This week, I've been learning Adobe Premiere and After Effects

I recut the Jenni's Angels 48 Hour film from 2010: 'Ultimate Monster Fighter: Showdown' (UMF:S). It was a small project to ease back into editing and teach myself the basics of Adobe Premiere.

'The Hunt' is the result:

As I looked over the raw footage of UMF:S, I felt that I really wanted to concentrate on the story of the fight between Jon and Kerina. Figuring out the beats of that story and how to play it tighter and more seriously than UMF:S took a while.

It became clear that it'd be cool to insert a special effect into one of the sequences of the fight. Until this week, I'd never created a special effect but I've watched Norman and Andrew use After Effects to do some great stuff, so I decided to boot it up and teach myself how to use it (google proved helpful).

The weak spot is definitely my sound mixing skills. I haven't figured how to balance all of the elements yet, and that's crucial to any film playing properly.

I'm looking forward to doing more of this.

Here's the original 'Ultimate Monster Fighter: Showdown':




... which is, itself, a sequel to 'Monster Hunter IV: Beyond Repair':

That last entry reminded me that I hadn't linked to our 48 Hour film from 2007. It's called 'Destination Earth'. We got the genres of science fiction and monster movie, and the film had to include three compulsory elements:
-- rope
-- the line of dialogue, "What do you call that?"
-- and the character of Jerry Reid, a hypochondriac.

Here you go:

Zero budget filmmaking

If we get war movie in this year's 48 Hour film contest, we should do something a little like this:

48 - Yessss!!!!!!!!!

Our film, Destination Earth, got runner-up for the Audience Favourite award. That was pretty much our team's goal this year, and it gives us (I think) a good shot of making the DVD.

Time to celebrate!