Tome Nota

This'll probably get taken down faster than I can say "Fair Use" but what the hell...

My appropriation project (and final project of the semester) for Visual Studies.

Mel Gibson's horrendously violent "Passion of the Christ" meets Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's terribly camp "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Be sure to turn up that volume nice and loud so you can get the full impact of the music of Jesus Christ Superstar!!

WARNING: Does contain lots of graphic violence. But don't blame me, take it up with ol' Mel.

NOTE: ALL COPYRIGHTS ARE HELD AND OWNED BY THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS! While this video project was edited by myself, I do not hold the copyrights to the video/audio used in said piece. It is my assumption that this work constitutes as fair-use in an art/education context.

Passion of the Christ © 2004 Equinox Films Inc and Warner Brothers Entertainment
Jesus Christ Superstar TM © 1996 The Really Useful Group Limited

Please don't sue me.

Aline Barros conversa com Tome Nota após apresentação no Credcard Hall em São Paulo. Tome Nota

O Livro Proibido

"True Love" by Phil Wickham
Directed by Dan Stevers

Shot and edited in two and a half weeks, this video was produced for my church's Easter service journeycommunitychurch.org We built a small section of the wall (5'x6') so the actors could interact with it. The rest of the wall shots were done using matte paintings, rotoscoping, or green screen. Check out my shot breakdown video to see how these effects were created. Each shot underwent heavy color correction to achieve either the somber blue look at the beginning or the orange warm feel for the end. Every shot had a blown out sky in it so I had to go in and motion track the camera movement and add clouds to each shot that had sky.

EQUIPMENT

I used a wonderful piece of equipment called the Poor Man's Steady Cam steadycam.org/ to achieve smooth camera movements. The shots were made even smoother by slowing down the speed of many of the shots to around 70% of their normal speed using After Effects and it's pixel motion feature. I also bought a garden wagon (the ones with the big off road tires) to dolly alongside the actors as they walked. I only used the wagon for one shot in the video, the shot of everyone's feet walking, but it definitely made a difference. We also brought a ten foot ladder to stand on so I could get a top-down view of everyone walking. I purchased a portable greenscreen which had a reversible white side imagewest.tv/index.asp?Pag... We used the white side as a background for the shots of people laying their bricks on the wall. The white background acted the same way a green screen would. For a great tutorial on how to replace blown out skys and white backgrounds check out this tutorial videocopilot.net/tutorials... I shot the video using a Panasonic DVX100b at a 30p frame rate. I created all the effects inside After Effects CS3. I used Trapcode's plug-ins Particular and Shine, to create the wall exploding effect. These plug-ins are indispensable to me, I use them on pretty much every video I make. The video was edited in Premiere.

danstevers.com

This video is a breakdown of the effects and color correction in each shot of my movie.

Shot and edited in two and a half weeks, this video was produced for my church's Easter service journeycommunitychurch.org We built a small section of the wall (5'x6') so the actors could interact with it. The rest of the wall shots were done using matte paintings, rotoscoping, or green screen. Check out my shot breakdown video to see how these effects were created. Each shot underwent heavy color correction to achieve either the somber blue look at the beginning or the orange warm feel for the end. Every shot had a blown out sky in it so I had to go in and motion track the camera movement and add clouds to each shot that had sky.

EQUIPMENT

I used a wonderful piece of equipment called the Poor Man's Steady Cam cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/ to achieve smooth camera movements. The shots were made even smoother by slowing down the speed of many of the shots to around 70% of their normal speed using After Effects and it's pixel motion feature. I also bought a garden wagon (the ones with the big off road tires) to dolly alongside the actors as they walked. I only used the wagon for one shot in the video, the shot of everyone's feet walking, but it definitely made a difference. We also brought a ten foot ladder to stand on so I could get a top-down view of everyone walking. I purchased a portable greenscreen which had a reversible white side imagewest.tv/index.asp?Pag... We used the white side as a background for the shots of people laying their bricks on the wall. The white background acted the same way a green screen would. For a great tutorial on how to replace blown out skys and white backgrounds check out this tutorial videocopilot.net/tutorials... I shot the video using a Panasonic DVX100b at a 30p frame rate. I created all the effects inside After Effects CS3. I used Trapcode's plug-ins Particular and Shine, to create the wall exploding effect. These plug-ins are indispensable to me, I use them on pretty much every video I make. The video was edited in Premiere.