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Sony Nex VG10

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing, Videos | 1 Comment »

Me and the Tall One have just bought this new camera! From now on we will be coming at ‘cha in Full HD and an amazing DOF (depth of field)!
Sony Nex
So far the camera has not dissapointed, very easy to get the files off the camera with usb connection very automated shooting settings including auto white balance and great quality.
I suppose the only down points – for anyone considering buying one – are;
*The view-finder doesn’t flip 180º
*The auto-white balance is a bit precarious (to be expected really)
*Because of the massive lens the camera is quite front heavy and can ache your wrist after awhile…
*Confusing options; you can have manual shutter speed (which fixes the framerate but automatically adjusts the aperature to compensate), manual aperature (which fixes the aperature but automatically adjusts the shutter speed to compensate), and an option to fix them both (which fixes them in place, but compensates automatically with auto exposure) – So it’s not entirely manual in that aspect.
*Also because of the tele-lens, when you zoom the built in (great quality) quad-mic picks up the noise.

Apart from these minor things, it’s an amazing camera for just 1600€!!

Motion Tracking

by Joe! Posted in JaymeGutierrez, Video Editing, Videos | 1 Comment »

I like watching this kind of video…
Me gusta ver este tipo de video…


Carpe Diem – “Desde el Silencio”

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing, Videos | 2 Comments »

Nuevo VideoClip de la mano de Joe!Video – PRIMER SENCILLO EXTRAÍDO DEL ÁLBUM “UN MUNDO MEJOR” DE LA BANDA DE POP CARPE DIEM…


Presagio – “Pacto con los Angeles”

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing, Videos | 1 Comment »

Ya está terminado este Videoclip debut del grupo Presagio, con la canción “Pacto con los Ángeles” dirigido por Joe!Video y protagonizado por Chemi Moreno y Rebeka Brik.

Photos of filming; “Pacto con los Angeles”

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing, Videos | No Comments »

Here are some photos of recent filming of the group “Presagio”. Videoclip soon to follow! (click on the photo!)
rodaje pacto

Behind The Scenes; Soundtrack. 3

by Jayme Posted in JaymeGutierrez, Music, Video Editing | 1 Comment »

There is a reason why I chose to put as much music in the pilot episode as I possibly could…
For those who haven’t noticed, each piece of background music is themed on Dutch Courage song.
All of the tracks use the main melody line from Dutch Courage, or use the same chord structure..
My idea is to get the viewer familiar with the end track of the episode Dutch Courage by subliminally playing its melody line and chords in the background music, throughout the episode. So that when they hear Dutch Courage for the first time, they will already have, sort of, heard it before. Hopefully making it stick in the brain better.
It’s just a little experiment that I wanted to try out… So next time you watch the Jayme G-Show be sure to listen for the Dutch Courage melody line, in the background! There are about 23 different tracks, by the way!

So anyway, getting back to where I left off…
Now we’re in the theme park, with the big boot.
Originally I was going to have the music playing on a background fairground barrel organ, so I wrote a simple piece on the organ to simulate that.
It didn’t work as well as I thought because in order for the music to sound like it’s coming from a distant barrel organ I needed to turn it down to the right level and put a long delay on it, leaving the music very faint and well in the background. But, in order to be able to hear the melody well enough I would have to turn it up quite a lot, making it sound just horrible and confusing :s
So I scrapped that idea but kept the organ part, without the delay, then added some drums, bass, e.t.c,.. and just used it as background music.
I planned the music to end just when the shutter goes down.

Something that I am realizing now is that I have forgotten to talk about the sound fx.
It was another VERY involved job. And from now on I think that I’m going to start to point out a few.
For example; in this particular scene the footsteps on the gravel that occur when the boy crosses the screen are fake! I did them! The are also panned, starting off far left and then going over to the right, following the boys position.
I also added some background children’s voices and some fairground rides too.
The tramps footsteps on the gravel were also done by me.
Joe! played the part of that tramp. I think he sounds a bit like Bob Hoskins XD
At the end of the scene the shutter goes down and that sound was actually the plug re-wined mechanism on our vacuum cleaner. It was just the sound I was looking for, plus it meant that I didn’t have to leave the studio!

Camera Smash!

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing | 8 Comments »

camera accidentThe difference between an expensive tripod and a 12 € one from the Chinese Bizarre…
On a film shoot yesterday, I didn’t have the up-down gimble-majiggy tightened sufficiently, and it suddenly tilted straight downwards with the camera attatched. It has done this before in the past. But this time two small plastic pieces snapped off inside the quick-release mounting mechanism, and the camera instantly flew off landing right on its snout.
Amazingly it continued to work for the rest of the shoot! It’s opened up the nozzle and twisted some plastic bits and something inside rattles… But I’m sooo glad we were able to finish – there were paid actores involved and people down especially from Madrid!camera split open!camera split open!2
So… It’s off to the Camera Hospital today!







Behind The Scenes; Soundtrack. 1

by Jayme Posted in JaymeGutierrez, Music, Video Editing | No Comments »

The music makes all the difference.
Ever watched a video with no sound? It’s has nowhere near the same impact as one with sound. Just think of the cinema, how dramatic is that!!?? (I like to stay until the very end, to be able to listen to the soundtrack in an acoustically treated room with a good sound system!) ;)

Anyway…
Most people hardly notice the background music at all (or at least what it’s doing), and that’s what you want to do. You want to put the emotion into the scene but without it sounding out of place. And when you do it right, people won’t notice you’ve done anything at all! So that’s why it’s so important to spend a lot of time getting it right.
It’s only when you do it wrong that it notices!

The soundtrack took quite a long time to do.
Before I could even start writing anything, I had to spend a long time just watching and thinking. I found it helpful to ask myself questions like; “What’s the mood of the characters in this scene?”, or “When and how should the music start and end?”
I think that that creativity comes from solving problems. So I like to see problems as a chance to be creative, by finding ways around them.
So I found that the more questions I asked about each scene, the easier it became to understand what to do.
And when I finally got it right, I’d listen to it and think; “of course, that’s so obvious! How come I didn’t think of doing it like that in the first place?”

The first piece of music that I wrote was a very simple sinister sounding atmosphere, for the first scene (the one with the monks in it). Then the monk pushes play on the tape recorder and soon after, the second track starts. Then the atmospheric music fades out, as the music on the tape starts changing from a radio sound into the live sound of Jayme and Joe! playing in the classroom.This wasn’t hard at all because it was just simply a matter of following what was going on in the visual.

Then it goes straight to the bar scene, with Joe! (years later) and the music starts the scene off. There the music is used as if it were playing in the bar.

After we finish playing, the next track starts at the end of the scene. I think that it really ties the scenes together and gives the whole thing more continuity, plus it complements the “9 o’clock on a Saturday morning” joke. It also gives off the feeling that something else is about to start, i.e. the next scene.
This track was the first one I worked on and it was very hard. I ended up having to dump the first song I wrote for it and write a new one because the flavour was all wrong. Getting the right flavour is so important!

It was also very hard deciding what to do with the music once it had started. “Is it O.K to just play it in the background, even though they’re in the street?” Answer; This particular piece of music isn’t in their world, so they can’t hear it! It is simply just part of the soundtrack. “O.K, but is that still O.K to just play over the scene…?”
So I simply tried it with and without the music..
I found that, due to all of the cuts and the way the scene has been filmed, there is quite a few continuity faults. So leaving the music playing over the whole scene helped to gel it all together by giving it more of a timeline and making it more like one long scene, instead of a load of cuts.

More soon…

Back to the Future Error

by Joe! Posted in Video Editing, Videos | 3 Comments »

This is what happens when you don’t have a good enough monitoring system or the head of continuity has a toilet break… Although for it to get past them is suprising, but for it then to make it past the editors and post-production crew, that’s just special. Enjoy!


CPU Fan Speed 6000 RPM! 2

by Joe! Posted in Computers, Video Editing | 2 Comments »

fuente alimentacion Introducing my brand new Desktop Power-Pack.
It’s Rubbish.
Its 4+4 12v CPU cable connector is wrong. If you have a powerful CPU you probably won’t be able to plug-in the extra 4 pin connector as it has the wrong shaped pins.
So… I had to cut mine off…
And replace them with an 8 pin connector that does fit.

cortar cables So now the CPU has the extra 12v it might need when put to work, but the fan still spins at 6000 RPM!

I then found out why… It seems the motherboard – regardless of CPU temperature sets the general fan speed to very fast – ranging up to over 6000, but once I had plugged in an auxillary fan it then went down to 4700! The amount of fans plugged into the motherboard is relevant to how fast they spin!
Q: Is your processor fan spinning too fast?
A: Try plugging in another auxillary fan.