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Video, Iowa State Fair 2010

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:28:45 +0000

The Iowa State Fair was fun as always. It was rich with video opportunity.

-Mark-

East Side Night, Iowa State Fair

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:30:50 +0000

My Brother Merle, Iowa State Fair 2010

The first Friday night of the Iowa State Fair is the unofficial “East Side Night”. Every year it is a great chance to get together with friends that I grew up with. Many of these fine people I only run into here. I took quite a few pictures this year. Unfortunately they spiraled into the shitter by the end of the night thanks to too many beers.

I believe strongly in natural light and I rarely use a flash when I take pictures. It makes for more work when they are done but the results are worth it.

I took a lot of pictures of my brother this year and I posted my favorite one here.

THIS IS A LINK TO THIS YEARS PICTURES!

Final Edit 48 Hour Film

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:02:50 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:26:52 +0000

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.

Our 48 Hour film.

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:33:56 +0000

Well, the 48 hour film festival is over. I have been up for the last 40 hours straight and I am tired. It was fantastic fun. I assembled a wonderful team of people and am very proud of the work that we did. I would love to make a feature film! There are a few things I would do different, but not many. I would mainly do the same things next year but be a little wiser.

Our film Genre was Silent Movie so there could be no dialogue. There could be music and sound effects. I chose no sound effects. (with the exception of a record screech and a video game coin sound)

Please leave a comment!

Mark

Silent Film – Our 48 Hour Film Project Genre

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:32:57 +0000

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.

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:39:17 +0000

Casting for the 48 hour film project was tonite. These are photos that I captured.

Lightning, July 14, 2010

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:48:31 +0000

48 Hour Film Festival Hits Des Moines (and me)

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:37:57 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:40:18 +0000

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.