MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Shooting actor took 3 days (2 scheduled and 1 for reshooting) plus 1 day for exterior backplates. Post took over six months. Some parts were cut, some redubbed or added as voice overs. Accidently it was like in film of Stanislaw Bareja - polish cult-director. He frequently used to shoot very wide sh...

Hi guys, it's been a long time. I've finished "the Hole" few months ago but I didn't have time to translate it and make subtitles. Anyway, here it is: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QhAioxYHOKY"><...

If you don't have an experience with cinematography better stay with one camera. Just plan every single shot on storyboard. Multiple cameras can be helpfull in action scenes like fighting or car chase. You can set the lighting only for one cammera setting at once to achieve desired style and look. I...

BTW: what do you call on institution that is gathered in case of crisis like natural disaster or terror threat? I mean special board of chief policemen, rescuers, or other officers responsible for planning, coordinating and managing everything during crisis. I should go to sleep... my english is wor...

There will be subtitles (don't expect dubbing ) - during editing some dialogs were cut away and I think it will be more universal.

OK folks.. here's second and last teaser of my film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l4k6BV37Mc Re-edited, with some shots changed and this kind of stuff... After New Year (I hope) I will present the final version. A small FAQ: fish were real (I ate them later), grenade was real (I removed the inito...

pdj wrote:i love the colour highlights its just enough without going overboard. really clever technique yet a pain in the a** to do in post!

You can bet Some shots were made with simple change color, some shots with chroma keying and most of them with damn frame-by-frame animated masks.

Metronome1 wrote:Cool! Great film.

It WILL be a film. It's just a teaser.

OK, let's try again. This time I use YouTube. Whole film is shot on greenscreen and all sceneries were built with still photos (a lot of stock photo) and exterior shots. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KDGoxAPnOQ...

The problem is not quite like in Serbia: our last war ended 60 years ago and we have democracy for 17 years but politicians still have mentality like in comminism. Some of them use cross instead od red star but they thinking the same way. Our current goverment is right wing with sentenced criminal a...

hey, No no... this is serious project :D This is something like to finish a college or something (not Master of Arts - I need two years more to achieve this). We have weird education system. I guess I'll be fired when someone at school watch this :/ It should be "universal" but put some jo...

Hi there, I'm on final lap with my diploma film. I stuck in postproduction right now and I have only month to finish it. The film was shot 100% on green screen and it's political fiction/surrealistic/satire. I guess none of non-polish viewers would understand all jokes but you can tell what do you t...

Inside planets like Earth there are nuclear reactions all the time and post of mass is hot, melted rock. I think there would be enough hot stuff for an explosion even in vacuum. The Sun burns and doesn't need air. Atomic energy.... I love it. The other thing: it's a bloody film not a educational cha...

Not a big deal. No reflection.
Composite this with an actor and made some interaction.

Use VirtualDub with this plugin http://www.compression.ru/video/old_cin ... ex_en.html
Read this: http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/arti ... p?id=26372 - it's for AE but it could help.

it's ordinary divx codec. Don't tell me don't have it in your system.

Take look at this: http://sfx.com.pl/tmp/pkin_test_2607.avi
I'm working on this and this is still testing and not perfect but I'd like to know what do you think about this. Especially all of suggestion what is wrong and need improving.

mickcar73 wrote:does any body know if il be able to do that with elements? or do i need to get after affects for that

You don't need a tank to kill the mosquito. No problem with muzzles, dividing screen and others.

Usefull or not - he just copied somebody else work. This is not ethical. Somebody worked hard to gain his knowledge and experience and he shares it in articles, websites... And then came some nigel101 and copied it on his website. If he'd make a page with links to these reasources it would be OK but...

amen. but i do agree with everybody about the flair. but what does everyone mean about backlight? This guy is flat. Lifeless. If you make this photo again with more backlight (put a source of light behind the actor, about 45 degrees) this will create some sort... I can't a word in english... trace ...

I don't know nothing about PS10. Premiere Elements is good for editing and there are some effects you can make with this but this is not a composig soft so don't expect God know what kinds of fx. Green/Blue Screen, image mattes, garbage masks, lot of color adjustment filters. Get Photoshop Elements ...

Get rid of that flair. I would add more backlight on this fellow with gun.

In polish, but you don't loose anything. The lyrics are terrible. Like written by teens.
But that's nothing. I know a dark-metal band whis sings texts from bible.

jperson - you've just wasted 4 minutes of my life.... boring, boring and once again: boring. Some house hardware shooted the way that makes me sea sick with some mumbo-jumbo titles.

My film school was restrictive. I went in to it saying "If I end up making a film about a depressed artist, get me out of there". And I pretty much gave up on it when they actually forced me to make a documentary on a depressed artist So the schools are the same every everywhere. Friend o...