very sad to think of all those people who have just died or are struggling to survive as we speak.

It's very hard, considering I went there last summer to shoot this video. One featured video of the quake on YouTube originates from my hometown in Wuhan, China where a highrise was entirely evacuated.

a snowboard movie
 

finally i got done with it, some of you might have seen the trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BdQJCvXSfbo

you can download the movie from here: http://fff.ee/fff/Piriplatoo/


also some of my older extreme sports projects are located here: fff.ee/fff

Uk Portsmouth Film Festival 2008 Call For Entries
 

the 2008 Portsmouth Film Festival is looking for short films by film and video makers based in Hampshire, West sussex and the Isle of Wight. For the past three years we have showcased the work of local production talent as part of the Portsmouth Screen: Film and New Media Festival. For 2008, We are looking for entertaining, engaging and thought provoking films in any genre, from drama to comedy, documentary to animation.

The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2008. Films should not be longer than 15 minutes, including credits. At least one of the principle cast, or the writer, director or producer should reside or study in Hampshire, West Sussex or the Isle of Wight, or the film should have been produced in this area.

This year, the screening will be held at the famous King's Theatre, Albert Road, Southsea. The screening will take place on Sunday 31st August at 7:30pm. The selected films can also be shown as part of subsequent Portsmouth Screen events during the Portsmouth Screen Festival and other events later in the year.

Please go to the Shorts::Cut website for rules of entry and to download a submission form.

Short Film
 

I Finished a 8 minutes short film on free flying:

"Because..."
http://because.flyozone.com/

Comments and feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks

Herminio