Next NYC DVXUser Meeting!

i got that on tape too.....

It was during Bone hand....... it was late at night we were both tired and feeling lonely......
 
thongs my ass!

thongs my ass!

bone...heads! :love4:

what's great is that everyone is so busy making movies and helping each other out! who has time for meetings!

in fact a certain someone is going to have a certain special screening of some certain special movies, and when that is announced, that will be a good spot to pick up where we left off I think and then gun for the shootout if we think we can go fer it
 
Hey guys,
Sorry I dropped the ball on the shootout. This summer just got crazy busy and I had no time to set anything up. I'd still like to do something now that things appear to be slowing down a little. We'll definitely get either the shootout or a meeting going soon.

Anyway, I worked on Alex D.'s Horrorfest entry this past weekend and I just wanted to thank everyone that helped. It was a bit of a whirlwind but we wouldn't have been able to do a lot of it without the great help of many NYC DVXUsers. The footage came out great and I can't wait to see the finished product. Also, good luck to everyone involved in Horrorfest (especially the NYC contingent).

P.S. Over dinner at the shoot yesterday, we were talking about the crane shot in Touch of Evil and I found this quote today that I thought was interesting.

Orson Welles on Grips, etc...


Welles: The man who pushes the camera, those who change the lights, the one who handles the crane -- they have children at the university. You are side by side with men who don't feel themselves to be workers but who think of themselves as very capable and well paid craftsmen. That makes an enormous difference; enormous.

I could never have done what I did on Touch of Evil elsewhere [than America]. And it is not only a question of technique; it essentially concerns the human competence of the men with whom I worked. All this stems from the economic security they enjoy, from the fact that they are well paid....

... the great advantage in America is that, at times, you find directors who are less learned than the man who pushes the camera.... The pleasure one experiences working with an American crew is something that has no equivalent on earth. But you pay a price for that. There are the producers, and that group is as bad as the technicians are good.

In America, [the crane operator] is educated and considers himself as important to the film as the cameraman himself. In that scene in Marcia's house [in The Trial], there are about 60 chalk marks on the ground: that tells you how knowledgeable and intelligent the man who guides the camera must be in order to do well. At that moment, I am at his mercy, at the mercy of his precision. If he can't do it with assurance, the scene is impossible.

-- An interview with Welles taken from "Hollywood Voices", edited by Andrew Sarris.
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Great quote.

HybridCreations said:
...Orson Welles on Grips, etc...
Welles: ...The pleasure one experiences working with an American crew is something that has no equivalent on earth. But you pay a price for that. There are the producers, and that group is as bad as the technicians are good. ...
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hee hee
 
What's funny is Ryan and I were saying that so many NYDVXers are so busy working with each other right now that no one has any time for a meeting :)
 
The producer line was my favorite too Jack. That crazy Welles shootin' his mouth off. Not sure when the next meeting will be. We gotta get a few ducks in a row and get back on track. Definitely before the end of Horrorfest, how's that for a deadline?
 
Hey Ryan, interesting quote, but I wonder how seriousy he believed his sweeping generalizations and whether he would say the same thing today.

It was great working with you last weekend. Looking forward to the NYC meeting.
 
Hey Steve,
I agree about Welles. I tend to picture him as the angry drunk at the party who just keeps shootin' his mouth off. Talented bastid though.

Great working with you too. We couldn't have done nearly as much without your help. Congrats on the new baby! See you soon.
-Ryan
 
Hey Everybody,
I got a PM from a member here to let me know about an event on Thursday, September 28, that I thought some of you might be interested in.
We are having an event I thought your group might be intrested in, and wanted to ask you if you would like to tell the other members of the group about it. It's basically saying if you know how to edit Video, you can edit Audio. and vice versa. Eric Druker from lowell is going to talk about green screen lighting as well. Basically we are going to shoot and edit a music video on a green screen during the event. herer is a link to the details

Video For Musicians
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EDIT: I'm told that this event will be held again on November 15th at B&H. It really was an excellent presentation. Anyone interested in using Final Cut and Motion to make really cool looking music videos (or anything really) should definitely check out this event. If you're interested, pm me and I can put you in touch with the right folks.
 
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Are ya'll still holding these meetings? Would you be interested in screening Smuggler's Ransom there when it's finished?
 
Thanks for bumping this up Briceman! It would be awesome if we all can meet again. I know everybody is super busy... but we need a day of relaxness. Who's stepping up to set this up? I think Ryan is MIA somewhere...

Great idea on Smuggler's ransom! So you would actually take a flight just to come screen the film with us? Afterwards we all could go to Dave & Busters in play some games and relax! Someone set this up :)
 
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Thanks for bumping this up Briceman! It would be awesome if we all can meet again. I know everybody is super busy... but we need a day of relaxness. Who's stepping up to set this up? I think Ryan is MIA somewhere...

Great idea on Smuggler's ransom! So you would actually take a flight just to come screen the film with us? Afterwards we all could go to Dave & Busters in play some games and relax! Someone set this up :)
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Hey, not sure if I could actually fly out! My co-director Daniel is closer (he's at school in Virginia) but either way I can get a copy out there somehow, and you can have an East Coast screening!
 
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