NEW: Turkey Day Cartoon!
Posted by David in Misc, Production on September 1st, 2009
Frequent collaborator and friend from way back David Boostrom just finished his holiday cartoon for FOX’s Aniboom contest. We’ll have more on the making of “Party From ‘83: Turkey Day” including a step-by-step on the process, and a few more comments from Mr. Boostrom about his experiences creating a cartoon essentially solo.
This is my favorite short film ever.
7:35 de la Mañana, by Nacho Vigalondo.
Bartender Wars wrapping up
The host Egypt has been off this week and the crew is shooting drink beauties in the meantime.
The show wraps up next week with two more episodes left to shoot! That means only two more opportunities to be a patron on the show as well.
Look for a lot of Boiling Sky friendlies in the background of the show when it airs in October on Fine Living Network.
(PS, This is the show I’m currently working on, in case you missed the last post about it. Not just a random advertisement for a show.)
Beach Video Shoot Today!
Heading to Coney Island to shoot a music video for Bermuda Bonnie in pure sun and 90 degree heat. Hopefully we get some great footage out of the 5DM2 and HF100 before being carted off to the ICU.
5 Films I’m Looking Forward To (For my own personal reasons)
Posted by Kim in Commentary on August 10th, 2009
We decided that while the Monthly Primer was fun to do, it was kind of covered already by the rest of the internet movie preview world.
So, instead of doing a preview for each movie each month, I decided to just do a mini preview/recommendation/blurb of excitement about my own 5 movies I most look forward to, based entirely on personal, biased reasons.
Accolades
A short film/tv pilot called “Together” that I did the titles animation and color for has won the Accolade Award of Excellence:
It is currently being shopped around as a television show to networks.
Film Rights to inFamous sold, or a brief window into my friends’ psyches.
I found out here that a pitch for adapting inFamous to a movie has been bought by Sony (who I presume already had the film rights) and will get developed quickly.
I then IMed three friends, Kim (from this site!) Alan (www.alanmacdougal.com) and Kyle (www.kylewalters.com) – all three have played the game all the way through.
[15:11] Boiling Sky: Film rights to inFamous sold.
Kim: eh
Kyle: nice
Alan: Huh. I suppose it would make a perfectly good film. If they kept the plot roughtly what was in the game, and focused on the electro-parkour action.
Alan: The game’s plot was thin for a game, just right for a movie.
Alan: This still means its probability of getting filmed is single digits, right?
Speaking of Appsle
Posted by Kim in Commentary, Misc on July 29th, 2009
This looks awesome!
actionLog Pro.
Occasionally I’m a Script Supervisor on productions. It’s a really good fit for me because they’re basically the intermediary between the Director and the Editor. It’s like spying on the set and taking detailed copious notes for myself later! Script Supervisors keep track of everything and everyone throughout the day of shooting: Keeping a log of the shots with timecode, f-stop, lenses, focus length, motion of cameras, for ALL cameras, action of actors including continuity of their physical movements as well as their lines and how they emphasize them and the list goes on. At the end of the day, all the notes from the Script Supervisor as well as their marked up script of changes go to the editor for reference in the cut.
ActionLog Pro is an application that does A BUNCH of that for you! It’s a huge pain in the ass to get the correct timecode written down when at the start of the shot there’s a million other things to be looking for as well. It would be GREAT if something did that automatically. Plus, phone apps usually get programs down to their most efficient and speedy form, considering the limitations of the medium: battery life, small scale, usability for touchpad and so forth. According to its description, “At the touch of a button the logging system keeps track of all reel names and timecodes for each recorded piece of action.”
Features
★ Unlimited number of projects
★ Up to 25 virtual recording devices
★ Synchronize devices that use time of day or free running timecode
★ Quick to use logging system
★ Incremental slate and take fields
★ Easy construction of clip names from predefined lists
★ Logging continues without the application running
★ View and delete logged clips
★ Built in SMTP email client
★ Export to Avid ALE files, Final Cut Pro XML and to a printable log sheet
I’m not so sure about the annotating part of it. I can at least still hand write much faster than I can text-type. I suppose you could shorthand, but I wouldn’t want to get notes that said “K8 X’s L 2 R 2 Jack and sez “U want 2 go bck 2 island? WTF!?”
Anyway, I hope it comes out for the Blackberry Storm because paying $30 to occasionally swipe David’s iPhone to try it out won’t cut it! Or, I guess hopefully the iPhone gets released to other cellphone companies one day. Either way, this looks good enough pay for, an app first for me!
An Apple A Day… Makes Me Dislike Apple Some More
Posted by Kim in Commentary, Post on July 27th, 2009
Reviews and commentary are out about the new FCP release and from reading what they have to say, I’m not thrilled. Actually, I couldn’t care less. How do people keep the faith in this program when all Apple ever does (When they ever do anything for Final Cut) is release things that are “Just like [blank program] does it!”? Sure, it has some new additions now and then, but with so many seemingly obvious features missing that are covered by other programs, usually the largely more used Avid, why would you even keep buying and using Final Cut? Especially since they weren’t even at NAB. They’ve shown they don’t really give a crap about video editing.
Maybe if they renamed it iVideoEditingProgram, it would have more attention by the developers. Rename plugins to “apps” and suddenly people will care!
10 Ways to Get Cheap/Free Labor for Your Shoot Without Being a Mooch
Posted by David in Commentary, Post, Production on August 18th, 2009
I love Craigslist. From a filmmaker’s standpoint it’s a great place to find people, buy and sell gear, and keep yourself in the know about local productions. However, being a free service it’s become overrun with moochers looking for free labor, skilled crew positions and even their gear. This has begun spilling over into the larger industry job boards (such as Mandy.com) and is simply put poisoning the well of jobs for recent graduates and low-level professionals. Read the rest of this entry »
cheap/DIY, indie, jobs, Production, shortfilms
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