Official trailer for the documentary feature “Top Priority: The Terror Within” by Fleur De Lis Film Studios, which premiered on May 16, 2012 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For additional information, visit http://www.TopPriorityMovie.com
I was trying to think of something more to say on this but I’ve got nothing! I want real black not muddy brown.
Obviously I’m interested in B/W film. Sometimes I think I would throw all my camera gear away for the simplicity of one very good film camera. Maybe I will. ;-)
These shots were taken with a Nikon F5 and Nikon 24mm lens. I used a 056 Orange Nikon filter on the Ilford Pan and nothing with the Kodak.
They were both developed and enhanced digital scans produced.
Sandy Neck, Barnstable MA. (Ilford Pan)
Gears (Kodak TMax)
My friend and Emerson classmate, Joe Conforti is producing a web-based series, In Plan View.
Many independent filmmakers are turning to crowd funding to produce our work. This allows us to remain as independent as possible, creating our own vision in our films.
If you are looking for ways to fund your own work this may also be an alternative for you.
If you’d like to learn more, get involved or just see how it’s done follow the links below… lb
In Plain View Rockethub Pitch Video
from Joe
Dear Friends and Family:
Tomorrow is the launch day of our Rockethub.com crowd-funding project, at 9 A.M. It will be listed on the Rockethub.com website under In Plain View Web Series Pilot. The donation range goes from modest all the way up to bored rich person money. Please take a look, break out even the smallest of donations, whatever you can afford, and please send the link to any friends you think may be interested in becoming a patron-of-the-arts. This type of crowd-funding is really about advocates with circles-of-influence and email lists. Just follow the instructions on the Rockethub page. It’s secure and simple. There are two great videos on the page. If Public Radio can do it, why not us?
Thanks for all the support, I really do appreciate it! Figuratively and literally, this project will not get off the ground without you.
Joseph Conforti
http://www.rockethub.com/projects?query=+In+Plain+View+Web+Series+Pilot.
It’s been a while since I went out on a snowy, rainy day to shoot these. Spring has begun. The original idea was to demonstrate exposure bracketing but as always, I learn much more. I shot three (3) sets of images, in the bracket, and chose to edit the +.7 EV set, using preview to adjust exposure, contrast and sharpness. For some reason, I found it easier to work up from dark to light. I could have also worked effectively with the 0.7 EV set but the -.7 were too bright.
Today, many filmmakers shoot digital with the most neutral camera settings to allow a wide editing latitude in post. I’m sure professional photographers do this as well.
All these shots were taken with an Xpro1 and 18mm lens. I was a snowy, rainy day, as you can see, and you will actually see snowflakes, rain and the like in the images. lb
Note: click on the images for a more detailed view
A Little History…
Mother Brook, dug through from the Charles River to East Brook in 1637, provided a connection with the Neponset River and a source of waterpower for the town’s all-important corn mill. In subsequent generations, that same waterway provided power to roll copper for American coins, to make paper (in three different mills), to support a brush factory and a wire factory, and to run the first water-driven broad powered loom in the entire world. These industries, combined with other enterprises around the town, gave a tremendous economic impetus to Dedham. By 1845, the town’s manufactories employed over 650 people, and produced such varied goods as cotton, cotton thread, woolens, silk, brooms, furnaces, shovels and hoes, paper, chairs and cabinets, tin ware, sheet iron, vehicles, boots, shoes, saddles and harnesses, cigars, pocket notebooks, and marbled papers. http://dedhamhistorical.org/history/
Centennial Dam
This dam was originally constructed to provide water power to textile mills built at this site. This location was the fourth of five “privileges” (locations where dams could be built) along Mother Brook in Dedham, MA, first designated in Colonial times. Mother Brook connects to and drains the Charles River and empties into the Neponset River. A plaque mounted on the dam indicates that the current structure was built in 1894 and rebuilt in 1994. Earlier structures provided power for mills at this site since the early 1800s (and possibly earlier).
This is an embankment dam, with a spillway constructed of concrete with some stone and brick in the side walls. It is approximately 15 feet high.
Fishing is done in the adjacent brook and pond, but signs in the area advise against eating certain types of fish due to PCB contamination.
Canoes or kayaks are rarely or ever used in the area because of limited water depth and limited practical travel distances.
The dam is adjacent to and effectively enclosed by property of the Mother Brook Condominium Association, a group of 86 residential condominiums. Several of the condo buildings were converted from mill buildings, in 1986-87.http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCY57_Centennial_Dam_Dedham_MA_USA
Stone Mill
When built in 1835 for the Norfolk Manufacturing Co., this mill was powered by the adjacent Mother Brook flowing over what is now called “Centennial Dam.” It was initially used to manufacture cotton. The building was expanded by Mr. Thomas Barrows in approximately 1865-1870 and used to manufacture wool. It was sold to Merchants Woolen CO. in 1872, to Royal and Frederick Storrs in 1875, and again to Merchants Woolen Co. in 1882. In 1894 it was sold to Cochrane Manufacturing Co. and used to make carpets. At some unknown point, a steam plant was added, remnants of which remain in the basement of the building.
This mill is located at the fourth of five “privileges” along Mother Brook in Dedham where dams and mills were erected, beginning in Colonial times.
This building is now part of the Mother Brook Condominiums. It was converted to condos in 1987 along with several other former mill buildings on this site. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCYJN_Water_mill_former_Cochrane_Manufacturing_Co_carpet_mill_Dedham_MA
And for you guys and gals that must have a little color in your lives ;-).
STORY: The children of Minamisoma City, Japan are living amid high levels of radiation and toxic rain after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Will the children be evacuated as some experts advise, or will they stay where they are inside the 30 km zone and head back to school as the government has ordered?
Note: This trailer is part 4 of 4 of “In the Radiation Zone: the Children of Minamisoma”, a behind-the-scenes look at what happened during the filming of the feature documentary, “In the Grey Zone”. The working title of this documentary was at one point “Killing the Darlings of Minamisoma”.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a wonderful opportunity for all with the web-based publication of virtually all it’s course content. I heard about OCW a while back but I am still amazed at the Institute’s progressive thinking with this initiative. Three Cheers to MIT! ;-) Now the rest is up to you. I’ve attached one course of interest to this blog but there are many. Check OCW out at the links provided below. lb
MIT OpenCourseWare:
Unlocking Knowledge
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling | Media Arts and Sciences
Prof. Glorianna Davenport
Barbara Barry
(Teaching Assistant)
MAS.845
Spring 2004
Graduate
This seminar explores approaches to representation for distributed cinematic storytelling. The relationship between story creation and story appreciation is analyzed. Readings are drawn from literary and cinematic criticism, as well as from descriptions of interactive, distributed works. Students analyze a range of storytelling techniques; they develop a proposal using visualization techniques; and they prototype a working story experience, culminating in a final project displayed at the end of the semester.
Find out more about this course: Special Topics in Cinematic Storytelling | Media Arts and Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare.
Find out more about MIT OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
As a producer and director, Burns has become the epitome of this genre of documentary filmmaking. He and his crew have produced a work of outstanding detail and quality about a man, Samuel Clemens, an amazing bigger than life character of immense depth and insight. An excellent work and well worth your time. lb
About the film
A popular humorist, philosopher and social satirist, Mark Twain was the well-known nom-de-plume of writer Samuel Clemens, the nation’s first literary celebrity. One of the most quoted men of his time, he was born in 1835, the year Haley’s Comet passed over, and vowed that he would not die until he saw the famous comet. He died in 1910 — the day after the comet’s return. Tracing Twain’s rise from his humble birth in Missouri to his prosperous life in Connecticut as the nation’s best-selling author, Mark Twain reveals a compelling portrait of the father of American literature.
Nearly three years in the making and drawing from 63 hours of material, thousands of archival photographs and nearly 20 interviews with top writers and Twain scholars, Mark Twain is the story of an extraordinary life-one full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy and unbearable tragedy. Told primarily through the words of Twain himself and narrated by Keith David (the voice of Jazz), viewers of all ages will be personally introduced to this compelling yet contradictory genius, who said with some justification, “I am not an American, I am the American.” (2001)
Find out more about Twain and Burns:http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/filmmakers/making.html
The director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS, returns with his grandest work to date! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Baldwin’s treasure trove of early television shows, industrial and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combining these with live-action footage, no-budget special effects, and relentless narration to generate a wholly original paranoid science-fiction epic. from http://www.othercinemadvd.com/spectres.html
BooBoo, a young telepath, and her father, Yogi, are revolutionaries pitted against the “New Electromagnetic Order”. Their story, set in the year 2007 in a blighted Nevada outpost, is interwoven with a history of the development of electromagnetic technologies, from X-rays to atom bombs, from television to the Internet. “At once politically charged and wildly imaginative, this unique extravaganza confirms director Baldwin as an avant-garde superstar”. — Christian Science Monitor
Boston Neighborhood Network Television is a nationally recognized, award-winning community media center and 501(c)(3) nonprofit, that acts as a public forum for all Boston residents, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and governmental and educational institutions and provides them with affordable training and access to emerging media technologies.
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