A Brand Spankin' New Post

To rectify the lack of posting on the good old Film 208 blog, here is a video I just made.

After Effects/Photoshop for the win.

Love, Zach

in addition

also, i cant seem to reply to people's posts.... so zach where did you get the money for 2 $3500 cams? and sure i'll take an invite to google+

looking for gear

anyone still around regina have a portable field recorder? going to be shooting a commercial for a Z99 contest. and no i dont listen to Z99 but its $5000 for the winner

Google+

Anyone want a Google+ invite?
Can't promise you I'll add you to a circle. I don't like you guys that much!
j/k
but not really

looking for ideas

i'm looking for ideas for some short test films. anyone have any suggestions of effects or storylines to use?

Hello, Friends!

How is everyone who occasionally stops by to see if new content has been posted doing? I'm doing pretty swell myself, thanks.

I figured that perhaps I would write about how my summer is going, as Tessa and Derick have done, but I was holding it off cause I'm lazy and forgetful. Anywho, I sort of have a full plate this summer for a number of reasons:

A) I'm working full-time at an auto parts store as a shipper/reciever. The pay isn't the best but at least I get to drive around delivering stuff! Woo!

B) On weekends, my buddy and I are running a videography business through his mom's gift shop. So far, we've been booked for about 8 weddings, and we're just editing our first one. We bought two of these to film (well, slightly newer, but pretty much the same deal), so we're filming in 1080p, and it looks sexy.

C) Me and said friend have also begun writing a script for the first episode in a possible web-series. It's about two nerds who try to start businesses but fail miserably because they're socially inept and have no idea what they're doing. I'm also composing cheesy keyboard music for it. When we get around to completing the first episode, I'll slap it on here.

D) My band, Beef Dip (named after one of these), is trying to get some gigs around town (and by around town, I mean at the only two bars in Flin Flon, Manitoba), so in between all of the other crap that I previously mentioned, we've been writing music and learning covers in order to play a 2-hour show.

Shit's crazy, mang. Also, the members of the band drove an hour and a half to a town called The Pas the other day because we decided we wanted A&W, a commodity that Flin Flon once had but no longer does. We got there 2 minutes after they closed. So we went to Tim Horton's instead, because Flin Flon doesn't have one either, but were still dissatisfied by the lack of Teen Burgers there. Just a little story I felt was worth sharing.

And really, that's about all that's worth sharing. Nothing really happens in a town of 5,500 people.

But I vote more people should share what they're doing this summer. Keep the Film 208 blog alive!

That is all for now.

Love, Zach

hey to all you people still visiting!

i'm also here now and then, and i have the blog linked to my e-mail. got an "internshop" type position at Tyrell media, will mostly be observation, small prep tasks, and straight up reading till i'm up to speed but its a start and i'm exited about it! booyah! other than that, in regina doing the same thing as tessa for my day job. if anyone comes up with some sweet ideas for me, or if you just want to hang out, let me know on here or at brokenboxproductions@gmail.com

MY SUPER EXCITING SUMMER

Why hello there

I think I should give everyone a life update. I have been picking up trash in the beautiful city of Grande Prairie for two whole weeks! Sometimes I pretend I'm doing community service for a crime that involved boat theft. I got a sunburn on my face every day this week.

I also found an 8mm film camera in my basement. Apparently it belonged to my Grandfather. It's a Yashica 8-EIII. It's pretty awesome, and I think it would still work if I can find 8mm film anywhere. It's pretty hard to come by since Super 8mm seems to have taken over the market. I found a few sites I might try to order from, but some of them look a little sketchy. Anybody have any suggestions for where I might be able to buy 8mm film?

Anyone still here?

Nobody has posted in a while. I was just wondering if anyone still checks our old Film 208 blog. Post a comment if you see this!

4th year screening

The students in the 4th year of the Film Production program are screening their films:
Thursday April 28 & Friday April 29
7:00 p.m.
Rainbow Cinemas, Golden Mile Centre.
Admission is free. The screenings are considered 14A, persons under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

For more info, visit the Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153669028030182


THURSDAY, APRIL 28th

Dacey Harrower - Women of Wheelchair Rugby
Chris Miller - Production Value
Brittany Gossner - We All Fall Down
Adam Reiland & Derek Novosad - Case 1704
Emilie Lebel - Vie de Pie
Ryan Birchard - Ain't Misbehavin
Amy Mantyka - Henka
Colten Yuzicapi & Derek Novosad - Charlie
Thomas Retzlaff - Walk Through History: Regina, Saskatchewan
Brendan Olenick - Darkness Calls
Luke Patterson - Black Ivory
Mike Storey - Hour 58
Erik Sirke - Fragment of Apocalypse

FRIDAY, APRIL 29th

Thomas Piller - Digital World
Mike Maekelburger - Village People
Matthew Ellis & Geremy Legue - Fog of Erik
Ashley Scarfe - Pserephone
Anthony Leeks - Destiny
Zaul McLellan - All Nations Healin’ Thru Artz
Zaul McLellan & Erik Sirke - Trip the Light, Fantastic!
Josh Hamelin - The Other Side
Geremy Legue & Matthew Ellis - Chips Ahoy

a slight edit on my original assignment vid, and a before/after ish vid for 2 shots i have made

Love, Zach

MY HORRIBLE CARTOON

If anyone needs a pick me up of randomness, this should do the trick.

Guess who is grading

For over 9000 bonus marks, can you guess whose final project I am marking at the moment?

My Fourth-Year Film Is Up!

Hey all,

As promised, my film is now on YouTube for those who want to see it. I have it unlisted (for now) so you'll need to follow these links to view the film. It's in three parts. Hopefully your computer will be fast enough to watch it in HD!!!!!!

Clip 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrY1_CJYYks
Clip 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx45QgD_qTI
Clip 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkRY3za8Yc

-Josh

My advice for class presentations today

Progress...

So I'm currently pulling an all-nighter here in the fishbowl to finish my flash game. I just thought I'd show everyone my progress...

Its the over-world map of my game! In case it isn't obvious, it's the university of regina campus.

-Jason

Who Is Drunk Out of His Tree on The Class Blog?

This guy!

Love, Zach

This is how I feel about the rest of the week. Me and impending Doom are BFF's. Many of you may feel the same way.

hey guys... Dad's organic market has a free in store trial today and you can enter to win a trip to go house boating...great organic veggies!!!

I'm Sure Most Of You Have Played QWOP

...but have you played GIRP?

It's by the same dude. Not as brutal as QWOP, but still quite difficult.

My current record is 15 metres. I challenge you all to beat it!

Love, Zach

Beware of your Xbox!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blinky&aq=f

Here's a cool short that shows when technology goes too far.

New Video Posted

Review, Rate, Comment, Like, Subscribe... and all that other jazz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbCIvKKw-3o&feature=channel_video_title

Here's A Cool Game To Play

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/unfair_platformer

I will warn you, this is one motherfucker of a flash game. But it's got music ripped from the first Sonic The Hedgehog game, so that's cool!

Love, Zach

I Want Your Feedback!

The following link will take you to a Teaser Trailer that I've made for my fourth year film "The Other Side". The film is about a woman who launches her own career in the porn industry, effectively cutting off her three friends from high school. One year later, she meets with Grady, Evelyn and Damien to make them an offer, but secretly has her own ulterior motives.

The teaser doesn't say too much about the plot of the film but hopefully it will get you excited. It will premier at the Fourth-Year screening at the end of April. I'd love to know your thoughts. If you think it's good enough, give it a "like" on YouTube. Share it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57CcFHCe1TI

Thanks guys,
-Josh

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ1dOIgiIyk&feature=related

awesome ;)

It's FRIDAY!!!

I am certainly looking forward to this weekend, but I bet I'm not as excited as Rebecca Black!

This video recently went viral for being so horrible. What are your thoughts guys?

-Jason

This was my face. - Zach

My face. -berny

My face in response to your faces. -Jason

Here's A Little Inspirational Tune For Everyone Working On Their Pre-Production Packages!

The song actually ends at about the 3 minute mark.

Just remember, guys: push it to the limit.

Love, Zach

great fun with a tablet!

build your own digital kaleidoscope

the best prequel reviews

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace/

also check out his other reviews for episode II and II as well as star trek, avatar, and others

Got It!

\m/ \m/

Love, Zach

Lovecraft Rock!

Do you like the horrific, madness-inducing stories of H.P. Lovecraft? Do you like rock music? If you said yes (or no, doesn't matter cause I'm posting this regardless), you should check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a rock band from Chilliwack, B.C. who play Lovecraft influenced tunes. This tune is from The Shadow Out Of Tim, which if you read Lovecraft, you would get the joke.

Love, Zach

Paula Deen Rides a Boeing-747

If you enjoyed this piece of idiocy (and vaguely know who Paula Deen is (she's a cook, so now you vaguely know)), check out pauladeenridingthings.com because this isn't even as good as the ostrich .gif on there (seriously hilarious).

Love, Zach


berny posts:
Today we had Paula Deen[s] sit in on our class. Only one of them caused any disturbance. See if you can pick out which one was the trouble maker.

class project "soundscape"

did not like the way this video turned out but i did like the color correction and the effects. letterbox is also off a bit on the right hand side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDOz1M-8N4&feature=channel

Awesome Rotoscoping!!!

Hey guys, I thought I would just show everyone this awesome example of rotoscoping! I'm not religious or anything, this is just really cool.

Something I Think Everyone Needs To See

Urkel-Os.

Urkel had his own cereal. If that's not awesome, I don't know what is.

Love, Zach

This is what I accomplished today

Why yes, that is Ted Danson with a velociraptor head.

Love, Zach

just practicing

I don't know how to post on the blog!

Though luckily I have psychic powers and just thought a post onto it. Look! A link:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=i+want+be+a+engineer&aq=0s

Ok so I guess I can't make it a link from my ifun, copy and paste ya lazy idguts.

X's and O's

Hey fellow students... who wants to play x's and o's? If you have a good way to make this happen then please do. I thought we could just photo-shop the next picture, but is there a better way???








Zach changes the game to x's and bear heads

berny enters
"hey guys, wassa?"

next move red x

Zach uses the A&W Bear to save the day from The League of Evil X's (see what I did there?)

Also, A&W onion rings are amazing and vastly underrated.

Awwwee SHIT!!! Look what just got posted. THAT'S RIGHT!!! Vin Diesel. Most famously known for his role in... yup, TRIPLE X. That means one post and he counts as three x's. X'S WIN. Nice try bears. Sincerely, Jason.

Hold up, smart-ass. Zach calls foul. Let's take this into perspective. Say that you take out Vin Diesel's head, and replace it with what he is meant to symbolize (XXX). That leaves you with three x's in that space. However, you DO NOT WIN BECAUSE those three x's simply occupy one space, making them equivalent to A SINGLE X in that space! But you require three x's IN ADJACENT SPACES which form a row to win the game, not simply three x's in one space! That's like me stuffing three bear heads into one space and saying I win. It doesn't work that way! Pardon my french, but what you have done sir, is pure POPPYCOCK.


berny: i have to agree about the level of poppycock.

Jason - Ok. Fine. If you're not going to accept my brilliant idea of posting Vin Diesel to win, then that's your call. He is only occupying one space so you're right. I'll allow it. But I still have to point out the reason bears lose anyway. You see, bears get disqualified because early in the game they went twice in a row. A normal game of X's and O's switches turns between each player, but this game clearly proceeded as follows: X, Bear head, Bear head, X, Bear head, Vin Diesel. There is no reason Bears should have gone twice in a row. Thats cheating, and pardon my french, but cheating is pure POPPYCOCK. Logic FTW. Maybe we should restart with a fair game?

If we restart, I vote x's be changed to Jesus heads. But why can't we all agree that bear heads are the best and that everyone* is a winner?

*except Jason

A bunch of links to a bunch of stuffs

I feel like it is absolutely necessary for me to post a link to this video of a cat eating fish with hands because I found it most entertaining:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-B63Wy7i5U

also, if you saw that wonderous After Effects animation I made in class the other day, well... I put some credits on it and threw in some metal underneath it all, so if you wanna check that shit out again, here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRcWfWy4ZM

speaking of metal, if you're into shred-tastic, super awesome progressive metal (aka you like the band Protest The Hero), you should definitely check out their new tune C'est La Vie if you have not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LqSHOXvc8

definitely some good solid riffing going on up in this bitch^

tis all for now

Love, Zach

Saturday morning tablet me

hai guyz. edit this post if you want to upload your own self portrait

Guess who posted this

Wait, it says my name. Never mind.

I am afraid this would happen if I actually tried this... (Click picture for full size)

project video uploaded

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

Desktop Decorating: Cropping and Resizing in Photoshop

If you're like me, you've decorated the desktop of your personal computer with wallpaper from your favorite films. However, with numerous aspect ratios available, chances are you may never find one that matches your own computer's screen size.

With programs like Adobe Photoshop, you can easily adjust images you find online to fit perfectly on your desktop.

Take this image from Black Swan, for example:


















Originally sized at 1024x768 pixels, this image is not equivalent to my desktop size, 1366x768 pixels. So, a simple size readjustment won't work. And just using the image as is will either end up like this... (notice how the image is squeezed):














...Or this (notice how the image has been cropped and inserted a second time):















To get the image the way you want, perfectly centered and justified, you'll need to do the following, preferably in Adobe Photoshop:

1) Save your image from the web to your computer (somewhere where you'll easily be able to find it, i.e. the desktop?).

2) In Photoshop, select File>Open... and select the saved image.

3) Select Image>Image Size... (Image Size may be under Image>Resize in older versions). In the pop-up window, make sure that "pixels" are the selected "width" and "height" measurements, and that "constrain proportions" is also checked at the bottom of the window.

4) In the "width" box, change the number to match the width size of your own computer's screen size (in this case, 1366; the height box should now read 1025). Select OK.

5) This next part will involve a little trial-and-error. First, select the crop tool from your selection bar. Right now, the height of your image is too large. We need to get 1025 pixels down to 768 (in this example). So bits of the top and/or bottom of the image will have to go. Personally, if I had to choose something from this image to cut out, I'd go with the bottom. The crown looks pretty nice at the top, but there is a lot of neck and shoulders which can go. So with the crop tool, start at the top left of the image and drag all the way to the right and then down, making sure to leave some of the bottom out. You'll probably need to leave out more than you think.

6) After a portion of this image is selected, hit Enter and the image should now be cropped. Go back into your Imageabove 768, then you need to go back and repeat Step 5, cropping a little more of the image out. If the value is below 768, then you need to undo your last crop (Control+Z) and try again, cropping a little less of your image out.

*Note: The value doesn't have to match exactly. 10 pixels above or below the intended value will work just fine. Also, if you're having trouble getting close, zooming into the image will make it easier to be more precise with your cropping.

7. Once you have your image cropped to your liking, save it as a .JPG, right click on the new .JPG image and set it as your desktop background. Voila! You should have a perfectly justified and centered desktop wallpaper.

Changin' things

I did it. Just so ya'll know :P

So, this is a blog post

I am sort of at a loss as to what to post about on this blog. When one is asked to post something to a collaborative site, there may be expectations set in place to live up to the other people who post as well. Will you discover something worthwhile to post online? Or will you have some interesting fact of your own to share that could perhaps enlighten the rest of the group? Most importantly, will your post be enjoyed by not only your fellow collaborators, but the general public who may stumble upon your work?

You hope that everyone will enjoy it, but what about those who dislike it? Those people may never come back to the site, having seen your post, but they may not have taken a gander at the other posts by the others, which they may have found most entertaining. Those posts may have gotten you followers, but no! They saw your post, drew a quick conclusion, and now they will never come back. EVER. How does this make you feel? Knowing that you just screwed it up for everyone else with that one stupid post that no one other than yourself enjoyed because you're the only one on the face of this godforsaken planet that finds it funny? HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL!

...just kidding, who gives a fuck. Here's a link to a Pink Floyd song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf-ArgakvZI&feature=related

Love, Zach

view my stuff! subscribe! and comment!

www.youtube.com/brokenboxproduction and look up broken box productions on fb as well!

helpfull sites:
www.youtube.com/filmriot good low budget training
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/ excellent music for decent prices
http://www.freesound.org/ sound fx and some music, all free
www.youtube.com/thefrugalfilmmaker a how to for the low budget
http://www.detfilms.com/ good effects footage, some free but the even the non-free stuff is cheap
http://www.videocopilot.net/ little up in price but amazing quality products and good free tutorials

Hunter Shoots Bear

This is a really cool interactive youtube video. I spent about a half hour just typing in random stuff. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M

Javelin guy After Effects project file

here is a link to a shared Google folder for those that are looking for the assets and the After Effects project i showed in class.
shared folder * - link removed
let me know if this works for you. post something here.

breakfast reporting for duty

copy that
scrambled eggs reporting in

hey Dan from class

We're all thinking about you.

/wave from Film 208

here's what we worked on this week

From film 208

Hi! Am I in the right spot? I think I registered as a follower... But I don't see any blogs yet?! I'm a bit computer challenged though, so whats goin on here? ha ha... Krista