Are We Done Yet?

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Are We Done Yet?

I am happy to say that after an hour of waiting, Sig and I finally saw the word SUCCESSFUL pop up on the Compressor screen. Woo Hoo! However, it wasn't time to celebrate yet, so I limited the funky chicken dance of joy to just two flaps of the arms. It was a little after 1am, and we still needed to upload Susannah onto Vuze. At this point, I told Sig to finish up her packing and that I would take care of the upload.

I logged onto Vuze.com and typed in the pertinent information. I then apple shifted 4 to make a print screen of our title for our thumb nail. After that, I browsed through Sig's hard drive to locate the H.264 version of Susannah, and I clicked submit. I started to flap my funky chicken arms, but I stopped after half a flap when I saw that it would take 19 hours to upload! I called Sig into the office to break the news to her, and we sat down to work out plan B. Sig noted that the best thing to do was to let it run over night and that she would give me a key to her studio so that I could check in on the upload the next day. I agreed. So I packed up my things and prepared to leave.

Before exiting, I logged onto my Yahoo account to send myself that print screen of the Susannah title thumb nail. It was then that I discovered the unthinkable: at 12:58am, a little bit before we completed the compression, the OpenCut folks sent us an email stating that the credits have been uploaded onto the OpenCut site. My jaw dropped and my blood pressure rose. Sig, Dinah, and I had used the credits that were given to us in the script because we could not locate them on the website. Well, we know now that the reason why we couldn't find them was because they weren't there!

What this meant was that we had to go back into the timeline and re-edit the closing credits. Then we had to recompress the project, and re-upload it onto Vuze. Looks like I'll be spending the next couple days at this side of Sig's pond while she's pounding down body shots in Mexico! I took Sig's key, strapped on my back pack, and bid my fellow Donnette a bon voyage. I looked at her suitcase and saw that she was nowhere near close to finished with her packing. I made no comment. I just turned around and headed towards the door.

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Torrey Loomis
To: MacDiva & The Donnettes
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:58:31 AM
Subject: OpenCut Update - June 25th

Dear OpenCutter,

Here are some final notes while you wrap up your cut.

INTERNATIONAL ENTRANTS

I did a bonehead move and listed the wrong address for the International payment of shipping costs. If your payment has not been claimed yet, make sure its addressed to opencut@silverado.cc

I sent an address that ended in paypal.com and that was incorrect. If your payment for shipping is unclaimed, please cancel and redirect to opencut@silverado.cc

Regardless of payment receipt, all hard drives have been shipped back both domestically and internationally. If you are still missing a hard drive...let us know ASAP.

BONUS AUDIO

Director Evan Nicholas was recently able to record some extra audio. If you are looking for some car sounds like doors and engines you can download the audio here:

http://homepage.mac.com/torster/filechute/Car_SFX.zip

UPLOAD INSTRUCTIONS TO VUZE:

Per Mike Burton at Vuze, please follow these instructions when

To keep everyone's entries organized on Vuze please name your uploaded entry for OpenCut Competition #1 (Susannah) the following;

OpenCut - Susannah - your first initial and last name (like mburton, or tloomis)

This will allow us to search and bucket your entry into the "OpenCut" Branded Channel on Vuze. If you have uploaded your entry to Vuze and do not see it in the OpenCut Branded Channel on Vuze by July 2 2008 please send a reminder email to mburton@vuze.com.

Go to www.vuze.com/app to download the free Mac/PC Vuze Client application in order to upload your content. You must register if you do not already have a Vuze Login and Password to Upload your submission.

NOTE: If you do not follow the above instructions your submission runs the risk of not being judged. Thank you!

UPLOAD DEADLINE:

You have until midnight July 15th to submit your cut.

CREDITS:

You can find the credits on the CREDITS section of the OpenCut.org website.

CREATIVE NOTES:

We've received a lot of good questions about creative license. Please remember--this is your edit and you can be as creative as you want with it.

Q. Can I color correct the project?

A. Absolutely.

Q. Can I treat the project with a different aspect ratio?

A. Sure.

Q. Can I add titles, graphics, visual effects?

A. No problem.

UPCOMING OPENCUT 2.0

We'll start the official registration for OpenCut 2.0 in mid-July. There will be a few program changes based on what we did in the first project and we'll announce them soon.

We are still negotiating on the set for the upcoming video shoot in Las Vegas. However, we just got official clearance and permission to use the Alpine Meadows footage. Target for OpenCut 2.0 is a 30 or 60 second spot for Alpine's 2008-2009 season. There is some very cool off-speed shots along with some nice time lapse. I anticipate we'll alternate longer projects with shorter projects.

Torrey

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Torrey Loomis

Project Director - OpenCut

2600 East Bidwell Street, Suite 280

Folsom, CA 95630

(916) 760-0032 • FAX (916) 404-5258

opencut@silverado.cc

http://www.OpenCut.org

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It Donned On Me?

For the past few years Evan Donn has been teaching classes in After Effects and Final Cut Pro in the Multimedia department at College Of San Mateo. Every semester there were a couple of students who just wouldn't go home when the class was over, staying after with a seemingly endless stream of questions about every imaginable aspect of video production. Many of them returned semester after semester for whichever class Evan was teaching at the time.

In the spring of 2006 Evan taught a new class called DV Workflow which consisted almost entirely of these "irregulars". DV Workflow became essentially an 'everything but the kitchen sink' type of class covering the entire process of video production with an emphasis on producing video for the web.

As part of DV Workflow every member of the class had to produce an episodic video series for the web. This led to various members teaming up to work on each others' videos as well as providing valuable input on the finished videos during class screenings. When the class ended everyone felt that the working dynamic of the group was worth continuing.

Led by Chief Instigator Tony Nguyen they dubbed themselves 'The Evan Donn School of Film' and began holding quarterly screenings of everyone's current work. In 2006 several members of the group attended one of the 48 Hour Film screenings, and they all walked out with the same thought - we can do that.

From that point on the quarterly screenings took on a new direction as 'challenges' were thrown out with criteria similar to the 48 Hour Film Project. This helped prepare the team members for the challenge of building a short film around a character, prop and line of dialogue.

As the 2007 competition drew closer Mr. Nguyen once again took the lead and signed up the team for the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project. Put on the spot to come up with a team name he considered and rejected many possibilities before the ideal name 'donned' on him...

Despite their history the San Francisco competition was the first time all members of the team had worked together on a single project. Everyone jumped right in and the result was our first short film - 'Urgent Care'.

Despite incredible audience reaction to the film, 'Urgent Care' failed to win either the audience or juried competition for San Francisco. However, the team was selected by competition sponsor Visa as one of ten teams from San Francisco to compete in their national "Life Takes" Invitational against teams from New York and Los Angeles.

With only one film in the can, Evan decided the team needed a little more practice before the Visa competition. Unbeknownst to the team, he signed them up for the nearby San Jose 48 Hour Film Project and announced it at the cast & crew party for 'Urgent Care'. Fortunately everyone jumped at the chance to hone their skills and prove that the success of the first film wasn't just luck. The result of that effort is 'Doggie Style', the second official film from It Donned On Me.

In September the team came together once again to complete another 48 hour film for the Visa "Life Takes" Invitational. In collaboration with members of the a capella group "Flying Without Instruments" they completed the fantasy film "EXIT".

In October, 2007 the team completed their fourth 48 hour project, the National Film Challenge, producing "Retreat", an existential tale of a horse seeking enlightenment. After this they took a break from high-speed filmmaking for the holidays in order to prepare for the 2008 season.

In March 2008 IDOM kicked off the 2008 filmmaking season with the International Documentary Challenge, producing our first non-fiction film, "Stick & Pound". Selected as a finalist in the competition, 'Stick & Pound' screened in Toronto at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival where the team brought home Documentary Challenge awards for Best Cinematography and Best Directing!

After an amazing first year of competition IDOM came full circle, returning for the second time to the 2008 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Challenge and successfully completing our 6th film, "Tail". 'Tail' brought home the award for 'Best Sound Design' as well as being nominated for Best use of Dialoge and Best Cinematography

Just a few weeks later it was once again time for the San Jose 48 Hour Film project. Despite a rough start IDOM pulled together and created 'TwirlyBoy', possibly our strangest film so far.

With seven very different films completed in a years time some would say it's time to take a break, but not IDOM - this is just the beginning as IDOM tackles new projects and goes in new directions in the quest to become the greatest competitive filmmaking team of all time!

Stay Tuned!

Who Is Quang Khoi?

When Quang Khoi and his family immigrated to the United States from Vietnam back in the mid seventies, his mother decided to give all the kids American names. Nobody could pronounce Quang Khoi, so his mother renamed her youngest son Tony. Quang Khoi's mom is a huge movie buff, and her passion for cinema is evident in the fact that she named her children after movie stars. Though it has never been confirmed or denied, word on the street is that her all time favorite movie is Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, and that she named her youngest son after that film's leading man, Anthony Perkins. "Tony" is not so bad, considering that Quang Khoi could have ended up being "Norman Bates Nguyen."

These days, Quang Khoi uses his real name when he is acting in film. When he's behind the camera, he goes by his American name, Tony. Quang Khoi/Tony Nguyen inherited his mother's passion for the movies. He enjoys every aspect of film, from playing character roles on the screen to editing time lines in Final Cut Pro behind the scenes. Mr. Nguyen is very proud to be a part of this year's 48 Hour Film Project. Working with the It Donned On Me team has been such a rewarding experience, and he hopes to continue to work this awesome group of people in future projects.

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