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Post by Adam on Sept 11, 2010 23:22:35 GMT -8
I am working on making a film! And not like the 3 shorts we have posted earlier, I am making something much more substantial. As such, I figure that I will use this space to talk about the experience and keep everyone up to date on whats going on.
So far, I have mainly just been working on buying and building equipment. I bought the Adobe Master Collection, for example, and a really nice HD camcorder. I have also built a 4 foot by 4 foot gold bounce that gets really small, and am working on finishing my bank light, which will be about 40 inches to a side when done.
If people are interested, I can also talk about my process for making these things and put up some photos of my progress and what not. I will also take photos when we are shooting and put up behind the scenes type photos during production.
We are having out first official meeting tomorrow, so I will make another post on Monday talking about how it went!
-Adam
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Post by Adam on Sept 13, 2010 14:14:16 GMT -8
The meeting was a big success! I was hoping to come up with a rough idea or two, but we ended up coming up with a full script treatment! It's a little more zany than I would have liked, but I love the story, so we are going to go for it. Preproduction begins soon, and I will start posting some behind the scene photos before too long. My new camera comes tomorrow, I'm so excited!
-Adam
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Post by Adam on Sept 14, 2010 21:23:08 GMT -8
I just got my new camera today! It's awesome! I recorded at 60 frames per second (progressive, not interlaced) a short video of throwing my sheep puppet into the air, and then brought it down to 30 fps. It still looks smooth as glass, but is moving slowly and gracefully. I wish that I had had this camera when we made a short movie with lots of Cherrio's some years back....
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Post by Adam on Sept 17, 2010 23:27:48 GMT -8
I experimented with my new camera's time laps ability yesterday, and was very happy with the result! Doing the dishes crushed down into 17 seconds. I am going to shoot some more test footage tomorrow, perhaps i will put it up on our movies page...
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Post by Adam on Sept 20, 2010 13:20:13 GMT -8
Well, the shooting of test footage ended up falling through, so I am afraid that I have nothing new to put in the movie section. Soon though, I will put us some random clips from self directed learning. I think I might put up a post showing the difference having a large gold bounce can make on a scene.
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Post by Adam on Sept 25, 2010 22:31:08 GMT -8
Very successful movie meeting today! We hammered out an old horror movie idea and put together a script treatment for it. Then we shot some silly test footage just to experiment with my new camera. All in all I am very happy with todays progress!
-Adam
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Post by Adam on Sept 26, 2010 18:37:17 GMT -8
Said test footage is now up in films section of the site. I have also made an official Fictonia Youtube site. Check it out at: www.youtube.com/user/FictoniaI am looking forward to posting many videos there! |
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Post by Eric on Sept 28, 2010 23:15:14 GMT -8
Sweet, I'd like to help out so maybe if you get some days you're going to shoot some video I can come down, as long as it will be a weekend. As you know I'm taking a video class and the teacher is awesome, I feel like I have already learned a ton so I'd like to put my input in wherever possible.
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Post by Adam on Sept 29, 2010 9:37:37 GMT -8
Totally! i have class M/W/F anyway, so weekends are the only times we will be working on film stuff. I will keep you in the loop for our next meeting.
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Post by Eric on Sept 29, 2010 17:18:46 GMT -8
Sounds good!
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Post by Adam on Oct 9, 2010 23:16:55 GMT -8
Successful meeting today! While we didn't get as much work done as I would have liked, we had tons of fun, and that is also very important. Also, I now have footage of Ann dressed like a carrot, and stomping around like a zombie. All and all, a good day.
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Post by Ann on Oct 12, 2010 10:05:15 GMT -8
Fortunately my face is obscured, so that video can't be used for blackmail purposes later...
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Post by Adam on Oct 22, 2010 23:33:20 GMT -8
So, last saturday we started learning more about the camera and lighting and what not while visiting Ann's place in the city. It was really fun, and she has an ally under her apartment building which is without a doubt a perfect horror movie location. I will put up a clip or two when i get back to the bay area on monday.
In the mean time, i am up in chico this weekend, and am going to try to shoot a short movie with Eric tomorrow. Wish me luck!
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