CONTAGION: The Curse of Prosperity

vislaw said:
With respect to green/blue screen work, there is no comparison between the results you can get with the DVX and the HVX. This is not a criticism of the DVX, which is a wonderful piece of technology but, instead, is a limitation of the DV format. One of the better summaries of the problem and the ways to attack it can be found here: http://www.neopics.com/bluescreen/

On occasion we have been able to pull fairly decent keys from DV footage but it's a ***** and requires a lot of finesse, masking and choking. I have found that I get much better end results using Primatte keyer instead of the stock keyers in AfterEffects or Combustion.
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No way!
4:1:1 colorspace and Standard Def is way better for green screen work.
 
... hee hee ... damnit, no one took the bait ...

I don't think anyone was saying DV is AS good ... just that it's not "through your arms up in the air" impossible

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Greetings to all of you in Slide Entertainment from Croatia. I visited your site and it looks great, and you seems like put a real professional feature there. Nice work, all of you. I would like to help out but there is one thing stopping me. An Atlantic ocean.
 
Here's an article on actor Jimmy Hagar who portrays the character of
James Bannon in our short SLIM'S REVENGE and the feature film CONTAGION: The Curse of Prosperity


http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A16318

AUGUST 16, 2006
FREEZE FRAME

BY PATRICK SHARBAUGH


Hanging Fire
For an actor who spends most of his time touring the Southeast in an RV and claims not to care much about getting film and TV work, 59-year-old Charleston native Jimmy Hagar sure gets a lot of film and TV work.
If you watch TV, you've surely seen him. At 5'11", with longish white hair and a well-weathered face, Hagar's a shoe-in for grandfather spots. But a richly-timbred, Gene Hackman-like voice that can go from zero to power saw in an instant gives Hagar a special sort of oomph, which lifts him above standard kind-eyed grandpa types.He's appeared in numerous regional commercials and local theatre productions. He's also shown up on NBC's Surface, the WB's One Tree Hill, and last year's ill-fated Palmetto Pointe (not his fault, he says). National commercials on his CV include Sears, Morgan Stanley, Walgreens, BC Headache Powder, Citgo, and others.
This fall, though, Hagar will begin work on his first major role in a feature film when he starts shooting on the independent Three Words and a Star in the Rock Fill area.
Directed by British filmmaker Erica Dunton, Three Words and a Star is a road trip movie in which a rock star, played by One Tree Hill's Craig Sheffer, convinces a grocery store clerk to take him on a tour of America. In the film, Hagar plays Brother Earl, a homeless Vietnam Vet.
"I have learned to love the audition process," Hagar says. I'm happy if I get one of of five. Which is pretty good odds, in this business. If they want young, beautiful people, there's 2,500 of 'em gonna show up to an audition. But if they want old farts like me, there's only about a half dozen of us around here. One of the things I've learned is if they want a white-headed old guy with a Southern accent who's bumping 60 and who might have been around in Vietman, or if they want a grandfather or a Ku Klux Klan type, I'm usually their man."
Although research on a historical novel-in-progress, and a 28-foot Fleetwood Jamboree have been occupying most of Hagar's time lately, he says he'll continue to audition whenever he can.
"You know how they say 50 is the new 30?" he asks. "Well, I'm betting 60 is the new 40." – Patrick Sharbaugh
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We've been in the development/preproduction phase of this project for over a year now...Early on while the script was still a work in progress we began doing early tests for many of the elements of the film that would need fabricated or purchased...in the video below one of our crew members William Jensen and I test out some zombie hunting weapons we constructed in his garage. I have alot of these type vids and though most are "failed" tests in the since that we won't be using most of the items featured in them...you can see sort of where we started vs. where we are now. This particular vid was shot on a Panasonic handheld 3-chip. I'll try to post atleast one a week until I have more recent BTS. All of these are pretty silly.


Sorry for the low res
 
Since the earlier posts of Steve Boulter's Monster Anatomy Sketches were a hit...I thought I would post a few more...these are all actually part of the set design for a location in the film.
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(Werewolf, Lizardman and Yeti shown.)

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SLIDEentertainment said:
Since the earlier posts of Steve Boulter's Monster Anatomy Sketches were a hit...I thought I would post a few more...these are all actually part of the set design for a location in the film.
WEREWOLFsteveboulter05art.jpg

Lizardmananatomysteveboultersmall.jpg

Yetianatomysteveboultersmall.jpg

(Werewolf, Lizardman and Yeti shown.)
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i aint scared...bring 'em on...hell, all at once :kali:
 
When I go to the curseofprosperity page, all I get is a blank page, using either IE or Firefox.

Joe C.
 
I have often wondered the same thing.

Most speculate, however, that the filmmakers were all killed by a strange virus that caused them to mutate into werewolves, lizardmen, and yeti and then devour one another.
 
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