Open source short film.

[Madspyman]

I'm working on a green screened short film right now in Ubuntu using Blender, Gimp and other open source software. I have a rough trailer posted on youtube right now. Everything in it was done using all open source software, with the exception of the music track which is a royalty free creative commons track I found on the web.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mhibMSoSU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mhibMSoSU)

Hope you guys like it.

[Ctrl-Alt-F1]

Very impressive. Good luck on the film. :popcorn:

[TheWeakSleep]

I really enjoyed it! Hope i get to see it :) good luck!

[Madspyman]

Very impressive. Good luck on the film. :popcorn:

Thanks, glad you liked it I,m hoping (time permitting) to have it done by the end of the month.

[earthpigg]

Nice, let us know when you have more to show! :D

[Madspyman]

Nice, let us know when you have more to show! :D

I'm getting a website together with progress updates I'll post a link when its up.

[Chronon]

Nice work! I'm interested to watch the real thing.

[Oxwivi]

Awesome! Me likey! Me wanna watch! :D

[TheNerdAL]

..........WOW!

That is all.

[Madspyman]

Hey thanks for the good responses I have a page for the movie now on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Payment/168306109861178?v=wall I'll try to keep it updated.

[nlsthzn]

Good luck with the project.

[Phrea]

Very cool, those people look almost life-like.

[Verbeck]

Very cool, those people look almost life-like.

they are real people..... : facebook link (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Last-Payment/168306109861178?v=wall#%21/photo.php?fbid=168310993194023&set=a.168310583194064.40694.168306109861178)

really nice project btw :D

[Madspyman]

Hey I was just wondering, there's been a tiny bit of confusion as to the location of the two main characters during their dialog after the movie title near the end of the trailer.

Where do you guys think they are?

[Rackstar]

..........WOW!

That is all.


This

[Khakilang]

Simply awesome! Good luck with your project!

[Christian Knudsen]

Looks cool. Obviously Sin City inspired. :)

A bit of advice/wishes, though: I hope the green screen stuff doesn't mean that the camera is locked down all the time. Constantly stationary camera shots can make a movie visually boring. I also felt that the trailer lacked environmental/background sounds. Only the dialogue was heard. This can make the movie boring from an auditory point of view. Faint background traffic noise or blowing wind (were they on a roof at one point?) can add a lot.

[undecim]

Looks cool. Obviously Sin City inspired. :)

A bit of advice/wishes, though: I hope the green screen stuff doesn't mean that the camera is locked down all the time. Constantly stationary camera shots can make a movie visually boring. I also felt that the trailer lacked environmental/background sounds. Only the dialogue was heard. This can make the movie boring from an auditory point of view. Faint background traffic noise or blowing wind (were they on a roof at one point?) can add a lot.

Excellence is in the details

Good trailer though. I'm rather interested in the plot now.

[Madspyman]

Looks cool. Obviously Sin City inspired. :)

A bit of advice/wishes, though: I hope the green screen stuff doesn't mean that the camera is locked down all the time. Constantly stationary camera shots can make a movie visually boring. I also felt that the trailer lacked environmental/background sounds. Only the dialogue was heard. This can make the movie boring from an auditory point of view. Faint background traffic noise or blowing wind (were they on a roof at one point?) can add a lot.

The finals gonna have more camera angles, and zooms. I thought for the trailer I'd go for a quiet unsettling stillness. I thought it worked better to the music I chose I really liked that music track.

Also this is a proof of concept for a different project entirely. The trailer is rough the 2 backgrounds in there during the only bit of spoken dialog are place holders for graphics I'm still putting the polish on.

The best and worst part about working on green screen is that nothings ever set in stone. The final may end up looking completely different than the trailer.

The main point I was trying to make with all this is that Ubuntu and foss have some cool tools available for working with digital video.

[linuxforartists]

The trailer was solid, good work! Although I'm biased because I love gangster films. Keep us posted on further developments.



The main point I was trying to make with all this is that Ubuntu and foss have some cool tools available for working with digital video.

I totally support this. Could you tell us which video editing program you used? OpenShot, PiTiVi, Kdenlive, or something else?

[NightwishFan]

Trust me it was fine. I liked it.

[Madspyman]

The trailer was solid, good work! Although I'm biased because I love gangster films. Keep us posted on further developments.



I totally support this. Could you tell us which video editing program you used? OpenShot, PiTiVi, Kdenlive, or something else?

Blender for editing and compositing. I also used Gimp, FFmpeg, and Audacity. The video was shot on the Canon HF10 to an sd card. The audio was recorded to a separate camera with a mini dv tape (we couldn't get a hold of our usual digital audio recorder that day), and then transfered to the PC over firewire using Kino. The music is a creative commons track from incompetech.com.

[weasel fierce]

Very impressive!