FEATURE: DEUCE OF SPADES - How I made a period full feature film all by myself on ZERO budget

Azmyth said:
Ok, on that note.. east west sound module? I'm not familiar with that.
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It's a software that comes with sound libraries. they ave many libraries you can buy, I started with the Orchestral Symphony library, which you really can't do withtou if you are to do traditional type film scoring. I will add more libraries as money becomes available.

Basically you control the sound with your midi keyboard and record them in your recording software (in my case SONY ACID).

There's a steep learning curve though, just so you know.
 
Haven't checked in in far too long, but congrats on getting your film listed on Netflix! It's in my queue already and I'm looking forward to checking it out when its becomes available.
 
Been away from DVXuser for awhile .
This is great!! Can't wait for the DVd

Love those Hot Rods.
Old cars , old motorcycles gotta love em.
Ian
 
Hey Faith, have you seen Roadracers? Just curious what you thought. Your poster reminds me of that movies. I haven't seen it, so I'm not sure how much about the cars it is, but maybe you'll like it.
 
This is very inspiring, I'm doing a horror romance film soon, and I'm doing everything myself, just like this (music, dp, script, story, friends as actors, ect ect), and my personal goal is getting it on Redbox (they specialize sometimes in B-grade horror movies from no-name film companies :P) I'm also going to try for a small film tour, even if that means just among the teenage-young adult music/arts/film venues across my state. I very much like the look of this preview, especially the clip where the guy jumps in the air with the green flag, and many others. It looks great!

Overall, you seem like an excellent, extremely dedicate filmmaker, and I almost want to that that the only thing negatively impacting the look of this film is the variation among textures/colors/lighting styles in the scenes. I feel like some of the scenes hit everything 100% perfect, just like a true studio, big-budget experienced film project down to every atom, while jump to other shots in the preview, and it may look very different. Color editing and lighting for me will definatly be some of the hardest parts of my filmmaking process, and it's one part I may just buckle down and "work" with another editor in post to get everything right :cheesy:. I also would bet how tough it is to save the shots where the lighting didn't turn out perfect, especially when it's tough to do a reshoot! But on top of just trying to be honest and helpful here, I do have to say that every shot in the preview looks above standard, there's nothing that would look out of place at a film festival or even on a indie-supportive television channel! It really looks pretty darn good!


I guess just as a question for my own feature; what would you say is the most important technique in making 'digital videos' just plain look more like film? I guess this would probably fall under somewhere in the editing too, but is there really just any tips or tricks (good focal lengths, camera settings, white balance tips, ect ect) that also just make the native footage look deep and impacting? Without a doubt, you've achieved this perfectly in many shots :love4:, and everything will only get better with more experience!
 
ANOTHER MILESTONE!!

Color correction has now been completed :)

AND....

I just got my final surround sound mix!!! :))

I received three mixes: The theatrical surround sound mix, the Dvd release surround sound mix and the LT/RT stereo mix.

It's now all coming together at a very rapid rate. Yesterday I delivered all my Dvd menus to my post house so my authoring guy can get started on programing them.

Today I start recording my director's commentaries :))..

Weeheeeeeeeeee......
 
Commentaries track is one of the things that I look forward to a lot. I imagine that will be something like a portable version of the blogs, interviews and this topic. So talk very very fast :). Stuff in as much as possible. Please?


Jasper
 
Anomie said:
Commentaries track is one of the things that I look forward to a lot. I imagine that will be something like a portable version of the blogs, interviews and this topic. So talk very very fast :). Stuff in as much as possible. Please?


Jasper
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LOL - talking very fast is not a problem. Articulating, however usually is (sigh)....
I get started on it tomorrow :))).

This is the first of several commentaries (3 altogether). I think I can only fit one on ths initial release, but the Special edition will have two more :). One of which will be strictly from a "how I pulled off making a period film by myself on a no budget" so it shoud be useful to some of you, more than likely :).

There is so much to say about the film, it's gonna be hard to pack enough in the one commentary... Mayeb I'll have to time pitch my audio track to make it go twice as fast HAHAHAHAHA (like an auction).
 
NEWSFLASH!!

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RADIO INTERVIEW TOMORROW on US National radio network. - You can tune in online, it will stream LIVE worlwide. :)) The show is called "Road and Track Speed" and I believe the interview will be about 15 minutes long. Tune in starting 1PM to be safe. I believe I go on around 1:10PM...

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How the heck did you edit a feature film in Vegas? I've been trying all day to edit a 13 minute sports event, and Vegas has had more crashes than a nascar race.
 
Vegas + raylight + mxf files turned out to be a very good combination.

Vegas, as many other NLE programs, does not like some formats. Depending on the camera you are using, you might have to use Cineform to transcode the footage to a format that vegas prefers. can't help you here though, since I have not had to do it (yet - But will soon when I edit my Canon 7D footage).

Vegas was incredibly stable for two years and over the last year had occasional exception errors that caused the system to crash, but fortunately they were far and few and I suspect they have something to do with my memory, cause the timeline got to be very BIG with media.

I was using (and still am) Vegas 8.0c but will be upgrading at some point soon to Vegas 10 which I believe is coming out soon?

In fact I have recorded all my director's commentaries directly into Vegas and it was a BREEZE! I actually prefer recording in Vegas than in ACID (go figure), Vegas works better for my needs and is very powerful when it comes to handling sound. In fact, I used Vegas to mix some of my scoring, when Cubase kept crashing (before I went to ACID)


So I guess the main question is: What camera are you using and what format is it generating?
 
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HUGE NEWSFLASH:



THE FILM IS..... D.O.N.E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It was nerve wrecking to sit down in the session yesterday and lay the 5.1 surround soud mix back under the color corrected picture. I was soooooo worried we were going to have synching problems, that the 16 pieces would not all fit together perfectly, but to my surprise.... THEY DID!

And so it is that I can now officialy announce: I PULLED IT OFF.

THE FILM IS DONE and it looks and sounds DAMN GOOD!!

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I am very happy and can't wait to share the film with all of you. (very soon!)

Although the film is now completed, the DVDs are not ready yet, I still have a bit of authoring to finish and of course, the replication of the DVDs.

I'll keep you all posted!


 
Awesome news. Are you gonna be selling some DVD's, or looking for a distributor. I'd be curious about purchasing a DVD, or hell a Blu-ray if possible.
 
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