Experimental Video - Shot with DVX

[petey]

Hey guys,

Here's a video I recently completed for school. It features shots from the Zoo, Botanical Gardens and the City (Melbourne, Australia)

Some of the footage is heavily processed, plenty of compositing, and film filters have been applied to a lot of the footage. The video doesnt have any real meaning, its just to look cool and maybe provoke thought for the individual. Anyways please take a look and give some feedback.

http://truerideproductions.tecs.ca/petey/xtract.mov

I'm not too sure about the server, sometimes its a bit etchy, but usually u can get a solid 50-60k

Thanks

Pete

P.S. you can check out some more of my stuff here...
http://truerideproductions.tecs.ca/petey/

[dvpixl]

hm. i like that mix of animation. what was it done with?
i like it. good work. not that you need my approval.

[MDfilms]

I'd like to see the work but your server is just TOO slow.

[MrBeaker]

Very creative work. ;D *It did take a little bit to download but worth it. * did you use Trapcode for some of the animation?

Thanks for posting. ;D

[araujofh]

That is a cool video with nice compositing.
I liked the animation too.

All the best

Fidel.

[Kristofer]

Liked it alot! Motiontracking rules!

//Kris

[Jourabchi]

The air balloons were nice, and the djshadow track brought back some memories...haha
nice work

[petey]

Thanks guys,

Yeh i did it mainly in after effects, brought some stuff over from photoshop and flash, and yeh i played around with a lot of motion tracking in the video.

Also dj shadow is sick :P i love his stuff

p.s. sorry about slow server im too poor :-/

[raneparish]

Nice job! The music worked well with it. I share the sentiment of the film. Haven't been to a zoo in years.

-rane

[watson]

link is not working for me.

[robbyracer]

Very cool! I love the way the letters get erased off the signs and are replaced. The spider is great!
Cheers

[Chuck]

petey, if you want me to throw your video on my server just let me know, great stuff.

[alumna]

very nice work! i enjoyed watching the little "aliens" scene.

you used ae plug-ins? could you tell me a little more about those plug-ins and which ones you have found to be the best? also, do you have any further recommendations about other filters/plug-ins/effects for for fcp or ae? you certainly have a good understanding of these effects! :D

[Unix]

that video was off tha hook!!!!

very nice was that flash, AE

how do u create alpha channels on flash or is it in AE?

great job

[petey]

Yeh with flash i've been doing some experiementation and stuff, i really wanted to be able to export movieclips. I had a look on the net and found this program ADShareit Flash converter. Its pretty good, gives you complete control over your movie and all however I havent been able to take advantage of the alpha channel function, it never works :S So in the end i just keyed out the background in after effects, but i really wanna figure out how to get the alpha channel function working.

As for the effects I used. In AE i used a heap of motion tracking, ive only recently began experimenting with it, and its very coooool. Ive also applied a film filter to like all of the footage, im pretty obsessed with it at the moment. It was cine-look 16mm tung 7460 (or something similar)

Ive also used trapcode's 3d stroke a lot in the video, u can always do cool stuff with that.

And the rest was mainly just manipulating things as 3d objects, masking and basic keyframing.

[Solaam]

Good ish petey. ;D

How did you do the moving timelapse stuff? Did you do a basic timelapse, then bring that footage in AE using a shake effect, scaliing, and radial zoom?

And why do you use Flash rather than Illustrator, Photoshop, masking and displacement maps?

Peace

[cur-sed_neil]

holy sheet! this movie changed my life! seriously! great work! grr... puts me to shame...
...must... kill.... ;D

[EVO]

Yo Petey,
Gotta Say Good stuff man. I really enjoyed somebody expermenting with the goods that they are given. In terms of constructive criticism i thought the beginning of the movie was very intense and mysterious and as it veered to the animals it looked like lack of thought and time put into the end of the project. I would re evaluate the purpose of the movie to you and if you watch it and feel content that is awesome, but watching the first half of the movie I felt amazed, but once the little alien bugs on the leaf took place I lost interest and knew how you did everything from there on. The beginning was interesting and uninterpretable. Good job overall. Keep up the good work, we're here to watch!
Peace,
Brian

COMING SOON
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[Kirk Gillock]

I second that motion. The first half was really experimental, like an interpretive dance. (Nobody understands it, but it sure is pretty to look at.) The second half felt more like a "Save the Animals" PSA. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :-) *Overall some great stuff to watch. Keep up the good work.

P.S. How did you get the fast motion effects (going thru the streets, people rushing by, etc.) ? Thanks!

[Dabong]

I connected the "two parts" by using the word freedom...

The first part seems to say a lot about how Man can delve into these various forms of experiencing and expressing freedom. How Man has developed technologies of daily living in making sure that "Freedom" is available. The sky, baloons, the blending of hues and images...are powerful icons that speak a lot about this "freedom".

However, the question of "how we manage that freedom" lingers well within the borders of one's senses as you try to closely identify the details of the film. Often, the music/audio seems to be taking you to another dimension and time, even the animation and text are wonderfully playing with that 'freedom' in their own unpredictability. And I guess, by the reaction of those who have posted on this string, the question of "How did you do that?" points more toward the "freedom" that the filmmaker has found and has so masterfully applied.

The second part seems to turn that freedom around... and gives you captivity. The "in your face" statements that the animals seem to say, provoke one's definition of the word cruelty. An issue that man seems to have real difficulty with, either as a captor or a prisoner... man was never good at either.

Thank you for a very rich and provocative film.