Creighton Started A Film Festival
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this and, I’m jumping in head first. I have started the first 9:16 film festival. Yes, that is a tall frame. I’ve been thinking a lot about the new iPhone and the video record and decided that we need to break in this tall frame format.
There are two categories here, One Shot and 5 Minutes. One shot is, one shot. As if you shot it on your iPhone. And maybe you did. No visual editing here, just one shot and then upload. The other is 5 Minutes. Just a short (up to 5 minutes) shot in this new canvas.
Check out (and follow!) the official site 9by16.tumblr.com for all the details. There will be more to come in the following weeks.
Please reblog and pass along. Thanks.
Awesome idea, Creighton. David and Jakob, I know you already have submissions.
“Spoiler Alert,” directed by me. Also written by Dan and Sarah, produced by Ben, and shot by Vince.
Goals: get a ton of coverage in a short amount of time; establish direct relationships between shots (i.e. the zoom into the button and out of the sign at 0:15, the whip pan at 0:35, the mid-zoom cut at 1:04). We rehearsed the hell out of the final beat with Chuck and Billy in order to make it feel very zombie.
Canon just announced a firmware upgrade for the Canon 5D Mark ii that allows users to control aperture when shooting video, thus solving my only gripe with the system.
The 1080p on-lenses footage is very similar to what we get with CollegeHumor’s HVX and P+S lens adapter, only $2,500 instead of $20,000. Using this, I can even plug in a high quality shotgun mic.
This is by far the best tool on the market for making wonderful cheap videos.
