FAT MONSTER FILMS presents "O2" ... Every. Breath. Counts.

Tomas Riuka said:
Hey Mark,

not much! have you seen what actress we got for our main role? :) check our thread, 1st page for photos:)
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Sweet! Tomas, you are starting out with a bang. Love the update with the crew pictures. Boy its great to see you already starting out with preproduction meetings. Agne looks like a fabulous choice for the role. Very striking and beautiful! Bravo!
 
Thanks for your nice comments! though i'm a bit stuck with script... our scritwriter conspiracy penguin is stuck somewhere :/
 
Tomas Riuka said:
Hey Mark,

We've gotten our act together. Check out this pic from our production meeting last night:

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Tomas, that's, um, quite a crew you have there. Love the photos on the wall. I guess I can see you're a big fan of the US.
 
Just a quick note. Last night we had the band I HATE KATE over to view the rough cut of the "Bed of Black Roses" music video. They absolutely loved it and asked Tim to upload a version to their New York label. They also gave a couple really good notes for the next edit.

Those of you who cut music videos know that its a real crap shoot dealing with these bands. As Tim has pointed out to me, almost every musician has built his or her own series of moving images inside their head long before the project starts. Even when you produce something golden the client may have an equivocal reaction simply because it doesn't match the mental image they've been carrying.

Fortunately, everyone was ecstatic about this one and Tim should be able to get a final edit finished fairly soon and we can get on to producing the followup video for their next single "Always Something."

We're hoping that the label will make good on their pledge to seriously consider Fat Monster for additional projects now that we've shown them how quickly and efficiently we can work.

By the way, we're going to be celebrating with some cocktails at the monster house tonight. If any of you L.A.-based users want to come by the bar will be open.
 
Yes working with bands can be tough, especially ones that are primadonnas.

Since it's pretty much all I do these days is do music videos, I basically tell the band from day 1 this:
"I can't begin to do what you guys do (play music so well) and you can't begin to do what I do, so I trust you'll be able to have a professional attitude in regards to this video. Trust me when I say I know what I'm doing and I'll trust you to produce amazing music."

If they don't go for that, don't work with them, you'll just be asking for trouble.

If you get any offers out my way Mark, let me know! I'm down to help out
 
Hey Mark! Give a hello to Maniac Mike and his ladies for me the next time you are out at Cable. Man, there were some nice production meetings there. I am definitely missing that weather, too!

Great to hear that the music video is coming along nicely! Awesome.

I did talk to that guy who wants a music video and he is shooting for the summer. I'll keep you updated on that front.

Be well, Dude!

-Ted
 
That's very tight Charlie. Tim knew that video but for some reason I hadn't seen it. I'm really fascinated that they panned to show the whole dolly track and sets on both sides. Shee-it! any one of those mini-sets could be a video in itself. Thanks for that link.

However, you can definitely see the set designer borrowed a lot from this

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
 
Mark Johnson said:
The TimeWarp effect actually allows you to remap footage and create new interpolated frames similar to Twixtor. As such, if you are slowing down a video clip this is preferable to the simple TimeStretch function which does not interpolate frames.

So, for doing this kind of quick synching for music videos TimeStretch is my choice because it's not a filter and doesn't require any processing (it merely stretches or compresses the clips by adding or removing frames. ) Also, you can quickly determine your desired length by either telling it to adjust 1) running length or 2) percentage of original clip. Remember, we're just outputting audio files (usually as WAVE files to play on a CD player for playback) so we don't care about video frames anyway.
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That's cool, thanks. Yeah, the stuff I've been working on has to slow down mid clip, then speed up again. Thanks!
 
Mark Johnson said:
That's very tight Charlie. Tim knew that video but for some reason I hadn't seen it. I'm really fascinated that they panned to show the whole dolly track and sets on both sides. Shee-it! any one of those mini-sets could be a video in itself. Thanks for that link.

However, you can definitely see the set designer borrowed a lot from this

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
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Oh definitely!

It's kinda like what we did for our newest music video:
http://www.stratatekstudios.com/BTS_set_design.html
 
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Ted Arabian said:
This is amazing.
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What's even more amazing about the fact that it's 1 take and lots of sets is the fact that the dolly moves at the same pace throughout the whole video even though there's fast motion AND slowmotion ramps throughout it. When I saw that I was blown away by it!
 
That's what I meant by, "that's amazing!" The single take aspect alone is cool but the different speeds... I just don't know how they did that. I will be watching this a few times!

I am glad that they panned that camera over the dolly tracks. Really made for an interesting shot.
 
Sure that's one take? Looks like there's some funny business going on in some of the pans from set to set and some 3D manipulation to piece it all together, some green screen and compositing.

Still a great video.

EDIT: Well Wiki says it was one take. Maybe I'm reacting funny business necessary to have the dolly move at a consistent speed with the ramping etc.
 
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