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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlkJ4Jie84 Had a few friends that really liked Ken Block's videos, decided to poke a bit of fun at it by trying to do something really egocentric like he does, but without the budget. This really is the first time i touch anything like this, from the filming to the editing, and i kinda like it so i any pointers are welcome since i want to try again.
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I've never been good at coming up with scripts so I just steal jokes from webcomics usually. Once in a while a friend of mine will write a good scripts but in between I want to work on my editing and cinematography and directing. So I do small shorts like these. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAm0uAtJoE While I'm here does anyone know a good mic for a Canon t3i? I'm looking for a shotgun mic that doesn't have much white noise and it's proving to be a bitch to find. Palomares fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Oct 15, 2011 |
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Palomares posted:While I'm here does anyone know a good mic for a Canon t3i? Bare minimum that's gonna fit is the Rode NTG-1 or NTG-2 (both the same shotgun mic, but the NTG-2 lets your use a double-A battery instead of phantom).
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Palomares posted:I've never been good at coming up with scripts so I just steal jokes from webcomics usually. Once in a while a friend of mine will write a good scripts but in between I want to work on my editing and cinematography and directing. I'm pretty sure the t3i still has the same horrible audio boost that the t2i has, and if that's the case, just get some cheap piece of crap mic. There's no point in running a great mic into the horrible recording system that your camera has, because the people who designed it weren't concerened with good sound. It is first and foremost a stills camera, not a proper camcorder, and poor audio is it's biggest video limitation. If you still want to spend the money on a superior result, may I recommend an Oktava MK-012 (+ whichever add ons you think you will most need), and a Zoom Hn2 recorder. The Oktava is a pocket rocket for people on a budget, and will be more versatile then a Rode NTG-2. Short shotguns are very difficult to use effectively under some circumstances, such as interiors. When I go a-shooting on my 550d, I head over to a nearby camera hire joint that will give me a pair of Sony ECM lapel mics and a zoom recorder for like 25$ a day. Worth every cent. Never again will have to gently caress around with filters trying to kill the horrible gain from your t3i audio, or cut around the best take because your buddy on audio screwed up and the echo is unbearable.
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Video i made a few months ago. NSFW due to flashes of penis. http://vimeo.com/30587729
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Two very recent videos (I am not at "short film" level yet) I've made: Dateable- More of a filmed 1 stage play, its about a romantic version of the Lunchable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwtNNqazVNY Titus- A 48 Hour Film Festival Entry (which means its rough), we won for best use of theme (Historical Drama): http://youtu.be/MkdImHURfYo
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In the spirit of Halloween, here's a seven-part (each 6-8 minutes) "re-imagineering" called Nightmare City. It's my friend's project, and he re-cut/rewrote/re-dubbed this terrible 1980 Italian film called Incubo Sulla Città Contaminata. He cut out all the boring zombie parts and created a much more intriguing and, may I say, beard-filled flick. I think it's a format that would do well on Adult Swim or something similar. I'm really good friends with the dude who made it, so I'm biased, but I think it's really funny. Oh, one more important thing. It features my friend's voice, as well as the voice of Sarah Sweeney, who played one of the trainers in the Pokémon animated series. You can't not watch it now. Part 1: http://vimeo.com/31032731 Part 2: http://vimeo.com/31085609 Part 3: http://vimeo.com/31142277 Part 4: http://vimeo.com/31198633 Part 5: http://vimeo.com/31253801 Part 6: http://vimeo.com/31297936 Part 7: http://vimeo.com/31327264
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Not really a short, but here's an entry my friends and I put together for the Doritos Crash The Super Bowl contest: http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=14607
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Just wrapped up my final project for my cinematography class. The assignment was "base a short on a poem" so I went to the poetry thread and pretty much had to go with the bear one by Preoptopus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWfrCCOz3C0 Slim Pickens fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 11, 2011 |
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So here's something incredibly silly I made with my roommate a few months ago: The Tasty Mango I shot and edited it on his iPod in about an hour, all on the fly. It was kind of interesting working so quickly and with no plans, it almost felt like a lesson in storytelling (isn't that the gist of 24-hour film festivals?).
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What did you use for the pseudo-super 8 look? It looks great. Was that applied on the iPod on the fly, or was that something you added afterwards?
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I posted a thread asking for thoughts and criticisms of this short I filmed a few months ago, but haven't gotten any responses, so I thought I'd post this here: The Coming of Akbar Khan It's a western that takes place in 19th century India.
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Kolchak posted:What did you use for the pseudo-super 8 look? It looks great. Was that applied on the iPod on the fly, or was that something you added afterwards? It's an iPod app called 8mm that applies the filter as you shoot, with some Hipstamatic-like options and some in-camera effects (I used two, once when he stabs himself and the frame jumps around and once when the edges of the frame fuzz out when the mango's attacking his brain). The app has a tendency to make the video a little jerky and the iPod iMovie leaves a little to be desired but it's a pretty interesting way to make a short film. Does the story come through?
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Dynastocles posted:I posted a thread asking for thoughts and criticisms of this short I filmed a few months ago, but haven't gotten any responses, so I thought I'd post this here: Just watched it. The movie felt a bit long to me. The fight, especially, dragged on for a bit, but I think it was mostly the lack of sword skills. The two were hesitating a bit and waiting for each other to strike. Who knows, maybe they're great, but it just felt stagey to me. I would have used the surrounding environment more to support the fight and give them something other to deal with. You had some nice rocks and some water that could have been used for that. I'd also like to have seen more establishing shots of the locations, especially places that really make it seem like India. Didn't really get a sense of that. Other than that, the story worked well enough for me. Technically, there were a few things that stood out. The rack at the beginning started with a not-quite-so-in-focus leaf, and then racked really quickly to Akbar Khan. That combined with the lens's really noticeable breathing made that shot a bit jarring. Also, the closeups on John were in and out of focus at times. It would have been good to either get a separate focus puller or to close down the aperture so he doesn't go in and out of focus so much. Is the short based on a historical event? I'm not familiar with Indian history.
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Here's the newest thing I worked on: http://vimeo.com/32781464 For a video contest for oriental hospitals in Korea. One day shoot, no crew but a sound guy, no lights, with two non-actors who had to memorize lots of lines, one of whom is doing it in a second language, so I guess it turned out pretty well for what it was. Had to edit the hell out of some dialogue, though. When I got to the location, I was told that the woman playing the receptionist couldn't make it, so I had to play a character. Luckily, my charisma shines through the scruffy bastard exterior.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's an iPod app called 8mm that applies the filter as you shoot, with some Hipstamatic-like options and some in-camera effects (I used two, once when he stabs himself and the frame jumps around and once when the edges of the frame fuzz out when the mango's attacking his brain). The app has a tendency to make the video a little jerky and the iPod iMovie leaves a little to be desired but it's a pretty interesting way to make a short film. Does the story come through? Just downloaded this and it's really, really cool.
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I was just playing around with Sony Vegas. I hated Vegas initially but I'm warming up to it a little bit more as I learn to navigate around the program. I might use it for my next short. Exporting options look a bit limited though. Anyway, I just made a teaser-esque thing for fun with one of my next short's props and my iPod video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJzJH_lq5k
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This is an improvised short film I shot a few months ago and just finally got up the nerve to edit it. The narrative is mediocre to poor but I learned a lot: 1. I need to be motivated to do a project for the right reasons. I came at this from a standpoint of just wanting to get it over with, and that's really not a good enough reason to spend money and take up peoples' time. 2. I need to respect improv as a tool to be used in some situations and not as a panacea because I'm having trouble writing a script. 3. I need to spend a lot more time involved in casting and rehearsal, even if it pushes the timeline to shoot back. 4. It's too easy for me to end up doing way more than I should and not delegating things to others. http://vimeo.com/33816224
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:This is an improvised short film I shot a few months ago and just finally got up the nerve to edit it. The narrative is mediocre to poor but I learned a lot: Dialogue abruptly cuts off at the end when the credits roll. I really, really , really like this. Liked it on vimeo. Seems you lucked out with actors. They certainly weren't amateurs. A bit theatric for film, but definitely not bad at all! This is actually in the style of the next short I want to do. I see you listed the mic you used on vimeo. What camera did you use?
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Fiction D posted:Dialogue abruptly cuts off at the end when the credits roll. Yeah I kinda dropped the ball on that. quote:I really, really , really like this. Liked it on vimeo. Thank you, that actually means a lot. I'm still kind of torn about it. quote:Seems you lucked out with actors. They certainly weren't amateurs. A bit theatric for film, but definitely not bad at all! I'd worked with her on a few other projects and she's a trooper. She was sick for this shoot and in the later takes it shows, which is a shame because that's where his performances were stronger. The whole production took 2.5 hours, because she had to go to work. quote:This is actually in the style of the next short I want to do. I see you listed the mic you used on vimeo. What camera did you use? This was shot on a pair of Canon T2i's running Magic Lantern custom firmware. I had (rented) Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.4s on both, and used mostly natural light save for two 250w ARRI fresnels bounced off a wall. My original plan was to have a lot of really ambitious macro shots of the pieces moving on the Go board, but it just didn't really look right so I scrapped them except for the one near the end.
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So those are T2i's eh? Well, looks like I'll be using my old crew after all!
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Fiction D posted:So those are T2i's eh? If you roll the T2i with ML and Technicolor Cinestyle, things turn out pretty nice. Obviously, it's not the 5D Mark II but you can get a great shot even in low light.
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I'm a Scottish filmmaking student. Earlier this year I made a short time-travel romantic comedy. Honeymoon in Time, ladies and gents: Part One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKlP471wSlo Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1HZLRfuAo Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8GnUfAy7A What's a pain in the rear end is that, between writing and filming the thing, finishing it in May, and finally putting it online, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris came out. There's one sequence in my film that's frustratingly similar to a scene in that film. I'd get mad but then I remember it's Woody Allen. Then it's impossible to get angry.
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Im a second year film student in NYC and I recently shot a bunch of stuff in Mali, West Africa and put together a visual diary. Shot all of this on a Canon Powershot SX230. This little camera pulled off some nice poo poo for being a point and shot. https://vimeo.com/34445658
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Last year we entered the Sci-Fi London 48 hour film comp. Here's what we came up with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0szHX-YJjb8
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pocketcup posted:I'm a Scottish filmmaking student. Earlier this year I made a short time-travel romantic comedy. Honeymoon in Time, ladies and gents: Made it through the first one, but didn't have the fortitude to carry on. The audio changes in the first 15 seconds really pull the viewer out of your story. I'm guessing some parts were ADR? I thought the banter outside the church with the friend couple was really good, but as soon as I saw the meeting famous people gimmick, I lost interest.
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Newcott posted:Last year we entered the Sci-Fi London 48 hour film comp. Here's what we came up with: I thought the running through the woods part was very intense, and it had just the right feel to it. Excellent work. 
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Here's a trailer for a short film that I'm currently editing! Check it out and let me know what you think. It's my first trailer that I've put together. http://vimeo.com/34227179
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Marxist Glue posted:Here's a trailer for a short film that I'm currently editing! Check it out and let me know what you think. It's my first trailer that I've put together. It seemed incredibly long. I don't know who anyone is, and it shows 15 different characters in the first 30 seconds. It looks like there are also 2 flashbacks, and no one speaks until 40+ seconds in. I assume the kid with the ring is the younger version of the protagonist, but then after you show the grown protagonist, you cut back to a shot of the kid again, so that's disorienting. I think you've got some high drama moments, and those are very compelling, but you stick with them too long and they lose their edge. Then it kinda peters out at the end and becomes uninteresting. The music is fantastic, and it really imparts a sense of unease. How long is the short? Who is your audience? What do you want them to come away with after watching the trailer? Are you relying on people to read your blurb under the trailer to make sense of it?
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Here's an animated short I made last May. Working on my next one for this May right now. http://vimeo.com/25096492
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:It seemed incredibly long. I don't know who anyone is, and it shows 15 different characters in the first 30 seconds. It looks like there are also 2 flashbacks, and no one speaks until 40+ seconds in. I assume the kid with the ring is the younger version of the protagonist, but then after you show the grown protagonist, you cut back to a shot of the kid again, so that's disorienting. I think you've got some high drama moments, and those are very compelling, but you stick with them too long and they lose their edge. Then it kinda peters out at the end and becomes uninteresting. Wow, awesome. Thank you for the critique. I know that it's pretty long...I realized that. You got it right. The kid is the younger version of the protagonist. The short is about 15 minutes long, so it's pretty short. I guess I was trying to create something that piqued interest in the images and music that makes you want to see more. Were you unable to get any sense of what the story COULD be about from just the trailer (without reading)? Like I said, this was my first attempt and I'm learning at how to make a trailer well-paced and interesting. Thanks for your comments. It helps with any future trailers I will create.
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Marxist Glue posted:I guess I was trying to create something that piqued interest in the images and music that makes you want to see more. It's tough with a character drama. Without exposition to explain whats at stake for the characters, we don't know if these domestic conflicts are going to rip the family apart or if it's just another Tuesday night. You did have compelling imagery (the dancers, the old man chasing the woman around the house, the stage director) and the music takes it up a notch. I think the mellow scenes interspersed didn't help you though. The guy smoking the pipe and eating pizza was kinda...odd. quote:Were you unable to get any sense of what the story COULD be about from just the trailer (without reading)? I don't think I would have gotten the connection that the young kid is a flashback and not just a younger brother or something. quote:Like I said, this was my first attempt and I'm learning at how to make a trailer well-paced and interesting. Thanks for your comments. It helps with any future trailers I will create. It had a lot of things going for it and it's an awesome first showing in my opinion.
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Awesome. Once again, thanks for your critique. The only way to learn is to just do and then get feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to watch it and give me feedback!
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I've made twelve films for the festival circuit, of varying lengths, genres and levels of quality… here are the more recent ones. "James K. Polk Was @#?!ing Awesome", comedy, 2009 http://vimeo.com/9524159 An astonishingly profane tribute to our nation's greatest President. A few awards from festivals, surprisingly. Sometimes dumb jokes work! "Ronan and Alyssa are about to break up.", romance, 2010 http://vimeo.com/14939360 Exactly what it sounds like. Shot entirely on the Brooklyn Bridge. Some nice festival play, may be on the New York PBS station later this year. "Shayna Keeps It Simple", romantic comedy, 2011 http://vimeo.com/30736319 A sweet story, shot on the Arri Alexa on a rooftop in New York. Out to fests as we speak, we should hear back from the first batch real soon…
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A short I worked on for the National Film Challenge won "best use of the superhero genre." http://staysharpmedia.com/super-normal/ we weren't actually a finalist, but you can watch those 15 shorts here: http://filmchallenge.org/
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Shaking off the cob-webs and introducing a 7 minute fantasy film about witch doctors and Yams. Was a school project and had to base it on a true news story. So enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL0opdzJblo
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Friends recently finished a live-action Halo short film. I helped with some of the effects and stumble around in a Brute suit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fix1UWNZVE0
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Interesting video. I couldn't say much story or directing wise, it just seemed like a well done fan video. How long did it take to do the effects? Also was it a school project for them, or just something fun?
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I've got some stuff online, although my movie projects tend to gravitate towards full-lenght features. I do movies with a small Finnish indie crew, which I'm the director/producer of. Here's one from a year ago, VIP 3. We shot it mostly to test out our 550D and some FX techniques such as slow motion squibs. It's NWS for blood, I guess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK8QzLDT3mg&list=UUG0WEKC1Hn_9TEG6PK-5r_g&index=4&feature=plcp Also, here's a trailer for one of my feature films, the movie's actually online as well, but it has no subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geCZpofT510&feature=BFa&list=UUG0WEKC1Hn_9TEG6PK-5r_g&lf=plcp
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