This is another "classic" (?) sketch from "Skip TV," my public access TV show in the early 90's. It features a special appearance by my late, great dad in the final scene. (And I blurred out the face of an actress I didn't have permission to use in the video.) I shot sketches with a Hi8 camcorder, then edited them on two 3/4" tape decks at Los Angeles Public Access studios into 28-minute episodes. I made ten episodes, which were seen by over a HUNDRED people! twitter.com
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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Friday, December 16, 2011
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Monday, December 12, 2011
8mm, Hi8, Digital8, and VHS Video Becoming Obsolete & May Not Be Transferable Soon
Soon you won't be able to play 8mm, Hi8, & Digital 8 camcorder tapes anymore or transfer them to DVD. Sony has quit making the cameras to play these tapes and they're hard to fix. VHS tapes and 8mm & 16mm film will soon follow.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Basic Video Editing - Uploading Video Footage Into Your Home Computer
What is video editing? Video Editing is the process of taking your home video, webcam video or a video from YouTube or the web, putting it into your home computer and making it shorter or longer, adding music or adding graphics or extra video. Unfortunately, if your computer is fairly old, it probably won't be able to handle video. Video clips take up a huge amount of space. But if you have a relatively new computer with plenty of hard drive space, your computer should handle video just fine.
First you have to upload your video clips into your computer. If you have a firewire port on your computer you can hook your camcorder to your computer with a firewire cable. Most camcorders - Hi8, digital 8, mini DV or Disk cameras have a firewire or a DV (digital Video) port somewhere on the outside of the case. Open all the compartments on your camcorder to find it, as there are a lot of different connector possibilities. If your camcorder didn't come with an A/V cable with a USB on the other end, you will have to buy a firewire cable. Most camcorder manufacturers don't include a firewire cable when you buy the camera.
What if your camcorder is an older model and only has the typical red/white/yellow A/V cable? Then you will need a video converter, like the Dazzle DVD Recorder, made by Pinnacle. This converter has a USB connector on one end and a video and audio receptacle for you to plug in you're A/V cable from your camcorder. The video converter converts your video clips into an AVI (audio video information) and that's what you will use for your editing.
You can upload your video clips or your webcam video onto your hard drive OR upload them directly into your video editing software. If you are brand new to video editing, I highly recommend Windows Movie Maker and if you are ready to edit your footage you might as well upload it right to that program. There are also many very reasonably priced video editing programs available: Adobe Premiere Elements, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas, and Muvee just to name a few. But for the beginner, there's nothing better than Windows Movie Maker, and you should try that program first to make sure you like video editing.
If you can't find Movie Maker in your computer, search for it by hitting the start button and then search. I would suggest leaving off the word Windows from your search so it doesn't bring up all the rest of the Windows related files. If you can't find it do a Google search for Windows Movie Maker and download the latest version because it's free!
Once you have opened the Windows Movie Maker program, go to File, and then select Capture Video. When you plugged in the Dazzle converter you should also have used the Dazzle Software CD that activated it. If not, you can go to the Pinnacle site and download the appropriate software for your version of the converter. So when you select file capture you should see the Dazzle box as a capture device option.
You will also need to test the audio coming from the Dazzle box. There is an audio meter that measures the audio level of your video so record just a few seconds before you do a lot of capturing just to make sure you are getting audio. You can also see that the Dazzle device has an S Video and composite selection. S Video is a little better quality than composite so if you happen to have an SVideo cable connection available out of your camcorder or VHS machine, you should use it.
There will be several screens in the Capture Video process that ask you what you want to label your clip and where you want to file it. Be specific because once you start uploading you'll probably put a lot of video onto your hard drive, and being specific will help you find it in search later on. The My videos folder works fine as a filing spot, but as you have more projects you may want to begin to create specific files for each project.
The last screen in the video capture process asks you what format you want to use to capture your video. There are a lot of choices but the two most important are DV AVI and WMV. The default is WMV and it is labeled, "Best quality for playback on my computer" because it saves space, but it isn't the best quality. It's the WMV file format and although it doesn't take up as much hard drive space it's just not the quality you want if you are going to go to all the trouble to edit this video. You will have to judge whether you have enough hard drive space to be able to handle the best quality video, but in the long run you will be happier with your final product. So choose the DV AVI option if it's available. Then hit Start Capture and begin to upload your video clips into your computer.
When you have uploaded all your video, click stop capture and Windows Movie Maker will load the clip into collections. Play it back to make sure you are seeing and hearing what you meant to upload. Now drag the video clip down to the timeline and you are ready to get started editing. There are many free Windows Movie Maker tutorials on the web, and one of the best is on the Microsoft website.
One more thing about video clips on your hard drive. They are very easy to lose! Here is the easiest way to find your video clips. Double click My Computer on your desktop. Then go to My Documents and find My Videos. Double click My Videos, go up to the top menu bar and click Views. Select details and click Date Modified twice. That will show you the last video clips you saved on your hard drive. I hope this helped you learn how to start the video editing process by uploading video clips into your computer. Yes, it's a little technical but stick with it because once you edit a video and amaze your friends and family, it will all have been worth it!
Monday, December 5, 2011
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Friday, December 2, 2011
How To Transfer Your Old Video Tapes To DVD
Have you ever though about what you going to do with all those old videotapes you have? VHS is pretty much gone for good, because of the way technology keep advancing, we have to adapt to the new DVD players now available. But their is still a the problem of transferring your old videotape to DVD. It is not as easy as some manufacture state. If you have a personal computer, and wanted to do it yourself, you would need to get the videotape footage into the computer, first.
In order to accomplish that, you will need a converter box to convert the videotapes into digital format to the computer. Your old videotapes are analog format, which has to be converted to digital to be edited on a computer. Converting your old videotapes to digital will restore them for many years to come; they also look brighter, crisper, and sound better. Once the videotapes are in the computer, you would need a video-editing program to edit your digitalize footage.
Both computers, MAC or PC can do video editing. Mac computers come with a standard video editing program iMovie. If you wanted to go professional, then there is another program, final cut studio; cost 99.99 that come bundle with DVD authoring software, soundtrack pro for your music editing, live type for your titles, and compressor for compressing your video to different file formats. On the other hand with a PC computer, you can get very inexpensive software for under a hundred dollars that would get you going.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Sony DCRTRV260 Digital8 Handycam Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
How to Make an Indy Film
So what do you do when you have non-professional actors and no budget? You embrace the docudrama/neo-realist film making philosophy. When you cannot afford special effects and fancy cameras, you don't strain your budget. You make minimalism your special effect and you blur the lines between fiction and reality. For a church film, I would suggest a mission's docudrama in black and white. We've seen the docudrama's success in films (Blair Witch Project), Sit-Coms (The Office) and Reality TV (Jersey Shore). This paper will explore the philosophy behind producing this hybrid genre.
Pre-Production and Neo-Realism
Rossellini, the father of the Italian Neo-Realist movement, had no intentions of creating a movement. He essentially said this all came about from not having enough money to do anything else. This makes pre-production less complicated for independent filmmakers. Behind all the rhetorical tropes, neo-realism amounts to shooting on location, and re-writing the script to fit the real people/ non-commercial actors that are available. In many ways the script is 50% staged and 50% improvisation, this culminates with a very intense sense of reality on the screen.
When Roberto Rossellini released his early film Open City, people were saying how realistic it looked; hence the term Neo-Realism. Andre Bazin, film theorist, was a huge fan of neo-realism and Rossellini in particular. The goal, according to Bazin, is to achieve the totality of life by looking at its simplicity.
Rossellini was able to bring reality back to the entertainment world at a time where the films were getting bigger and more fantastic. Instead of escaping reality, Rossellini made us face it. Instead of flooding us with stunning set designs and special effects, they gave us "fragments of reality" and invited us to take part in piecing the meaning together.
At the time of the war, Rossellini believed there was a desperate desire for truth in film. This is why he attributed a moral position to his filmmaking. No one was reporting what was really happening during the war and he wanted people to know. He used film narrative to expose this truth. There were dramatic stories really happening all around him and he wanted to capture them. It is arguable that The Hurt Locker and Precious could fit within a neo-realist hybrid.
Bazin campaigned for true continuity: deep focus, wide shots and a lack of montage. This would leave the interpretation of a scene to the audience member. The present-day neo-realist does not necessarily uphold to all of these somewhat obsolete standards of objectivity, but the current docudrama approach does strongly encourage a similar interpretation on the behalf of the spectator.
One of the best parts of Richard Linklater's film Waking Life is when the main character is watching a film where filmmaker Caveh Zahedi and poet David Jewell discuss Bazin's theory on realism. They highlight Bazin's Christian belief that every shot is a representation of God manifesting creation. So we are essentially watching a movie within a movie that is talking about film theory. What is even more eye opening is when they employ his aforementioned theories, saying "let's have a Holy Moment." What follows is a very creative quest for an elusive filmic aspiration to capture the truth.
Production - Successful Examples
Some argue that fiction cinema has embraced, more than ever, non-fiction aesthetics. Several filmmakers are simplifying there film language.
Blair Witch Project
Myrick and Sanchez's Blair Witch Project, released in 1999, is one of the most well known hybrid successes. It artificially vacillates between art and life. One of the techniques that I would employ into our film would be using the properties of something like a Hi8 (shaky cam). This technique, like the original neo-realists, creates fragments of reality and invites the audience to peace them together. For example: shaky cam jerks the subjects in and out of the frames, shifts focus in and out, and uses long continuous handheld shots. This style relies heavily on immediacy and intimacy.
In This World
Michael Winterbottom made a film on an immigrant's road trip called In This World (2002). They took one digital camera, using portability and the journey setting. Although half of the film was staged, the street scenes, crowds and marketplaces were not staged. The visual effects of the real helped to draw us into the scripted journey and human drama that was at the heart of the film. It then reverts to documentary mode at the end by using title cards.
Five
Kiarostami, director of Five, takes five long takes to make his film. This film makes use of the long takes that Bazin identified as part of the neo-realist movement. There were several "holy moments" where director Kiarostami captures fifteen minutes or so of the ocean or the moon in a pond. Kiarostami continues to avoid complicated plot structure and unnecessary artifices in the film Ten.
Dogme 95
The Dogme 95 group consists of several people including: Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, and Kristen Levring. This group sparked neo-realist filmmaking in several impoverished locations. This was a return to the natural feel of filmmaking. The Idiots not only subverts big budget Hollywood filmmaking, but it also calls into question documentary filmmaking. The opening scene draws you into this conflation immediately.
Ford Transit
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad directed a hybrid film called Ford Transit (2002). Using a 16mm camera, Abu-Assad tells the story of a Palestinian transit driver named Rajai. Rajai must transport locals through military check points in Ford minivan. While keeping the camera mounted on the car for the majority of the film, Abu-Assad also manages to keep the tension at an all time high. In 2003, this film won the Best Documentary Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
When Abu - Assad's film was accused of being fraudulent he responded by saying his film is both a documentary and a fiction. Like the film Precious, this film could have happened and did happen. Just because the events we're watching may be acted out does not mean that they are fictitious.
Like Bazin, we can transition into this filmic style easily because neo-realism does not conflict with the Christian message. According to Bazin, it emboldens the Christian message.
Low Budget Marketing - Post Production
Okay, now we have a product that needs some editing but the big question is how in the world do we get this film in the theater? Did we go through all of that for nothing? Should it just go straight to DVD? Even then, how do we get it out there in the book stores and on Netflix? Straight to DVD is definitely an option. I would like to posit editing a short version of the film and using the rest of your budget on one or all three of these options: book formats, networking or film festivals.
Investing In Your Fan Base
One of the more time consuming methods of marketing your film is to first market it as a novel and gain a strong reading fan base. The documented success of the novel will make adapting the novel into a film, for a big company, much easier. I know one may think this process involves just as much funding but if you get published, it costs you nothing. If you self publish, it still cost much less than making a feature and financing the distribution. At least by doing it this way you have the ability to more readily distribute your product and you avoid straining your budget. This also allows the production value of the film to reach a high quality level when it becomes a feature film. Here are a couple of examples:
The Shack
William P. Young worked with Brad Cummings and filmmaker Bobby Downes with the initial purpose of witnessing to others about the glory of God, but ultimately Downes and Wind Blown Media wish to turn this book into feature film. How did they turn this story turn into a best seller? After submitting the book to 20 different publishers and getting 20 rejection letters, they decided to print the book themselves. They marketed their book with a 0 podcast and sold their first million copies out of their garages.
A Time to Kill
Christian author John Grisham had 15 publishers and 30 agents reject his first novel. After getting tired of the process he decided to publish the book himself with Wynwood press in 1989. In 1996 it was made into a crime thriller starring Samuel Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock. It took in nearly 0 million at the box office and was nominated for several MTV awards.
Networking
The makers of Facing the Giants admit that they got lucky when they called Sony and asked for the rights to some of their music. Sony pictures eventually endorsed the film and helped with the funding and distribution. There are several stories like this where Christian departments in Hollywood companies try to network with Christian filmmakers in order to garner the Christian audience.
For example, Sony also signed a production deal with Bishop T.D. Jakes after his film Woman Thou Art Loosed, drew theater goers through grass - roots marketing in black churches. Jakes also fits into the "investing in your fan base" category because he initially self-published a book version of this film. Lions - Gate is funding Tyler Perry who wrote several successful feature length films: Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, Why Did I Get Married 1 and 2. Tyler Perry recently helped to endorse the independent -film Precious. This film was initially headed directly to DVD but has gone on to be nominated for several Academy Awards, including best picture.
Film Festivals
Making a short film and submitting them to film festivals is one good way to get distribution and funding for a full - length version. Several film makers have done this to get their films into the theaters.
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton and director George Hickenlooper have debated about whether this film was originally a short film. But the facts are these: Thornton says Sling Blade was originally a 1986 one-man play called Swine Before Pearls. Hickenlooper has footage of the short film called Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade. It was shot in a very neo-realist fashion. It was even shot in black and white. It is too bad that they had a falling out because Thornton went on to win the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
He was also nominated for Best Actor in a leading role. He has since been in several successful Hollywood films: Armageddon, Astronaut Farmer, The Apostle. Oddly enough Some Folks, was shot in the same Simi Valley hospital where Terminator 2 was shot.
Napoleon Dynamite
This was originally a short film called Peluca. Writer Jon Heder and director Jared Hess were college students at BYU with less than 500 dollars. They took some black and white 16mm film stock, which they accidentally over exposed, and went to Idaho to shoot a nine minute film. Although they accidentally over exposed the film, it gave their short an artistic look. Peluca became a hit at Slamdance in 2003. A year later Napoleon Dynamite hit Sundance.
This film went on to aggregate a loyal following and win several awards: In 2005, the film won three MTV Movie Awards, for Breakthrough Male Performance, Best Musical Performance, and Best Movie. This film was rated number 14 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". It also won four awards at the Teen Choice Awards: Best Movie Breakout Performance - Female for Haylie Duff, Best Movie Dance Scene, Best Movie Hissy Fit for Jon Heder, and Best Comedy.
Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden completed their full-length script Half Nelson before they filmed a shorter version of it. They intentionally did this and spent their time at odd jobs getting money to shoot a short that would convince financiers and distributors to endorse their full-length script. They pulled together 800 dollars and asked for help from their friends. The 19-minute short won prizes at Sundance and the Aspen Shortfest in 2004. Two years later the feature film was distributed to theaters and won an Academy Award for best performance by an Actor in a leading role. It won several film festival awards for acting and screenwriting.
Conclusion
With the advent of technology, we have the ability to produce and market films better than ever. Francis Ford Coppola prophesied of cinematic democratization. We hear this at the end of the Hearts of Darkness (1991) video. He saw the future of film in the form of 'some little girl in Ohio,' and imagined a new apparatus that could enable such a girl to get her vision onto the screen: "To me the great hope is that now these little video recorders are around and people who normally wouldn't make movies are going to be making them.
And suddenly, one day, some little girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camcorder and for once, the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed, forever, and it will really become an art form" (Heart of Darkness). I would say that day has come.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Flash Memory Vs Mini DV (Digital Video) Camcorders
If you're interested in camcorders you've no doubt come across a variety of different models that use differing formats. The two major formats are those of Mini DV and Flash Card based cameras.
Mini DV records Digital Video onto a small cassette and has been one of the most popular formats to use for the last several years. This has been a popular format for student and independent filmmakers, because the end product can be altered so as to look like film. The Flash based camcorders, however, use small SD cards to save data onto.
Often times one of the primary factors in making a decision like this is the price. One can typically get a flash based camera for a lower price, but the quality of the video suffers. The advantageous thing about this, aside from saving money, is that SD cards do not typically have the propensity to wear out, unlike their Mini DV competitors. DV cassettes act like any format that records onto tape and begins to deteriorate if recorded onto several times.
Another advantage to the Flash based camcorder is that they are easy to transfer video off of. You can simply eject an SD card and put it in your computer's card reader. Whereas the DV cameras typically use a cable to transfer video onto the computer and into a video editing (or capturing) program, in order to be able to save the video to the computer.
There are, of course exceptions to these general guidelines. There are a variety of pricey, but considerably higher quality flash cameras available that have the ability to put their Digital Video competitors to shame.
If you need to take a quick, easy video of the family, or are a less experienced camera operator, then Flash Based cameras are usually the correct routes to take. But, if you want to make an independent film Mini DV is typically the way to go.
But, you should keep in mind that camcorders come in a variety of models and one shouldn't be hasty in making up their mind. Regardless of the general features and benefits of Flash based and Mini DV camcorders, there are a lot of different features in each and every model out there and it's not a bad idea to check reviews of them via the internet prior to making an expensive commitment to owning some new, state of the art electronics.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Sony CCDTRV108 Hi8 Camcorder with 2.5" LCD
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