Greetings DVXuser(s)!
This is my first attempt at creating anything that could be called a film. Friend of mine purchased a DVX camera and the quality you can get from that thing is amazing and I have been finding myself becoming more and more involved in the world of film.
Little Bit of What's Going On:
The story revolves around one very demented young man by the name of Eddie. Eddie's cocaine induced rut in life begins and ends in the year 1997. Eddie has always loved understanding the inner workings of electronics and mechanical things just to satisfy that invisible itch in his nugget, more so than often this involves the unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, scanning or testing the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network. Eddie is by MIT's definition a hacker.
The Meat:
Listed below in the following order are the entire introduction (6:29Min@28MB), a scene involving a "reverse sting operation"(5:55Min@25.6MB), and finally a full live video shot of Eddie taking a stroll down the main drag in Yellow-Springs(2:23Min@25.6MB) in hunt for an emergency roadside telephone.
Before reading onward, know that my methods are by no means standard.
The introduction was created in PowerPoint with graphics which started in MS Paint, A program I wrote that converts pixels into ASCII equivalents, Notepad, and then into The Gimp where alterations were made to create the letters used in the first place.
I "filmed" the special shots with a freeware desktop capture tool called CamStudio direct from a formatted presentation window. The same was done for the spectrograph line in the beginning which was "filmed" in GoldWave which was also used to do most of the audio effects. (Audio is from a 1970's joke line, old school phreaking days of crossbars and step-by-step masterings. Blue box stuffs.) All of this was put together using of all things Windows Movie Maker 2.0 which is not that bad of a program despite the fact it assumes my IQ is 42. Why all the fuss? I wanted to prove that maybe with the help of critics that you could create enjoyable content with no money and the most basic of tools readily available on the internet.
A little on the "reverse sting operation". Eddie has a hobby of hunting for undercover folks on the net. He has a large friends list of undercover cops running sting operations for things like rapists, pedo's, drugs, gang activity, etc. In this scene Eddie finally gets the guy to ask him for some pictures which he has so happily prepared in advance. I know it's 1997, but Eddie is a smart guy and the idea of embedding malicious code into JPEG's ain't nothing new. He knows the other side is going to look at them so this is the perfect opportunity to steal some information. Because that is what it's all about, right?
Entire Introduction
Police Sting Operation
Yellow-Springs Introduction
