Show off your BS!

[Keith Alan Morris]

I want to see others work and get inspired. Bring it!

Straight video links only preferred. Don't make us hunt. :wink:

[dalemccready]

http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/05%20animsmallH264.mov

last years reel.

...aand here's some steadicam...

http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/scribe_stand_up.mov

[Priyesh P.]

http://www.treehousefilm.com/quicktime/reel.mov
- will be updated in the next time ( I hope so )

[number6]

http://www.mallowmedia.com
Two short videos rendered at different qualities. "Nowhere But Betty Lou's" is a dance scene in a bar shot at a birthday party. It has some 'fair usage' audio of Zorba The Greek in it. I think I'm within my rights but if Zorba doesn't agree, I'll take it doun. "Raegan's Naughty Goat" has no such issues. The site isn't fully functional so there is no contact capability yet.

[Ken Corben]

Hey, for those of you who love the Blue Planet sort of stuff here are a few links to 30 second clips of work I've shot for broadcast plus a fun demo. Looking forward to doing it all in RED 4K starting this year. You'll need Quicktime 7 to view the clips.

...there's a reason they call me Sharky:nerd: Enjoy...

http://kennethcorben.com/demo-06.html

http://kennethcorben.com/HHnomads.html

http://kennethcorben.com/otc.html

http://kennethcorben.com/onthinice.html

http://kennethcorben.com/MTZintro.html

[Jason Francois]

It's really great to be able to show up and communicate amongst such talent. Great stuff.

I don't have a reel and I'm not a shooter, but here's a link I found to a little project that I did when I was with my old company.

I wrote, produced and directed it, but did NOT shoot it. Not on the level of what most are doing here and it's not a DOP showcase, but here it is.

Shot on the DVX in about five hours for a little over $1k.

http://www.bigbrainpictures.com/samples/Sunshine.mp4

PS-there is a glaring "technical" issue that is a good lesson for new shooters. I'm sure plenty will pick up on it. Two-minutes prep would have saved a lot of grief.

[C.H.Haskell]

http://haskellfilms.com/showreel.php

Enjoy ;)

[dalemccready]

http://kennethcorben.com/onthinice.html



Wow! it's oone of my dream things to do..diving under ice one day. Beautlful footage. You must be smiling ear to ear while shooting the whales.

:)

[dalemccready]

http://haskellfilms.com/showreel.php

Enjoy ;)

Nice. The Lyra short looks great. Good stuff

[Bruce Allen]

Ask and you shall receive...

Last year's reel:
www.boacinema.com/boa_video/bruce_allen_design_vfx_reel.mov
When I have my new reel with the Borat stuff, I'll let you guys know.

A music video I just did all post, cc & vfx on, shot with the Phantom Vision high-speed camera:
http://www.boacinema.com/boa_video/berko_intherare.mov

A link to some paintings:
http://www.boacinema.com/traditional_art/bruce-allen---traditional-art-portfolio---page-1.html

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Ken Corben]

Wow! it's one of my dream things to do..diving under ice one day. Beautlful footage. You must be smiling ear to ear while shooting the whales.

:)

Dale,

Thanks for the compliment on the footage - means something more coming from another DP instead of one's Mom:tongue:

Everyday I'd ask, "Are they really paying me to do this?" Look forward to returning to the Arctic ice with my RED underwater system to play with, I mean film, the belugas again.

Credit to Producer, on camera talent and primary cameraman Adam Ravetch for making such a great film and the smarts to hire me :-) Look for his feature film release in the Fall.

[Keith Alan Morris]

nice! more more. others.

[Tom Lowe]

great stuff, bruce!

shark guy, i cannot believe you chase after those huge sharks like that. i dive, but i'm still terrified when i see them underwater. you aren't missing any limbs or digits are you??

[dalemccready]

Ask and you shall receive...

Last year's reel:
www.boacinema.com/boa_video/bruce_allen_design_vfx_reel.mov
When I have my new reel with the Borat stuff, I'll let you guys know.

A music video I just did all post, cc & vfx on, shot with the Phantom Vision high-speed camera:
http://www.boacinema.com/boa_video/berko_intherare.mov

A link to some paintings:
http://www.boacinema.com/traditional_art/bruce-allen---traditional-art-portfolio---page-1.html

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

OH Bruce I love that Phantom one. Thats so the shit! Love the liquid pouring. great stuff. I'd love to get my hands on one of those. And for directing it's be sooo cool to not have to use so many shots in a video! ;)

here's another from me. My two latest music vids as dp/director/editor/compositor/dogsbody

http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/swing.mov
http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/SweetheartWeb.mov

Sweetheart I'm particularly proud of, though it grades a bit dark in places. 3 months work though!

dale

[C.H.Haskell]

Nice. The Lyra short looks great. Good stuff

Thanks! Same back to you...the work here is great, I am really impressed with the users on this forum...imagine what all these reels will look like post RED.

Good luck to you all.

[John Allardice]

A couple of spots I Directed, Dp'd & Edited.

http://www.johnallardice.com/hyundai.html
I always loved the look of the old lomo square-front anamorphics

http://www.johnallardice.com/chevy.html
The live action stuff in this was all Genesis. The Genesis and the SRW1 was such a heavy combo that on the FIRST SETUP of the day( shooting steadicam from a maverick) we hit a little pothole and the associated bounce sheared the steadicam arm....damn thing just snapped at the mount point. Luckily we had an AC with fast reflexes and biceps the size of Rhode Island.

[Sean Michael Johnston]

Wow. Incredible work, guys.

This is our latest graphics reel - http://www.808inc.com/beta/gfx/808gfx.mov
- which is not up on our site yet - http://www.808inc.com

I'll post a couple of new spots later.

[Poi Boy]

John,
I love that Hundai spot..there is no hint of cg except maybe the last car shot. Chevy is also very cool, well done. All you guys are inspiring !
Aloha
-A

[dalemccready]

we hit a little pothole and the associated bounce sheared the steadicam arm....damn thing just snapped at the mount point. Luckily we had an AC with fast reflexes and biceps the size of Rhode Island.

That just makes me sick to my stomach as a Steadicam owner (like that tight groin feeling you get when seeing a skater land on the stair railings).

They used my Ultra on the Kong pick-ups and snapped my arm spring. But not at the base like that, that's harsh!

I'm weary of shooting with real heavy set-ups. Just did a shoot with a BL4S and have done a low mode 435 and Frazier (cool shot though). I'm always thinking that it could just go *ping* at any minute if it wasn't built well. which it is thankfully.

[Priyesh P.]

I'm weary of shooting with real heavy set-ups. Just did a shoot with a BL4S and have done a low mode 435 and Frazier (cool shot though). I'm always thinking that it could just go *ping* at any minute if it wasn't built well. which it is thankfully.

I´ve heard that once the same thing (elbow) John mentioned, broke during a running shot, and that was a Pro Arm.
Dale, you have a master Arm, right?

[dalemccready]

Mine's an Ultra Arm. Slightly updated from the Masters. Has a rough kick back at the base joint when you run, I could see it being a weak spot. It's been a good arm though other than the springs going earlier than they should have, but it's worked a lot too in some harsh conditions like tropical heat with me sweating over it for twelve hours at a time or those damn rain towers with their fat drops that seem to get right inside rain covers somehow.

I do like the idea of sealed arms like the Pro to keep things clean and safe.

The new arm on the Ultra2 looks pretty fly

[Priyesh P.]

Mine's an Ultra Arm. Slightly updated from the Masters. Has a rough kick back at the base joint when you run, I could see it being a weak spot. It's been a good arm though other than the springs going earlier than they should have, but it's worked a lot too in some harsh conditions like tropical heat with me sweating over it for twelve hours at a time or those damn rain towers with their fat drops that seem to get right inside rain covers somehow.

I do like the idea of sealed arms like the Pro to keep things clean and safe.

The new arm on the Ultra2 looks pretty fly

Sounds like you often had to replace the springs?

One weakness I´ve encountered with the extension springs+pulleys style arms is, that those stuff is likely to get twisted, jump out of guide rollers etc.. That´s the other advantage of the less complex designs of the Pro and Baerbel B2 arm (the B2`s x-elbow btw is something that will never break, it´s the most sturdy link I´ve ever seen).

Yes, the G70 is a technical and aesthetical beauty, yet (since it´s quite new)has to prove it´s reliability.
Garrett´s arm designs seems to get more and more complex, let´s hope that it won´t turn into problems.

K.

[dalemccready]

yep. My arm gets really noisey pretty fast too. But that said I've used it for 4 years, and I didn't break it, and it was fixed really fast and has lifted many a crappy overweight camera. Mister arm is my friend. My own arms are weak as piss (antipodean phrase).

[dalemccready]

you should see my bicycle quick release lock offs replacing the ones that came with my tilt head! :)

Mavic rules. I'm a cycle geek too. Hence my early Red adoption. I grew up cycling with Oakley factory Pilot Eyeshades. Just like my hero mister LeMond.

[Elijah Kelley]

OH Bruce I love that Phantom one. Thats so the shit! Love the liquid pouring. great stuff. I'd love to get my hands on one of those. And for directing it's be sooo cool to not have to use so many shots in a video! ;)

here's another from me. My two latest music vids as dp/director/editor/compositor/dogsbody

http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/swing.mov
http://www.dalemccready.com/movies/SweetheartWeb.mov

Sweetheart I'm particularly proud of, though it grades a bit dark in places. 3 months work though!

dale
WOW! Dale that Sweetheart was really nice. Props where props due. All the footage is great! From Shark Guy to Has. Beautiful. It's a privelege to see some of the talent here. Makes me long to up the proverbial ante. Thanks.

[Priyesh P.]

you should see my bicycle quick release lock offs replacing the ones that came with my tilt head! :)

Mavic rules. I'm a cycle geek too. Hence my early Red adoption. I grew up cycling with Oakley factory Pilot Eyeshades. Just like my hero mister LeMond.

I have an mtb rusting on my balcony for the last decade.
Once upon a time (...) it was fun riding here, but Berlin sucks more and more for bicyclers (but also for regular car drivers and anythings else that moves on wheels...).

Btw Dale, looking at your signature, are you from London originally?

[dalemccready]

I'm moving there (London) shortly to pursue the directing thing. Hopefully I'll get to make a lot of music videos. I'l still be a dp if that doesn't work out though, I do really enjoy it, I just don't get to do it as often as I'd like.

And I'll work a bit between both places as I have a lot of ties here. Also a bit in Asia for TVCs

Really looking forward to shooting projects with Red, but also really looking forward to directing projects someone else shoots on Red!

[Ivan G]

Ask and you shall receive...

Last year's reel:
www.boacinema.com/boa_video/bruce_allen_design_vfx_reel.mov
When I have my new reel with the Borat stuff, I'll let you guys know.

A music video I just did all post, cc & vfx on, shot with the Phantom Vision high-speed camera:
http://www.boacinema.com/boa_video/berko_intherare.mov

A link to some paintings:
http://www.boacinema.com/traditional_art/bruce-allen---traditional-art-portfolio---page-1.html

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com


Great work, Bruce! Do you own the Phantom?

[Paul Hazlett]

here is a you tube demo to munch on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWE4Yi_BiPc

[Mark L. Pederson]

Here's a little teaser of our upcoming Latino action film ROCKAWAY (shot on 2-perf techniscope) -

www.RockawayTheMovie.com

username: trane
password: ak47

[John Allardice]

Here's a little teaser of our upcoming Latino action film ROCKAWAY (shot on 2-perf techniscope) -

www.RockawayTheMovie.com


Thats a pretty hardcore little piece, I like it. I'd love to know how that one got set up

[Mark L. Pederson]

Thats a pretty hardcore little piece, I like it. I'd love to know how that one got set up

what do you mean set up? are you referring to the "head blast"?

that's just the actor dropping top the floor, blood splat is painted on the door in post, and all the gore and muzzle-flash is CG all done in-house at Offhollywood in AE and Shake -

[John Allardice]

No I actually meant the project...how the whole thing got set up

[Priyesh P.]

I'm moving there (London) shortly to pursue the directing thing. Hopefully I'll get to make a lot of music videos. I'l still be a dp if that doesn't work out though, I do really enjoy it, I just don't get to do it as often as I'd like.

And I'll work a bit between both places as I have a lot of ties here. Also a bit in Asia for TVCs

Really looking forward to shooting projects with Red, but also really looking forward to directing projects someone else shoots on Red!

Dale, all the best on your endeavours!
I´m on a similar step right now, but actually want to move from music video directing to features and commercials. I´m a bit fed up with the gangster rap stuff I´m somehow locked into and the industry for music videos here in Germany is very small.

[dalemccready]

Yeah, sadly I need to do a bit of Gansta Rap to get in on the act, but I'm sure that I can turn it toward something interesting. The new vid on my site is one opportunity to not do the standard rap thing. Made that for next to nothing too which I'm proud of.

Dying to do some indie videos, I have some great ideas stacking up.

In New Zealand you can't really make too many clips, the funding is teeny tiny. Hopefully in the UK I can get some slightly bigger budgets. Although I do like the challenge of a low budget. Having been a dp and reasonably experienced I can produce my own work and know where to spend and where not to.

Anyone in the UK keen for a dp/director who knows how to shoot film and vid to come and work with them? ;)

Experienced in pedestal, Steadicam, geared heads, remote systems, underwater, Tyler mount, handheld, dolly, After Effects, Avid/FCP, Photoshop.

I'll do anything intitally just to get to know the scene over there. :)

[Weston Ford]

http://haskellfilms.com/showreel.php

Enjoy ;)

The music from the village is a good choice. Thats my favorite soundtrack.

Good cinematography too.

[Greg Syverson]

http://www.gregsyverson.com/

[Mark Thorpe]

One on the front page and then go 'Video'.......take ya pick.

http://www.myspace.com/camdiver

Cheers,
Mark.

[Priyesh P.]

Yeah, sadly I need to do a bit of Gansta Rap to get in on the act, but I'm sure that I can turn it toward something interesting. The new vid on my site is one opportunity to not do the standard rap thing. Made that for next to nothing too which I'm proud of.


Just to make clear, I was not trying to attack your video or the music genre of hiphop per se. I was really impressed how you managed to move between that huge crowd and not getting bumped by any of them. (what was the format? 16mm?)
I was referring to the segment of highly controverse stuff I have to deal with. There´s now a huge public debate going on about gangster rap and it´s negative effects to youth here - and the guys I´m mainly dealing with sit right in the center of everything.

I think combining directing/dop/postpro is a good thing to do, companies want to cut budgets but still maintain a certain level and I think that´s the key to it, knowing the different areas and how and where money can be saved.

[dalemccready]

I've been doing the combo job thing simply because I can do more with less if I do it myself, but I've quickly come up against my own limitations too, so I'm dying to move into more cooperative jobs (but I'm still in charge!;) ).

Didn't think you were attacking anything, I read that you might be a little tired of makng the same stuff. I'm not a Hip Hop fan myself (other than oldskool stuff from the 80s when it was rap), but I'm really into making clips for whatever format.

The steadicam clip you mentioned was Scribe "Stand Up". That was one of the most highly energetic crowds and shoots I've ever been on. We did all that low mode through the crowd round and round and it was so ggod and people were yelling the lyrics. The Director Chris Graham was quick enough to realise it was gold and changed his shot list completely once he saw what we were getting. Really admired that, and that he used the shot where the matte box got kicked off. I would've.

It was 35mm on an Arri3 with no layback mags and I had two KinoFlo 2 foot tubes on the mattebox and they forgot to bring battery powered ones so the ballasts were taped to my back. Great fun! :)

DP was Nick Finlayson.

[dalemccready]

I do like Hip Hop to be clear, but I think that the genre has fallen into cliche a little much.

[Priyesh P.]

It was 35mm on an Arri3 with no layback mags and I had two KinoFlo 2 foot tubes on the mattebox and they forgot to bring battery powered ones so the ballasts were taped to my back. Great fun! :)


That makes it even more impressive, Steadicam is such a beast to tame and being tethered to anything multiplies the task.


I do like Hip Hop to be clear, but I think that the genre has fallen into cliche a little much.

The same issue I have. Current rap style here in Germany moved to so-called porn-,gangster-,drugs and violence-rap - in the beginning they were doing exaggerated, humoruos stuff, but it ended deadly serious.

The other rappers, those with messages to tell have no significant "weight" in the industry anymore.

Attached file shows one of the guys I´m dealing with.

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

I took my mini DV over to the finish of 48 hours furious filmmaking. It's not exactly a short film but it's amusing and or interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnbPRDV1sF8

[Keith Alan Morris]

kalone, that is hilarious!

[Priyesh P.]

kalone, that is hilarious!

What do you mean km9000? That guy?

[Keith Alan Morris]

yes, that picture of that guy with the metallic skull on his head is very funny. he looks like terminator 2.

[dalemccready]

yeah I agree Kalone, Hip Hop is in real danger of working itself into a corner with a bad image, when it did have some great people working in it orginally that didn't want to emulate (or continue to be) gangsters and thugs.

I always respected it more when it was a reaction against that. I tried to do a clip last yeah that was animated text of the lyrics for a rap track, then I realise the lyrics were crap and all about the rapper giving himself big 'ups' and glorifying drunken fights in bars and 'hos'. Didn't do the clip.


..Oh yeah! I almost forgot, the steadicam rig with the flouros, the gaffer taped the flouros on the front, but for some stupid reason taped them off center with heaps of overhang on my blind side. I was constantly scared of digging into someone's face with them as I backed up. So dumb.

[Billy Summers]

Here's a trailer link-

[TimothyD]

Hey guys,

I don't know about hip-hop in other countries, but there are more positive hip-hop acts in America than there were when the whole thing started. The problem is that the record companies cater to the lowest common denominator and f*@ked the whole thing up. If you want to make money in hop-hop you talk about crack, hoes and being a tough guy.

But there are hundreds of times more great hip-hop artists out there than there were in the beginning. No doubt about that. It's just like punk rock, the blues, jazz, you name it. The same thing happens to everything, corporations see something they can exploit, and they milk the cow until the udders are swollen and the only thing that comes out is blood and pus. (How do you like that analogy? Patting myself on the back for that one:)

Peace,

Tim

[TimothyD]

In fact, corporate farms do that with cows, literally...

[dalemccready]

It's just a shame that the kids tend to just see the stuff with the bling and Hos.

Hos, Cows, Blood & Pus...um I think we need to take this thread back to reels ;)

[TimothyD]

Gotcha Dale,

I just thought I should try to shed light on the reality of the hip-hop biz. I don't know how people from outside the U.S. percieve it, but I do know that hip-hop has a bad rep here because of the money making end of things.

Peace,

Tim

[Priyesh P.]

Dale and Timothy, I had the feeling that this thread was dying anway, but I think at least we´ve come to some interesting points regarding media and ethics. I mean, this cheap approach to gain fame and in the last consequence money is the same in all types of media: tv, film, music, print and even business in general... it´s always cheap&dirty stuff people are attracted to which mainly results in quick but shortlived cash-flow.
Complex, innovative and intelligent entertainment or products (like red:-) on the other hand are always tough, time and money consuming projects not many are willing to invest their power into. But I really believe in quality, that´s why I`m slowly trying to break away from the "filth-rap" or cheapo stuff at all.

Priyesh

[TimothyD]

Well said Kalone...

Tim

[Priyesh P.]

Well said Kalone...

Tim

thanks, it´s an honour to be in such a great party

[TimothyD]

:)

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