Video I Made

by **Barista** » March 13th, 2005, 6:55 pm

Hi there,

I was just experiementing with the footage I shot from Mustange Range (a gun show/extravaganza). And was fooling around in Final Cut Pro. I created a little movie with some music to go a long with it. I'm in some of it, I'm the guy shooting the .40 pistol. Anyway, tell me what you guys think.

http://www.turning.to/MustangeShoot.mov

by **DagnastyEvil** » March 13th, 2005, 9:56 pm

Nice =)

by **Barista** » March 14th, 2005, 2:58 pm

Anyone else have any thoughts on it?

by **Rigby** » March 14th, 2005, 4:57 pm

..im not so sold on the subject matter

it was an intresting experiment, but prehaps in reality it had no scripting or story, just random guns and music, but really thats all you really tried to do, so in theory ot was a success.

by **Barista** » March 14th, 2005, 5:20 pm

Well yea, it doesn't really have a point. I just had the footage and I wanted to experiement with it, but I was asking, what did you think of it editing wise?

by **D.Houry** » March 14th, 2005, 11:44 pm

Hmm, editting-wise it's pretty simple, and wouldn't be much without the music. You might try some things with using repetition as a dramatic effect, or adjusting the saturation and such. There's really not much to it as is, especially considering the footage has much more potential. Oh and, pleaseplease never use preset transitions like where it divides the video in fours, or whatever, because that tends to make it look really amateurish, which you want to avoid.

Anyway, that's my constructive criticism for now,
-D.Houry

by **ictusbrucks** » March 15th, 2005, 3:32 am

I didn't like the effect fades (the 4 way break and the circle stretch), they seem pretty cheesy to me.

there was some nice shots in there though, great explosion in the end.

and i noticed a shot with fire that blinked out, in sync with the music drums; that was cool :)

by **ntbullock** » March 15th, 2005, 10:41 am

You've got some potential. Keep going... but do stay away from those transitions. Good music selection. I dig Chris Cornell's voice - was that some Soundgarden or Audio Slave?

by **Barista** » March 15th, 2005, 11:34 am

That song was actually Alter Bridge. Song is called "Find the Real". After the band Creed broke up, some of the band members started Alter Bridge. It is a fairly new band.

by **Barista** » March 15th, 2005, 11:37 am

Oh and I had a question. What are wrong with transitions?

by **D.Houry** » March 15th, 2005, 12:14 pm

The only professional filmmaker that uses them is George Lucas.

by **Michael** » March 15th, 2005, 1:12 pm

Barista wrote:Oh and I had a question. What are wrong with transitions?

The major thing I saw wrong is that it appeared that every transition went to a black screen, when transitions are supposed to be used to go from one piece of video to another. I just think it made the video a little rough around the edges.

by **ntbullock** » March 15th, 2005, 2:55 pm

Oh, so that wasn't Chris Cornell singing or is he apart of Alter?

by **Barista** » March 15th, 2005, 5:32 pm

Is Christ Cornell the lead singer in Alter Bridge? I don't know that name.

by **ntbullock** » March 16th, 2005, 12:01 am

He was the lead singer of Soundgarden.

by **grizzly69** » March 16th, 2005, 10:47 am

If it is Chris Cornell he must do a lot of Band hopping because last I knew he was lead singer for Audioslave.

by **ntbullock** » March 16th, 2005, 12:33 pm

Well, if it's not then we definitely know the guy's idol because I almost can't tell the difference. I liked what I heard, though.

by **Barista** » March 16th, 2005, 12:42 pm

www.alterbridge.com

You can probably find out there.

by **illegalprelude** » March 17th, 2005, 12:34 pm

Barista wrote:Oh and I had a question. What are wrong with transitions?

video transitions like that usually give stuff a very un professional feel to it. almost corny and way too homemade. thats the problem with them. Anybody can take random footage, slap music and do some fades with it. thats why the fades are generally not used.

Having said that, you grabbing the camera, doing the shots, putting it on your computer and editing, makes you that much better then all the critics who judge ur piece but have yet to make anything of their own.

by **grizzly69** » March 17th, 2005, 6:08 pm

Actually, the video reminded me of a "Monster Truck Rally" commercial. It was the transitions that made it feel that way. You should re-edit it and put in an announcer's reverbed voice, add some text, and turn it into a promo commercial.

by **Hat** » March 17th, 2005, 9:51 pm

damn i never knew a minigun fired that fast!

by **TimeLake** » March 22nd, 2005, 7:34 pm

What would be the more proper and pro way to go from one scene to another. I used transitions as well, but most of my videos were just random shots anyway. I admit a lot of transitions are very cheesey. Some are not so bad though depending on what you are trying to do.

by **Outbound** » March 22nd, 2005, 9:36 pm

Depends I guess. If you're trying to go for a fast paced feel to it sometimes a jumpcut can be your best friend. If you're trying to smoothly transition from one scene to another a cross dissolve can look pretty good.

And don't forget how sometimes you can use a cross dissolve and stop it half way so you have two different footages on on top of the other. With the right footage this can look great.

by **TimeLake** » March 23rd, 2005, 8:41 pm

Nice!

by **MCS** » March 26th, 2005, 1:49 am

Want to see some tasty footage. Google "minigun video".

There are some tracer fire clips that are the $hit.

by **hardbed34** » March 26th, 2005, 5:49 pm

are they really!

by **Jaise** » April 2nd, 2005, 6:21 pm

The video was good and the song fitted it well; argessive and weighty. The only thing i would say is that i agree with others about the transitions. Apart from that it was good though man, well done *thumbs up*

by **Vernius** » April 2nd, 2005, 11:59 pm

Nice vid man.

by **Carpenter** » April 4th, 2005, 4:38 am

Shooting Range: The Movie

Nice little one, but dude these transitions are horrible (especially the x one), don't ever use them again.

To be exactly, they're all 'Smashing Pumpkins'. And Bin Ladens. You get it.

And the Alter Bridge singer really does a Cornell on this.

by **Barista** » April 4th, 2005, 12:40 pm

He might be Christ Cornell, I don't know... He used to be the lead singer of Creed, then Creed died and started Alter Bridge with the remaining members of Creed.

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