MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

iT was done in iMovie, I was going to do good ones in motion or after effects but ran out of time for tropfest, i figure it adds to the cartoony looks,
after all...chickens don't fly...even when they're not dog toys.

Lightsabers are cool. anyone know how they did them for the first films?

"place keyboard in line with forehead, use fast downward motion to make contact with keyboard. Repeat. ready go."

I lost my password once and that method worked...

thats cool, "you guys are like...ninjas man" anywho, that was very impressive and kinda funny.

that's cool. In Tasmania (the shithole of Australia) we have a shop caled Chickenfeed who sell cheap stuff.
They sell heaps of plastic piustols and guns, they're my main prop supplier! 2 Dollars for everything...

film day for night "Day-For-Night Day-for-night (DFN) photography is an effect that makes a scene recorded in daylight to appear as if it were at twilight. This is usually accomplished by the use of a filter that both underexposes by about two stops, and can also produce a bluish color overcast...

Be careful with your camera moves, some of them were jerky when you were moving the camera head on your tripod.
I liked the story, perhaps a longer film would be better to work in further plot pieces and characters?
The most obvious mistake was to have credits longer than your actual film!

I found a really good setting on my camera that makes the video look it's best: spotlight, whatever the equivalent is. It makes the dark look dark, rather than grey and grainy...

heres another thing, double the amount of time you think something will take to shoot, if it doesn't take as long as the doubled time, think about how the shot/scene can be improved and work on that.

Now I saw the rest I liked it, it has a sort of Cult film feels about it, like bad taste...The camera work and editing was terrible, but I enjoyed it, so we'll call that arty...
I loved that shot of them running down the path with the pole in between them...

anyone?

cool, thanks

thats was good. I liked it, the talking was boring, but the camera work was good. That shot looking sideways at the guy with the curly hair wasn't working for me,
perhaps it would be better a bit further away, give the audience some space?

Yeah, Jperson. Apart from the impossibility of what you suggest and the potential to completely ruin all his stuff thats great advice. I liked the air conditioning joke though.

oh yeah...Get Firefox, or a Mac. and once you get a Mac, Get Firefox!

This is the little film I made while bored, and decided to enter into tropfest. I got my rejection letter today, so I figure I can post it all I like... <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wfU8ErEJZuc"> </param...

I know people do this here all the time, but I really don't know of anywhere to ask because the people in the shops just want to sell it to me and have never done anything close to what I want to use it for.

I'm looking for a non-professional (because I can't afford it) DV camera with good quality.

thats awesome.

ADD (A.D.D) is Attention Deficit Disorder, it is a disorder that impedes a persons ability to
focus attention on one or multiple tasks and because of this causes learning disabilities/anti-social behaviour in crowded conditions.

To just comment on films saying "terrible" or "grow some talet" isn't goning to help his next film be any better, perhaps you should consider telling him what was wrong? Personally I only watched the first 4 seconds before screaming and running away, which was partly because it w...

yes. Don't get banned for adult content before the competition for adult scenes and boycott the event. That's what happened to me when I submitted my History assignment into the competition.
The film that won was cr**.

Cutting my hand open building a prop, I could see all the tendons and fat, so we took a picture. I can't find it. I don't mind what were filming, because most of the time we're just joking around and having fun while getting the shots done. We always have little gagas in films for people who look at...

I don't use any of them

the bastard.

yeah, but the joy of digital video is that you have the flexibility to deviate from the script and the shooting schedule, if we all shot to our scripts they wouldn't be as good.

do you charge?