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  1. FrankLad

    watch These Are Compliments (CG Stopmotion + Camera-Matching)

    Here's a short (1:15) animated film I recently completed using trueSpace 7.6 (outdated animation software), SynthEyes, After Effects, Edius, paper and pencil. Backplates were shot on a Blackmagic Pocket. Hope you guys enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY6ODFVikno
  2. FrankLad

    watch "Aluminum" - Telekinesis short

    Hey guys! Been a while, so I thought I'd share a short film. This one's a mockumentary about a guy with telekinetic abilities... but he's limited to aluminum. ;) It's a little on the weird side, as is most of my stuff, but I hope you enjoy it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyFjglis-Z4 I...
  3. FrankLad

    watch Max Peril - A movie about making a movie

    Hey guys! For anyone interested in off-kilter southern comedy mockumentary films, here's the trailer to a feature I completed recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1sLCitlCw As with my first film, this one is shot in documentary style and features a local cast. It's really a movie...
  4. FrankLad

    Single-Focus Anamorphic Trick

    Hey guys! Thought I'd share a DIY approach for anamorphic shooters who can use a workaround/alternative to double-focusing. (If you've ever used an anamorphic setup, you know how cumbersome it is to focus two lenses.) I'm still refining the housing and plan to pretty things up a bit, but the...
  5. FrankLad

    Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival

    Have any of you screened at the Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival (Chicago)? It popped up on my radar and I'm considering submitting, but wanted to get some feedback first. Thanks, guys!
  6. FrankLad

    Yet another scam... (festival spoofing)

    Here's another scam email to add to the list. Of course, the ACTUAL festival site is tribecafilm.com... NOT TribecaFilmFestival.org. The biggest clue for me was the fact that Tribeca would NOT directly email some country boy about his bizarre, southern sci-fi mockumentary. Heh. ;) I...
  7. FrankLad

    filmmarketingservices(DOT)com?

    I was contacted by someone from "Film Marketing Services" (filmmarketingservicesDOTcom) in regards to distribution of a film I recently completed. Did a search here on IndieTalk for the name/website (as well as the contact's name) expecting to read about others' experience with them, but didn't...
  8. FrankLad

    DIY microphone for gritty, low-fi vocals

    For anyone looking to get a low-quality vocal sound in their recordings (ie. telephone conversation effect, or grungy low-fi vocals in music), this may be of interest: More information available here: http://www.frankladner.com/homemade-microphone-for-low-fi-vocal-recording/ The electronic...
  9. FrankLad

    watch "Defense Training" (clip from Hickory Never Bleeds)

    Here's a training montage from my sci-fi mockumentary film, Hickory Never Bleeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AapXdFSAw8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AapXdFSAw8 Shot on a Bauer C1 Super8 camera. Film processing + HD scanning by Pro8mm. Ending shot on a Canon 7D. The song "We're Not...
  10. FrankLad

    Local Premiere Ideas?

    Hey hey hey hey hey! I'm gearing up for a local showing of my recently-completed film, "Hickory Never Bleeds", and I'm looking for some ideas. The local screening is pretty important to me. The main goal for this entire project is the simple enjoyment of sharing the end result with the cast...
  11. FrankLad

    1930's Jimmie Rodgers song - Public Domain?

    Hey guys! I'm having a bit of trouble finding contact info for this particular Jimmie Rodgers song. http://archive.org/details/JimmieRodgers Can't find the publisher info at ASCAP or BMI. And unfortunately, its availability at Archive.org doesn't necessarily mean it's public domain. Any...
  12. FrankLad

    Recommended dialog levels?

    What do you guys recommend for average and peak dialog levels in a film? I've read -12dB average / -6dB peak but I've also seen other figures suggested (ie. -9dB peak). This feels somewhat loud to me... especially for allowance of more intense sounds above this. While I'm at it, what about...
  13. FrankLad

    "Found footage" animation?

    Has anyone ever seen - or does anyone know of - an animated "found footage" movie? I know there are quite a few movies in this genre dating back 30+ years, but to my knowledge they are all live-action. Anyhow, I had an idea for an animated short that would employ this style and it got me...
  14. FrankLad

    watch Flying Backwards - Star Breathing Giant

    Here's a music video I completed toward the end of last year for a great bunch of guys from Florida. It involved light painting, timelapse, green screen and camera-matching. Had a lot of fun with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HO7XqPW5A
  15. FrankLad

    Yet ANOTHER grain overlay option?

    As I mentioned in another thread, grain overlays are really catching on these days. I've been a fan of filmic/organic grain for quite some time, and have incorporated it into many projects using home-brewed techniques. (I was a software developer for quite a few years.) But this was mostly...
  16. FrankLad

    8mm Distress Kit

    Not affiliated with these guys, but I've used these clips in projects before and thought I'd share with my fellow filmmakers. http://www.mediapreview.net/8mm.htm
  17. FrankLad

    watch Short claymation test on VHS

    Stumbled across this old stop-motion test while searching some VHS tapes and decided to upload it. From what I recall, this was done in or around 1998. (My high school teacher got me an academic copy of Adobe Premier 5, which I believe had just come out during that time.) Very short, no sound...
  18. FrankLad

    Tamron 17-50mm F/2.8?

    I'm looking to add a zoom lens to my Canon 7D kit. My sights have been set on the Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 for a while, but considering I mostly do this whole video thing for fun... I can't really justify quite that much for a lens. AND there's the hesitation about paying that much for a...
  19. FrankLad

    Studio shot camera comparison

    Here's a pretty nifty tool to compare still images of the same scene, taken by various cameras. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/studiocompare.asp
  20. FrankLad

    DIY "Anamorphic Lens Flares"

    Disclaimer: I'm not the biggest fan of excessive lens flares; I find flares-for-the-sake-of-it sorta gimmicky. But I do have an upcoming project where the wide horizontal flare/streak (similar to that present in anamorphic lenses) is desired, so I started looking into the various filters...
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