http://mandateforheavenclothing.com Ive been thinking a lot about clothing lately. I think there is a big potential for the whole clothing experience to be re-invented so we dont have to hurt the environment and humanity so much. Instead of always using new fabric and shipping clothes made in sweat shops by little kids all over the world a very different approach can be taken. One major step in the right direction is what a friend of a friends clothing line is up to. Mandate of Heaven makes their clothes from recycled fabric. And they distribute their clothes primarily locally which cuts down on shipping and packaging pollution. Theyre also all very expressive clothes which gives the person wearing them a strong individuality and uniqueness which helps break out of the manufactured mindset of manufactured clothes. I was invited to check out their show and decided to bring my camera. Then I couldnt help myself and wanted to edit their show into a video with music by one of my favorite local bands 'Forest Fire' who Ive posted a performance by in the past. http://myspace.com/fuckforestfire Here is the complete list of lovely models: Paige Wood, Sophia Casanova, Montana Queler, Valerie Ponelli, John Lustig, Claudia Lopez, Rachel Antonoff, Sarah Moran, Noelle Lynch, Jessica Gallucci, Alexa Weir, Lisa Goodwin, Eugina Williams, Alia Shawkat, Maria Christina, Brissi, Ying Li, Sara Copeland, Carissa Ackerman. For more info about the models visit the Mandate of Heaven MySpace Profile. http://www.myspace.com/mandate_of_heaven There is also a flickr photo set from the show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/angellustnyc/sets/72157603848088184/ Technical Notes about making this video: I shot on the HVX-200 with all default settings in terms of gama and color manipulation. The recording setting was at 720 60p and the Scene setting was put to film cam rather then what I normally shoot on which is video cam. Then while shooting I took into consideration everything getting slowed down and did some more radical camera work that I otherwise wouldnt have done. I tried to run around a lot and get different angles. Then I captured the footage into FCP using Log and transfer. Because I shot on Film Cam the 60 frames per second that were recorded played back at 23.98 which is the beautiful slowmotion you see in the video. I then proceeded to slow the footage down even further to 50 percent and sometimes 25 percent. I did this by clicking the clip and then hitting apple J and then typing in the speed that I wanted it to be. Normally I avoid frame blending but in this case it gave it a nice dreamy blur that I like so I used it on almost every shot. Then I used WireTap Pro to record the forest fire song off their myspace profile. I set the software to record the computer audio at 48Khz with no compression and then brought that music into FCP. Then I downloaded some elements from my website like the earth and the pattern and dragged those from my desktop to the FCP timeline in order to have a background for my graphics. Then I color corrected by crushing the blacks, lowering the whites and boosting the mids. Also dragging the color temperature towards blue as needed for each shot. Then I used compressor to export to web and chose the iPod 640 by 480 preset and then uploaded to YouTube. Then I hopped over here and wrote the blog post in my wordpress blog and next will export the video in the Apple TV codec and then use tubemogul to post that across my various video services including blip.tv which makes this video available in iTunes and Miro in HD quality. This video is under a sharalike creative commons license so anyone can re-edit and re-post with a similar license provided they link to the designer and to myself. Question for commenters: How else do you think the clothing experience can be re-invented?
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Evil City Film Festival Panel - Filmmakers Tell All
This panel was moderated by Ingrid Kopp of Shooting people as part of the Evil City Film festival back in October. Panelists include Leah Meyerhoff, JERRY RAPP, Arin Crumley and Susan Buice.
Three very short clips were taken from the above video and posted to the new From Here to Awesome Video Feed. Look for the video feed and subscribe on iTunes, Miro, YouTube, MySpace and Blip.TV and several other video sites. Thanks to TubeMogul and Mike Hedge for cross posting that video to so many sites.
Thank to taxiplasm.net for shooting this panel on the DVX-100.
Please feel free to sample and re-post any part of or all of this video. Please link to ArinCrumley.com as the original place the video posted.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
From Here to Awesome Interview by NewTeeVee
Formats: .mov | .flv | YouTube
Last week a film festival I co-founded called From Here to Awesome was introduced and got a lot of blogosphere attention. This is an interview that NewTeeVee conducted with Lance and I. After the interview they posted a raw .mp3 of the full conversation and wrote up a blog post on NewTeeVee.
I've you've made a film you think the world should there is a good chance you should really be a part of From Here to Awesome. Read the details on how to submit here. You can also see photos documenting the creation of this film festival in this flickr set. Please spread the word!!!! FromHereToAwesome.comFormats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Art installation by Brook Goldberg @ The Art Party
I was at The Art Party at Galapagos in December 2007 and the concepts in Brook Goldbergs art jumped out at me so I decided to record some video. Then the organizer of Party offered to introduce me to Brook and I recorded this audio clip.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
Forest Fire Live @ The Appartment in Brooklyn NY
Forest Fire performes their song Fortune Teller at the Appartment January 5th 2008. Due to seeing my videos of Sharon I was invited by Michael Leviton to his and Leah Hayes apartment where they have monthly open mic.
People show up and get on a list and then perform a couple songs and there is tons of video and photography happening of it all. Check out The Appartment MySpace page.
To get all of the performances coming out of the Appartment go to their YouTube page.
And to get all of my videos go to my subscribe page.
Tech Notes:
This footage was shot in 720 24pn on the HVX-200 and color corrected in final cut studio with color correction filter lowering saturation and boosting mids and whites. I encoded the footage into the Apple TV codec using compressor and then changed the file name from a .m3v to a .mov and uploaded to Tubemogul.com where it was cross posted to my blip channel where I logged in and edited this HTML and then arincrumley.com and a few other sites got the cross post. Check my tutorial on this uploading and cross posting process.
Friday, December 28, 2007
The Future of Performance Art if Misnomer gets the 10K
If you like Dorian Nuskind-Oder and Chris Elam's vision for the future of performance art please get everyone you know to go vote for them at ideablob.com where they can win 10K to make this all a reality. For more about their dance company visit Misnomer.com and for more of my videos visit www.arincrumley.com.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Adventures in Self-Distribution Panel - Power to the Pixel
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This video was a panel moderated by Liz Rosenthal and including Lance Weiler, Jeremy Nathan and Matt Hanson as we all spoke about our thoughts on the future of distribution. Despite end of the day exhaustion some good audience questions sparked an interesting dialog that closed Power to the Pixel on a bright vision for the future.
One of the topics discussed was festivals. The basic point being made was that they are no different then any other distributor of a film in that they should provide revenue and audience information to the content owner. Lance pointed out with distributing Head Trauma he used the LA Film Festival as a PR platform for to pre-hype a self-distribution theatrical release he had lined up to take place after the film festival. Needless to say he didn't need to find a distributor at the festival and instead simply focused on putting the film in-front of audiences and reviewers and having a good time at the premiere. He also used the fact that he was giving his film a theatrical release to leverage a DVD retail release with Heretic Films which he structured so it would kick off one month after the theatrical release began.
Jeremy Nathan said in south africa he's made money from festivals and gotten information on audience members. Susan and I explained that hasn't been our experience and outlined how we wanted to see film festivals evolve.
We've been thinking about this for a while and have decided that there are three things that can make todays film festival world be more accommodating to filmmakers.
1. Get a cut of what they collect from screenings.
2. Get information about who buys tickets to see our film and if possible who liked the film. (festivals usually poll audience for audience award.)
3. Get them to buy some DVDs to sell after the screenings and they'll get half the proceeds.
4. Don't charge us submission fees.
In exchange for this we'll notify our audience base in the area of the screening and send them all info about the screening. That way if a film comes to a festival they bring their audience with them rather then simply hoping the festival will have the right audience for the film. Indie films are so all over the place that the chance of a festival having the right audience is pretty low anyway
But in the future I think film festivals should be just like any other distributor. There is a license on a film that allows others to monetize the film. So they do what ever curating they want. Maybe have a 1000 people help program the festival, maybe have only 1 person program it all. Whatever they want. Then they make a play list and assign the play list to different theaters and each theater gets essentially a video podcast that pulls down HD versions of the films to say a mac mini or whatever is playing back the digital films. Then they can post an event which phones home to the movies home base online and then anyone in the area who had bookmarked the film saying they want notifications when it's screening would find out. A film festival could even publish a list of 100 films they've narrowed down and let the festival attendees help decide between them or even base the prime time selection slots on this information by having the audience pre-bookmarking the ones they are most interested in seeing on the big screen.
So the idea of a film only being available in film festivals and then going to theaters then DVD then VOD then TV then internet is obviously going to pass. It's just going to become available when it's done. But as a film starts to pick up traction film festivals will continue to be a good place to find audiences that can lead to finding more audiences so in the end, festivals can be a good thing. All they have to do is what everyone else has to do, evolve.
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