Sometimes it's nice to just look back at all of the work you've done and put together a showreel. It always makes me proud of what I accomplished and where my work has come from. It helps you recognize your improvements as well as what you can improve further on. It's a great experience not to mention it helps you get jobs. So whirl up the backup storage and royalty free music. It's time to make a new reel. Oh and it's good to make one in the beginning of this year to show off everything you did last year.
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Every good video has to have a good soundtrack. I have quite a bit of music production skills but I've been slacking and just taking other peoples music so here's one for you to take and slack on your music producing skills. It's under creative commons so do anything you want with it. Online I stubbled across someone who noted that Hitfilm's express product was free for the next week or so (thanks Ryan Connelly). This was great. They were already on my radar of software I wanted to try after their kickstarter for a Mac version, however had never gotten around to trying it. Download it @ https://hitfilm.com/express/free Quick Overview/Review So far I must admit that it can do somethings very nicely. One thing is that it's so easy to track a single point then connect the track to something like a lens flare base or some text for text that moves with a pan. Overall it does a couple things very well like muzzle flashes thanks to them being in 3D and single point tracks, so it's a nice tool to have for quick shots like so. It also doubles as a video editor, even though I didn't mess with it much. It probably wouldn't be too bad for a beginner. I was also surprised by how easy it was to use. Many VFX software programs are complicated like Blender 3D, Maya, and After Effects but those programs also are slightly more powerful, which is not to say that Hitfilm can't hold its own. It's a great piece of software for anyone on a budget. It's defiantly worth the download in the next week or so. Don't miss this opportunity for some great free stuff. Download it @ https://hitfilm.com/express/free With a somewhat short history in VFX and animation before Filmmaking and my current lack of ability to come up with a good short film idea, I decided to return to my roots and try some 2d animation. Every frame is hand draw excluding one shot. The result was okay. Animation is a very interesting part of filmmaking where anything is possible. I used Gimp and FramebyFrame for animation and ofcourse FCPX for editing. The song is f
With the Christmas Season over and everyone with their new Christmas gear, it's time to do something with it so I'm going to review some of the stuff I got. After acquiring the Konova slider I quickly realized there was no way to change the 3/8" screw that prohibited me from mounting my camera. I then went over to B&H and bought myself a adapter and decided now was a good time to get myself a new tripod head since my old one was broken. The Ph-386 seemed to be one of the cheapest fluid heads and so far it's been amazing. I don't have much else to say about it other than it's quite smooth and that unfortunately I need to remove the quick release to change batteries on my 600D. The Slider preforms great. Any problems I have with it aren't due to the slider but other factors like rocking on carpet and such. I also got the crank for the slider. At first the difference felt negligible, however replaying the shots showed some improvement over not using it. The crank seemed to work best in very slow movements. Pan and Tilts with the tripod head thou are not possible and even a focus pull is quite difficult. After using my new gear for a while I learned that no magic gear was going to come and make my videos perfect but it took some practices to stabilize your hands and get the perfect shot, the konova slider just makes that learning curve quicker than most. |
Zachary WillZachary Will is an Award-Winning Filmmaker creating short films and content for the Internet as the owner of Riverside Studios. He has a Bachelor's in Film from Full Sail University. He has worked on productions for companies like Webmd, Sears, Home Depot, Six Flags and more! "the trick is to never give up... I think the secret of success is not how little you get knocked down but how often you get back up." - Gareth Edwards Archives
February 2019
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