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...