Workshop notes 20060709

Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop
Sunday, July 09, 2006, 2:00, Flying Monkey Arts Center

Type of meeting
Workshop
Meeting called by
James N. Reynolds
Attendees

William B.
Trevor B.
Brent C.
Jim R.
Glen S.
Don T.


Topics
Num.
Topic
Responsible
1.
Another reminder that meetings are now the 2nd Sunday of the month.
Jim
2.
Eric F. of the Dead Workers Party-

behind the mask
[forgot what this was in reference to-Jim]

Will
3.
talked about getting a 3-chip camera. Jim membered Chris B. telling him the one he used had to have lots and lots of light.
Trevor
4.
Like Moles Like Rats shoot

talked about trying to do the shoot on Holmes avenue bridge by UAH when the wind blew from all over and then the hard rain came.
Will
5.
Dead Workers Party making behind the scenes interviews with the people from L.A. and out of town right now. Later will get Bill and others from here later.
Will
6.
Dead Workers Party
showed the video stuff from the Crash Boom Bang performance
Will
7.
brought videos they had behind a Crash Boom Bang performance. two camera setup.

Will
8.
said the kid's workshop is going well.
Jim helped him find an ancient video camera from the film coop library to use a prop.

Don
9.
rod
shotgun mics
too good of a mike-it was picking up the zooming noises from the camera. Will said they used a 2 camera setup-
stage left high stag left low.
Will
10.
Talked about "Push" a murder movie he did.
Brent
11.

Charlie White "Phone-a-clone"
commercial. actually used twins in it.

Will
12.
Talked about canes and steadicams, buying them and making them.

everyone
13.
(not present) put together the music for the videos the Dead Workers Party had playing on the Crash Boom Bang stage.
Eric F. (not present)
14.
(not present) used the program After effects to blow people's heads off. Andy Kramer site is at
videocopilot
use the word “Charlie" to access that effect.

Eric F. (not present)
15.
J.D. did the 2D animation for the licky lou toilets commercial.

J.D. (not present)
16.
Really liked the style of the tofu stick commercial and that each of their fake commercial had specific styles.
Jim
17.
trying to have the dvd
available by the next Crash Boom Bang show.

Dead Workers Party
18.
talked about DV decks and old 3 chip cameras to use as decks
everyone
19.
Boom poles get expensive. Jim suggested maybe using a lamp housing.
everyone
20.
all use a not made anymore camera. Panasonic PV-DV953 3-chip size. full manual control.

Dead Workers Party
21.
turn stabilizer off when using a tripod.
Brent
22.
Walter putting in a sound stage in next to the DWP studio
Brent
23.
Aftereffects plug-in for green screen.
Brent
24.
talked to the cinematographer to
the movie Bad Santa.
Said that Digital now can look just as good, if not better than film now, as long as the equipment's there.

Don
25.
Remember to check and post (please, others, post as much as you can, especially about your projects and useful information, like your podcasts or homepages, vlogs, videos, etc.)
filmcoop.blogspot.com
and the livejournal
film co-op community
Jim

Additional information:

The next scheduled meeting of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop :
Sunday, August 13, 2006, 2:00, at the Flying Monkey Arts Center