Archive for category Misc
3D part 2
To buy:
- 2 small protractors
- 1 small ruler
- A couple of tripod mount-sized screws + washers, etc
- Some sort of apparatus that will allow me to screw on both cameras and slide them along the center
- A handle or pistol grip to mount in the center of the camera apparatus. Additionally, this should be able to mount to a tripod/the Fig Rig.
Alan MacDougall (Jake from ‘Koala Wars!‘) is writing a quick app that will let me calculate parallax based on the angles and distance of the two cameras via my iPhone. This will allow me to naturally mimic the human eye (Avatar-style) to make the 3D images less exaggerated and hopefully more accurate.
Experiments in the Third Dimension…
Science! Anyway, I was recently doing an inventory of our gear and realized that with the 5D2’s shoot-video-in-disguise and the HF100’s small size, I didn’t have any real use for our two RCA Small Wonder cameras. We bought them as quick little things to mess around with anyway (and they were new enough at the time that Kim got interviewed in the Wall Street Journal!) so now that they’re just sitting in a box, I looked for a fun experiment that would put them both to use. The answer: Stereoscopic 3D! Read the rest of this entry »
Behind the Scenes – Fantastic Mr. Fox round-up
If you’re like me, then you’ve been excitedly following the behind the scenes links to all things Fantastic Mr. Fox! And IF you’re like me, then you go back to behind the scenes clips and articles later for reference because they’re so dang informative and interesting.
But with SO MANY clips, links, and articles, how can one keep track of everything? By reading this article where I have organized and linked everything in one concise place! (or as many as I could find since before this article is posted!)
Pre-Pro
This December we are going to be shooting a new web show, moving out of the Upper East Side down into Brooklyn.
We’re working on the scripts now, and might be making a few posts detailing the production but at the moment I can only say this much
Non-Linear Editing Systems: My Bloggiest Post
I started to write one of these articles comparing NLEs myself, but this Editor David Maurer does a much better job!
http://www.flickgym.com/2009/10/top-ten-reasons-avid-beats-final-cut-pro.html
I’m a recent convert, though not from Final Cut to Avid specifically. And not because it was a hard decision to make, but because I never had access to Avid. Previously I regularly flip-flopped between Adobe Premiere and Final Cut and quite frankly I preferred Premiere to Fina Cut for the pure usability. I hadn’t gotten too complicated with multi-cams shoots or working offline before moving to New York because all my projects were usually small, one camera shoot, indie short films. Maybe I would have had choosen FCP over Premiere for those features if I ever needed to try them out. I don’t even know how Premiere handles multicam, if at all still. But as soon as I started to work with Avid, I realized how much more robust the program is. And THEN to go back to FCP at some post houses and try and do some of the same things Avid does, it was like trying to push a car up a mountain. You can sometimes do it, but it’s real damn difficult. Now I’m a full Avid convert.
20th Century Burlap
Recently I discovered something eerie that seems to directly refer to our first short and first 48 hour film fest submission “The Body in Burlap,” whose logline since the beginning has been: “An unassuming gardener is asked to dispose of a mysterious girl.”
Behind the Scenes: Night at the Museum
This may be one of the most interesting behind the scenes videos for the making of a film I’ve seen. Lots of good descriptions of roles, lots of good rundowns of process, and good footage of the process as a whole. You get to see it rather than just talking heads describing it. Plus when people explain their job on set WHILE on set, rather than a year later as they sit on a couch with a video camera on them, it’s much more accurate and informative.
Cool stuff! I wish a video like this was available when I was first trying to figure this all out in middle school!
Royalty Free and Free!
I’m never super thrilled when it comes to the audio mixing portion of the editing process. It’s not really my thing. So certainly, already finding the whole process to be a challenge, I’m never going put the time in to record my own sound effects for every thing you hear in every project we do. Most of that is already recorded by someone who knows what they’re doing. And most of the time, that costs a lot of money to obtain. Especially if you want a decent selection.
But there are several sites out there that offer royalty free sound effects for people to download for free. Here are a couple I use regularly. Read the rest of this entry »
More From Creator David Boostrom on ‘Turkey Day’
My good friend David Boostrom just completed a 4-minute animated short for the FOX/Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge. I lent my voice to one of the characters – the dorky wizard! – and Kim did the audio recording for my work. I asked David to write down some of his thoughts about the process and lessons he learned drawing and animating a cartoon solo. You can view ‘Turkey Day’ on this site, or by visiting Aniboom here
