The theme this time around was "120 seconds" and I had a few ideas, but decided to go with this one. I'll be interested in your comments. It was all shot and edited during the day on Wednesday. I had the concept and willingness to appear in the movie and enlisted my friend Jack to run the camera. Whew! This was the closest one yet -- almost didn't make it in time for the midnight deadline. The challenges were as follows:
I had a normal work schedule and Jack and I went and picked up the Panasonic DVX100 video camera for a demo early this morning! Wowzer. This camera rocks hard and appears to beat the competition soundly. This is a 24p prosumer camera for under $4,000! It does 24p, 30p, 30i, 60i, NTSC, PAL, has 2 XLR inputs with phantom power, great design/balance, nice lens, full manual control, stellar features... we couldn't stop playing with it! It is super cool. Anyway, not that you can necessarily tell from the video clip online, but some of the shots were from this camera. We just turned it on and shot. Reading the manual would have been a good idea! Do some research on this cam -- you'll be amazed.
Comments
First things first; add a little milk and basil to your eggs, much tastier that way. Secondly, what's your compression technique? My short was originally fullscreen dv, exported to 320x240 using FCP and then Cleaner 6, almost 7 megs and still looked liked ass in some places. I thought your short went through the compression well.
Thirdly, we need to sort out this "Jeremy" thing on weeklydv- my agent is getting very antsy and threatening to sue.
Good stuff.
Posted by: JeReMY | November 21, 2002 11:14 AM
Hilarious! I'm crying! Of course in my own egomaniacal way, when I saw the first bit of "scrubbing" I thought, "Is he thinking about my...lace?"
You're so good!
Posted by: Lauri | November 21, 2002 12:21 PM
Lauri - you make me laugh! that is so funny. maybe if I would have thought about lace it would have been easier to do with a straight face! :^)
Jeremy - I only used FCP and Quicktime Pro as I don't have Cleaner yet. I did it at 320x240, Sorenson 3 codec, millions of colors, quality 69, keyframe every 30 frames, 70k/sec data rate and did the audio with QDesign codec at 22k, 16-bit mono. Still a bit on the large size, but looking pretty good. I am very tempted to start using only MPEG-4. The tonal range is much better! But sometimes a bit rougher looking during transitions.
Posted by: jeremyw | November 21, 2002 10:34 PM
That was my next thought. How could he (and your cameraman especially) get through those scenes without cracking up? Helps not having a voice track recording. I remember doing little skits in elementary school and never being able to stop giggling. Of course, I'm much more mature now....a little more?..... SHUT UP, LEAVE ME ALONE! *pout*
Posted by: Lauri | November 21, 2002 11:39 PM
As the camera man on this shoot I can tell you that Jeremy was using the "method" (ie drawing on past life experiences) school of acting for this serious, insightful and courageous performance......
AND I want it stated clearly for the record, that I did NOT coach or attempt to help Jeremy find his "motivation" in any way.
In fact, I thought I did an amazing job, considering I had my eyes closed the whole time.
Posted by: Jack | November 26, 2002 02:39 PM