Monday Morning Mini Movie: The Plot Device

This is my first post in quite a while but then I've been busy taking my local government to court and working at the university.  I'll update you with the specifics later this week...

The Monday Morning Mini Movie is nother awesome video made using relatively cheep tools and software.  It's amazing what effects can be recreated when the director has a clear vision and a great team to make  it happen.  Enjoy!

For more info about the film and to watch the "making off" video check out the Red Giant website over here: RedGiant.com/​PlotDevice

If you have any video or films you want featured as a future Monday Morning Mini Movie send them to nathan@nathanrae.co.uk

Thanks!

Monday Morning Mini Movie: Out of Sight

Three students from Taiwan have recently released this short animation about a little girl wondering onto an unfamiliar street and into a world of her own...  It's beautifully made and very touching.

Looking at some of the comments on youtube I was amazed that many people didn't get what was going on until the very end.  When did it click for you?

Check out the official site here: http://www.evaty.url.tw/oos/  The site is in English as well.

Monday Morning Mini Movie: Robots Shooting Bikini Babes

Film makers and advertisers using robots again!  Isn't it cool that you chuck out your tripods, tracking dollies and cranes entirely and use a flying Hexrobot instead?

Now obviously this technology has a long way to go but as it matures a couple of the problems in the video above will be solved:

1. The camera is using a rolling shutter which, combined with the vibrations off the robot, causes weird distortions in the video.  Using a camera with progressive scan would sort this?

2. The shots of the camera dropping out of the sky and stopping just above the models was filmed in reverse. Would you want a robot with spinning blades dropping down on you from 50 meters?  Proximity sensors could solve this one I think...

3. Notice the noise of the robot?  No, obviously not, as no native sound was used at all.  Any dialogue scenes shot this way would require a very clever mic set up or extensive ADR.  I don't see an easy way around this problem.  Can you?

A robot salute goes out to the BotJunkie blog again for this one.

Monday Morning Mini Movie: Secret Stash

This week's Monday Morning Mini Movie is a day late as I'm on holiday in rural Cornwall and we're suffering intermittent internetability.

This is another video that brings inanimate objects alive which is something I like when it is done especially well.  I particularly like the laptop in the side of the small table and the pile of papers.  The only problem I see with the latter is finding the papers under all the clutter on my desk...

Thanks to the Unclutterer Blog for this one.

Monday Morning Mini Movie: Unmasking Google Streetview

Over in Germany politicians and the media are go nuts over Google generally and the Streetview service specifically.  This is partly understandable due to their recent history with the Stazi, etc but it has reached the insane situations of whole buildings, not just faces and licence plates, being blurred out.  So it's not illegal to take pictures of the buildings and post them one the net, but when google does it in an organised way, it has to be stopped?

On the saner end of the discussion there are activists campaigning against this who have produced a very interesting film.  There is no sound on the video and it starts quite slow but stick around (or skip forward) to the 1.20 mark and you'll be happy that you did.

Did you like that?  Thought you would.

I'd love to make an entire music video using simular techniques but I suspect this will be a larger project than I have time for at the moment.  Back to editing the EJC DVD instead....