Glenn Thomas
01-31-2009, 05:44 AM
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Blood Brothers is a short film by my wife Lydia that we completed a few weeks ago. It was made for Tropfest, the most popular short film festival here in Australia. Unfortunately it didn't make it in though. I think Tropfest tend to favour comedy style happy movies, so this probably wasn't exactly their cup of tea. That said, another film I shot DID make it into the finals of Tropfest, but I'm not allowed to talk about that one of course. At least until it's been shown.
Blood Brothers was shot entirely in one day including the bluescreen shots (our downstairs living area), 3 external locations, plus the ADR dialogue recording in my little home studio here - because I didn't have a shotgun mic or anyone to do the sound on location. It was all shot on the HV20 with the SG Pro (R3) using Nikon lenses including all the bluescreen shots.
The total budget was less than $70 Australian (roughly $45 US), but about $50 of the budget was spent on lunch at the Thai restaurant up the road and snacks. The rest just paid for the toy gun, police hat and badge I got to use :) Speaking of which, both police are me. I used the deform tool in Vegas to make the one on the right look short and fat.
Pretty much the whole film was put together in Vegas 7. Including all the masking, compositing, chromakeying etc. The titles were done in a cheap Flash animation program called SwishMax and a couple of backgrounds I'd fixed up were done in Photoshop Elements 5.
The movie can be viewed at these locations -
http://exposureroom.com/members/fkurni.aspx/assets/06b9a4f548864f6fac28fe4ab29544a6/ (best quality streaming versions + original download)
http://vimeo.com/2978357 (HD streaming version is good + original download)
It's a 6 minute film, but for some reason the file size ended up really small. It still looks fine though if you want to download it. I'll eventually upload it to YouTube and a few other sites and will also upload a before and after version sometime soon.
Comments welcome.
Glenn
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Blood Brothers is a short film by my wife Lydia that we completed a few weeks ago. It was made for Tropfest, the most popular short film festival here in Australia. Unfortunately it didn't make it in though. I think Tropfest tend to favour comedy style happy movies, so this probably wasn't exactly their cup of tea. That said, another film I shot DID make it into the finals of Tropfest, but I'm not allowed to talk about that one of course. At least until it's been shown.
Blood Brothers was shot entirely in one day including the bluescreen shots (our downstairs living area), 3 external locations, plus the ADR dialogue recording in my little home studio here - because I didn't have a shotgun mic or anyone to do the sound on location. It was all shot on the HV20 with the SG Pro (R3) using Nikon lenses including all the bluescreen shots.
The total budget was less than $70 Australian (roughly $45 US), but about $50 of the budget was spent on lunch at the Thai restaurant up the road and snacks. The rest just paid for the toy gun, police hat and badge I got to use :) Speaking of which, both police are me. I used the deform tool in Vegas to make the one on the right look short and fat.
Pretty much the whole film was put together in Vegas 7. Including all the masking, compositing, chromakeying etc. The titles were done in a cheap Flash animation program called SwishMax and a couple of backgrounds I'd fixed up were done in Photoshop Elements 5.
The movie can be viewed at these locations -
http://exposureroom.com/members/fkurni.aspx/assets/06b9a4f548864f6fac28fe4ab29544a6/ (best quality streaming versions + original download)
http://vimeo.com/2978357 (HD streaming version is good + original download)
It's a 6 minute film, but for some reason the file size ended up really small. It still looks fine though if you want to download it. I'll eventually upload it to YouTube and a few other sites and will also upload a before and after version sometime soon.
Comments welcome.
Glenn
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/3231337644_245dd974f8.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/3230489095_d127920192.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/3231340680_7a40f1f0b4.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/3230492113_4562f7f754.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/3231339576_7b65743b6e.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3230489721_30941b3b06.jpg