Hi All
Finally after years I've paid someone to make my brother & I a website.
We've shot most of our personal short films on Super-8 over the years including our new one which is the main feature of our site.
There's example's of colour and B/W Super-8 from 'Dream' using K40 shot at 4fps to 'Mr David Viner' shot using 10 cameras with a single roll of 200T Super-8 in each camera, the whole music video was done in one take.
Next week I hope to have the Kodak Super-8 Demo in full on the site which will include the new Ektachrome 64T as well as all the other stocks.
My brother & I love shooting on super-8 & 16mm film and hope to do so for a long time to come.
Hope this is of some interest as examples of S8mm.
All the Best
Astro http://www.astburyfilms.com
..partly truth, partly fiction, a walking contradiction.
The David Viner video sounded like it was recorded live at the filming. Now that's a rare feat! I've had the same idea myself of running a bunch of cameras at the same time and shooting in one take. It works!
Really nice shots. what were the cameras used for the music video? And the short dream, real subtle editing too. This how you know Super 8 is still a good film medium. When there is good lighting. What techniques or lights did you use for them?
"Using battered Super 8 and lo-fi digital video cameras the Astburys turn the suburbs of London into a vision of widescreen beauty."
How do you get to the "widescreen" presentation state? There seems to be many excellent but divergent opinions here on the board about the best way to achieve this.
Just trying to get different suggestions on how to proceed.
Thanks for the films I enjoyed (except destroying that super 8 camera - sankyo?).
The philosophies and martial art of Bruce Lee and the art of nunchaku: great ideas for your film!
I'm a fan of Bruce Lee films and his fighting techniques, based on wing tsun kung fu! By the way I think this short type of nunchaku is not as effective as the longer one - but it is better for filmmaking.
[quote][quote]Did you shoot through the lens of the S8 camera as it was squeezed?Evan Kubota[/quote]
[b]Hi
Firstly thankyou very much. The cameras crushed in the film were all broken some way and we tried to have them repaired but with no luck. So when we crushed the Sankyo we had a roll of Quarz Russian B/W Super-8 film in the body filming it's own death. The film based on a dream I had. So my brother & I I decided to make the film exactlly as it was in my dream. Now I wonder whether my memory of the dream is actually our film.[/b]
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The David Viner video sounded like it was recorded live at the filming. Now that's a rare feat! I've had the same idea myself of running a bunch of cameras at the same time and shooting in one take. It works! plutone[/quote]
[b]The sound was recorded live, it's not the best of quality but it adds to the raw feel of the piece, and I'm definatley into this type of film making.[/b]
[quote][quote]Really nice shots. what were the cameras used for the music video? And the short dream, real subtle editing too. This how you know Super 8 is still a good film medium. When there is good lighting. What techniques or lights did you use for them? casonova197[/quote]
[b]In the music video we used a Beaulieu 6008 pointed at the keyboard player, a Nizo 6080 pointed at the drummer (High shot) A Sankyo point & shoot camera on 2nd angle of Drummer, A Canon 1014 with wide-angle adapter, a Canon 514, a Canon 814 all pointing at the singer, and then I think the rest were made up of Chinons & Eumig Mini's . I had to borrow most of the cameras. The Kids had to wait all day until we'd rehersed the shot with band over & over because we only had enough stock for one take.[/b]
[b]In the Dream Film most of film was edited in Camera. I had it in my head to shoot 1 Roll as 1 Complete film. In the end it proved quite difficult as I always reached a point where I needed to take the shot again. We lit the film with a single red-head. I think K40 produces the most incredible colours. It was fun shooting 40asa at night, with only 800watts of light, we had a single small reflector, and you can just see the position of the light behind a door in one of the shots. Because we were working at 4fps my brother had to make all his movements extra slow.[/b]
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Great stuff--really enjoyed We Billion Cheered.
You say in your website statement:
"Using battered Super 8 and lo-fi digital video cameras the Astburys turn the suburbs of London into a vision of widescreen beauty."
How do you get to the "widescreen" presentation state? There seems to be many excellent but divergent opinions here on the board about the best way to achieve this.
Just trying to get different suggestions on how to proceed.
Tim
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[b]Zan Lyons who designed the site, wrote the bit about my brother & I.
At the time when he first met us the statement was very true, but we have made some investments since on two Canon 1014XLS super-8 cameras which were really happy with. And were also taking out a loan to buy an A-Cam for the feature we want to shoot.
We Billion Cheered was shot entirley on MiniDV with a Anamorphic Projection lens fitted to the camera using a camera mount I found for astronomy, to fit stills cameras to telescope eyepices, however I still needed to gaffer tape the lens to the camera.
After I'd edited the DV I then re-filmed the whole piece on to 7218 500T Col.Neg 16mm and the 16mm was then telecined on an Ursa Diamond and graded to B/W. This produced a really nice feel to the DV for Broadcast. This is was my first Directors debut for TV and I didn't have to work with low-fi equipment because luckily the budget was there to purchase better stuff. With Anamorphic lenses it's cheaper to buy ones that were dedicated for projectors. The slight disadvantage is that they usually have a long barrel and so you need to zoom through them slightly, the what I do is set the lens at 10ft on its focus ring and if your lights good your D.O.F will be great so everything should be in sharp focus.[/b]
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Thanks for the films I enjoyed (except destroying that super 8 camera - sankyo?).
The philosophies and martial art of Bruce Lee and the art of nunchaku: great ideas for your film!
I'm a fan of Bruce Lee films and his fighting techniques, based on wing tsun kung fu! By the way I think this short type of nunchaku is not as effective as the longer one - but it is better for filmmaking.Superbus_[/quote]
[b]Thanks Superbus for your comments it's great to chat to other fans.
My brother & I used to train with the longer Nunchaku but found the shorter metals ones alot faster. Though the longer ones give you more striking distance, I found out from experience that the shorter ones were much better for street defence. A guy attacked my wife when we were shopping at our local mini-market. When the guy lunged at me I'd already pulled the metal ones out and wacked him across the shoulder sending him to the floor.
The whole incident freaked me out so much my brother & I no longer carry them, as it is illeagal anyway, but I felt that one day I might get in too deep and end up in jail. Though I do believe you should be able to defend you person. So that's why we made Nunchaku which is about this dilema, my bother & I have had so many experiences of youths trying to mug us or cause trouble when we were teenagers that carrying a weapon made sense but I do think violence attracts violence. But I don't know what would have happened that night if I had not have been armed. My brother & I stilll train with nunchaku but in todays climate in London I would not carry them anymore.
My brother & I are big fans of Bruce Lee & Donny Yen and the Wing Chun / Wu Shu (This might be wrong spelling sorry)
As soon as we've entered the film at Cannes 2006 and they except we can put the whole 15Min film on the net.
The out-takes which are from the fight sequence are really funny and Zans putting them on the site early next week along with the Kodakl Super-8 Stock demo.[/b]
Thankyou again for all your compliments
Best Wishes to you all
Astro
..partly truth, partly fiction, a walking contradiction.
