Super 8 short wins BEST SHORT at Westchester Film Fest!

Post by **The Light of Eons** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:48 pm

Hi there. My short film, "The Light of Eons" has won BEST SHORT at the
Westchester (NY) Film Festival! We have two festival screenings in April -- River Run in North Carolina, and World Fest in Houston. If you know anyone in those areas, please pass it on -- I'd love to meet some super-8-ers.

My film was shot with on Tri-x Super-8, and finished on HD24p. I shot
without permits or insurance all over New York City (only one bad cop gave me a ticket, which I appealed and got dismissed because it was (at the time) legal to film on the subways without tripods or lights!).

I shot MOS and did a full sound design with voice over and score to
finish. You can see the festival acceptances on my site at:

http://www.thelightofeons.com

Hope to hear back and if you're near Winston-Salem, NC or Houston, TX,
please come to the festivals in April!

http://worldfest.org/
http://riverrunfilm.com/home.asp

p.s., also watch "That Darn Bill" at IFilm!!!

Post by **Jean Poirier** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:54 pm

Congratulations. Jean

Post by **paul** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:07 pm

A super8 triumph!

Congrats from me too!

Can we buy it on cd/dvd (PAL) in the near future? I would be interested.

Paul

BTW your site stays blank on my PC

Post by **onsuper8** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:53 pm

Is an online version possible, so we can all see it?

Post by **Scotness** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:22 pm

Sounds great - congratulations - now to ask the hot question around here - did you transfer direct to HD - and how did the Super 8 look in HD - what was your post production and editing workflow?

Scot

Post by **The Light of Eons** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:58 pm

Thanks. Yes, I did a telecine directly to HD24p. I was very lucky to have met with someone who offered to help out, and the look is, if I may say, amazing! Ironically, once downconverted to standard video, there are some artifacts from the grain, but still it looks great.

You can see one still from my film, which is a frame of HD exported to a jpeg, on my site (I hope to have more up soon!).

http://www.thelightofeons.com

I bought all my film directly from Kodak in NYC -- I plan to give them a DVD and see if it can't be a part of the 40th anniversary celebration!

Thanks again! So glad to have found so many Super-8 film makers out there.

Post by **CDI** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:43 am

Glad to see your film is doing well. Just have a few quick technical questions.

Who did the telecine? What camera did you shoot with? Did you use an anamorphic or just crop to 16:9? Also, what's the film about (the title and still are intriguing)? Thanks for the info.

Post by **The Light of Eons** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:36 am

Let's see.... I used primarily a Nizo, though I can't remember the number -- it did time lapse and ran 54fps, both features I used. I also used a big ol' Eumig, which has a faster lens for lower light conditions, mainly the subway.

I was lucky to get my telecine done at Technicolor in NYC -- they have a super-8 gate on their Spirit Telecine.

I shot standard frame aspect, with the expectation that I'd do a telecine to video, either digi beta or beta sp. When we did the HD instead, we cropped the image to 16x9. Most of the time it worked out to simply crop what was shot, but there were some occasions where I had to make some adjustments.

The film is set in the future, about a guy who never sleeps because, we learn through his voice over (the only "dialog" in the film) that he takes a drug that keeps him awake all the time. A discovery in outer space (that he reads about in the paper) and a discovery at home, make him reconsider his sleepless life.

I used time lapse to create his sense of a disconnect from normal time frames after 17 years of sleeplessness.

I actually had a fairly involved process for post production where I videotaped my dailies to mini DV and then from that first edit on FCP, I pulled my selects on super-8 for my telecine so I wouldn't have to transfer so much -- I shot around 125 rolls all together!

A friend suggested I do seminars on how I did it. Think there's a market for that?

Thanks for the interest!

dave

Santo · Post by **Santo** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:49 am

There would be a small market for you putting your film on DVD and including an extended and informative "how I did it" documentary. Likely you'd get a hundred sales from this site if it were cheap.

Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:56 pm

Absolutely fantastic win.... Good job!

I'm so happy to see someone actually making a winner film in Super 8.
I hope you accomplish all your goals in film making in the future. Go get'em Jean.

Website · Post by **BigBeaner** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:19 pm

Wow. Congrats seriously the editing sounds simply...amazing.

The only market I can think of is the dvd. I would buy it. Other is guest speaker at film schools and short discussion or with the future editors.

Post by **Scotness** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:23 pm

Santo wrote:There would be a small market for you putting your film on DVD and including an extended and informative "how I did it" documentary. Likely you'd get a hundred sales from this site if it were cheap.

I'll buy it

Post by **arnaud** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:17 am

Bravo.
Could you try to encode even just one scene on video? One picture is too less for our curiosity.
arnaud.

Post by **scott** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:40 pm

Wow, 125 rolls for a short.

I'd like to see it, and would also buy the DVD, if made available.

Congrats on the win!

Scott

Post by **companyofquail** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:15 am

i live only 3 hours away from Winston-Salem and wil most definitely be attending the festival, i dont see your film listed, will it be showing there. also we should try and meet up, maybe have a lunch or somthing, i know a little about the town cause i have family there, im a newbie and could use any tips that you could give. hehe drop me an e-mail if you like companyofquail(at)gmail.com