Film Co-op MeetingNotes20060910

Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop
Sunday, September 10, 2006, 2:00, Flying Monkey Arts Center

Type of meeting
Workshop
Meeting called by
James N.
Attendees
Stanley
Tina
Jim
Sam
Ben
Danielle


Topics
Num.
Topic
Responsible
1.
brought a short video of 20,000 frames a second.
Vision research. camera Phantom 7

High speed detonator placed on top of an empty coffee cup
Straight angle.

High speed photos require a lot of light.
Black and white easier than color (and less expensive) than color.
The trails behind the exploding debris are heat trails. NIH-images cold contrast image enhance
goes through image from by frame and adjusts the brightness upwards . default value usually ½ percent. since the is no on good setting, the above is useful.
Stanley
2.
Brought a portable monitor. An extension for a DVD player usually found in cars or vans. Can plug in headphones, makes for a larger live monitor for your camera.
Stanley
3.
Showed a rant he made about the difficulties of low-budget filmmaking.

Should have done more pre-production, specifically storyboarding.

Show notes to the rant:

http://www.archive.org
http://www.creativecommons.org

Jim
4.
Moved back form Tuscaloosa, made shorts
Ben


Danielle
5.
Rocket City Film Festival is Oct 20th
Film Co-op
6.
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 http://community.livejournal.com/filmcoop_work/

http://www.filmcoop.org/filmmakers.html#blog
Jim

Additional information:

The next scheduled meeting of the Alabama Filmmaker's Co-op Workshop :
Sunday, October 08, 2006, 2:00, at the Flying Monkey Arts Center