January's Meeting Notes

Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop
Sunday, Jan 08, 2006, 2:00, Flying Monkey Arts Center

Topics
Num.
Topic
Responsible
1.
The group behind the 24-hour Music video contest (details available at deadworkers.com ) showed up and passed out their flyers. They have the Flying monkey space reserved for for Sunday and Saturday on Mar 18 and 19, 2006.

The following from their website gives a little more background and the submission date.

“ through February 15, 2006 what’s going to happen is that a bunch of talented local filmmakers will submit their best short films. The DWP judges are going to review the submitted films and narrow the competition down to four filmmakers. The best local musicians are going to submit their original songs (also by 2/15/06) and DWP judges are going to shoot down each other’s favorite until only one song is left standing. On March 1st the judges will notify the filmmakers that they have been chosen to compete and the musician(s) will be notified that their song is to be the one.”

William
J. D.
Eric
Claire

*UPDATE*
1B. Missed this when transcribing the notes.

showed us a video he did of the 2001 Leonid Meteor showers. The last shot one was great!. He used music from OpSound for the video.
Sam

2.
showed us a music video he did. He used Vegas Video, and an effect called “velocity”-speeds up and slows down. (velocity envelope in Vega Video tutorial)
Flashing imagery of himself. He filmed the background first,
then inserted himself in 1 to 2 frames at a time.
He added the sound effects to the music video .
Eric
1.
The other music video he showed was an older one using VHS to VHS with a time base corrector and a Videotoaster.

The strobe effects in the tunnel visuals were accomplished with strobe fireworks. They put off a lot of smoke, which was an effect he was looking for.
Eric
2.
I'm posting these links again because they really are so dang useful:

http://www.creativecommons.org

Http://www.archive.org

Http://www.opsound.org

Http://www.projectgutenberg.org

Http://www.loc.gov

Edison Wax Cylinders
also, checkout

freevlog

and

http://www.ourmedia.org

Jim
3.
green screen
and the different uses. Needs to be lit separately from the subject. Useful for virtual sets, as well as action sequences. Imagery can be keyed out to different colors in editing from original footage. Many, many uses.
Everyone
4.
Talked about different interests, like 3D that Richard does for MACRO Industries, 2D animation, music videos, films, music, etc.
Everyone
5.
Showed his homemade stabilizer and how he built it and its various uses.
Sri

Additional information:

The next scheduled meeting of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop :
Sunday, Feb 5, 2006, 2:00, at the Flying Monkey Arts Center