movie i'm working on..

[africanmarty]

movie i'm working on with my hv20*. Its a horror short should run about 5 mins when completed :

- captured unsing HDVsplit
- edited using permier pro 2
- magic bullet 'night time' filter used
- sound effects added

Let me know what you think

Link:
http://stage6.divx.com/Martys-Indie-Movies/video/1356867/Whats-in-the-basement-

regards Marty.

*movie is unfinished

[tkmslee]

Very nice. Magic Bullet is great. It takes forever to render, but the results are well worth it.

I'd love to see your finished product. I'm working on a short subject sci-fi using magic bullet...I'll post it when ready.

[Thimble_Guy]

Great video. Looking forward to the full version and yeah i agree the magic bullet plug-in is awesome, it gives you some great looking video.

[Mark Dog2]

can you put up a download version marty please thanxxxxxxxxx :)


peace n luv

Mark Dog 2

[Mark Dog2]

just watched Marty and all i have to say is GREAT GREAT and GREAT you man marty, i cant wait to see the full version when you put it up and gives a downloadable full resloution version , i got ask what was your lighting set up cause the hv20 needs lighting what you use as lighting i know you shot 25p but did you use cinemode ????? and what were your settings etc ??? can you post some before and after pics up before you did the color correction with magic bullet be great Marty

peace n luv

Mark Dog 2

[visually]

Great shots,
nice contrasts, all that with Magic bullet, amazing.

[tkmslee]

A before (totally raw footage) and after would be awesome!

[africanmarty]

Thanks all so much for the comments :) Magic bullet did take a long time to render it took about 12-13 hours if i remember correctly.Cinemode was used everything else was standard setting ( apart from correctly setting white ballance ). As for lighting all was done in daytime, basement was lightly lit but not dark at all, the illusion is purely the magic bullet effect ( wich you will see in the pics i'll post up later) i will post some before and after pics for you all to see, and put up a raw file. What will host such large raw files ??? But i have work ( its 6:30am here in oz ) and i start @ 7:30. so will post this after noon. tkmslee remember to post the link for your movie. Regards Marty.

[PWHerman]

Nice short so far...I really liked the doll at the end!

[sean90291]

I liked it. Keep going.

[africanmarty]

Thanks for the kind words sean90291/PWHerman :) Here are the before and after magic bullet pics, i would have out more but i cant find some of the original footage, i think i may have deleted it :eek: but as you can see in these pics all were done in daylight ( or in quite high lighting ) with the magic bullet 'night scene' filter added. sorry guys but i dont think i can add a raw 'original footage' clip as i cant find the m2t's.... but i can upload a raw file of the movie w/ MB filter and SFX wich is 719MB so if you know where i can host it let me know. Click in images for a larger/clearer image. - Marty.

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As always let me know what you think.

[Mark Dog2]

pics look good ,hope you can find the orginal footage love to see that marty really

[Mark Dog2]

can you but up what of the orginal footage you have though be great marty thanxxxxxxxxxxxxx , cant wait to see the finshed short

peace n luv

Mark Dog 2

[lonely1]

nice looking footage, but i can't find the night effect filter in magic bullet 2.1

where did you get that option?

[tkmslee]

nice looking footage, but i can't find the night effect filter in magic bullet 2.1

where did you get that option?

I know if you are using Final Cut for editing, there is a separate fcp document that comes with the plug ins and you have to open it up as a project file to see the presets.

I don't know how it is for After Effects though. Good luck!

[PWHerman]

That Night Scene filter is sweet!

[africanmarty]

pics look good ,hope you can find the orginal footage love to see that marty really

doubtful, but maybe i could piece together what i have... of the original footage

[africanmarty]

nice looking footage, but i can't find the night effect filter in magic bullet 2.1

where did you get that option?

what video app are you using it with ?

[africanmarty]

That Night Scene filter is sweet!

thanks, it does magic on my footage ( i didnt evan play with its settings )

[DEDFX]

Looked great, where'd you get that messed up looking doll?

[Mark Dog2]

that be GREAT Marty if you could peace togher some the orginal footage and put it up for us to dowload to se what it lookedl ike before the nightime filter frog magic bullet thanxxxxxxxxxxxx

peace n luv

Mark Dog 2

[africanmarty]

Looked great, where'd you get that messed up looking doll?

my dad found it on our basement.... probably belonged to the people who we bought the house off like over 20 yers ago.. its so old and creepy lol.

[africanmarty]

that be GREAT Marty if you could peace togher some the orginal footage and put it up for us to dowload to se what it lookedl ike before the nightime filter frog magic bullet thanxxxxxxxxxxxx

peace n luv

Mark Dog 2

ok i'll upload what i can find i think i have quite alot of it but it will be big...
like 289MB for the first 1m 30s of the fottage and 184MB for 55s of footage after that.. (original raw footage - with sound effects - no magic bullet ) uploading now. if it works i will post link. but dont hold breath as it will take a while. and i'm off to bed. will post link in morning ( if uploaded correctly ) - Marty.

[africanmarty]

ok first upload attemp failed ( i did both files @ once ) trying again 1 file at a time.

[Mark Dog2]

cant wait to see the footage Marty :)

[africanmarty]

Second file uploaded to megaupload :
Filename: second.mpg
Filesize: 184.86MB
Description: file 2

link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6UE5T1LF

[africanmarty]

First file uploaded to megaupload:
Filename: bed scene.mpg
Filesize: 289.57 MB
Description: file 1

Link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WZQAHHDB

[africanmarty]

are the links working ? any those on the raw footage - marty.

[Mark Dog2]

yea there working Marty they look good to and i see your using natural low house hold light if im right the images look very film like i can see what you get if you had like a 1,000 watts soft box lighting the area realy crisp image thanxxx for the footage and sharing Marty , cant wait to see the the whole short when you finsh hows it going along so far ???????? also you use a smoke machine i see , and did you have the hv20 set on cinemode marty ????????????????????????

[africanmarty]

yea there working Marty they look good to and i see your using natural low house hold light if im right the images look very film like i can see what you get if you had like a 1,000 watts soft box lighting the area realy crisp image thanxxx for the footage and sharing Marty , cant wait to see the the whole short when you finsh hows it going along so far ???????? also you use a smoke machine i see , and did you have the hv20 set on cinemode marty ????????????????????????

Thanks glad they worked, i used cinmode and TV mode ( had to use tv as cine mode cut out alot of the smoke detail in some scenes ) i'm just waiting for a 35mm adaptor to finish the short should be here in a few days. - marty.

[africanmarty]

Sorry to resurrect this old thread of mine but I’m getting some time on my hand in about 1 week and should have some days to add some scenes to my movie ( I plan on finishing it by late next year ) however I have some questions that I thought would get some input on :

Now that I have my rig almost finished (just waiting for my fellow focus) and have my Letus 35 I will be adding scenes that will have DOF. Whereas the whole film (except grabbing the phone in the very last scene) were all shot with no 35mm adaptor.... now should I go back and re-shoot some scenes with the Letus 35 or leave it as is? i was thinking i could just leave it but was wondering what you guys thought....

Marty.

[strancali]

Hi Marty, I 'm still downloading the the footage but is that a Letus Extreme i see in your avatar? Did you use it for this short?

[africanmarty]

Is that a Letus Extreme i see in your avatar? Did you use it for this short?


ok cool let me know what you think, no its the letus flip enhaned ( the extreme wasnt avaliable when i made my purchase ). For the very last scnene when i grab the phone it was shot with a DIY 35 adaptor.. but now i have my letus :hv20-smilie77:

[africanmarty]

i uploaded a 720p HD version at stage 6 :

http://stage6.divx.com/Martys-Indie-Movies/video/1902184/

It still needs editing to it like filtering the sounds while upstairs, as the sounds woudn't be heard so crisp/clearly from the basement so i'm going to run a low pass filters on the sounds with the shots done upstairs (for the sound coming from downstairs in the basement).

[Erik Bien]

Hey marty, looking good! :hv20-smilie77:

You might consider adding another one or two "establishing shots" at the beginning to help make the point that he's alone in the house ... maybe after the shots of the tree branches, a low angle of a lonely-looking house with all the lights off ... then maybe a wider shot of him sleeping, pushing in slow (give the audience a bit more context, make them wonder if it's a POV shot from the monster/murderer, etc.).

A minor quibble: your "fog" is a bit distracting -- it almost looks as if something is burning! I know renting a "hazer" might be beyond your budget, but maybe if you fog the set heavily and then let it "settle" for a couple of minutes before rolling it would be a bit more diffuse. It's tough getting fog to match from shot to shot!

(And at the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I still think it's pretty cool we can check out what people on the other side of the globe are doing with their HV20s through the magic of the Internet!)

[Ian-T]

Hey Marty...looks good so far....also what Erik said I kind of agree with. Here's one more tip... Do you think maybe you can either re-film the opening exterior scenes with some actual wind blowing through the branches etc., or maybe change the sound byte to match what we see?? The sound effects are nice but it does not match the scene...there is absolutely no motion in that footage...but yet I hear a lot of things going on in the sound bytes. Personally ...if you do decide to do one or the other I would go with the re-shoot because those sound bytes come off real good for a horror film...

Just a thought...

[africanmarty]

Hey marty, looking good! :hv20-smilie77:

You might consider adding another one or two "establishing shots" at the beginning to help make the point that he's alone in the house ... maybe after the shots of the tree branches, a low angle of a lonely-looking house with all the lights off ... then maybe a wider shot of him sleeping, pushing in slow (give the audience a bit more context, make them wonder if it's a POV shot from the monster/murderer, etc.).

A minor quibble: your "fog" is a bit distracting -- it almost looks as if something is burning! I know renting a "hazer" might be beyond your budget, but maybe if you fog the set heavily and then let it "settle" for a couple of minutes before rolling it would be a bit more diffuse. It's tough getting fog to match from shot to shot!

(And at the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I still think it's pretty cool we can check out what people on the other side of the globe are doing with their HV20s through the magic of the Internet!)

Excellent advice!!! I added a wide shot of my house and changed the tree/branch shots to moving in wind shots wich came out great, I’m going to shoot a wider shot of him sleeping and see if that works (later in the week). As for the fog, I like how it came so I think I’m going to leave it (though I might edit some to reduce the amount seen) but the fog doesn’t settle but tends to rise :)

I too love that we can see peoples work with their HV20's around the world.

PS: To all watching this short I accept criticism weather it be constructive, positive or negative it all help improve my movie so keep it coming

- regards Marty.

[africanmarty]

Hey Marty...looks good so far....also what Erik said I kind of agree with. Here's one more tip... Do you think maybe you can either re-film the opening exterior scenes with some actual wind blowing through the branches etc., or maybe change the sound byte to match what we see?? The sound effects are nice but it does not match the scene...there is absolutely no motion in that footage...but yet I hear a lot of things going on in the sound bytes. Personally ...if you do decide to do one or the other I would go with the re-shoot because those sound bytes come off real good for a horror film...

Just a thought...

thanks for the advice i did reshoot some footage to match and its looking alot better.

Theres nothing really new ( aparts for the 5-6 seconds of re-shot scenes ) so i wont be uploading the update until i have some more new footage to show you guys :) so watch this space !

- Marty.

[africanmarty]

ok so i got to shoot some footage yesterday and have put together a rough cut for you guys to look at :

http://www.vimeo.com/764220

let me know what you think - regards Marty.

[africanmarty]

any thoughts guys ? i know it needs sound, but want to know what u think.

[RScottyL]

ok so i got to shoot some footage yesterday and have put together a rough cut for you guys to look at :

http://www.vimeo.com/764220

let me know what you think - regards Marty.


Looks pretty good, however the initial scenes on that are very dark.

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[africanmarty]

hey guys the movie is coming along i have it almost done, i have put it in the correct sequence from start to finish (running about 6:24 total) all it needs is some cgi with after effects to finish a few scenes, but i have a problem...

i'm having trouble with the sound side of things... i need some help of anyone who does sound or has an input of what i should do... now this is from 3:38 onwards i'm pretty happy with the sound before that point. any ideas on SFX to use/music where it should go ect... would be very much appriciated.

Here is the link:
http://vimeo.com/818730

thanks Marty.

[africanmarty]

Here is the movie ( rough cut, just need finalising w/ audio ) for download :

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8JAE9ZBP

as the movie is in HD ( HDV mpeg2 format ) the file size was 1.20GB so i converted it to AVCHD ( H.264 format ) and the resulting file is 422MB keeping an awesom quality. Download it and let me know what you think.

Thanks, Regards Marty.

[Kyser]

Hi, I commented on this over at DVXuser.

Keep it up! It's starting to come together.