The Accident

[disjecta]

So, while I was waiting for some ducklings to arrive...

http://www.pinelakefilms.com/accident.html

:shocked:

[dvpixl]

well done again. that was really...artsy fartsy stuff!

[DJQuikFingaz]

Where do you get all your music from disjecta? Specifically your opening sequence. It's awsome!

[Neil Rowe]

good stuffs. :) is that your plane? i fly RC and it made me cringe watching it hit the water like that. ... albeit it being a sea plane.

[Chris Messineo]

Great stuff as always.

A question though, this seemed interlaced, why didn't you shoot at 24 FPS?

Chris

[disjecta]

Neil, actually one of your films inspired this. One of my neighbors has a RC plane that he flies over the lake. I was out with the camera the other day and just took a couple of shots of it and I said to myself "Hey...."

A film was born with chewing gum and wire.

Chris, it's not interlaced, it's just the encoding for the Web version....I'm going to fix that today. Everything I shoot is 24PA (except the shot where my son hits the baseball in slow motion, that was shot at 60i, 120 shutter, deinterlaced and slowed to 40% on a 24p timeline).

Anyway, thanks for the comments. It seems a little silly to me so I'm surprised you guys actually like it. It is intended to be a parody of those artsy fartsy kind of student movies (don't mean to insult anyone on the board) :cheesy:

Hey, maybe if you watch it, you'll get a phone call that says you have a week to live :thumbsup:

[HorseFilms]

Hey, maybe if you watch it, you'll get a phone call that says you have a week to live :thumbsup:

:grin: Good stuff, man.

[yucateco]

the best of the best, you always surprise to me, all the days I enter to see if there is a new work, simply perfect, all the shots

[Young-H._Lee]

very professional look and an almost mystery suspense tone to it - reminded me of Mystic River for some reason!

glad to see pro looking feel films out of the dvx again!

[J.R. Hudson]

I loved it and I especially love seeing you do Narrative Work. Seriously, your imagery is super sharp and the colors are wonderful. Good job and kind of surreal and spooky.

[thisiswells]

Well done.

[XCheck]

It seems a little silly to me so I'm surprised you guys actually like it. It is intended to be a parody of those artsy fartsy kind of student movies (don't mean to insult anyone on the board) :cheesy:Are you kidding? That was awesome! I mean, pack a story into a film less than two minutes in duration... that's something! And of course, with the beautiful cinematography we've come to expect from you.

I think I'll come to one of them workshops you and others were talking about. Keep it up, disjecta!

[HansK]

Ha! OK that was a fun little diversion from work. Thanks!

[Erik Olson]

My buddy Jon did a "thesis" film at NYU where a man walks onto an otherwise empty stage occupied only by a table piled with various cuts of beef.

In the same shot, he grabs a handful and thrusts them over his head screaming the word "meat" repeatedly into the air until it fades to black. The professor was not impressed, but it makes a funny conversation piece when he shows it at parties. I suppose his professor didn't have a sense of humor left after seeing too many "serious" student films.

Anyway, I love your work - even when you're just screwing around.

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[hillcity]

Dude! Oh My God!!! You killed Kenn---er...Tara!

Very eerie, but gorgeous.

[avatuar]

Cool stuff steven, glad to see you start putting more people in your films! Beautiful CC, I'd love to see how to keep your blacks all the way through compression.

[disjecta]

I just uploaded a replacement file, sans interlace artifacts...

Thanks for all the kind comments. I'm thinking of putting a bunch of films that are really short like this together. It's a good exercise and keeps me shooting and producing films in between nature stuff. Not to mention a lot of fun.

[RomanJaquez]

Beatiful pictures. Please, share this; how can I achieve a similar vignette effect using FCP? I have also seen others where is out of focus. This is my "$$$" million dollar question of the year.
I love you work and always inspiring me to get up and shoot, shoot, shoot,....

[RomanJaquez]

Beatiful pictures. Please, share this; how can I achieve a similar vignette effect using FCP? I have also seen others where is out of focus. This is my "$$$" million dollar question of the year.
I love you work and always inspiring me to get up and shoot, shoot, shoot,....

[imgentertainment@mac]

Very nice work. Love the colors and the shot with the plane hitting the water is cool

[Final Design Studios]

Good stuff. I love your visual sense and framing. Again its always fun to look at your stuff.

[RONIN FILMER]

the shot of feet running. how did you get that cool film flicker? what program did you use?

[Larry Rutledge]

Once again I am impressed...the master has once again raised the bar.

Looking forward to the next disjecta installment. Keep up the great work! :thumbsup:

[avatuar]

Hey Disjecta,

Do you export from Premier in Quicktime .mov format? Do you oversaturate colors and crush your blacks a bit to keep them from fading like mine? Just curious!

[NO CA$H]

You would probably be good at making horror films disjecta. That had a very eerie feel to it.
I really liked that text in the beginning too. Nice work. :thumbsup:

[disjecta]

Hey guys, thanks again.

The vignette effect and the flicker effect were both done in Premiere Pro 1.5 using Magic Bullet for Editors but you can simulate the vignette in Photoshop and the flicker in After Effects and other programs. It's just quicker in MB.

I replaced a scene and added another for better effect btw...anyway, that's it for now.

I'm using Sorenson Squeeze to encode it for the Web...it seems to do a really good job in general which is why it's the only program I will use. I never encode Web stuff directly from my NLE, no matter which one I'm using.

:cheesy:

[Pais]

Okay, so I read your blurb about the short being a sort of "artsy-fartsy" parody before I saw it, so I didn't find it too spooky. But the compositions were beautiful ... that's no surprise, considering the other stuff you've posted here. :)

[eclaire]

Much different subject matter and mood than what I've seen from you before but every bit as well composed and shot. Your "eye" is truly that of an artist.

[robeditor2003]

dame good job again

[235 Studios]

As usual - great work. I espicially liked the slow motion. :)

[hvpz]

Great work.

The work on the sound is just perfect.

I'm intrigued by the opening shot : the very fast motion of the white blurred animal (swan ?)

[eqwalker]

Steven,

What shots were done with the 1.6x, or were all done with it?

[disjecta]

Great work.

The work on the sound is just perfect.

I'm intrigued by the opening shot : the very fast motion of the white blurred animal (swan ?)

Actually, that's the plane skiing along the lake :grin:

The ECU and Medium shots of my daughter were done with the teleconverter.

[Lalo]

You´re realy good, inspiring...

[alumna]

Just as you're thinking ... how can disjecta possibly top his last film?! ... the stardust sprinkles and you take the magic to a whole new level.

Everywhere we go
You're always on our mind
In our heart
In our soul
You're the meaning in our DVX life
YOU'RE THE INSPIRATION!!

You are ... You are!

[aedude01]

Awesome short! Quick question. Did you shoot with the DVX100 or 100A?

Thanks!

[disjecta]

100A but I could have shot it with a 100...nothing unique to the "A" in this one.

I'm still surprised by all the positive comments...wasn't expecting that.

Thanks again!

[jasonstogz]

Are you using a mini 35 adapter? Otherwise, I wouldn't know how you got such great DOF with the closeup of the little girl. Amazing image quality!

[disjecta]

No min-35. I used the 1.6x teleconverter from Century Optics. Moved the camera way back, zoomed in full and made sure the iris was wide open. It's a great filmic effect.

See this thread for a high quality still of that shot (scroll down towards the end of the page):

http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=26800&page=2&pp=10

[Kirk Gillock]

Finally stopped uploading so now I can do some downloading. First on the list, The Accident.

The Pinelake logo always makes me smile because I know goodness will soon follow. Much like the "Lucas Film" logo brings joy to geeks and nerds around the world. Does anyone else get that feeling?

Great stuff Disjecta!
pk

[Elvis]

Very good. I was impressed with with the running shot. Any special equipment or just a steady hand?
Thanks,Elvis

[disjecta]

Thanks so much PK :)

Elvis, no special equipment, I just set the shutter to 24 to get some additional blurring which is what I was after but other than that, it was just running handheld.

[THX1138]

Disjecta,

Beautiful, as always.

Curious, what aspect ratio is that? Are you further cropping in your NLE? I assume so.
Also, did you do the time-lapse shot (which I loved) using the camera's time-lapse settings or did you just roll tape and juice up the tempo in post?

[jpbankesmercer]

Superb...

[amber]

hi disjecta, the shots and color saturation are beautiful. but as my biggest fear with my project is that it will come out looking 'inconsistent', i was very 'inconsistent' sensitive while watching your short and to me 'the accident' is, though is it meant to be that way? funnily enough, the shots of your son are the most so, and they were done in 60 apparently? overall like i said the shots are lovely on their own, but if you were to make them more consistent and say do it over again, how would you achieve consistancy (?) ,,, does anyone agree with me here? or am i seeing things?

[disjecta]

No, you are right. I put this whole thing together in a couple of hours. The sun was out then there were grey skies, etc. so it made the whole thing really inconsistent. It was meant as a parody to the artsy fartsy thing....nothing more, nothing less...

[amber]

hi disjecta, well you're in seattle, and i'm in portland, so we have similar weather patterns,
i should have known from your awesome (and consistent) location pieces that you have
no problem keeping things looking consistent.

(duh)

[Rich Lee]

cool! very nice man. great images! the only thing i didnt like was the title look/animation. it felt a little cheesy. if it were more subtle and not so in your face big, it might set the tone for the rest of it better (maybe it also doenst help that the titles seem to run just as long as the short). the first thing i thought of as the titles came up was a movie of the week or some late night cinemax movie...but the images that come after are so far from that. i played it again, skipping the titles and going straight to the first shot of the plane and it all felt much more effective. i guess what im saying is your titles dont do your short justice.

anyway, its great thoughman. good work!

[disjecta]

I totally appreciate the input but it's a parody guys, the title was also done with that in mind... maybe I should take the parody out of it seeing as so many people liked it . :laugh:

Seriously though, thanks for the input.

[Rich Lee]

it doesnt feel like a parody to me.

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parody

par·o·dy
n. pl. par·o·dies

Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
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nope...doesnt feel like one of those at all...give up the parody thing and run with it will ya! :beer:

its cool man! :thumbsup:

[disjecta]

Fine! :)

[araujofh]

Steve,

As always, nice job. Man, I love your work, and with this one you have amazed me.
When are you planning in making another narrative movie?

All the best

Fidel.

[disjecta]

Okay Rich, I removed the cheesy title to see how it felt and it definitely feels better....thanks for the input :)

File without cheese now online.

[darkstyle8]

awesome, some of that stuff reminded me of the ring. I can only imagine what this would look like on the big screen.

[Mino]

Awsome work...but I'll never answer the phone again!