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arielman said:
Envision and jdansdan ..Thanks for your help (tips ) I shot a few clips with Squeeze mode and liked what i saw . ...........Ian
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You're welcome. I'll take what I can get, but um ... what did I say/do? Was it my feedback on your short for the fest, or something else? Squeeze is cool, but I'm not a confident enough shooter yet to work with that, so I shoot 4:3, then go 16x9 in post so I can reframe up/down if needed.

That said, if we decide to go 2:35.1 ratio for this short, then we can shoot all the cameras in squeeze, knowing we'll still have a LITTLE reframing room with the 2:35.1 mask. Hmmmmm.
 
Hi Envision , this was the advise you gave . (pg 10)

"Ian, just be careful that if you're shooting letterbox to have it framed really well, because you're committed. Also, if you do any color correction, you'll be coloring the black bars on the top & bottom as well ... same goes if you use flash FX, etc. "

also jdanstan had a nice write up( below yours) as well . He also posted some camera settings he used .

So I thought I would say thanks to you both for you help cause if you hadn't ,I would of shot in letterbox and colour corrected ..EEKk..........Ian
 
Ah, gotcha ... thanks for the reminder! Yes, letterbox is BAD news in my opinion ... shoot squeeze or natural 4:3 & crop in post ... just like you're doing. :thumbsup:
 
After reading through all the posts, there was a question about 25P but no answer.
I guess for the DVD it has to be 24P NTSC, I can convert to 24P with procoder or firestore standard convertor, but I never done that before so I'm not sure about the results.
 
Shaun Patrick said:
In all my years, I've only seen one worthwhile fan film: "Troopers". Otherwise, fan films usually suck but they don't suck as much as fan fiction--stay away from that crap.
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Don't forget the original Star Wars Kid and all of the spoofs. They were some of the best examples of post work I've seen by amateurs... and they were funny as hell.

Also, the Star Wars version of American Choppers (or whatever it's called) was very well done.
 
jdanstan said:
Also with scifi - theres' a conventional story line where a single alien falls to earth -- so you could make one cool alien
Exactly, just think "Brother From Another Planet." No real fancy effects (a little prosthetic and optical), and a whole bunch of comic moments and characters. In fact, I don't remember the alien guy saying one word in the whole movie which saves time on ADR. Although, it wasn't as non-verbal as "Le Dernier Combat" (by Luc Besson).

Sci-Fi is way larger than horror, so there is an endless variety of stories to tell, just like the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits (the original series of either, damnit).
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yes.. bottom line, is i want a widesceen file, i dont care how you get it... by cropping or shooting.
 
and my apologies for the delay in getting the official sci-fest page up, im still working my butt off mailing out the zombiefest stuff and finishing the dvd.
 
KingVidiot said:
Won't that mess up his audio sync?
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I "THINK" that you have to slow it down like 4% or something (the audio) ... I "THINK" this is reverse of the way that 24p movies are played on pal TV by speeding up 4% -- their solution to our telecine ... I "THINK"... :)
 
Jarred Land said:
as per the audio, most conversion software should do that automatically.
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Jarred I think I'm goung to shoot in pal widescreen, then crop to 4:3 then convert to 60i then to 24p, then output as an gif image sequence with a seperate audio track just to screw with you -- it couldn't be worse than our comedy of errors this time around, hahaha!
 
if the movie is 6 mins or less, does that mean trailers count? because i'm probably going to make a film that is around 15 mins long that i hope to circulate in the festivals next year, but i might be able to shoot the trailer fairly soon, and by the due date.

also, about it being science-fiction is debatable. who do i talk to specifically to verify this?

and lastly, just to make sure, you say the festival judging is only for users with 100 posts or more. i'm guessing that newbies like me can still submit films, and that the users with 100 posts or more can vote, right?

thanks in advance,
jeremiah "jermz" tayao
 
Hey. Trailers are a bad idea.. they will be accepted, but almost everyone will bash it in the voting, as its not a film, so its probally not worth the effort.

As for Sci-Fi.. its a pretty open cat. i know, you can pm me privately if you want to make sure.

And voting is only for 100 posts or higher to block out people from just randomly signing up to inflate votes.
 
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