Rolling Shutter Fix

Yeah, so Comic-Con is going on now. Personally I think I'm tired of hearing so much stuff about movies that are far off. I'm pretty much done with trailers too.

My new rule: If I'm interested in seeing the movie, there's no need to see a trailer for it. I'd rather go in blind.

Anyway, filmmaker stuff is here so you can stop reading if you're not one of them.

As I said we'll be shooting on a DSLR for this short--the Canon 5D(or two of them to be more precise). This camera, like many of the DSLRs, has a peculiar problem known as the rolling shutter effect, also called the jello effect.

There are ways to minimize it when shooting, but it's unavoidable in some shots. I stumbled upon this video that shows a pretty ingenious way to get rid of it after the fact. (there are some filters and things you can buy, but many of them don't work and the ones that do seem to be pretty expensive)

This looks to be a little time-consuming to do, but worth it if you only have a couple of shots that are bad.
https://vimeo.com/10130633

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Also of note, a FB website forwarded to me by a fan of HH. Check it out, sounds like someone's ripping off my movie even worse than Dexter did.
https://www.facebook.com/thekillerstheory/info

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Watched Willow Creek last night. What a giant piece of shit. It's--and I'm not exaggerating--80 minutes of two people talking, followed by 60 seconds of them being taken by something you never see. It's a Bigfoot movie WITHOUT ONE FRAME OF BIGFOOT. Fuckin' stupid.

Tonight, I finally watched Witness For the Prosecution, which is a movie that's been on my Netflix queue for a while. Based on an Agatha Christie story, directed by Billy Wilder. Pretty good, though it takes a little while to start.

Following it up with Witness. Two movies, two witnesses! I haven't seen this flick in like 10 years. Had it on laserdisc(which was the last time I watched it)

Interesting factoid--Harrison Ford was my age when this movie came out(so he was probably a year younger than I when it was shot). Fuck, I'm getting old.

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Last thing: It's funny to watch the Night of the Clowns(the title of the Clowns flick I was gonna shoot this year, but now ain't) climb the imdb charts. It's now the highest ranked of all my movies except for the first FOC on the Moviemeter.

A movie that's not gonna get done this year is ranked higher than my other existing flicks. All on the strength of the interest in scary clowns.

Shame--I feel like shooting that movie is a home run in the get-distribution-with-money game.