1st Time Filmmakers & 1st Time Entrants Say Hello Here

shawneous said:
This is mine and Ken's first fest entry ever! We're very glad we've entered, looking forward to the reviews.
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What Shawn said. :) And thank you for the welcome! I hail from the Portland area and love it here! The Super Friend I most identify with is Plastic Man. And yes, he did make an appearance on Super Friends once. He was one of my favorites as a kid. Still is!

Feel free to click on our banner to check out our Aetas thread. We're pretty excited about the film. It's got an epic feel to it and we drove all over the state to capture the various terrain Oregon has to offer. We were blessed with a talented cast who could act (and learned their lines in Latin) and a great and supportive crew who got down into the trenches with us to make this happen.
 
Hey there,

first time entrant here and actually I could say first time filmmaker too. I made a short commercial for a contest before and some fun shoots, but this is the first real film I made that is truly planned. For All Hallows Fest I planned on shooting an entry, but it never left the planning stage, so I am happy that I finished this one.

About me:
I wrote quite alot here on DVXuser in the past months. The 1000th post is not far away anymore.

I am a student of electrical engineering (media engineering) in my last year. In 2007 I headed to Japan for a 6 month internship. Over there I found DVXuser and bought an HVX, because it was dirt cheap. And I met a few members of this board (Noel Evans, Kaku Ito and more).

My time in Japan changed my future plans alot. I don't wanna work in a big company as an electrical engineer, I somehow wanna work filmrelated. I wanna shoot my own films, music videos etc. You gonna have dreams, right? :D

I am not completely of the track with my dreams though. Media engineering is also film and television related. We've got a complete television studio in my university and I learned about lighting, cameras, sound and studioproductions and so on.

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I would say it's not your "normal" entry. More into the abstract direction, or like some call it: Artsy Fartsy :D But I hope it is still interesting and fun to watch.
Learned a lot, made alot of mistakes but in the end I am happy with my film. I hope the effort I put into the sound design makes up for some visual flaws I've got.

Really looking forward to all the other entries. Good to see that we've got so many new faces this time around and also so many international productions :)
 
I truly love the diversity of this place and I must admit that Shawn and Ken's entry has really resonated with me. I mean, how can you not be pumped over a couple guys with TWO Red One's in some of the most beautiful landscapes in the U.S. making a friggin' medieval period film!!! Can't wait to see what ends up on the screen.

And I am just as enthused over the totally new filmmakers who have found the site and have gotten the cohones to make a damn film. These are halycon days, indeed, with affordable 24P cameras and worldwide exposure via the internet.
 
So many new entries. *even though its not my first...technically 2nd* I thought I'd introduce myself, but who doesn't know Dustin Rogan, I mean seriously (lol jk)

My name is Dustin Rogan, born and raised in Texas the best country...I mean state ever. Been in Waco for 12 years now, started making shorts for DVXuser.com with Gary French about a year ago, finally came around to writing/directing etc my own for Love Fest. Since Gary and I started over a year ago, we've brought Waco on the DVXuser Map! But I wish all the newbies good luck with their entries!

Dustin
 
Dustin R. Rogan said:
My name is Dustin Rogan, born and raised in Texas the best country...I mean state ever. Been in Waco more than 15 years now. I don't talk about it much, but I was the pool boy for the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. I had no interest in their theology and was just looking for some quick cash. Fortunately, when the Feds rolled up I was playing hookey with a 16-year old nymph who persistently bummed cigarettes off of me when David Koresh wasn't looking. We heard the gunfire and lit out for the Tastee-Freeze. The rest, as they say, is history. We've been running this bait shop now for the past 8 years. Other than the constant stench, life is pretty damn good.
Dustin
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Hey thanks for that bio. You are, indeed, an interesting man Dustin.
 
Small world eh Zaza?

Yeah, Ithaca is a nice place to be. The weather is a little odd. But it is upstate.

Can't wait to see what you come up with for the fest.
 
Mark...nice. It took me a few moments to realize what had been done. I was very confused and kept looking for the "Last Edited by Dustin Rogan at --:--" under his post but finally came to my senses.

Yes, mattykins, this is a small world. Anyone ever been to Coarsegold? Or Oakhurst for that matter?
 
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=127141

Hey all, Jim Montgomery

Worked at a manufacturing business for 38 years, sold that and went fishing. Racked up a few major tournament wins which led to a fishing show on the Sportsman Channel. Complete and utter disaster. Didn't have the time, energy, or moxie to find sponsors.

Well I had all this equipment and needed something to do with it and myself, so here I am.

Thanks all for whatever I have gleaned from this site, and good luck.
 
Jim one of the actors on my last short film wants to teach me how to bass fish. Most of my fishing was sitting on the river bank drinking beer not caring if I caught a fish.

So I take it your not making a fishing film!!
 
Zim said:
Jim one of the actors on my last short film wants to teach me how to bass fish. Most of my fishing was sitting on the river bank drinking beer not caring if I caught a fish.

So I take it your not making a fishing film!!
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No, no fishing films, but you have the right idea about bass fishing.
 
Greetings to all.

Red Shoes is our first film. "We" are Susanne, who wrote and directed it, and me, Jason. I did the photography and am battling through the editing (just about there!!). Susanne is German and an architect, I am English and a photographer and art director. We were both living in Italy, where we met, and then moved together to Berlin, Germany, where we now live, a little over two years ago. We will be getting married next month in England.

This forum is indeed a great place to learn and has a very friendly atmosphere. I started lurking here before Christmas, one of many places on the internet I was visiting as part of the learning process. I downloaded all the Lovefest films and was astounded by the high quality of many of them. The learning process went ahead and, by the time Timefest came along, it seemed to be time to take the plunge, so here we are.

I'm looking forward to watching the films and hopefully finding time to make some useful comments.

Good luck to all
Jason
 
Hey gang,

Me and Mike Pedro (Hordeprime) just got done at 12:00 am last night for our first entry! We've worked with Will and Wild Imagination films for past entries but this is our first.

We've got some good stuff but we're looking for some critical feedback , which I am sure we'll get here. We've definitely decided that we need a dedicated focus puller for a next short, and lighting guy.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's work on this one!

cheers

JP
 
This will be my first entry. Ive been a member here for over two years now, but didnt know enough to contribute much until recently. My film was going to be my first using my hv20 with a 35mm adapter, but I still dont have everything to make that work just yet. Im actually filming my film inbetween filming my very first movie. Im DP for a no-budget independent film here in SC titled 1978. Im learning a lot along the way--hopefully stuff I can use to shoot my first short later this summer.

Anyway, I ended up scrapping my initial idea and writing a new one yesterday. It will be much more fun and entertaining anyway. Keep an eye out for the Future Rangers.
 
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So glad to see so many "first timers". This fest will be my sophomore effort, so to speak. I got such great support and feedback last year with my first fest entry. You can't go wrong entering a DVXUser fest. Even if your film doesn't turn out as you hoped, you learn something in the making and the sharing that you wouldn't get otherwise.

Looking forward to another great fest! :)
 
Hello everyone, we're not first time filmmakers, as we've posted some past work, but we haven't posted in a while, and we love the idea of timefest, so we are going to be first time entrants, and i'm setting up a thread now. This was an amazing idea for a DVXfest.
 
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