music video

[mattias]

here's a music video i directed and edited. it has nothing to do with super-8 but i thought you might want to see it anyway. it was shot during one day on a one chip dv camera and edited, composited and color corrected on an imac with final cut pro. we had borrowed three redheads and a wheelchair style dolly, and the total budget was $200, which went to dv tapes, gas, beer and pizza. sorry if it looks too dark and too green on windows, or too bright on mac. this was the best i could do that looks at least ok on all platforms. the rather extreme color scheme i use isn't very forgiving when it comes to differences in gamma and such. anyway, have fun.
http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-mas/leon/

/matt

[S 8 Booster]

Kinda excellent, kinda rock steady. No jitter there!



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Vidar

[mcflytrap]

My computer won't let me view it...but I was curious as to what it looked like. When I get home, I may download (on my lovely dial-up)...

-mcfly-

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[mattias]

you need quicktime 5, but that's it. good luck.

/matt

[mattias]

c'mon people. i want feedback! a simple "great" or "it sucks" will do... ;-)

/matt

[mcflytrap]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Courier, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mattias:
you need quicktime 5, but that's it. good luck.

/matt<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Eh, my comp at work won't let me download Quicktime...but when I get my new one at home I'll be able to do anything!

-mcfly-

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[super paulus]

Ok Mattias,

I liked the first few shots a lot..it looked promessing..my firts reaction to the first shots was "wow.. this looks good.." after that you coontinued filming a quite conventional..the shots and editing..also the idea of the singer falling in love with the girl in the audience I have seen before quite some times (the girl was great!!). I also found the introduction of the girl and the audience quite sudden..I think there should have been a build up or some slow introduction of the audience here to build up the tension.
So the beginning with the car and the light flashing was very good I think, after that I became bored a bit and stopped watching..not enough surprises I think.
I appreciate that you send this film to this board to watch..nice if we can have more non technical items discussed as well.

editing was good..only the content and concept/idea wasn't, to my (honest) opinion.


Didn't like the music..to sweet..no guts..



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[mattias]

thanks a lot for the feedback. yeah, it's supposed to be a bit cliche, since that helps to sell it as a "professional product". i tried to provide a nice twist to the usual story though. didn't you get to the ending? the story actually evolves quite a bit.

as for the sudden stuff, it's actually a story element, even though it might not be that obvious. the idea is that a lot builds from nothing, rather quickly, from the concert to the audience showing up to the love story, and then it all disappears rather quickly too at the end -- a metafor for how shallow the love for a singer in a band usually is. and then the final point: her boyfriend is still there, and always will be. see, i did think further than you thought i did? :-) the story is actually connected to the lyrics of the song as well, but it took me ages before i could really see that, and i'm the guy who wrote the script... ;-)

more feedback? this is what i feed on...


/matt

[MovieStuff]

From what I've seen of the first ten seconds it looks fun. Unfortunately, the first ten seconds seems to be all I can play before it locks up my computer. Tried three times. Tired of rebooting.

Roger

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Roger Evans
MovieStuff
http://www.afterimagephoto.tv/moviestuff.html

[clandon]

Would of liked to see your video and even tried. But, the 20MB file quickly, err, slowly overwhelmed my dial up connection.

CL

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