MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Excellent little set of tips you have there. Any more coming this way?

sonnyboo, I live in MD (OH not too far). Where do you get film like that processed, can you recommend a place? What is the rate?

After watching your behind the scenes videos, it still amazes me how professionally you took this indie. Very inspiring.

Interesting, I enjoyed it. Nice gernade explosions.

One other question. What camera and sound device did you use? Also, I noticed that some of the vechicles look like ones from the game Battlefield 1942. Are they? And if so, are you allowed to you them?

That was amazing, VERY professional. I liked it alot. Great job. Can't wait to see the whole thing.

That was pretty cool. Interesting bullet idea. Also I like your attempt of making it look like you were really jumping off of the balcony. What would have been really cool is if you had really found a safe way to jump. One way to do this would have a platform only a few feet down but have the camera...

very impressive

I have been using 3 mini-dv tapes in rotation forever since you can keep writing over them, but little by little, will quality slowly dwindle? I wanted to know before I went into a lifetime of questioning this.

Can't wait to see the finished version. Music and audio was good, but the muzzle flashes lacked in a few spots. I liked it.

I litterally shot and edited this move in a couple hours. Its about 1 minute, 11 seconds long; 8MB. It turned out perfectly. A must watch. I would really appreciate any feedback.

http://tauntonfilms.com/static.wmv

Evan Flores
Taunton Films

What programs do you have available to you (video editing wise)?

Well I got bored today and decided to do a clone test. I used Adobe After Effects to mask the two scenes over one another and its pretty seemless (for only taking about 20 min). Check it out and tell me what you think.

http://tauntonfilms.com/clone_test.wmv

I love it. Did you use a dolly for those "slowly moving in shots" or was that just a very slow zoom?

Thank you truggy for the comments. I will need to remember them when I go to start my next project.

Taunton Films is proud to announce the release of it's first short low-budget movie. The movie is about a local town urban legend called the "Goatman". This urban legend it an active one in PG county in Maryland. We decided to make a short horror/action on the creature. Please remember tha...

I thought that was pretty entertaining. Looks like you guys had alot of fun. Did you have to get permission to where masks around the school? Because my high school would flip out on us if we went around the school with masks.

Hello all, As I finish my editing for my horror movie (Goatman), I still do not have music and I was wondering if there was anyone here who could score it. I do not have money to pay you, but the least I can do is give you full music credit and send you the finished DVD at the end of production. Doe...

I just got this idea that I could make a dolly similar to that and then tie it to the back of my go cart and set a steady speed. Then I would mute the sound and keep the go-cart at a steady paste.

Ah, yes. Its amazing how much of a cinematic touch a dolly can put into a shot. Great work!

Yeah, I agree with UF. Balsa wood is realistic, but it will not hurt becuase it is so light and "non-dense". The shatter would look real aswell. Real woody...

It is amazing how much topic came out of something so stupid.

Pretty good....if only the pink/purple make up was a redder color and it would look even more realistic.

There are a few "middle class" editors $90-150 that work well.....anything but WMM.

The only thing WMM is good for is compressing in WMV format.