"The Rooster" - by J. Van Auken

Yea, definitely. I'd love to see any BTS that might be educational in nature. After all, many (myself included) consider this (dvxuser.com) to be an online film school with free tuition :)

Awesome poster, BTW :thumbsup:
 
wyatt - we'll be doing a Minnesota Unit in Morris, so get prepped for some Late may funtime


Alright. It's official. I've contacted some docu majors (gotta love film school) and we'll be having a fairly sizable BTS video made up. My only question would be, is it 'legal' or in line with the contest rules to put out the BTS video prior to the actual premier?
 
yes, the rules state that BTS footage is allowed. You just can't screen your actual film prior to the end of the fest.
 
Had the director stop by and look at the set, which turns out to be PERFECTLY in line with both of our visions for the project. This is going to be great.
 
not yet, the studio is open to us the day of shooting only, but we'll have a camera crew following both the writer (me) and the director (price) before auditions, at auditions, the prod meeting, the shoot, and the edit, plus a little after, plus we might might do a commentary track for the movie.
 
Just a little sidenote for the day:

I sat down with the guy helping me on camera (Griffin) and went through the Barry Green dvd scene by scene and constructed a scene file for lighting tests today. Did the tests and loved it. Really beautiful, and I'm pretty new to doing colorgrading in camera, but I think it's a beneficial decision that we've made on this project.
 
I want to comment shortly about our process of coloring this time around.

Having taken the time to construct, piece by piece, a scene file that will get us our look spot on before it ever hits that codec, I really want to hype the merits of working in camera. Not only does it relieve you from having to match everything later, and work endlessly against the destructive effects of rerendering, but it lets your director look at the movie he wants shot on that preview monitor. Also lighting and camera tests are shorter to do, and less tinkering in the NLE gives me peace of mind with the color (i could sit on that 3-way corrector forever and not be satisfied).

My goal with Rooster is to perfect the look before shooting, so all I have to do is cut it later. This is going to exercise a lot of the conventional filmmaking techniques I've had to learn (lighting for contrast instead of using a slider later), but I think it's going to end up looking much better than it would have if I had rested on my 'magic bullet' laurels.

As an added bonus, and teaser, I'm putting the Rooster scene file up for everyone to look at and try out for themselves. Questions are welcome.

AG-HVX200P
TITLE:ROOSTER
<F1>
SCENE NAME :RSTR
00005000: 10 ; DETAIL LEVEL: 2
00005001: 1 ; V DETAIL LEVEL: -7
00005002: 11 ; DETAIL CORING : 3
00005003: 6 ; CHROMA LEVEL: -2
00005004: 1 ; CHROMA PHASE: -7
00005005: 13 ; COLOR TEMP: 5
00005006: 9 ; MASTER PED: -7
00005007: 8 ; A.IRIS LEVEL: 0
00005008: 1 ; NEWS GAMMA: OFF
00005009: 6 ; GAMMA : CINELIKE V
0000500A: 3 ; KNEE: HIGH
0000500B: 0 ; MATRIX: NORM
0000500C: 1 ; SKIN TONE DTL : OFF
0000500D: 0 ; V DETAIL FREQ : THIN
0000500E: 1 ; OPERATION TYPE: FILM CAM
0000500F: 14 ; FRAME RATE: 24 FRAME
00005010: BE029001 ; SYNCRO SCAN :
 
Sat down with Andy Berlin today about the documentary, and I like what I'm hearing as far as ideas.

Oh, and I've officially changed my mind. Lighting isn't the hardest part of filmmaking anymore.

Scheduling is.
 
A Minilesson from Hans: Frugality, or: "but I really want it"

I just wanted to cover a little topic tonight after a small epiphany I had earlier.

I spent most of today between a number of camera stores in my town. I had my own CF card, and was taking countless test shots on every professional model camera each store had in stock. You see, I've been agonizing for weeks/months about which new dslr to upgrade to before taking my trip to Alaska. I leaned this way and that, and came to the conclusion that There's no way I could spend less than 2500 american dollars.

After surgically testing resolution and dynamic ranges all day, I came to a realization on my way home.

"I don't make nearly any money from photography. That's not my career."

And suddenly, it hit me that blowing 2500 bucks (75,000 legos) on a 'hobby' was insane, when I have a perfectly good 'job' I can put them towards.

I got so caught up in gear lust, that I lost sight of what I was trying to accomplish. I was even completely distracted from gearing up for Rooster. gah!

So, let me save you time and heartache, and legos: Buy what you need, when you need it. Plain and simple.

2500 bucks can fix a lot of problems with my rig right now (cough*indifocusbaseplatesucks*cough*), and I really shouldn't have gotten caught in the tide of new still cameras coming to the market.

My other tidbit for the evening is: Look for cheaper ways of doing it

Para exemplo: I've been wanting an AC's pouch from cineporter for some time. It costs well over a hundred bucks (1 lego castle)

I was in home depot earlier, and found a very similar pouch, nay, BETTER pouch, for thirty dollars. Same color, same durability, even has a badass little huskie symbol on it.

They do the same thing equally well, and one costs less. Easy stuff.

But it ties back to the idea that we get so damn caught up in the gear lust, we lose sight of what we're trying to do WITH it.
 
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