mikeyonwordress

bringing together timelapse and dolly.

http://www.dynamicperception.com/2.html

the emp has made me learn loads and made me produce something i can actually show to an employer. because this is the first project of three years to be able to do that, for my website/portfolio/showreel whatever – i will just have my emp video and my details, as i think this is the most basic yet accurate example of the work i am capable of producing at this moment in time.

www.jamesralph.co.uk

(michael simpson was taken so i used my middle names instead)

this is the layout i went for. it’s super budget, but so are my html skills. but i guess i could of paid someone good on the course to do it for me, but actually wanted this simplistic style. I think it helps to not distract the viewer from the video.

I did originally upload my video to my webspace, however it buffered really SLOW.

so i chose to just load it through vimeo, removing all the discriptions and titles that come with the embed option. i also changed the colour of the vimeo play bar menu, from blue to white.

here’s what it looked like with the quicktime video embedded. – i think better, but yeh – the slow loading times. and no maximising option.

my indislider came today.

i had made a glidetrack for my camera for barcelona, it was pretty budget anyway… made for £15 from stuff in my dad’s garage and some skateboard wheels off a couple of crappy decks i bought down to argos. it was working alright till i took it on location, and it kind of ruined all the shots i had planned for it. and it was heavy and awkward. also didn’t make it to fit on a tripod.

so i came back and just went and bought a manufactured one. it was like £70-£80. but i have decided it is a better decision for long term use, and also ease of transport, and the fact that it actually works well.

although i am pretty angry that i didn’t have it for barcelona, i will be using it in the next week to create some stuff for my showreel.

mitsuki 28mm 2.8

canon fd 50mm 1.8

ghosting…

i’m having trouble with using different frame rates in the same composition, so i posted this on a forum

michael simpson 20 days ago Delete / Edit

i have both 29.97fps and 59.97fps clips i have both exported out at 720p.
the clips that were 59.97fps, i have conformed to 24fps in cinema tools.

i’m using premiere cs3, hdv 720p 29.97 composition setting.

when i use this, my 29.97 is obviously fine but i get some ghosting on the slow stuff.

this will be the same but the other way round if i use the 24fps composition setting…

so as my composition is a mix of both, is any other way to do this apart from changing the 24fps footage to 29.97fps and it not being as slow?

would appreciate any help! thanks

mike]

annoyingly, i had no reply. so i went to get some help of jason watkins.

he came up with this… i haven’t had a chance to test this yet. but will need to tomorrow at university. couldn’t get on the computers yesterday as there was hand-in for the second years and they slowed me down.

i came back with a few shaky clips – so i put them through the image stabilization tool in after effects…

from filming for a month and a bit now on a dslr, i have learnt that it will be good to acquire a follow focus system. luckily, this is one thing i am sure i can DIY.

kind of wish i had one of these for barcelona when using my glidetrack -YOU LIVE AND LEARN. got away with it though, with chance and about 10 tries.

i am at a point now where i have to start looking in to the finer details of my video.

i’ve seen a lot of stuff about colour grading recently, shin su showed me the work of one colourist.

however i am definitely colourblind. which means in terms of what looks good to my eyes, will look stupid to someone else. so apart from contrast and brightness, i am not very useful. however, most of the shots i have chosen to use are pretty good colour wise and don’t need a lot of correcting. so what i am going to do is use someone elses eyes to look at what i can do to the shots i am unhappy with and see what we can come up with.

in my testing i played about with the magic bullet software, which i have found to be useful in creating moods… but most of the effects look a bit heavy and overused especially in the world of vimeo. so i don’t think i will use them on my piece and if i do – wisely.

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i think this is kind of a cool way of displaying titles

thinking about titles and also, how i can explain my work to my peers, especially on the critique…
i had this idea before i even went to barcelona. i want to make a written piece that is basically a rewording of my learning agreement that will be read out in spanish with english subtitles. it will tell the audience what to expect and why i have done it. also it will get them in the right mood for something european!

also, i know i have posted this before but in ‘people of brighton’ they have mapped the camera shake pattern to text which is a nice technique.

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