I'm gonna give an introduction for the first time ever on Film Riot, and that's because
this episode was actually supposed to come out last Monday. And then it was supposed
to come out on Wednesday. And then on Friday, and then over the weekend. And it didn't come
out on any of those days. And now it's coming out today on this Monday.
And I wish I could tell you why, but I really can't get into it for legal reasons. But it
was very frustrating and I'm really sorry about that, guys. But there is the golden
pond at the end of the rainbow. Does that make sense? No.
If it looks like I haven't had much sleep lately, it's because I haven't. And the reason
is because we have this bad boy right here. This is the red epic, the 5K camera from RED,
which is on loan to us by the amazing Eric Kessler. We're one of the Kessler shooters,
so he sent it to us on loan for about two weeks or so.
And this is the same camera that Peter Jackson's using for the Hobbit, they shot the new Spiderman
on, Pirates of the Caribbean. David Fincher has used it for two films now. So this is
a full on cinema camera. So you can...as you can imagine, we have been drooling all over
it. And typically with Film Riot, we don't have time to put a full effort into anything.
I mean, we usually...we're coming up with the idea, shooting the idea, delivering the
idea within days so we never have time to get something as top quality as we possibly
can for you guys. And what's exciting is is we've finally just decided to forego sleep
to get something top notch to put out for all of you using this amazing camera.
I mean, it's still our typical run and gun, but we decided to - you know what? - let's
just spend a few days making something awesome. So we did our really first ever full-blown
serious action short film. It should be about seven minutes long. We're gonna release it
independently just for you guys.
So hopefully you'll love it and follow me on Twitter and Facebook. We're doing a lot
of updates, behind the scenes photos, and stuff like that. I'm also going to be using
Premier to edit it. So we're going to be talking about the RED camera coming up, we're going
to be talking about fight choreography, cinematography, color correction, Adobe Premiere...a lot of
cool stuff coming up.
Plus we're shooting more posters for Tel. We're gonna get into that. So stay tuned.
Enjoy the episode you were supposed to see last week. Sorry about that. But hey, there
is a giveaway at the end of the episode. So, also...see you guys later. you wanna, you
wanna hug it, too? Let's just hug it. This is a family moment.
Go ahead. Go watch the episode. Family right now. Go watch the episode; don't be creepy.
Go watch it. Today's episode of Film Riot is brought to you by Square Space. Today on
Film Riot we are once again dipping our hands into my mail sack. I've got my coffee, got
my computer, ready to do this. It's a weird way to drink coffee.
Welcome to Film Riot, the show that takes the mystery out of effects and techniques
of some of your favorite Hollywood films. I'm your host Ryan Connolly and you might
think we're in a studio, but we're not. This is actually just my living room.
A local theater was cool enough to donate a lot of this stuff to me. And since I'm a
cinephile, of course I was like this is my home home decor, yeah, to my wife's dismay.
We also have a bajillion posters which I think I'm gonna start giving away. So we're gonna
start giving away official matinee posters, those double-sided beauties for you guys which
I'll probably, maybe I'll talk about at the end of the episode.
Mail sack. Mail sack. Dig it Look in Ryan's mail sack.
So as always I asked you on Twitter and Facebook to send me in questions that you would like
to see answered on the show. And the first question we got is, how do you feel about
using lens filters? Why shoot it QV MC NV or otherwise XOXO? I think filters are great.
I don't often use them because we are so run and gun.
We typically have muted scenes, a short amount of time to shoot something. But filters are
awesome, especially ND filters. If you want to have a really wide-open iris and you're
shooting during the daylight, you really need an ND filter. Otherwise, you're gonna be jacking
up your ISO to like two freakin' thousand or something crazy like that.
It's gonna be looking like Saving Private Ryan, but really you're just trying to shoot
a romantic comedy. So everybody watching is just really confused.
Alex says, "I'm wanting to make my videos more professional and less immature, and my
friends suck at acting. Can you help me?" A lot of the things that people don't get
is that you have to shoot within the means that you have at that time. I mean any thing
you're shooting you're going to be practicing, even if it's really stupid.
I get asked a lot of times, this is the only camera I have. Is this a good camera to use?
If it's the only camera you have, then yes, it's a good camera camera to use. No matter
what you have, using it and doing it is the best way to do it at that time. It's just
practice, do more, get a budget, and then upgrade later on.
So if your friends suck at acting, whatever. Look past just start making your short films,
and once you're making really cool stuff that looks really good; you're gonna to be able
to attract people that are much better actors to your stuff.
Also if they are bad actors, maybe do stuff where acting is bad on purpose. I've worked
with some bad actors, but we did comedy where I wanted the acting to be bad. It made it
funnier. So go that route. Whatever you have, just make it work. Do something that works.
Maybe all you have is a cell phone, shoot something that makes sense to be shot on a
cell phone, like a "Cloverfield" 'esque' thing where it's all found footage, or something
like that.
So, whatever you have just figure out a way to make that work. There is never an excuse
to not be doing it.
Edwin asks, "Hey Ray? What? What advise could you give when laziness sometimes is upon you?
Thanks again, great show." The advice I would give is stop f--kin being lazy. That works
right?
Yeah.
Rc7 asks, "You wanna rock?" Oh, I think you know I wanna rock!
Let me...Jimmy, what are your thoughts on film schools? Are they worth the money, or
should you maybe try a different route.
That's a really hard question to answer and one that I get asked a lot. But really to
answer it all depends on the person asking the question. If you wouldn't rather live
under a bridge or out of your car than not make films then film school is not for you.
When you go to film school you're getting into a ton of debt with student loans that
you are going to have to pay off for possibly the rest of your life.
A lot of the kids I went to film school with went not knowing if they actually wanted to
make films. They just liked watching movies and assumed they would like making it too.
Filmmaking is not glamorous behind the scenes at all. Its extremely hard, its a 24x7 business
that's extremely stressful and also very rewarding if you love it, but you have to love it.
So you're not one thousand percent sure that you would rather give your first born than
not make films, I would just start doing it first. There's plenty of information on A
web for you to go and learn a lot. I mean for a lot of you, if you're really that talented
that might just be enough to get you going anyway.
It's a great platform to get seen too with things like Vimeo and You Tube. So I would
start there, and once you knew for sure that this is what you have to do for the rest of
your life, not just what you would like to do, then I would consider film school. Square
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Logo. It's delicious. I know this Film Riot has a lot of original production. How you
go about making music in your shows. Ant. I make the music sometimes myself using things
like garage band and pro tools but most of the times because of the time constraint I'm
using licensed music from ATM music.
It's not free, so if you're looking for free music check out our FilmRiot Facebook page.
In the notes section, we have a ton of links where you can find free royalty-free stock
music. Serious question hashtag: Have you ever tried filming at a beach or the ocean
- not during shark week, though, and what tips have you?
We have shot at a beach. We actually shot a genius sketch at a beach. It's pretty much
the same as shooting anywhere else. The only thing is you got to keep in account that the
wind is going to be much more harsh most of the time, so you have to make sure you have
a windscreen or a way to block that or it's just going to sound like "whoosh" the whole
time.
The other thing is sand is kicked up like crazy and will get all in your gear. So, you
have to make sure you're protecting your camera. Wrap it in a bag or something, and you should
be fine. How do you feel about Premiere Pro now that final cut X didn't turn out the way
you hoped for. I haven't really had time to try Premier Pro out yet.
I downloaded the trial but I haven't been able to get to it. But we are doing some red
shooting coming up. And I heard that Adobe Premier handles red footage natively amazingly.
So I'm going to be trying it out with all that stuff. I'll probably edit that whole
that we shoot with the red purely on Premier.
So, I'll have an opinion after that, I guess. I was wondering if you have a suggestion for
a beginner's software. I opened After Effects, and just am completely overwhelmed.There is
a bit of software from a company called FX Home called Hit Film which I've been hearing
a lot of really great things about and it's much cheaper than After Effects.
I actually received a trial from them, so I'm going to be trying that out soon and doing
some reviews on it, but I've heard good things. So I'll look into that, and I'll also look
forward to us using it on the show really soon.What are some good cheap mics? EG Shotgun.
Actually, the Shotgun might that we use on the most part on the store is only a two hundred
dollar AudioTechnica mic, which you can find at this link here.
And it's a really good mic, especially for the price, as opposed to like an given a 12
hundred dollar shotgun mic, which I am actually upgrading to very soon. So, maybe everything
will start sounding prettier.
What is your favorite color?
Money! Money is my favorite color.
So green?
No.
Logo. So that's the end of the episode, but as always, you can follow me on Twitter at
Twitter.com/_connelly and we're going to be giving a lot of these posters away soon - you
know what - let's give them away now within the next week. Follow me on Twitter and use
the hashtag - tweet whatever you want about the show and use the hashtag,Film Riot, and
I'm going to give away five posters to some of my followers for using the hash tag, Film
Riot.Let 's see what poster's we're getting - hold on.
Ah geez. What've we got here? We've got a Paul poster. Can you see that? We've got a
ton of Bridesmaids posters. I'll give away three of these. The Hangover Part 2, Your
Highness. And they're all double-sided. They're actual matinee posters.Battle L.A.Unknown.Arthur.
This guy, this friggin guy here.
That's a friggin, that's a cool poster.
Has his little Jesus sword.
What do we got? What do we got? Ah, sweet God. Green Hornet here. So they're very cool,
very cool poster.
So there you go. A bunch of posters we're giving away this week. So follow me on twitter,
then tweet whatever you want. Just use the hash tag Film Riot and you will win potentially
one of these posters. We're giving away tons of them so the odds of winning are very friggin
good, and first come first serve, as I start picking people.
I'll give you the option of which one of these posters that you want. Still going to be randomly
but I mean the sooner you do it the better chances you have. So follow me hash tag film
riot, say whatever you want And lets do this thing. Hopefully we'll start trending. Film
right army unite. I'll see you guys next week.
Until then, be safe, watch some good movies.
Oh my God!