Haha yeah I uploaded it at noon and after 3 hours, it just kinda stalled and froze and stopped...so I reuploaded it.... 6 hours ago (3PM) and it says about an hour in line until it converts. Ronco food dehydrator, set it and forget it...

This turned out quite nicely. The score fit quite well. I liked that the poison dealer was wearing a bandana. Celeste was clearly not all sugar and spice, considering the black market poison. A happy little piece.

hahaha black market dinosaur dealing...those naughty children. tsk tsk. :)

Hey whats up 100+ degree temperatures and hellish sun heat, obviously the most ideal conditions to shoot in right?

So is that gonna be us this summer with our quasi lemonade stand?

<3

Psh Carlos you're too sweet. :-) Thank you! I like to mix things up all the time...i get bored easily. My next video will be a good change from this. Have I ever told you that I love your Avatar? It's pretty cool.

woooooooo!!!! thank youuuuuu Kareeen!! you are sweet too.
i blush I blush!!
you really likes dinosaurs i will think about something who involve a dinosaur for you!
later!
carlos.

Aww thank you Capucha! Children are so fantastic! Especially yours!!! :-)

psh i should make a film with you, you're a cutie. Thanks hun have a great day tomorrow <3 u

I totally agree with Cameron :)

Aww thanks Glenn. Yeah I don't think the story came out as clear as I had hoped but because of the circumstances, this is what I have to work with. The kids make up for it, they are adorable. I really appreciate your taking the time to watch this, means a lot to me. :-)

Aww shucks thanks Bill.

Thanks Roger, that really means a lot. I just recently purchased a 16mm Bolex a couple months ago and I'm pretty excited about shooting some stuff this summer in colour. My school does a telecine digital transfer, but as you can see, the quality is nothing short of mediocre, their projector has a crazy hot spot in the middle of the screen that you can notice in a lot of the shots. I plan on telecining it myself at home. What you do play the film on a 16mm projector and project it into a box with a mirror and then get a 24P camera and video another mirror where the image shows up...or you can eliminate that whole mirror business and project it on some white foamboard.

If you don't have access to a projector, you can take your 8mm and 16mm film to costco and they can do a digital transfer onto a DVD for like 20 bucks for 100ft of film, or something pretty cheap. I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how the quality is, but I can't imagine it being too bad. I think they give you a DVD with some weird ass file type on it that you may need to get conversions for or just rip that sucker off of there and convert to an mov or Mpeg with a bunch of freeware out there.

But yeah you should take out the ol super 8 and give her a spin. I have a couple 8mm cameras as well that I want to make more use of.

Film is a beautiful thing my friend, a beautiful thing.

Film is Beautiful! I know what you did to convert to digital;I have done it myself just that way. Yes, the quality is not all that good. I started to make movies in 1954 and so have lots of movie film in the can. Bolex is GREAT !

I had a talk to my teacher today and I am going to get it telecined to film...so they can run two bolex at the same time and have my film transfered onto film....

haha ridiculous.

That sounds so cool. Let me know how it turned out. thanks

crazy!

i had to say it

Yeah he was a real dream gem about it. He's pretty freakin cool. You are sooo good Mr. Niebauer.

I left Michigan almost a year ago but i can't seem to keep out of people that live there. haha.

Hah! Cory's the man.

Michigan is where it's at.

PS - I'm thinking about buying a camera soon, so videos might start showing up from me...

EEEk i'm excited....don't forget to "share" them with me when u do so i dont miss them.

Shoot i need to run a fundraiser or something and buy myself a new working video camera as well.

Yeah the irony in it was that 1) she lied to her boss by saying she was "done" working because what was at stake was all this stuff she planned for the day. 2) that she spent the money on "secret" dinos which is silly because she delivers dinos for her job... 3) that she stole those from her work
4) that she's BEEN stealing them for a while..

Silly kids.


And thanks to the hellish heat and brightness of the sun....you can't see what's on the papers...but they are drawings of dinosaurs... Silly film and all its problems.

haha

I'll slip you some black market goods...
hee ehee

what are you guys talking about..they had those cars and minute maid in the 50s.


hahaha <3 thanks boys.

ahah you silly poopy i was being sarcastic. :-)

he prouction design wouldve been completely off too if it was intended for the 50s....her outfit and their hairstyles...

i'm that picky...
haha

hha you are adorable. :-)

I just realized that I didn't answer Rico's original question of

"What is the deal with you and those dinos?"

To answer that, those specific dinosaurs, nothing really, just mere props for my film that were purchased. But dinosaurs in general.

When I was around 4 years old, 1989, a year after The Land Before Time was released in theaters...and I watched it on Beta, and I had some weird post traumatic stress after Littlefoot's mother died in the film. Then shortly after I had an imaginary friend that was a green brontosaurus. I won't go into details in regards to that. But anyways I had an older sister (who as a year and a half older than me) who became my best friend and eventually replaced the imaginary friend. When I was 8, my sister passed away (a year after my best friend did as well) and I had all these pretty bad images and memories in my head for a while afterwards...but for some reason the idea of the imaginary dinosaur and the littlefoot mother death thing was some sort of safety reaffirmation that things are going to be okay, no matter how bad things get. The obsessions with dinosaurs died for a while when I was in high school, but when I moved away for college, it came back. It's weird. I'm really interested in paleontology as an interest, and not as something I'd pursue. But anyways, that's where the dino love came from. Plus they're pretty cool looking things.

Thanks for the lowdown on that Karen - a sad and uplifting story at the same time. And yeah, dinos are pretty cool looking, I'll give you that :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to watch this John. :-)

Thanks buddy! I'm glad that that part of my life is over. Even though I still have a bunch of beasty burdens to finish before the end of the school semester.

Summer needs to come...pronto!!!

Aww thanks Mike you were a big support throughout the process. *big hugs*

Let's just have bags of poison skull thingys everywhere....for everything. hahaa


Flickering light is the magic of 16mm..and Reversal film..you won't get that glowy magic with Negative film. Haha. Part of the reason why it's so hard to shoot reversal, the latitude for error is itty bitty. Also the flickery dickery docks are achieved when i pull my eye away from the eye piece and the sun which was a hellish mastermind would go through the viewfinder and hit the light. Movie magic!

It looks a zillion times better on the projection, the digital transfer is poo pie....(compared to the actual film) but that is the limitation of internet presentation...and shitty telecine.


you are a dream gem fantastmigoric friend!

I think you should sell the skull bags :)

Ahh... yes, when you said pulling your eye away from the eye-piece I remember Olivier (one of the people who helped film Pedal) did that a lot. I can't wait to see that footage... I need to get it developed... like tomorrow.

Well, hopefully, one day soon, you'll get to show me your film on a projector :)

Did you shoot on 16mm, 8mm, or 35mm? If you get it processed on 16mm..and want to edit it..by hand....I have a splicer and such..and a projector! hehe

We shot on 16mm film - I might want to do that just for fun :) but I'm gonna get a HD transfer to cut into the film... I think :P

Looks are deceiving my dear friend...when sharpy prickly spike grass comes up to your elbows and you are in an area infested with bugs and poison oak..it is not to magical...hahaha. Logistical nightmares can turn into pleasurable aesthetic delights <3

oh man like buster keaton film...love it! Thank you for your very very sweet and thoughtful words. I had thought about intertitles but we had to be able to tell a whole coherent story based on visuals and editing pace. Thanks a lot koffie, cute avatar.

What a tempting proposition.

You gem sweater. <3

psh mitch you are awesome!!!!

thanks friend!

LOL this made me laugh.

Justin Adams is hilarious

Justin Adams is inspirational
Justin Adams has a huge heart

Justin Adams is so friendly and wonderful

Justin Adams is Justin Adams is not Sam Adams who is not John Adams.

I won't be famous you silly head, i won't let that happen...it's too awkward for me, I gotta keep a low real life profile and an irrelevant internet profile...hahah..


Um so when are we hanging out is a better question. haha

When are you going to let me film you and mike

Your plan of not becoming famous is going to be quickly foiled if you keep making such awesome videos ;)

And yea, Justin, when *are* you going to let Karen film you and me?

Aww thank you so much sir Peiks <3

Aww thanks hun I'm glad. I've been on this weird rampage of making feel goodery films. Need more death and destruction!!!!!

hahaha
jk


Thanks for watching this though, really, it means a lot to me.

I stole them all from you.

haha just kidding I would never deprive people of dino love.

For this, my best friend Joe (the sketchy dealer dude) bought out all the plastic dinos from the store. :-) Now no kids will be able to play with them...haha no I'm gonna give a bunch away to some kids.

The kids were really really incredible. Actually I'll have to hand it to them...I am really proud of them for putting up with the conditions because it was SOOOOOOOOOO hot, unbelievably hot, and then not only that, but it takes FOREVER to shoot film. Can't just push a button and record, gotta make a bazillion measurements before actually shooting. They are total troopers. Plus their mom was there for the first day of shooting (the stuff with the dino stand) so whenever they started getting bored and wandering off or tired, she would put them in check. My best friend, who was my only crew member, is also really really close to the kids, so he helped me wrangle them too. All in all they are pretty incredible kids and super super cute..!!!

Thanks loona!

RAWRRRRRR!!!!!

hee hee thanks Pierre!

Dinos are forever!!! :-)

Thanks a lot monso!

meant to blow your mind!!!

hahah just kidding

But really, thanks for watching :-)

When you produce a great video they will come :) Or at least so goes the story.

Aww thanks so much :-) you are a gem treat.

Aw Steven! You are too kind! I am glad that you enjoyed this, but more importantly that it made you smile.

I love smiles. Thank you so much again, so nice!

-Karen

I will pass the word to cory. :-) Yeah those bosses...typical...enjoying themselves.

Where's my popsicle? psh.
haha

haha you're crazy.

Actually coincidentally he's engaged to someone named Karen. So I think that may work for you. haha.

Owl kite's name is Archimedes.

Aw thanks a lot Marco.

Oh man I totally agree. We can blame the school's shitty transfer for that. I am going to try to telecine it myself. I don't know what they did but they totally blow out all the images. The original film version looks much better. :-) Thanks pasman.

Good to hear that the original is much better. Maybe they can adjust their apparatus for a second try. Maybe they don't even know how it is operated properly ;-)

hee hee. yeah, thank goodness what i had to present in class was the projected copy. Looks phenomenal compared to this garbage, but that's the thing...film is film...getting it put on video will make it look worse...just as making video look like film seems to make people think it will look better...haha..

aww thanks sam. Yeah me too it brings smiles to me and my heart..but not to my nerves while filmming..haha

The kids were really really quite amazing. I am so grateful to them and their parents. Haha yeah the dino bag and lunchbox and such are mine. You know what's a shame though, I don't have a dino kite, and I've been looking for one for a while...but I got one for my birthday from my best friend! But it was too late, I had already shot this film. But i like Archimedes the Owl Kite, he's a cute little guy.

haha I don't know about the academy award but I will definitely keep pushing myself to learn how to be better and better at making moving images. :-) Thanks again so much <3

Oh Mr Oakley, you are much too kind.

Oh oh what's that avatar I see..a graduation graduation?!?!! <3 Congrats! Oh man shouldve told your boss to shove it!

hahah just kidding. I hate when that happens too.

hahah yup i graduate this thursday on the 22nd!! and oh man i am SO excited its unbelievable haha. and thanks!!

oh i was so close to saying something like that when he called me. but i had to restrain myself.
still didnt stop me from thinking it though hahahha

Aww thanks Ayz, you know, I know, that that means a lot coming from you.

so much "knows" haha

Thanks so much buddy.

np m'am. look forward to more.