MOVIE TRAILER - BROKEN ($8000 Action Short - 100 Vfx Shots) DVX100a

Hey Alex, truly great stuff. Love'in it! I see you are in South Florida, my old stompin grounds and soon to be again. I was curious you know of or ever worked with Lenny Gonzalez of Rhino Studios?? If not let me know, you would probablly wanna hook up with him. I work with him on music videos and feature film work, shoots everything on the DVX with P+S telecine adapters and 35mm primes. I just think you two would hit it off. Anyway keep up the great work, and keep us posted on Broken.
-R. Michael
 
I loved the trailer. Nice effects. Great web site.

I wonder, am I the only one that felt that some of the scenes simply flashed too fast near the end. I realize this is all done on purpose, but it was too much for me. Everyone seems to be in a competition to flash from one scene to another....

Just giving nit picky feedback in the event others say the same thing... Awe inspiring work!

-Jerry
 
First off I need to say that the footage looks amazing!
Second I need to ask how you dealt with all the red I saw in the footage. Especailly the red vest that the guy was wearing with the shotgun. Im at the end of shooting a feature with definitly less then 8k in the budget and have realized that the red that was in some of the scenes looks horrible. Any suggestions.
And third, where did you get those guns?
Thanks
 
Thanks for the kind words. The red wasn't a problem. I toned down the red in post and desaturated it. It seemed to work great. I don't know what look you are going for but for our look, it worked great.

The guns are Airsoft beebee guns. Pretty cheap but look super real. For a bit more coin, you can get the gas powered hand guns the have blow back. You can find them online pretty easy, just do a google for Airsoft guns. Ebay is also a great place to look.

Alex
 
TizzyEntertainment said:
Hey Alex, truly great stuff. Love'in it! I see you are in South Florida, my old stompin grounds and soon to be again. I was curious you know of or ever worked with Lenny Gonzalez of Rhino Studios?? If not let me know, you would probablly wanna hook up with him. I work with him on music videos and feature film work, shoots everything on the DVX with P+S telecine adapters and 35mm primes. I just think you two would hit it off. Anyway keep up the great work, and keep us posted on Broken.
-R. Michael
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I do know Lenny from Rhino. He's super cool. He helped us on a feature I just finished editing. Thanks for the kind words about BROKEN.

Alex
 
waltind said:
That was amazing! I love the trailer and all of the web doc's. As soon as you have the DVD done, I'll buy a copy! Keep up the good work - I'm sure you'll land something with a project likw that onder your belt.

FYI-
Note on the Shaking Doc - the mac version page does not show the QT controler because the dementions are wrong in the HTML code.

The current code:
<embed src="webdocs/WEBDOC_EFX_SHAKING.mov" width="400" height="318" align="absmiddle"></embed><br>

WHAT IT SHOULD BE:
<embed src="webdocs/WEBDOC_EFX_SHAKING.mov" width="400" height="360" align="absmiddle"></embed><br>

Unless you did not want the controller to show up. (I'm assuming that you do want it there since all of the other doc's have it there.
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Thanks man! Got it! Thanks! I knew about it but I have been crazy busy and just left it alone. Thanks for lookin out!

Alex
 
pyrohtml said:
Unbelievable trailer, I definitly want to see more. Other than shooting with the DVX what else did you use for your cinematography (mattebox, lenses etc)?
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Thanks! All we used extra was the Panasonic Wide Angle Adapter. Other than that, lighting and color corretion. Though I wish we would of spent money on a matte box...I missed it on set.

Alex
 
Wow. Definite future purchaser of the dvd right here! Totally cool that you have such an in depth web doc section, thanks. i'm really interested on steps taken for color correction, which you mentioned you did in Final Cut. I'd love to read a break down... someone mentioned there was another thread with more info on the movie, can someone direct me to it?

Thanks again for proving what this camera is capable of and hope this movie gets you to where you want to go!
 
Great tease!!!How many people were involved?

Great tease!!!How many people were involved?

Alex, that was truely inspirational!! As a brand new owner of the DVX, I cant wait to start cranking out the flicks. I'm currently planning a shoot in a few weeks ( been sitting on the script for 2 years)and was wondering how many people it took to pull this off?

But any way once again, quality post!! Great work!!

Carlton
 
CarltonD said:
Alex, that was truely inspirational!! As a brand new owner of the DVX, I cant wait to start cranking out the flicks. I'm currently planning a shoot in a few weeks ( been sitting on the script for 2 years)and was wondering how many people it took to pull this off?

But any way once again, quality post!! Great work!!

Carlton
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Carlton,

Thanks! We had about 15-20 people on the shoot, but only a hand ful of them were "skilled" techs. Most of them were PA/Interns.

Alex
 
Stabb_Films said:
Wow. Definite future purchaser of the dvd right here! Totally cool that you have such an in depth web doc section, thanks. i'm really interested on steps taken for color correction, which you mentioned you did in Final Cut. I'd love to read a break down... someone mentioned there was another thread with more info on the movie, can someone direct me to it?

Thanks again for proving what this camera is capable of and hope this movie gets you to where you want to go!
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Only other thread I know of is: http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=27146&page=1&pp=10

Thanks for the kind words.
Alex
 
BROKEN2005 said:
Thanks man! Got it! Thanks! I knew about it but I have been crazy busy and just left it alone. Thanks for lookin out!

Alex
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I figured that you were probably swamped right now, which is why I wanted to help you out by providing the corrected code. I'm sure that it is the least of your priorities right now.

Question for you:

You said that you use two cameras for this short - why did you decide to do this, and how did it help? I ask this because seeing as how most projects are shot and lite for one camera how having two cameras on set furthered the production? Could you eleaborate?
 
Not sure that I can add much more to what has already been said .. but I *really* liked what I saw ... looking forward to seeing the full-length.

Very nice!

-K
 
Like Toaster, I dont know what else can be said except, well done! This will be an inspiration project for the rest of us. One thing Im curious about. How did you do the muzzle flashes. I see in your web doc that it was layered, but what program did you use and how do you get the timing right? I also have a huge supply of Airsoft guns, hope the cops don't accidentally bust into my house, I'll have a lot of explaining to do. Oh, and that reminds me, did you ever take your airsoft guns on location and if so did that ever present a problem?

Thanks,
John
 
Raptor3400 said:
Like Toaster, I dont know what else can be said except, well done! This will be an inspiration project for the rest of us. One thing Im curious about. How did you do the muzzle flashes. I see in your web doc that it was layered, but what program did you use and how do you get the timing right? I also have a huge supply of Airsoft guns, hope the cops don't accidentally bust into my house, I'll have a lot of explaining to do. Oh, and that reminds me, did you ever take your airsoft guns on location and if so did that ever present a problem?

Thanks,
John
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Thanks! We did all the muzzle flashes in Apple's SHAKE. My VFX Supervisor Sean (www.seanfalcon.com) did the magic. We used Airsoft guns and there was no problem. Just make sure you explain to the location what guns you are bringing in and what they are, you should be OK!

Alex
 
waltind said:
I figured that you were probably swamped right now, which is why I wanted to help you out by providing the corrected code. I'm sure that it is the least of your priorities right now.

Question for you:

You said that you use two cameras for this short - why did you decide to do this, and how did it help? I ask this because seeing as how most projects are shot and lite for one camera how having two cameras on set furthered the production? Could you eleaborate?
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Coming from a post production background, i knew that having two cameras would make my life easier in post. Editing scenes becomes a lot easier. Also, I can get twice the coverage, we shot 14 hours of raw footage for BROKEN but believe or not I used 95% of my angles/coverage. i just let the scene play out so I could have options on when to edit.

As far as lighting, we never had a problem. Hope that helps.

Alex
 
Hey cool stuff man. I was a 3D Animator for 4 years. I am surprised to see you got all those shots done in that amount of time, for the budget you spent. Good job.

I hope the compositor didn't die after those 80-90 hour work weeks lol.
 
WaveRiderXIX said:
Hey cool stuff man. I was a 3D Animator for 4 years. I am surprised to see you got all those shots done in that amount of time, for the budget you spent. Good job.

I hope the compositor didn't die after those 80-90 hour work weeks lol.
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Thanks! He's still alive and well....
 
One word man................... TIGHT! Good stuff man. I admire it even more because its shot with the DVX. Now if this was shot on film, I wouldn't be as excited. Cool stuff man!


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