Scaffolds: a super 8 Spectacle on view

Post by **steve hyde** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:13 am

....questions, comments, criticisms are all appreciated and welcome.

Scaffolds: a super 8 spectacle

Steve

Post by **escubria** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:05 am

Is this all super 8, what stocks and who did your transfer?

Post by **woods01** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:32 am

Steve, you are an artist. I loved your Seattle film, and judging from the
teaser, the Ice Harvesters movie should be great too. While I won't go so
far to say that this little ditty is a classic but it was visually and aurally
interesting. Its a good little art film but as a demo reel its freaking great.

Demo reels are kinda of a weird and awkward beast. They are usually
dull, with some epic and pretentious music awkwardly cutting to out of context beauty shots.

What where the music tracks you used?

Post by **etimh** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:35 am

Very cool. Great footage and an excellent little film, Steve.

Tim

Post by **npcoombs** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:46 pm

Excellent choice of music and sound design to go with the imagery. I really like it, my only reservation is the fireworks at the end which don't seem to fit or add anything.

Post by **mattias** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:32 pm

yeah, that was very very good. your grasp of juxtaposition is admirable. very maya deren-esque. congrats and keep it up.

/matt

Post by **Nicholas Kovats** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:10 pm

Excellent b/w camera work.

Love the bike shots, i.e. rotating spokes. Great music.

Post by **steve hyde** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:41 pm

...hey, thanks. Very encouraging responses. I appreciate the comments.

It's a music-driven thing (as most demo-reels are) The music is from a fantastic collaboration: Kronos Quartet and Cafe Tacuba on the 2002 record "Nuevo". The track is called "12/12" (it is a 10 minute track so my use of it is partial). I love this record.

learn more about it here:
http://kronosquartet.org/records/indiv.php?id=108

On the technical side:
It's almost all black and white super 8 with a couple color shots that I desaturated and a couple of 16mm shots. The spokes are 16mm plus-x and the shot of the guy gazing at the sky glassy-eyed is 16mm 7201 desaturated. Some of it is hand processed super 8.

The transfers were made by CinePost in Atlanta and Flying Spot in Seattle. (mostly CinePost) The opening portrait was shot with an Angeniuex 10mm lens on a Beaulieu 4008ZMII (collimation is pure luck)

Again, thanks for the reactions.

Steve

Post by **superotto.40** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:05 pm

very good job, Steve.=D>

Post by **Matthew Buick** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:56 pm

The Quicktime logo appears with a question mark. Does anyone know what's going on here? :o

Post by **mattias** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:21 am

Matthew Buick wrote:The Quicktime logo appears with a question mark. Does anyone know what's going on here?

since you don't tell us what quicktime version you're using, how could we?

/matt

Post by **steve hyde** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:12 pm

...I guess it requires the current version of Quick Time. I'm going to take this version down later today and will replace with something more optimized for streaming and fix add/fix titles.

Steve

Post by **steve hyde** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:42 am

...I haven't made use of Youtube much. Here is a link to the finished cut of this short. I have titled it "Scaffolds".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkBcOAxKE94

Steve

Post by **Dr Smith** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:21 pm

Really enjoyed that Steve. I watched it on YouTube and was pleasantly surprised at how good the quality of the image was considering the inevitable losses with compression. Do you have any tips regarding uploading work to YouTube and minimising the loss of picture quality?

Post by **steve hyde** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:39 pm

Hi Darren,

Thanks. I uploaded a 300mbs "best quality" mpg4 16 bits 48khz.
I'll eventually get something more refined up at my website as soon as my friend that helps me with the site gets some time.

Steve