Staggering image to promote a new video series over at Best Made Co., which continues to be one of the most beautifully branded small businesses of recent times.
Pretty much perfect. Some video too.
(Source: jez-burrows)
Here’s a short I made with some friends as part of 48HOURS, a nationwide contest to write, shoot and edit a film of up to seven minutes duration in a single weekend. Each team draws one of ten random genres (we got “biopic”) and must include several other mandatory elements.
We shot mostly with a Canon 7D and I edited in Final Cut Express with Magic Bullet Mojo for basic colour grading. I’m really happy with how the flashback scenes turned out. That’s my very obliging nephew Oscar running around our backyard in a dress. Try as we might, we couldn’t convince him to wear a blond wig for the Goodbye Pork Pie scene however.
I’ve competed with a different team twice before, but not for five years. This time it was a smaller team of close friends and we had a ball, though not without a tense moment or two midway through day two. Thanks to Morgan and Catherine for organising the team and venue, and to several of the actors who pitched in on the Sunday to help us get the edit done before the 7pm deadline.
Would it be crass of me to mention there’s 10 iPhones up for grabs for the short with the most views come the end of the month? Probably. Go watch! (via Amanda Wood)
This is darling and deliciously dark: Alma, written and directed by Rodrigo Blaas. (via Garrett Murray)
Red Rabbit was written, directed, modeled and almost entirely animated by Egmont Mayer, using Softimage XSI. Fabulous.
The 9:16 Film Festival
A short film festival inspired by the aspect ratio of video files shot on Apple’s new iPhone 3GS. Submissions should be in by September 1st and can be either a single shot (less than three minutes) or an edited short (less than five minutes). (via Making Of)
48Hours is a New Zealand-wide contest to write, shoot and edit a short film in a single weekend. Technical Difficulties from Team Zombies Rule — one of my favourites from the Auckland regional final — narrowly missed making it into this year’s national final. Each team draws a random genre and is assigned elements to include in the short: a character, object and line of dialogue. These guys drew “real time” as the genre and staged their zombie attack as a cleverly cut live news report. And yes, that is Sunday Breakfast’s hilarious José Barbosa as news anchor Rex.
Wellington writer/directors Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland have been awarded a special distinction in the short film category at the Cannes Film Festival for The Six Dollar Fifty Man. The pair received the same award two years ago for Run. OnFilm has more.
A short film written and directed by Shawn Morrison, produced by and starring Garrett Murray. Watch in HD.
Job Interview, directed by and starring Ben Schwartz. I’m a sucker for Robocop and The Terminator references. A couple of his other shorts feature the acting talents of Sarah Burns, of Flight of the Conchords fame. (via Blake Whitman)
