December Update

    What's new with you...? That's almost a rhetorical question, but if you want you can answer in the comments.. haha

   I've just been working on The Spies. Which has been interesting to say the least. There is this tip I learned from Andrew Kramer (VideoCoPilot), basically it is P.E.R.F.E.C.T. This acronym will help make really really good video (specifically compositing), but when I was working on T (Timing), I came to realize that we aren't very good at it. What will make The Spies worse than our next video will be that the timing of shots wasn't well planned, and it was too fast. We try to keep to about three seconds a shot. But some of the scenes in The Spies needed slower shot time. While we can speed things up in post production, we have a difficult time with slowing them down. Though The Spies (2010) will be a great film, comes out a week from Friday, it will be a fast paced 10 minutes, that should have been about 15-20mins.

   What I might try, but may not actually use, is to use the extra takes to show shots multiple times. This was done in the early stages of some European film (either the Russians or the Germans). But what it does. It creates this uneasy feel and it will slow a shot down quite well... I'd like to slow it down, but make it flow better, and not create unease, a lot like they do with explosions in spy films and action TV shows... I may be able to do this successfully... Wish me luck, ha

   Well what else is going down? Well LO2 looks like it will be released as a series of disconnected short films; well they are slightly connected, but not very well. This due to the fact that we want to make the movie, but we know it will be impossible to make the whole thing without serious dedication (which we can't get unfortunately).

   In preparation for LO2 we may make some sort of super hero battle sequence, or a Harry Potter inspired battle sequence. Not to sure on that...

   Then we are looking into a new series that would start up this summer called Gett'n Tasty. It's a cooking show, but we would film it whenever, release it later. Other than that we have a couple short films in conception, but nothing is really being filmed, the weather is wretched (we tried to film last weekend, way too wet, too cold for the camera, battery didn't last, and then we only got one third of the project done.. a five minute film...whatever).

   Look forward to the video on the 24th! I'm excited :D

Thanks for reading,

~Alex Chandler