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Archive for March, 2009
I LOVE JUDY
Mar 30th
I LOVE JUDY from makeshift contraption on Vimeo.
I love Judy is a classic story of a boy who meets a girl. The boy meets girl’s stalker and falls desperately in love with her.
Who Wrote and/or Directed?
This was written, Directed and edited by myself, Dusty McCord. I take full responsibility
How was this shot with?
Mostly handheld with the JVC HD100 at 720 24p.
How long did it take you to make the project?
It look about 5 days of shooting. which was two weekend and a day. I worked out the shooting so we didn’t work more than 6 hours on any given day. I think it makes it so people never want to work for free again if they end up losing their days and their self respect.
In post, There were a few sound problems that took time to work out because some things needed to be rerecorded. I don’t remember why but it took me months to edit this thing down.
What’s your budget?
I think I spend around $150 on the shooting. Most of it went to feed the crew and tape stock.
Crew size?
This one had an about 6 people on the crew for the indoor stuff and the out door stuff was just 2 people. Me at the camera and Dj Hupp at working the boom.
Tube Mogul
Mar 27th
One video hosting serves to rule that them all!
What is TubeMogul?
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COME PLAY FARM
Mar 26th
THIS JUST IN
A media-making retreat in the Eugene-area this Summer. The Oregon Film Farm is geared for Media makers to work on projects, lean about growing organic food, and Positive work enviorniments.
Emma, The orginizer for the space wrote us about “scheduling open workshops/screenings/lectures on film and sustainable food topics with the guests at the retreat over the course of the summer, but I’d (Emma) also love to bring local filmmakers out to see what we’re doing too.”
“The basic idea is to enjoy an inviting and distraction-free place to work on projects in a balanced (not spending all day staring at a computer screen) way.
The other part of the plan is to create an environment where we can become more connected to the food we eat. Watching our vegetables sprout and ripen before we devour them is a big part of this, so it will serve as a bit of a crash course in (very) small-scale food production as well.”
To contact Emma our get more information you can visit The Oregon Film Farm website.
FREE STOCK EFFECTS
Mar 20th
Detonation Films is a good place to find free explostions, muzzle flares, and other such action movie effects.
AFTER EFFECTS TUTORIALS TO GET YOU STARTED
Mar 13th
Aharon Rabinowitz is a digital animator that has a great library of tutorials on After Effects starting from very simple/beginer to more advanced. If you are just getting started I would give this page a go. There are a lot of tutorials here so give yourself a couple afternoons to try and make your way through most of them.
SegwayCop Part 1
Mar 9th
SegwayCop is an animation about a badass cop on a tricked out Segway, created by Los Moustachios. This is part 1 of 2.
How long did it take you to make the project?
About two months of very intensive work.
What’s your budget?
Uh, what’s a ‘budget’?
Crew size?
Not counting character models, we had a crew of three. All Los Moustachios projects are done with a crew of only three. We switch roles a lot, but for the most part Dan and Chris work on editing/SFX, Noah is the art department, and Chris is usually behind the camera.
Additional Information/Funny Anectdote
We found out much later after making this that we used After Effects in the complete wrong way. If you’re new to AE, look up what a ‘3D Camera‘ is, it’ll save you some time. And by some I mean hours and hours. The explosions are done with Trapcode’s AMAZING plugin, Particular (you can get the trial version on their website).
100 FREE TEXTURES
Mar 6th
Smashing Magazine is a great online resource for tutorials and other things to keep in your digital arts tool bag.
One such tool that is good to have on hand is a sizable collection of high quality textures. Smashing Magazine has created a great list of a 100 free textures to get you started or fill out your texture bank. Another great list that Smashing Magazine has posted up is the Ultimate collection of free photoshop patterns.
THE FREE BOX
Mar 2nd
The Free Box by Junk in the box productions is a comical webisode series made in portland about a a group of roommates just trying to make it.
They have youtube account and a myspace. Check them out when you get the chance.
How long did it take you to make the project?
We shoot 3 episodes in one day. so one episode takes about 3 hours.
What was your budget?
We have no Money at all. are cast and crew are great and we do it all for free.. well we do buy pizza for lunch..
Crew size?
myself(all around), jon(director/edit). paul(sound and pa/now producer), casey (lights and all around bad ass), janet(make up and script supervisor) Joey, (sound)so that would be 6 people. In the begining it was just Jon and I and janet.
Additional information / funny anecdote.
I used Sony Vegas 7.0 to edit the first ten episodes and I now use Final Cut Pro. We have shot on a number of different cameras starting with a PD-150 and upgrading all the way, now its something like an HVX-HD shit ask Paul. Most of the material is inspired and then embelished upon real events that usually happened to us in the previous week.
We always have a fucking blast making the show. we dont use prop beer or prop weed.. its all real. Some of the best parts of the show happen as accidents.
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