7/14/2012 1st meeting of filmmaking 101 (part 2)

We talked about how if you get over a 100,000 views on youtube you can get start getting paid, if you're making & posting videos that get a 100,000 views regularly. People in the Austin area have found success with a vegan cooking show.  Sites like Vimeo give out prizes to their users, which is a great way of getting your work noticed, but its got to be excellent good. Professional looking with a great story idea!
 
Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo.
Notice how they put together different images to make a story and giving meaning! Start thinking about what images to combine in order to tell a story.  As, Ryan Hailey once told me "Today, in modern times, with the internet, we essentially have every image, video & audio ever made available to you today to make your own story with. "


For instance, here's this news story:



and here's clips taken from the original newscast to compose a song with, yes, that's right you can create from already created material in filmmaking! !





 We watched this music video made by a former Univ. of Texas professor of mine, PJ Raval who's an indy-filmmaker primarily based in the Austin-area! He shot scenes of this at Barton Creek Mall and Fiesta Grocery Store without asking for permission, which explains the many shocked & stunned crowd reaction shots to the infamous performer CHRISTEENE. Take note of all the cuts, performance & camera movement  in this music video.


CHRISTEENE "African Mayonnaise" from PJ Raval on Vimeo.

I explained vide0-mapping, and talked about how just next door João Beira lives, and he does video-mapping.   João  projects  what he's creating on his video-mapping programs onto the box.  The below video is hd footage shot on a Canon DSLR camera, the same type of camera we have access to.  

D- Construct video mapping sketch from João Beira on Vimeo.

This is made by Everynone before they made Symmetry


WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.

this is the same as the video you just watched above, but made completely with youtube video clips:




Attendees screened some projects they've made or participated in:

Lauren Pruitt introduced us to her work with Thanks for being Awesome! She put some of her hitch-hiking footage together for a home-movie festival:  Four friends from Austin, Texas spent five weeks in the summer of 2009 hitchhiking to Vancouver, BC. This documentary follows them on their path up the west coast - introducing you to people that have something to say whether it be how they're doing, where they've been, or their take on the current state of our nation.

Thanks for being Awesome! from lpruitt on Vimeo.

She showed us some of her tests with video layers and adobe after effects.  The footage is the Butthole Surfer's Super 16mm viuals they used to project at concerts thatwere given to her by a lady at a garage sale.  Music is by Stella.

test: NI effects w/ layers from lpruitt on Vimeo.

Lauren didn't screen this in class, but she had shown this to me months before the class was put-together.  She was hired by the San Antonio Medical Doctor who shot the footage to edit it.  The doctor has no real film-making experience, but did an excellent job!

Haiti Documentary Sample - Untitled from lpruitt on Vimeo.

This piece was shown to us by David Guerra, David contributed footage to the project, which is still in progress.  David wants to be an actor.