A Curates Egg
Site updated, check "longform" to find film clips. But everything else there is equally brilliant!)
Lifelong Friendship Society is cooking something up. Looks to be a feature film, but who knows. It defies all explanation. Three trailers are linked on the site, each equally baffling and hilarious.
No other info than that. I emailed them, but assume a response may never come. I venture a guess that this is going to be feature film. Who knows.
I wonder who else in design/animation collectives is taking on feature films. MK12 is making History of America. Now these guys. I'm pretty excited by the bent, but brilliant minds going into this.
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I love the colors/grains they're using in those trailers. I'd love to sit in on some of LLC (or psyop)'s stuff and see how they do it all.
I second that motion.
I'd have to say my favourite trailer so far is the second one.
Yeah, film-looks always seem forced when I see them. These guys make good stuff.
It looks just like old print stock, tranferred a few generations from the original negative.
I'm guessing one could imitate this by crunching the levels, destaurating a touch, opening the shadows a tad, then adding a layer of grain. Some other fuckups might be to add a layer of gradient to imitate light leak. Even add a little flicker animated with a noise keyframes.
I did just that a few years ago with a short I did while in film school. I was experimenting a whole lot and though it looked much better than many of the attempts that others were doing it still looked forced. I was also shooting on a PD150 so I could only do so much. I did try it again in color a few months later and got a much better result when I transfered to a VHS and then back to DV.
Another trick for emulating film grain:
Get a 16mm projector, some flashed film stock (or any film leader with dirt, grain, and general poo on it), and shoot it off a wall with your video camera.
You can use it as a matte layer on top of your video footage. Play with transfer modes, contrast, etc.
Bottom line is, Red Giant Software or anyone else don't really match the real thing.
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