so, my friend brad and i entered a film competition called the renton film frenzy. we had 50 hours to write, shoot and edit a 4 minute long film. this is our entry. i would also like to note that we finished 3rd in the competition. yay!
What’s the best idea you’ve ever had? Do you have it? Now take the beauty of that idea and times it by a million. Those are the kinds of unique brain explosions that Steven and Bradford have every day. Step into their world and see both the glory and the calamity that comes with a genius that’s touched by madness.
Submitted to the 2010 Renton Film Frenzy. 3 requirements that we had to follow were:
1. A part of the film must contain either a piece of Renton art, history or culture.
2. We had to use the phrase, “DTR” (which presumably stands for downtown Renton, but we could use it however we pleased).
3. We had to shoot a scene at Renton High School.
so, I was just testing out the “movie trailer” feature in the new iMovie. i tried to make it as cliche as possible. i’m pretty sure i’ve seen the trailer blurb below (or minor variations) in about 100 different movies.
3 crazy children
discover that life is what happens
when you’re busy making other plans
and you get what you never expected
this is one of the funniest scenes from “The Other Guys”. i walked in not knowing what to expect and i walked out not sure of what i saw. take that however you want.
we were at the park today and i just felt the need to make a short video. i remembered that i could shoot and edit the whole thing on my iphone and decided to do just that. i had the whole thing finished by the time i got home, and here are the results. how cool is that?
So, I just downloaded iMovie for the iPhone and this is a test using that last video that I shot. For the uninitiated, iMovie is the basic Mac movie editing software that, for a basic editor, blows the doors off of Windows Movie Maker (no offense to any WMM lovers out there). Well, they made a scaled-down version for the iPhone 4 that’s actually really cool. It took me 5 times longer to make this movie than it would have on a PC, but then again, this is all being done on a phone. Pretty impressive in my book.
EDIT: I just realized that my song was a little too short for the video. I suppose I should have proofed it first. Oh well.
I just wanted to test out the video new iPhone 4 (which just arrived today). I have to say, for a PHONE (that’s right, this thing is a PHONE) this is the best video I’ve ever seen. I’ll still be using the Canon when I’m shooting my masterpieces, but I have no reservations about pulling this thing out when needed.
this is the first year that we’ve asked asher the birthday questions. while asher’s been a little slower in learning to talk than our other kids, he’s decidedly more bashful than normal in this video. we assure you, he’s generally more chatty than this.
buyer beware: several of the questions in this video go completely unanswered (i’m not counting his sound effects). while I thought about changing the questions to suit his age, i decided against it. the purpose of these interviews is about showing the development and growth of our kids more than pure entertainment. so, bearing that in mind, here’s asher sparks heller.
for those that are unaware, every year on each of our children’s birthdays, we set them down and ask them a series of questions and film it for posterity. we hope that someday we can look back over these little videos and see how much our children have grown. now, i’m not going to lie, for this particular video we actually filmed it 2 days after lily’s birthday (schedules were hectic) but i think that the content wouldn’t have changed. so, here you go…
a family that we go to church with has a six year old daughter that got very sick recently. they didn’t know what the problem was and very quickly were told that she needed a liver transplant. fortunately, everything went well and she’s still with us. the downside of this whole story is that this whole process was very expensive for them and they now have a financial burden that they (and Annie) will carry for the rest of their lives. they enlisted my help in creating a video to tell their story and try to raise money to help cover Annie’s ongoing expenses. you can visit www.COTAforAnnieR.com to learn how you can help. they have a goal to raise $10,000 by June 30th. watch the video below. warning: it’s a bit of a tear jerker.
