*Disabled vs. Wild II* was shot in Sutton, WV in April of 2009 when the bear was on the prowl!
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Ants in My Shoes
Thom there is a iPhone version of the video. The aspect ratio is screwed up though. Don’t know why. TIM RESPOND.
“Hi There” – The Music Phenomenon
Torture Porn Disco – THE MUSIC VIDEO!
NVL
Thom let me borrow his night vision scope. I did a little test with it this evening in conjunction with the Jazz DV151. This is the result.
A Postcard for Fred and a Stamp
Here’s another short film shot on the Jazz DV151. It is about sending Fred a postcard. My shaky camera work aside, the film gives a better sense of the camera’s capabilities, especially in low light where the gain gets cranked up. I noticed at times that the camera has a mild sound sync loss. I would also note that about an hour into recording the footage, I finally had to switch the batteries (and I’d been using it a couple days prior also). The camera runs off of double A’s.
For interested parties, Megan will be posting the video on Melodic Insomniac also. She’ll probably have some different comments on it than I.
Jazz DV151
I bought the Jazz DV151 camera from Walmart for $20.00 yesterday. The camera has a flip out viewscreen and records AVI files onto SD cards (it can handle up to 2GB cards) at a 320 x 240 resolution. The image is pretty much what you would expect from a $20.00 camera, but I haven’t been able to stop playing with it. Check out the short movie below to see and hear the quality of the recording. I’m still trying to figure out if I can hook the camera up to my computer so I can double it as a web cam (when you connect the camera to a computer with the USB, it switches automatically to download mode). I posted a picture of the camera at the bottom of this post so interested parties can see what it looks like.
Turkey Breasts
Turkey Breasts was shot over the winter holiday. In addition to featuring Thom, Tim, Brian, Megan, a turkey and other stuff, the film features the dirt road out by my parent’s place in Salisbury, MD. Over the years, the dirt road has appeared in a number of movies I’ve been involved with in one way or another. In the ones on Protozoic alone, it crops up in Operation: Red Chicken Disco Jesus (Redux)</a href>, The Cave of Trouble in: Search for the Chupacabra, Spontaneous Combustion and The Bridge. For me, getting to return to the dirt road was one of my favorite parts about making this movie. It’s pretty cool to get old with your buddies and the places you grew up.
For interested parties, Tim has some production stills from the shoot that can be viewed here.
Hope you enjoy the film.
Can
The final version of the short film I produced for MiND, Media Independence in Philadelphia is live online. I think it is has been live for a while, I was just unaware that it was.
You can view it by clicking here.
Part of I Can’t Wait to Hear Your Excuse appears in Can. However, Can also includes the acting talents of Jon Gillis as well as an original score by lyricist, composer and librettist Frumi Cohen, who has produced and directed over 20 musicals since 1979.
While you’re on the MiND site, be sure to check out their other content. They’ve got a lot of really great and informative stuff that is sure to blow your mind (couldn’t help myself on that one).
Christmas Shoot
Mike brought a 16 mm Bolex camera home from school over Christmas break, and we shot a short entitled Turkey Breasts. Like many other shorts, we’ve shot over Christmas break1, it was shot on The Dirt Road2. Unlike other ones we’ve shot, this is the first Christmas break film actually shot on film. I think Mike sent the film off for development and it should be back soon…
Pictures from the shoot are here. (Not all pictures are uploaded yet…)
- The Search for the Chupacabra, Spontaneous Combustion, Ant Farm, and Risks were all shot over the holidays. The first two used The Dirt Road extensively as a location. ↩
- The Bridge was also shot on the dirt road (on 8mm). ↩