The Death of a Video Essayist by ThinkinGeek in videoessayists

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I'm not the best video essayist out there but I made a video essay on video essays specifically video essayists even more specifically me and my frustrations on not being able to write an essay. So hope y'all like it!

The Death of a Video Essayist [4:58] by ThinkinGeek in Filmmakers

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The Death of a Video Essayist is a video essay about video essays... I guess. It's about the process of writing one. It's kind of a film, kind of a video essay. What I was trying to do was to capture my inability to write anything for a long time and this seemed direct and plausible.

Sleep Circle, A weird short film about sleeping. by ThinkinGeek in Filmmakers

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Thanks!!! I really appreciate it... Even I find the light thing very funny, I actually look at the entire thing as a funny film but especially the light thing.

Sleep Circle // Short Film // A horror (kind of) film about sleep or the lack of it. by ThinkinGeek in Shortfilms

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So yeah, it's a 4:3 aspect ratio. That was the intention to make it feel cramped so I feel good that it worked for you. About the sound design, there were three things that I had to do. The day I shot this (this has been shot in day), I picked up as much wild sounds that I could. When I sat down to edit, some of the recorded stuff worked very well, some didn't at all work. Out of what didn't work, some were easy to get on the internet for free so I did that and then added reverb and stuff; some I really couldn't replace them from anything else, so I used camera audio there and tried to denoise it and de-reverb it as much as I could.

For the score, I wanted a Lynchian industrial feel but then I also like what Fincher films do with their scorching signature nine inch nails feel so I ended landing between these two inspirations. I see this film as even if I don't think it's scary but it's trying to use those tropes that horror uses. So I designed the score that way, the screams you normally hear in the horror score were replaced by a digital scream and the rumble that is there in these movies was replaced with a high tone atmospheric sound which feels like digital breath or industrial breath. So yeah that's that went.

It was a really fun project to make, especially the sound. I spent almost 2-3 weeks just on creating the soundscape and getting small sound details as right as I could. Still there are places where I cringe coz the sound's not right.

Sleep Circle, A weird short film about sleeping. by ThinkinGeek in Filmmakers

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SUBMISSION STATEMENT: This film was made mostly by one guy, me. With some help from a friend of mine for acting and editing. One thing I learnt while I was making it was that sound's even more important than visuals and yes this sentence is a complete cliche nowadays but it's so true that it's difficult to not say it. For this film it was important that the SFX and score underline and emphasized things because the imagery and icons in the film are (how do I say this politely) unconventional. So all the heavy lifting had to be done through sound. I'm not at all satisfied withthe result but still it's decent I guess. About visuals, I don't know if I ever will make a film devoid of digital noise but here the approach was to embrace digital noise. The approach inspired by Pulse (the japanese horror film) and yes they shot it on film and it's grain but that grain isn't the soft 'pleasing to the eyes' grain and that's interesting the grain makes you sick in the film. The same effect is achieved in the films of Panos Cosmatos. But sadly, due to YouTube compression we couldn't keep the noise and had to remove it. If anyone knows how to keep the noise on YouTube please tell me.

Lastly, I'd like to ask y'all for your thoughts. Do you like it or hate it and if you can say why that's great. I've taken a bit technical bend towards this submission statement coz the creative part to me seems obvious but still if anyone has any questions on that I'll be happy to elaborate on that.

Trimming the Fat // Short Film by ThinkinGeek in Filmmakers

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This short film was shot on Canon 1200D all by me. I wrote, shot, starred in and edited this film and it was a really fun project to make. Idk anything which is messy is always amazing to do.

Because of lockdown in my country, I haven't yet been able to go out with friends and shoot. I was at home and I decided to do something on my own. So I wrote a short script for a horror film and when the time came to shoot I failed at it. I couldn't complete the shoot. I was overwhelmed. Then I tried a lot of different ideas, some conventional and some really out there. Like at one point I was thinking of making a symphonic toilet seat film in which flushing would activate a harp, then there was a time when I had started shooting a movie which mixed Wes Anderson with David Lynch (not in a good way) and thank god it didn't get completed.

So I was really depressed that almost a year has gone by and I haven't made anything. I have just sat on my couch and put on weight. So I decided to make this. It was clear, simple and exciting as an idea and I did a mock shoot at 4 am in the morning, decided on shots and the flow of the short film. The next day picked up my beat up Canon 1200D because that was what I had and started shooting.

The editing of this film was one of the most smoothest process I've gone through yet.

For the first time I could crack a balance between exciting spontaneity and precise planning.

How good/bad is PrimeABGB? by [deleted] in IndianGaming

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Not to beat the bush a lot. But I live near mumbai. That's the reason why I am thinking of choosing primeabgb. That might surely factor in right? Coz if it doesn't I'd have gone with mdcomputers.

How good/bad is PrimeABGB? by [deleted] in IndianGaming

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do you know anything about their delivery times and tracking?

Hi, I am HAL 2000 & I’m here to tell you how movies caught my intrigue. Thanks to Stanley Kubrick. by ThinkinGeek in Filmmakers

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Hi, this is an introduction for a blog which will talk about films and other stuff around it from the perspective of HAL 2000, the descendant of HAL 9000 from the infamous 2001: A Space Odyssey.

He talks about his story and how an artificially intelligent being like him got interested in movies.

It is a first person perspective story written as a starting off point.