Video, Iowa State Fair 2010
The Iowa State Fair was fun as always. It was rich with video opportunity.
-Mark-
Final Edit 48 Hour Film
This is the final edit of our 48hour film. Time to move on to another project. We shot a few scenes this weekend to help clarify a couple of plot points. I also used some music under the creative commons license.
Obviously, the original film is the one that got turned in. This is just the edit that I wanted to do so that I felt the project was done.
This is the one to watch. It is coherent, moody, and complete.
Mark
Cut Scene from our 48Hour submission
This scene was cut from our original submission. It was fun to do, but the time constraints made it impossible to include. This is RJ as the plumber and his grandchildren as the “kids”
We are working on a final cut that will include this scene.
Silent Film – Our 48 Hour Film Project Genre
Well, after weeks of anticipation, we drew our Genre. SILENT FILM. It is definitely restricted by having NO DIALOGUE, it is not restricted in that it can be comedy, horror, drama etc. We are busy putting together the most ridiculous seven minutes of film ever.
-Mark-
The prop is coins, the character is Carl or Carla Ross (A Plumber). The required line of dialogue is “Who came up with that?”
Casting Day, 48hour film project.
Casting for the 48 hour film project was tonite. These are photos that I captured.
48 Hour Film Festival Hits Des Moines (and me)
Times are busy, busy, busy. A good group of folks and myself have entered the 48 hour film contest in Des Moines. Starting at 6:30 on Friday July 23 and running until 6:30 Sunday July 25, (48hours), our team, (and about 40 other teams in DSM) will write, shoot, and edit an 8-10 minute short film. For the next ten days we will be practicing writing, filming, lighting, and editing so that when the 23rd comes, we will be ready. None of our practice stuff will make it into the film in any way, (that is the whole idea of everything happening in 48 hours). However, these two clips are from a practice session last weekend. ENJOY!
-Mark-
48 Hour Film Festival Hits Des Moines Practice Clip 2
To re-iterate, these are practice sessions for acting, and camera angles and sound. We have no idea what our genre or film will end up being.
“Black Iowa Dirt” – William Elliott Whitmore
This is William Elliott Whitmore singing “Black Iowa Dirt” at the 80-35 music festival in Des Moines over the Fourth of July weekend. I recorded the audio separately and added some video from the festival to round out the four and a half minutes of video that I shot from this song. Here is a link to his site
Demolition at the Polk County Jail
They are demolishing the old Polk County Jail. Fun to watch. I am working on a long video of NYC, and Washington D.C. expect it soon.
Ukulele, Jim “Jimboni”
Friend of couchsurfing host, Indianapolis, Indiana.
NYC, Central Park
These people look like they belong in a United Colors of Benneton ad. They were just hangin out in Central Park. This is a straight clip, no editing or color correcting. Straight from the camera, web-u-lated and then posted.
HDR Video Grays Lake
HDR for photography is fantastic. With it you can get anything from a subtle enhancement of an already great photo to a hyped up surreal acid-trip version of the real world.
Video is just moving photography. I took the Grays lake video and changed it all to still photos in a directroy (45oo stills in fact) I then converted them to HDR in Mediachances’s software Dynamic Photo HDR. I set up a batch to do the same thing to all 4500 pictures. I then imported them back into my editing software and made them back into a movie. I edited out some parts of the original video because it did not all take well to the process. This post represents the effort.
My next step is to shoot a video from the beginning with the idea that I am going to make it HDR. There are just some subjects and shooting styles that will work very well with this technique.
The music for this video is Mellissa Hyman’s “Let Me Keep You”.
-Mark-
Grays Lake Video
This is the first draft of a video shot at Grays Lake park in Des Moines. Feel free to leave comments/notes.
Videography is much harder than photography. In photography things only have to be good for the split second that the shutter is open. In video every thing has to be good for the duration of the clip. I am also much better at advanced photoshop stuff than I am at advanced video editing. I will learn more…..
The music for the video is Justin Ewart’s “In My Dream”.
-Mark-
HDR (Video) Second Trial
Ok, so I took a ten second video clip, exported it as 300 seperate images, made them all hdr in photoshop, and then imported them back into a video. I will be doing more projects like this.
Mark
HDR (Video) First Attempt
This video was kind of funny anyway. I used it to test a plan to make video into hdr video. This was my first attempt!
Mark
Full Sapphire Beach Video
This is the video that is currently playing at Sapphire Beach on Channel six. It is 90 minutes long. It was shot over the last three years.
-Mark-
Woot.com and Zak Evans from Utah
Zak Evans, my great CS friend from Utah ordered a box of random stuff from woot.com when I was there in December. I wrote a little post when I was intoxicated that described the ordeal. This is a link to that post…. <-be sure to read this post to get up to speed on THIS post.
This is the video of the hip-hoppin-hippies.
Aunt Florine’s farm
My aunt Florine has lived on the same farm for the last seventy years. She moved there with her husband, (my uncle K.C. (short for Kenneth Chaloupka)) when she was 18 years old. She is 88 and still does daily farm chores. This clip is from last summer when we all paid a visit. Here she talks about one of the tractors that has been on the farm for 60 years.
Dawn, Pacific Coast Highway, California
The trip down the highway 1 (more commonly called Pacific coast highway or PCH) was a fantastic part of my December road trip. The coastline is so beautiful that I was compelled to stop every few miles to shoot video. This is from the PCH near Eureka, California just after dawn on December 9, 2009.
Sapphire Beach
Hi-Def video from Sapphire Beach, St Thomas, USVI.
Fotali.com
I have been playing a little with fotali.com. I want it to be a site dedicated mostly to photography/videography. The splash screen is a thirty second full screen video of some of my slides from this summer. Let me know what you think. (warning, fotali.com is for fast internet connections)
Check out fotali.com