Frontier

Had trouble all last night and this morning uploading to Vimeo with slow internet connections. Sorry for the delay. Thank you all for your patience! Have a great holiday!

https://vimeo.com/69744272

Frontier from Richland Digital Video on Vimeo.

Trouble with Vimeo

I tried to get the file size of my project under the 500 MB Vimeo limit and I did get one version at 346.8 MB at 854 x 480 but Final Cut Pro wouldn't output the one of the four  formats that Vimeo will accept under the 500 MB limit.  So, I am going to upload the video to my server and you can download it from a web page.  This is basically a H.264 Quicktime .mov file,  DVD quality.  16:9 format.

Mike, I will put the other sizes including the 1080 HD files I tried on a thumb drive or a DVD and send it to you.  I am not limiting access to the video but the page will be password protected.  The user ID is richland and the password is richland2013 so it shouldn't be too hard to get access.  Hunter and Bai you can also download a copy if you want.

http://www.rick-barrett.com/richland/  <--- Should be active Friday 7/5/13.

Mike I need an address for you.  Or, I can leave it at Richland with someone.  Did you return my "The Help" DVD?

An Interview With Bigfoot

Bigfoot - Interview 1 from Hunter Murray on Vimeo.

Great Example

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ie3SrjLlcUY

Here is an example of what I'd like to be able to do.  This is an awesome story.
I found this while looking for footage to use.

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida

So the piece of Roland's refers to the aspects of photography (and to us as it relates to cinematography) and how the power of any image is based around the minute details. He describes this as Studium and Punctum.

Studium, Barthes describes as being the general details in an image to either will make you like or dislike an image, those that capture attention without much power.

Punctum, Barthes describes as being the fine details in the image that will either make you love or hate the image. They capture attention with extreme provocation. Punctum, as he notes, is a detail that one cannot really stage to be if it isn't on it's own.

Using these two elements, a photograph (or to a much grander extent, a scene or film) can be made into a pure medley of  interest, which in itself, is the base of true magic in image.

OK so Roland Barths piece is on photography which is related to cinematography and so we can try to apply these principals to our work.  So when I refer to photography in this case I mean both photography and cinematography.  There is an interesting point where Barth's describes two terms, stadium and punctum (both from Latin) to try to talk about the information in the images and the effect it has on the viewer.

Punctum is what makes a photograph interesting to the viewer, your point of understanding... Studium allows us to experience the photograph.

He mentions the camera obscura which proceeded photography.  I think we had an understanding of the ideas in an image before we get to photography and even painting.  But, Barth is trying to create a "clarification" of these ideas.

Surprise is expounded on and in some ways I think we part in thinking here for the high speed photo that stops time and reveals something interesting is a perfect example to me but Barth in unimpressed.
Finally he gets to the point that "Ultimately, Photography is subversive..."

Barth then goes on to talk about the importance of detail. and how this can provide the punctum for an image.

Finally it all boils down into the "eye of the beholder."

Will not be in todayhttp://richlanddvsummer2013.blogspot.com/

Shooting film. Actor not able to arrive until today. Will try to be in to class if finished shooting early, but unlikely to finish early.