http://www.filmburner.com Experiments in Filmmaking Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:22:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [flv:/video/vfxtest_011408.flv 400 224]This is what James and I did this morning. Considering we'd never done 3D tracking, camera matchmoving, compositing 3D elements into scenes using After Effects before today, it's quite an accomplishment. Some of the keying/mattes aren't fully clean, but this was more about matching the 3D elements ... http://www.filmburner.com/2008/01/14/monday-vfx-test/ [flv:/video/techsupport.flv 320 240] This is a video that I worked on with a friend right after high school and before college. It's a parody of Trauma: Life in The ER. Jason and I sat down the night before the shoot and wrote out a loose outline, which was basically some ... http://www.filmburner.com/2007/11/01/tech-support-life-in-computer-repair/ I like adventure games. I like the investigating, the puzzle solving, the strong story-lines. I like action games and first-person shooters. But recently I found that I have a problem with Nintendo-styletm action-adventure games. This genre includes the recent Zelda, Metroid, and Paper Mario games. I haven't finished any ... http://www.filmburner.com/2007/10/28/i-have-a-problem-with-action-adventure-games/ [flv:/video/tothesky.flv 400 224] This is the video we made as an entry to the Radar Festival. When we chose the song (which was a while ago) we had a much different concept for the video. Not entirely different, but different enough that we changed everything we had to shoot. At ... http://www.filmburner.com/2007/10/16/maps-to-the-sky-video/ I know you can view my commercial on my website, and it's a little higher quality than youtube, but if you like it please view and vote for my entry over at youtube as much as possible, thanks! Click the image above to view it. http://www.filmburner.com/2007/08/17/heinz-top-this-commercial-contest/ [flv:/video/desert.flv 400 224] http://www.filmburner.com/2007/08/12/heinz-ketchup-the-desert/ [flv:/video/arrowhead.flv 400 224] It's been a while since we've shot anything (we being Dawnrunner Productions). Luckily though, Darrell had a simple one-shot idea for us to shoot this past weekend. We headed out to Treasure Island in the late afternoon with four giant bottles of water. It was amazingly windy ... http://www.filmburner.com/2007/07/04/arrowhead-water-commercial/ The film production crew that I've been working with lately has updated their website. If anyone reading this is in need of a commercial, music video, or corporate video, contact Dawnrunner Productions so we can help you out! http://www.filmburner.com/2007/05/02/check-out-dawnrunnercom/ We had a pretty interesting discussion in my online math class this week. Here was the prompt from my teacher: Module 13: Color Planet People who write about the theory of color often envision the range of visible colors as a geometric "color solid." To explore this concept, imagine we live ... http://www.filmburner.com/2007/05/02/disscussion-problem-from-my-math-class/ v. To repetitively switch between two or more tasks by physically jogging between them. I had to joggle between running lights and sound because the boards were at opposite ends of the booth. from Juggle, Jog http://www.filmburner.com/2007/04/26/joggle/