video 1.0 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/ Spinning Blade http://vimeo.com/spinningblade 1 <object width="1280" height="720"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=347293&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=347293&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="1280" height="720"></embed></object> 1280 720 0 This short film is a tribute/parody of all those special effect movies I grew up watching with over-the-top non-stop action. Some references in this film include Star Wars and Quantum Leap. If you're like me, you enjoy explosions, gun fights, super powers, lightsabers, action sequences, and anything involving ILM and WETA. I hope you enjoy the visual effects in this film. I'd love to make more of these, so if you have any feedback on what you'd like to see or what worked/didn't work, let me know. Music by Mitchell Covington. Directed/FX/Starring Jake Mathew http://www.jakemathew.com I shot this with the Canon HV20, and had a great HD version (1920x1080) which was about 20 GBs. I then had to compress it to a 320x240 quicktime to upload to youtube which then endured further compression and stretching, resulting in this low-res disaster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKtb5EgmlWY I'd like to give props to Vimeo for being the first site to display videos in 720p HD. (and allowing my films to be seen in the way they were intended) http://ats.vimeo.com/210/119/21011988_200.jpg 200 150 347293