Last Months meeting notes

Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop
Sunday, December 04, 2005, 2:00, Flying Monkey Arts Center

Topics
Num.
Topic
Responsible
1.
Set up a blogger blog for the filmmaker's co-op workshop group to use at:
Http://filmcoop.blogspot.org
Jim
2.
Archive.org is a great site for finding public domain and Creative Commons (http://www.creativecommons.org) works that you can use for re-mixing your own works and a place you can post your own non-restrictive copyright works for free distribution through the internet. The Moving Images subsection has over 500 feature films in the public domain, over 2000 “ephemeral” educational and other types of films like “Duck and Cover”.

Http://www.archive.org

Http://www.opsound.org

Http://www.projectgutenberg.org

Http://www.loc.gov

Jim
1.
Troubles at first with the Crash Bang Boom set taking up most all of the first floor and their borrowing and the disconnection of the film co-op projector from the film co-op cart to use for their shows on Saturday and Sunday. One of the Crash Bang Booms helped me change the set so we could use the DVD player and projector at least (VHS player that's usually connected was disconnected and not enough time to set up properly, so we couldn't show some of the VHS stuff we had).
Jim
2.
Set up the green screen in front of the stage so we could use it for shooting tests.
Jim, Sam, Stanley
3.
Talked about the script for a short movie she's working on.
Tina
4.
Said he saw a camera that had no moving parts for less than $600. He remembered that it was Samsung, but not the model number.
Stanley
5.
Talked about using Day-for-night techniques.
tried to make sure there were no hard shadows in his projects.
noted that there were plenty of hard shadows in movies that had used the technique.
Said most of the Hammer horror movies used that technique and there were plenty of hard shadows in them.
Chris, Don
Chris
Don
Jim
6.
Played around with green screen, using lights, a portable light, an old car steering wheel, and a set of venetian blinds
Everyone
7.
Used old steering wheel and pretended to be driving so other car information can be composited in.
Jim
8.
Sam asked Tina to look through the blinds and say the 4 seasons in order.
Sam
Tina
9.
Talked about a found footage project he'd heard of where people had gone around to flea markets and garage sales and used movies found there (like old home movies) for their own re-mixes.
Sam

Additional information:

The next scheduled meeting of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop :
Sunday, January 8, 2006, 2:00, at the Flying Monkey Arts Center