My first action movie on the HVX - Trailer

Hey, let me make another comment about this--

The camera work makes it look like film. I think someone posted that it looks like video, but that's only at the very end where interlacing looks heavy.

It really does look "film-like", and I think that's because whomever was operating the camera actually uses it decently. Not like I'd really know, that's just what I seem to get from it.

I want to see the 8-minute version.
 
good stuff!!!! Maybe the action could have been covered a bit differently, but to be honest i find it refreshing to not have to punk out using a machine gun effect with the cutting of shots. To me it's an overused way of not having to really think shots and motion through. You've pulled together some shots that make it feel very cinematic and that may be more due to what seem like very dileberate camera moves.

Can't wait to see more.

And yeah that back flip was amazing.
 
SNAP! That was sweet! Great stuff...looking forward to the full film :thumbsup:

How did you get access/permission to use the roof of a skyscraper? I need one for an upcoming short, but was afraid I would have to pay out a lot for insurance.
 
Larry R said:
SNAP! That was sweet! Great stuff...looking forward to the full film :thumbsup:

How did you get access/permission to use the roof of a skyscraper? I need one for an upcoming short, but was afraid I would have to pay out a lot for insurance.
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I'm with Larry on that one -- How'd you get those shots?
 
I was totally afraid about that insurance bit too, but I thought to myself, 'what's the worst they can do? Say no?' So I just called and asked. Luckily I'm a student and they were way relaxed about it. They said, 'yeah just call us when you're ready'. So we showed up on the scheduled day and they gave us a key card and walked us up on the roof and let us go for an hour and a half. Totally amazing people and an amazing experience. I guess you never know what you're going to get until you ask.
 
That's pretty encouraging (especially since I need to do this myself). How did you approach it, did you just say "Hi I'm a student filmmaker and want to film on your roof?"

Thanks again,
Larry
 
Larry R said:
That's pretty encouraging (especially since I need to do this myself). How did you approach it, did you just say "Hi I'm a student filmmaker and want to film on your roof?"

Thanks again,
Larry
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Looks like I just became a student filmmaker. :cheesy:
 
Yeah, I told them the university that I was from and that I was shooting my senior capstone project and I needed to shoot from a high vantage point overlooking the city, and that I just thought I might give them a try. I was totally prepared for them to deny me. They were the third building I had tried. But divine intervention occured and I got to shoot on a 27 story skyscraper. SIIIICK! : )
 
canasian said:
Yeah, I told them the university that I was from and that I was shooting my senior capstone project and I needed to shoot from a high vantage point overlooking the city, and that I just thought I might give them a try. I was totally prepared for them to deny me. They were the third building I had tried. But divine intervention occured and I got to shoot on a 27 story skyscraper. SIIIICK! : )
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Good job, man. Totally jealous.
 
Kholi said:
I think someone posted that it looks like video, but that's only at the very end where interlacing looks heavy.
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I think you are talking about me. I didn't say it looked like video, I just noticed it was interlaced and in a 4:3 video which tells me at some point this went down to NTSC or was shot with some variant of NTSC. The only way to get the interlaced, is shoot dv50 or 1080i. it definitely did not look like 1080i, it looked progressive or 'filmic'. It's obviously shot 24p, but it could have been dv50 24p Normal and edited in NTSC. I was impressed at how good the footage looked and would have been even more impressed if it was shot DV50 (and not HD). Just wanted to be clear that the footage looked great and definitely NOT like video.


Jeremy
 
Very very clean - and very much like film. Congratulations on a job well done!


Slightly off topic question...what compression method did you use? At only a little over six meg, that's quite impressive, with hardly any artifacts.
 
mdreuben said:
Very very clean - and very much like film. Congratulations on a job well done!


Slightly off topic question...what compression method did you use? At only a little over six meg, that's quite impressive, with hardly any artifacts.
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Funny enough, I was in a rush, so I threw the file into iMovie and I "shared" it for the web. I think the preset was "Broadband Hi"
 
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