I’ve been hooked now into Vimeo: better quality and simply a better place for wanna-be filmmakers. Hey, that’s me. I sort of edited clips I had in FA but they kind of seem redundant already, as my Kobotel video was full of random montages.
Then came the brilliant idea of stop motion. I rush edited my clips and tada! So far, I’ve had good comments from my peers. That makes me feel so positive. Must have plot for next project. NOW.
Was bored last night so I rush edited some trial clips I took of friends in a coffee shop. I love how the colors turned out, especially the scene where someone was getting her makeup done. I kinda feel sad though that artistic out-of-focusing can’t be done manually, so I have to master editing that.
Shot with my Sony Bloggie PM5K, edited in Adobe PPro CS3 + NewBlue VideoFX.
BGM is Mika’s Toy Boy from The Boy Who Knew Too Much.
Today, I watched RPG: Metanoia (and my first ever 3D movie). It shows promise, within the superficial of animation. IMSO (s stands for smart), it deserves to be the festival’s best picture. The story is real, unpretentious and cool. Not to mention it being the first Pinoy 3D movie. It is what the gaming world is, and the kids involved in this world were portrayed en pointe, only lacking the cussing the kids in computer shops utter. But that is understandable. This created a drawback though, the judges barely knew about the gaming world and the people in it.
The age and culture disparity caused it not finishing first, marking only on the milestone aspect and not on the genuineness that was crafted. And, didn’t they appreciate how Filipino the movie was?
Two points I got here. Know who will watch (or judge) your work, whether or not you’ll care about what they say. Haters gonna hate, critics gonna critique! Second point, beyond the fluffy of fantasy and deep thinking, the descendance towards simplicity, relatability and reality is a gem in filmmaking as well.
Who knows I might get into animation too.. NAAAAAT!
So I’m still not over this thing, and I spent most of my day taking shots. Mostly at arching trees or buildings because they look awesome in 360. See this and this!
But beyond this, I shot some footages of my friends over a coffee shop. I will probably make something out of it. I tried to profile the three of them and have a plot that involves friends and coffee shops. No biggie, just testing out the waters, where waters is the camera.
Given the lens, I’d like to make a simple short, just to introduce my camera and how amazing it is. Perhaps a boy wakes up with a lens beside him. I’m not sure if he would throw or keep it in the end.
That’s it for now. Maybe tomorrow, I can start on a storyline.
Today, I finally got my Sony Bloggie MHS-PM5K. It’s just your typical HD camera (ala Flip) with an awesomazing bonus of a 360 degree lens. Yes, it’s panorama in a single shot. It had me at that feature, and decided to get myself one. Bought it at 2/3 the original price. And it’s brand new. The genius that is online selling!
So I tried it out today and am happy with what it can do. IT CAN TAKE AWESOME LIKE THIS IN ONE CLICK! Haters can hate, but I love this camera. You will help me be the filmmaker I aspire to be, right Bloggie?
1/1/11.
It’s visual coolness for the apathetic (had they cared), a wish-granting occurence for the pathetic. But for other people, say the cheesy ones, it marks a start. Regardless of whether I’m cheesy or not, I do believe so too. Start for what? Well, I doubt for a protocol on that, considering how much people there are alive. So perhaps it will be safe to say that ‘for what’ lies heavily upon each’s own. It could lie anywhere between a nicotine-free pair of lungs to a social revolution. After much thought, I’ve come to decide on what to start.
Passion. No, not exactly. Realization of passion. Yes, that is more like it. Film has always been a passion, a frustration. Circumstances shadowed the passion, but there’s never a thing as too late - a mantra I believed in for so long. So this blog, will be the primary witness to my journey. From scans of my scratch papers to scripts to lines to images to inspirations to amateur shorts - to just about anything!
Hopefully this all makes sense in the end.
