Let the seasons begin, it rolls right on
I’m on spring break.
That’s probably the first thing you should know, because I’ve decided that my state of mind is first and foremost guided by that fact this week.
:D
I’ve waited for a little while to post this but I finally got my stickers together so here is the 48 hour film fest entry I wrote about last month.
You can also see it in HD here.
It’s called His Name Was… and while the plot is a little hard to catch the cinematography is something we were all very proud of. This entry made the top 20 showing and won an award for best story. We really do think we deserved recognition for the look of the video but beggars can’t be choosers.
As I mentioned I’m on holiday. I’m not really going anywhere or doing anything special but I am complaining more and working less… so that’s a start. There are some things I have to get done this break and I am working hard on them, but every second I’m not outside in the sun or at the bottom of a pool is sorta wasted.
Things are starting to roll a little bit on my next project. I wrote a short last year called Hit and Run and I’ve made it my goal to get it shot before July. A friend has a short that will probably be our little group’s next production but I am getting pre-production into full swing to make sure my vision can come to life. The script is short, pretty simple to shoot and I have yet to talk to someone who doesn’t like the twist at the end. Look for more on this in the coming months, I’m so excited about it that I’m sure you’ll all be sick of hearing about it.
Last week for my final in an editing class we were expected to shoot some footage on wednesday and have something decent by thursday. That doesn’t sound very exciting but it was an exercise to familiarize us with our two high end HD cameras, the Sony F-900 and the Panasonic VariCam. I chose to shoot with the 900, and I can not even begin tell you the size of the nerd chub I got by walking around with it on my shoulder. The following is a little fake movie trailer that we shot and I edited. It’s nothing amazing but do look at the quality of the footage… it’s incredible. I did some color correction but when you consider that we weren’t allowed to use any lights, the footage is remarkably colorful and sharp.
Also available in HD.
So yeah, that’s what you get when you lend a group of film students a $100,000 camera… and I sometimes wonder where all that tuition goes.
We were in a group of about 10 people so we all had the same footage but made separate cuts. Mine is serious and sleek, Marco’s is funny and has a nice soundtrack, while Randy went for a “straight to DVD” sort of approach.
Check em out. FYI the visuals are all safe but the audio is NSFW.
I’ll try and post from my phone this week… but then again I’ve lied about that before,
David
