Shooting for TorrentFreak.com October 12, 2008
Posted by sloncek in blog.Tags: actor, camera, green screen, script, shooting, tele prompter, torrentfreak, webisode
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Today is the day when the first webisode for TorrentFreak.com will be released! So in the spirit of that, I will write a bit how the shooting went.
So to start the story at the beginning, in April the main guy from TorrentFreak.com - Lennart was in San Francisco (I even have some pictures of him somewhere on the blog). After he left he sent me an email asking me if I want to produce video podcasts for his site. Ofcourse I was interested but I had to explain him that I am going home for the summer and I won’t be able to shoot, so I asked him if we can do it in the Fall. He was ok with that. So the whole summer went by and as soon as I got back to USA (2 weeks later actually), I started gathering everything together. Micky agreed that he will do the animation for intro, at the end he also ended up making the graphics for the show. He asked his friends from Finland who have a sound company if they can make sounds for the intro and make music for the show. They agreed and they did that.I always knew who I wanted to use as host – Ashley. She was my classmate last semester. She agreed straight away to do it and that was another check mark on the list.
So we decided on Friday to be our shooting day. On Thursday me and Krista worked on the Script, but since it was late we did not finish it. Friday morning, on the shooting day, I went to have coffee with Micky. Right after that Krista got home from class and all 3 of us went searching for a Microphone. We spent almost 2 hours looking for the mic, the walk so much, not to mention I was sick the whole week and it really did not help sweating and then walk in the wind. And not to mention the whole day Ashley was not answering her phone, in fact her phone was off and I had no idea is she was going to show up. So around 3 (the shootin time was 4 PM) me and Krista went to the store to buy the food for everybody and Ashley called. I was so relieved. But we still did not have the script! So we went home and were writting the script while we ate. We finished the script around 4:30, just when Ashley came. We build the set, green screen, 2×1000 watts lights, 3rd light, tele prompter, mic, etc… Krista was holding the 3rd light, Micky was setting the tele prompter and I was behind the camera. We shot everything until around 8 PM. Then I checked it all on the computer and saw that the sound was broken on most of the clips. I thought my world would fall apart at that moment. I was so upset. I went to the bathroom and slammed my thumb in to the door – actually i put it in between the door and the frame and I slammed the door. My god did it hurt, I cracked the nail – NOT FUN! So then I told them all we need to reshoot some of the scenes. We did it in about an hour. Then I transfered everything to the computer, Ashley left and me and Micky went to his apartment to edit everything.
Micky was in charge of graphics and I was in charge of fixing the green screen and editing it all together. We started around 11 PM. The green screen caused us so many problems, because we did not realize one of her tattoos was green, so when you watch the video there are holes on her arm. Also her hair was too curly and half her hair got cut off, but u cant tell that. We finished editing at 4 AM so I left and went home. I stayed up until 7 AM because I had to render it all out for TorrentFreak.com.
It was fun in a way but I was actually really dissapointed because of all the mistakes. But I have also learned so much in this one day and we all know what we will do differently for the next time we do it. The next ep should be shoot in 2 weeks.
The article on TorrentFreak.com can be found here. And the video is below.
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Koncnooooooo to smo dolg cakal
hudo!
Uau fak ste mel dela, ogromn, sploh si ne mislis da je tok k gledas
I was really looking forward to this video when I read the news about it, but I was pretty disappointed. Most of TorrentFreak’s readership is not dull and dimwitted. Having a moderately attractive girl hosting it is fine, but it’s never good when a host laughs her way through her lines. And more importantly, if TorrentFreak has avid readers, and TorrentFreak only posts a few times a week . . . why make the Webisodes recap the already small amount of news.
My opinion is that their episodes should focus purely on original content. Get an interview with that Cohen guy who invented the torrent file system. Or do some educational pieces on how the fine print piracy laws really work. Interview people on both ends of the spectrum to unbiasly show how people in Congress really feel about these issues, as well as interviews with underground warez sites that educates the masses on how pirated material trickles down from the warez scenes to UseNet and then torrents. Hell, get a non-visual interview with Axxo and have his voice muffled, supposedly you guys have contacted him. Or even just review and rate different torrent sites. Anything but weekly recap info.
The music and intro is great though, and I really like the matching background of the video and the site’s background. Hopefully my suggestions help.
i thought it was awesome, intelligent, and most important, real. people who criticize technique as if they can’t comprehend the content being revealed, Are, ignored. once you get five of these i’d like to edit contextualizations as an episode guide…………
Thanks! Sloncek, Micky, Krista and Ashley…thanks to all for a good first effort. Great idea and thousands of eyes will be peeled for your further efforts!
I like it! Samo še malo več vaje, pa bo zakon! Tist smeh res malo moti. Pa za naslednič le uštimej tiste pikce na tatoojih. Pa lepo, da si se spet mal oglasu.
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a je s tem človekom vse ok? mislim da se že 1 mesec ni oglasil, prej je bil ta blog usaj mesečnik zdej bo pa slon objavljal 1x na leto
we want andrej we want andrej
sam res…
Jst mislim josti, da ti bo prej ze sam kej lahko povedu kot pa klele napisu:P
Andrej, nice shooting story:) You should write more about it:)