 | | | | | |
BrickFest 2004 will produce a DVD of video and still images of the
BrickFest 2004 event, the 5th Year Anniversary. We seek individuals
willing to take videotape and still digital photographs to become
part of the stock footage of the event. You will receive credit for
your work on the prduction and a free DVD as your sole compensation.
The DVD is an effort to document, in an entertaining and pleasurable
way, the BrickFest 2004 5th Anniversary. Members of the DVD Team
will work together and have input into the final production.
In addition to raw images and video, we need help with graphics and
music for the videos. We have several parts planned and would like
help and your participation.
Respond to this newsgroup or email the DVD Chair Todd Thuma at
todd.thuma@gactr.uga.edu
Todd
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Way to go! Yes, I'd be happy to contribute to the BrickFest DVD project. I'm
already doing backdrop-equipped photography in the Castle room (and maybe
elsewhere), and I was wondering where the pics would go (aside from Brickshelf).
If I bring my tripod, I could also take time-lapse footage of e.g. the ISD build
contest or BrikWars. Well, anyone who's willing to press the shutter button
every 30 seconds could do that. (A camera with an inbuilt time-lapse function
would be preferable.)
Since I have some small skill in graphics (illustration, design and animation),
I can also assist with post-production.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
|
I've always wanted to do a credit-crawl with more than one name; suddenly we'll
all have another item for our résumés. Ideas for footage and structure (long):
Establishing shots of Arlington and GMU.
Emphasis (to the uninitiated) that AFOLs are not just big kids: this is artistry
and engineering on a whole different level than is covered in the LEGO Club
magazine. "Plastic Bricks: the Next Stage."
Need someone with an authoritative voice for voiceovers. Map of where attendees
come from. Table of attendance rise each year. Map of other brick events
nationwide; plus LEGO facilities. Table of ISD speed-build records.
"The spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well..." (Brick Bazaar, custom
models) "Pre-packaged kits don't last long..." (tearing apart boxes for parts)
"The distinctive etched badges and trophies are provided by..." (fabricating
room). "Demands of the stomach are sometimes overpowered by excitement of the
fingertips..." (granola bars, swigging water, pizza).
A milling, murmuring crowd is boring; unless it's filmed in time-lapse fast-mo.
Setup and teardown: cars crammed full of displays, traversing escalators. Pile
of track diminishes as it's deployed.
Spin small models around, and circle large ones. (Now, what we need is a
Steadicam, or a dolly on which to mount a tripod. Or, a jagged montage.) For
replicas, flip between model and reference images. (Copyright? Fair use should
probably cover it, if credit is given.)
Juxtapose themes/models: put a mech in the town and scare the crowds, or suspend
a ship overhead (one with a spine that'll permit balancing at one end). Simple
stop-mo animation, or just dramatic tableux (anime-style) from dramatic angles
(use backdrop to make sky).
Elaborated badges. Convention exclusives (T-shirt, hat, Capitol mini-model).
Group shot. Interviews. "How long have you been building, how many bricks do
you have, when did you become aware of organized brick fandom..." Should there
be a makeup department to make interviewees presentable? Will we need signed
model releases -- from attendees and expo visitors?
Footage of sessions, demos, gaming. Players going "Arrr!" Gaggles proceeding
to dinner. Trip to LEGO Outlet (if footage therein permitted).
Images from the AFOL comic and clips from the animation fest (as opposed to
*its* compilation DVD). Screencaps of software cited in sessions.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |
|
Okay. BrickFest over, photos and video taken. Time for all the contributors to
hash out details of the DVD's organization, divvy up any post-processing
pre-assembly that needs be done, and figure out file transfers. I'm cc'ing this
to email because (a) we might want later gory details private and (b) I don't
think we're all on Lugnet. Photo studio guy George Gray (-ey?) seems not to be
on this thread.
Filenaming: My Olympus assigns sequential filenames of the form P1234567.JPG,
but it doesn't increment reliably. Some of my BrickFest pics have identical
names; they're isolated in separate folders *now*, but if you try to throw them
all together you'll get conflicts.
Resolution: I took most of the pics at 1600x1200 res, but on Sunday was running
low on flash and so dropped to 640x480. The former can be zoomed, but the
latter is still adequate for DVD resolution (720x480) if the composition is
good.
Quality: With my tripod and light-sensitivity, I got *very* sharp pics.
However, many of them are canted or keystoned, and will need to be rotated to
minimize seasickness.
Identifying MOCs: I often have a pic of the MOC card proximate to the *good*
pics, but they're usually junky. The information needs to be copied to a neat
visual -- either a text-only card or text-overlay.
Identifying people: Except for crowd scenes, I usually recorded the names of
people (the pirate game, Rail Racers, Sky Gods who held my backdrop), but
they're in my pocket notebook. If needed, I'll have to report them by pic
filename.
DVD organization: By room, MOC size, builder, theme (eg, not all castles were in
the castle room), original/replicas/rescalings, winners, building technique
(trees, interesting rooves), event (rooms vs talks), people and badges,
slideshows vs full-motion video.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Hey Todd, what do you mean by "other"-ographers?
Have you ever seen anything unsavory at a BrickFest?
--Todd
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Hey Todd, what do you mean by "other"-ographers?
>
> Have you ever seen anything unsavory at a BrickFest?
>
> --Todd
Maybe he meant cartographers or stenographers?
-Orion
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.events.brickfest, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Hey Todd, what do you mean by "other"-ographers?
> > Have you ever seen anything unsavory at a BrickFest?
>
> Maybe he meant cartographers or stenographers?
Or biographers?
Wow, my dict file has 132 words ending in -ographer!
--Todd
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Wow, my dict file has 132 words ending in -ographer!
How about calographers, being those who write in fancy script by laying out
patterns of clunky wooden shoes.
| | | | | | |
