On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:39:49 +1000, Adam Woolley wrote > Sounds good! We should get started on this and nominate a postal > address to send all the footage to!
[snip] > > That way with the hours and hours of footage I'm sure we'd receive, > we could make 3 or maybe even 4 movies to target all audiences! > For instance, we could send all the adrenalin pumped 'competition > finish' movie to all the clubs and pubs around australia to play on > their big screens to get everyone excited about gliding (with > www.joeyglide.com on the bottom of the screen > (with content on everything about gliding (simular to > www.nationalglidingweek.co.uk))). Endless possibilities... > And then Wayne Carter wrote: > >Re: movie making, what if, through the magazine, website and clubs pages, > >an open invitation is put out to everyone to DONATE copies of any private > >footage they have, then have it professionally edited together (with > >whatever music ends up being cheaply attainable). The expensive bit will > >then be already done, and if something is so good it needs "re-creating", > >so be it, get it professionally done. I am sure our gliding folk have some > >ripper footage stored away somewhere! Keep it up! Wayne Carter, Go > >Packaging, 03 5989 2476 Who on this list has ever done editing of movie footage ? I admit to having a bit of a dabble with several projects using my Mini DV camera and Pinnacle Studio 8 on my PC. I discovered one important thing. It is not a trivial task Even with all the modern whiz-bang of digital technology, it is a difficult task to get right. Just as a PC and word processing package does not turn everyone into a desktop publishing expert (how much "DTP pizza" have you seen), a Mini DV camera and NLE package on a PC does not make everyone into Steven Spielberg. I got roped into putting together a video for a church activity. From around 4 hours of raw footage, I turned it into 15 minutes of final video and another 5 minutes of bloopers and out-takes. That process took me probably 12 hours from 3 * solid 4 hour sessions until late in the evening, without any sort of musical accompanyment. The final product probably had close to 250 short scenes that were used, and around half my editing time was spent just trimming scenes to get the right footage, even before I started putting it together into the final storyboard. So before we start deluging some person's PO BOX with mini DV tapes, stop and think through the logistics. Mini DV footage consumes 3.5 Mb of disk space per second. That's 210Mb per minute, or roughly 12.6 Gb per hour. Get 20 tapes, and that's 250 Gb of footage to wade through. Even if you decide to simply view each tape from end to end, maybe there's only a few seconds of useable footage, and the rest ends up on the digial equivalent of the cutting room floor. Even if you just sit down and watch tape after tape, someone's got to do it, and catalog the lot into categories according to its content and qualities etc. Any good video needs a storyboard BEFORE it is filmed. Go to any short film festival and talk to the producers, and you will discover that basic truth. So if we want to make a video, give us a storyboard, and then invite people to send in specific, pre-edited footage, which tells your story. If you haven't read it, I can recommend "The Digital Video Manual" by Robert Hull, available from good book stores like Dymocks or your local library. For full library citation details see http://www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BSEARCH? BS=digital+video+manual&BS_NAME=TI&NRECS=10&SORTS=BY+SOVR Who on this list has any professional involvement in the processes involved ? i.e. storyboarding, camera work, editing, musical scoring, etc. If these people exist within our ranks, let's seek them out and take advantage of their experience and expertise. We will save ourselves some real pain and suffering by not falling into I don't want to dampen the enthusiasm (and indeed I believe we can do better than Lucy Learns to Fly), but let's think about ALL the aspects involved before we act, just as people have to think about their task before launcing on a XC gliding flight. Cheers Jason Armistead _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
