Filming a ridiculous short this weekend

So, a friend of mine has enlisted my help in filming a short for her. Her company is putting on a film festival for the employees to enter, just for fun and morale. These are people who are not filmmakers, nor really anything related to movie stuff, so it's totally amateur. Anyway, her husband and my wife will be co-starring with her, and I get to be dp. Thank god, cause you should see what they have to dress up like.
I'll post stuff later, with her permission of course. But don't get any hopes up, this is going to be ultra amateur.

Haha, sounds like fun.
Depending on how the process goes, those employees might be even more depressed and furstrated once they get a taste of what its like to make a film. Wink

Just kidding. Have a good time
Jason

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It's funny you say that, cause Friday night she was showing me her story boards, and I had to be the one to tell her about shooting more than one shot per scene. She was like "what? Why can't we just shoot one shot and then move on to the next scene?"
But we shot almost everything we needed yesterday, and we plan to shoot a couple more later on, after we've started editing, so we know if we're missing anything we hadn't planned. Once I put some pics up, you'll understand how ridiculous we felt shooting this thing.

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	"what? Why can't we just shoot one shot and then move on to the next scene?"

LOL. I've had my share of hearing that.

Cant wait to see the pics.

-GageFX

Here's a pic from the short. I've been blacking out the orange tip in After Effects this morning, and adding muzzle flashes. I converted to 24p for the muzzle flash work, and shrunk it down to SD resolution, but I haven't color corrected or anything like that yet. Next time, I'll spray paint the muzzles black before I shoot, but this was a last minute addition to the already ridiculous short.

The short is finished. I'll probably upload it to youtube tonight. I should also try and make a downloadable quicktime, but I don't know if I'll be able to get that up tonight too. We'll see.

Cool. Cant wait to see it. That's why I upload to [url]Blip.tv[/url] you can upload a MOV and it will convert it to FLV for you so both are up there.

-GageFX

Here it is. The Chicken & The Egg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtDwy2EeAp8

I was gonna do a secondary CC to give it a more stylized look, but the director liked the look as it was, and she's the boss. It looks a lot better on a tv screen. I should have converted from studio rgb to computer rgb I guess. We only had one pistol, so that scene we had to split screen. All the sound effects were downloaded from sounddogs.
All in all, I'm fairly proud of what we pulled of, considering there were only 4 of us, we came up with most of the story the night before, we didn't really plan our shots more than a few minutes before we shot them. And we looked ridiculous while we did it. Got a lot of people asking us what we were doing. Oh, and my wife said she was self conscious at first about wearing a chicken mask in public, but she actually wound up feeling a lot more free to ham it up because of it. She's normally more sarcastic than goofy, so it was fun seeing her that way.

Oh, I went to bliptv and it says it's now some new site. Does that sound right?

Quite entertaining. Just two comments. #1, what is your funky vignetting coming from. I assume either a 35mm adapter or a mattebox, but it moves so that is a bit confusing. #2... were they playing "Polish rules" chess? (No offense to any actual Polocks. Is that even how you spell "Polock". And I know that it isnt really "Polock". Ease up. Feel free to make fun of the "Scotch".)

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	Oh, I went to bliptv and it says it's now some new site. Does that sound right?

Just went there, and.... no. Doesnt sound right. Everything looks normal to me.

http://blip.tv/

-GageFX

They've revamped the site but its still the same place.

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I know, I know. I told them, whoever knows how to play chess will instantly realize they aren't actually playing. I think she kinda liked that, considering they don't really know how to play basketball or anything else. It was funny trying to get them to do pushups, cause neither could do more than three at a time without collapsing for real. It's some strange phenomenon with women and pushups. Maybe it's the different center of gravity?
As for the vignetting, I honestly have no idea why it moves around. I had a couple filters on the lens, but they were screwed on tight, and I didn't have any image stabilization on, so it's a bit of a mystery why it moves around. It only appears on shots with the lens zoomed all the way out. And it gets cropped off on most televisions. But I would love to know what caused it. I used a Sony HC1, if that helps.

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	I used a Sony HC1, if that helps.

Obviously it doesn't.

Hahahahahahahaah!.....Hahahahahaha!
Laughing

I'm so funny. Rolling Eyes

Yeah. That is wierd.

As for the pushups... I just dont get it. K, my former lead, Sad

is physically amazing - an amazing dancer who can do anything; she had over a year of fight training, full contact; full, sword training (a HUGE workout. that's how Brad got so ripped for Troy); she worked with a personal trainer several days/ week, but then in her Krav Maga/Haganah classes, she could do like 5 pushups and she was through. And that was on her knees. With her personal, he could PUSH 20 man pushup sout of her, but it was a struggle.

-GageFX

I was unable to see the video put the problem you described sounds like what i get with my cheep wide angle lens. I think it's the size adapter. Don't know if you even used anything like that but i got the same thing when zoomed all the way out, but it also got cut off on tv sets.

I wasn't using a wide angle lens, but I had the lens in the camera zoomed all the way out. It's almost like it's trying to do some kind of optical image stabilazation, but I know that's not true with this cam, and I had digital stabilization turned off.
Maybe youtube was down or something.

Just thought I'd let everyone know, we won first place in both the judged competition and the popular competition! After seeing the other entries, it was obvious we were a shoe-in. Next year the competition might be stiffer. Oh well. I helped a friend win 2 free airline tickets to anywhere in the continental U.S. at least. Smile