At age sixteen one typically gets their drivers license (in North America), but I think every sixteen years people should get another license.
Of their choice.
And since it’s your birthday today, Ryan, you get to pick whatever license you want! There’s an evil mastermind license, or a license to captain a starship, or perhaps the ever popular license to kill. Very handy for those annoying people that pop up on your birthday. Hey, the punch bowl!!! I’ll be right back! Oh and…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYAN!!!

When working on various variosities, I like turning on some music to be inspired to. Typically I’ll reach for (in a digital sense) classical compositions and film scores.

Especially film scores.

And of those especial film scores, three names invariably pop up: John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith. Or the 3J’s as I like to refer to them as. (I think I might have mentioned this in an earlier post. Oh well, nothing like leftovers!) But since I named this post Jerry Goldsmith, I’m forced to only talk about him on this occasion.
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This weekend saw our first out-of-town production. Shooting on location in Cleveland, TN, we also shot our first Noir. Being a noir, it’s about murder, but who’s the killer?

Now begins the hard part: post production. Still, I think we did a pretty good job keeping things organized; our first-time co-director, Stacy Cohl, did a remarkable job beating the performances out of our cast. Photos and screen-shots will come soon. We’re all still recovering from the shoot, as well as the trip.

As the old saying goes, “so what have you done lately?” Actually, we’re working on yet another super-short project. We’re keeping the details scant, but it’ll be about the same length as 3×5, but this time we’re flexing our skills with a new genre: film noir. There’s going to be a few other changes from the way we’ve done things in the past with this film, so it’s bound to be exciting. I hope.

And now for the shameless plug: we’re currently casting roles, but we need a concerned husband. Preferably mid-20’s, around 5′ 6″ – 5′ 10″ tall. Will need to be able to commit to about 12 hours on August 29 in the Cleveland, TN area. Also should be able to acquire his own wardrobe and be willing to do all this for free.

Interested parties should either reply below with a valid e-mail address, or send a note to casting@omega13productions.com.

Editor’s Note: All roles have now been cast. Thank you for your attention.

The latest short that I’ve been working on is now, more or less, complete. The wait is over.  I’ll put up a page for it on this site soon, but for now, you’ll be able to find a YouTube link if you just click below. Read the rest of this entry »

Trailing on the coat-tails of J.J. Abrams “Star Trek”, it seems this is a good year to be a Trekkie.  Film Score Monthly recently announced at Comic-Con that their label will be releasing a massive, digitally restored, complete score to 1982’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”, arguably the best score of the series, and the score which made James Horner’s career.

Find details here.

If you’re capturing HDV footage using something like HDVSplit, or Cineform’s NEOScene, and your HDV camera no longer appears to those programs as a capture device, or even showing up at all; then try changing the Firewire (IEEE 1394) driver to a “legacy” driver. This tends to work in the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista and the release candidate of Windows 7.

You know, just F.Y.I.

Since Trey mentioned it in the comments for his last post, Stu Maschwitz has a tutorial on Red Giant TV on using Magic Bullet Looks and Colorista to emulate the looks of big Hollywood films from this summer.  The one thing Trey omitted, however, was sharing the link with everyone else.  So here you go, gang.  Enjoy.

Now, back to trying to wrap up this latest video project.  Stay tuned.

I decided to have some fun with Magic Bullet Looks and the image from the previous post. The top image after the break is the original. Hope everyone enjoys!

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And it turned out pretty good, too.  Who would have thought?