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

Simon Höfer said:
What's up? I guess everybody got hammered. Not only Tim :D
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I crashed about 2:30 a.m. and things were still cranking up. I intended to shoot some more pix but lapsed into a coma instead. There's a living room full of snoring people right now and a strong smell of bacon in the kitchen leading me to believe the denizens cooked breakfast at some point last night. Did they leave me anything in the fridge? No. Its Starbucks and their overpriced pastries for me. ....
 
Yeah. I have been working with the adapter. And right now, I am reading Timur's most excellent stickies in the 35mm adapter section.
 
Mark Johnson said:
Steve-O plays with "Fighting Chance" who is negotiating with Fat Monster to have us produce their next music video. I suspect a deal will be struck at some point later this evening when Tim gets hammered.

It's only midnight and the evening has yet to crank up. More later.

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What kind of parties are you guys throwing.......?

Yea I figured out they are different people but what the hell.... :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
I vaguely remember Blaine trying to get me to stop playing guitar... then realizing 2 hours had passed... and I left. God bless Rum... :)
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
Yeah but the set element he "interacts with" is a column in the foreground,

And I think the three band members were shot in green screen and composited in wich would explain Cardigan's shadow on D'arcy.

Also shadows don't really mean anything thing. I can show you a clip of me getting run over by a car where, if you frame by frame it, you will see my shadow moving and following me on the ground. I can also show you a picture of me holding a RED with shadows from the flash on the wall even though I have never owned or held a Red.

The halow of light looks like an intentional power windows re-lighting in post type effect. It's kind of funny now that you point it out. When he goes behind the column, the halow of light where his face would be goes over the top of the column, lol.

I think the shadow that touches his head at the top is to mask switching between takes of the woman on the bench, she and billy go to different speeds after that, neither of them natural. So I think that shadow fascilitates cut to another take of Coreman, or her, or both.
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It's definitely 1 take, just watched the BTS video on the DVD. I'll rip it and put it online in a few
 
Arghhh...I wanted to come out and hang with you guys Saturday night but I had to work. I'm shooting during the days and being an editing vampire at night. Looks like you guys had fun. Sucks that I had to miss out.
 
damn those copyrighted DVDs! Mpeg streamclip won't open it and I can only get the music videos in handbrake...hmmm will keep trying today
 
Sent you a PM Charlie.

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Note to Fat Monster crew members: the TimeFest preproduction site is now password protected and you should have access unless I forgot about you (in which case PM me).
 
So while I'm forced to wait until I get home, I thought I'd point out some interesting facts from the DVD (watching it on my laptop right now).

They definitely speed up and slow down just like you would for having VFR in the same shot.

the first shot where D'arcy makes an appearance in is pretty interesting. She's actually standing on a dolly that's being pulled back (which is why she's taller than billy in that first shot and she's smoothly moving from side to side).

The shot where all 3 members are in the middle of the frame (where the camera pans to the right quicklly in the greenish room) and then pans, billy actually runs under the camera to hit his next mark. to be in frame.

The shoot took 11 hours to shoot...that's talent on set the entire time, not to build or light, just talent...pretty crazy. The actors actually revolted on one of the takes, just stood with arms crossed looking into the camera.

One thing I can't figure out is if the dolly is robotic or not. It's on a crane, that's for sure and I'd assume it'd be robotic but they don't talk about it at all.

Definitely cool.
 
Great stuff, Charlie! Say, I can't recall if you put up enough info so those interested could locate that DVD. Do you have an Amazon link or at least the title? (you've probably included that in the thread before but I'm a lazy ass)
 
Mark Johnson said:
Great stuff, Charlie! Say, I can't recall if you put up enough info so those interested could locate that DVD. Do you have an Amazon link or at least the title? (you've probably included that in the thread before but I'm a lazy ass)
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http://www.amazon.com/Smashing-Pump...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1205776910&sr=8-1

Definitely buy it, it has 15+ videos on it with everyone of them documented with commentary on how they made them, it's amazing!

Oh and there's 1 more thing I wanted to point out. I don't know if you can see it in the youtube version but look at 1:38, you can see Corgan's reflection in the mirror in the background :)
 
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Yesterday Tim and I made the short drive down to San Diego to meet with the ever fascinating Barry Green at the Stu Segall studios. Barry is involved with the Marine "Wounded Warrior" transition program at the studio north of San Diego. The program is a ten week immersive experience that aims to give wounded veterans training to permit them to pursue new careers in the film industry. Barry's first class of 19 marines will be graduating next week and it looks like the endeavor is going to be a great success.

Stu Segall Studios also has a program called "hyper-realistic" training for marines in which a full scale Iraqi village set is used complete with explosives and ammunition. Here's a pretty cool article about that program. Barry's classes are taught near the same location and he said it was at times a bit disconcerting to have shells exploding right out the window when the training was going on.

Tim and I met Barry at the "studio diner" next door and its a pretty cool place with a lot of film gear built into the decor. They have big c-stands built into each booth and there were what sure looked like a bunch of Dedolights on the ceiling.

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Barry and The Dude

Before we left we had the pleasure of being joined by the newly relocated John Hudson. Jeez, was it ever fun to meet this guy! Hudson is a true original and we on the West Coast are certainly glad you guys on the East Coast got tired of him and sent him back. Master Hudson has agreed to join the Fat Monster crew to help us shoot our Time Fest entry. Now, if we can get him off his butt to shoot his own .... :)

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Barry and Hudson
 
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