IFIS Film??

So given that we have so many people who enjoy making props and SFX, what's
this rumour that occasionally surfaces about an IFIS film?

Dominic


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Oh the one which was Alex's idea? i have no idea what's happenning.
I mean I wanted to make Doctor Who, I have the outfit, I live five minutes
away from a quarry, i've scouted locations round campus....

Adam
The Secretary of Doom!!!

That's a shame.
Hmmm.
That sounds full of political issues to me. I suspect that for a first
attempt, an appeal to the lowest common denominator might be a good idea.
We're never going to be able to play it totally straight on our first
attempt, it's bound be be rather tongue-in-cheek, so perhaps something that
gleefully admits to being a parody would be best. We could have cameos from
Blakes 7, Dr Who, X-Files, Robocop, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. etc.

So Alex, if you're looking for volunteers, I'd be up for, say,
scriptwriting?

I thought the lightsabre special effects stuff was great, so we'd need a
video camera, a PC with Photoshop, and shitloads of disk space. We could,
however, then do whatever special effects we wanted.
Cool. Where is it?

And does it have any water holes that might be over 10m deep?

Dominic.


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I wanted to make Carry On Star Wars but Alex wouldn't let me.
Near Southampton in Hampshire where I live.
Oh yes, i've tried them.........

Adam

I'd say we have two basic options:-

a) We make a film that's a serious attempt at being good. This involves a
plot with minimal SFX, doesn't steal directly from existing SF, and features
people who can actually act. It also requires reasonable quality editing,
preferably on video.

b) We make a pile of old horse manure that doesn't take itself seriously and
contains loads of experiments, just to see how they turn out. It might as
well end up as a MOV file on a computer, or something, because you really
don't want to look too closely at it anyway. We aspire to a similar quality
to "Troops".

Personally, I vote for b), but I'd be equally willing to help out with a)
given the chance. Obviously a) is what we aim for ultimately, but I think a
few experiments, just to see if we can do it at all would be good.
No, but I occasionally have the desire to throw myself into deep water and
sink.
I went to Plymouth over the weekend for that purpose, and went in both the
sea, and a disused quarry. For the purpose of scuba diving training drills
it does need to be over 10m deep though.
Southampton is nearer than Plymouth.

Dominic.


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Cummins ARJ wrote:
Oh, Alex is just the latest in a long string of people who have had
roughly the same idea, yes. :-)

History repeats itself. IFIS history in particular. There really ought
to be some sort of journal that the committee could pass on to their
sucessors, so they always know what's happenned before them, rather than
going around in circles. :-)

For what it's worth, I've got a lovely digital camcorder. I've not yet
found (or, to be honest, even bothered looking for) software for my
platform of choice, but it comes with windows software, so if there's
someone with a windows-infected machine, particularly if it has a
firewire/ieee1394/i-link port, then we can get from A to B. Some people
already have photoshop, by the sound of it. I already have GIMP, which
is allegedly far better (for everything except pre-press) than
"expensive photoshop plus loads of expensive optional extra plugins"...

... so we have willing script-writers, we have willing mugs happy to
make fools of themselves in front of the camera, we probably have
various places where they could do so, we have at least one suitable
camera, we probably have a way of getting it onto a computer, we have
various ways of doing special-effects after that, we have a website we
can publish/distribute it on, we have a mailing-list to discuss it on
(project@ - ask me if you want to be put on the list), what else do
we need? A director? Probably a first rough-draft of a script? I suspect
a rough storyline / script would start the ball rolling.

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> For what it's worth, I've got a lovely digital camcorder. I've not yet
All this firewire and digital video (DV) and non-linear editing is
massively over-rated. Quite frankly if you want to produce
something quickly and cheaply with reasonable picture quality you
are best to use a VHS camcorder and just be careful with your light
levels. You won't be able to spot any significant quality difference,
since you'd have to copy the DV format back down to VHS at
some point anyway, since most people don't have DV players.

This can then be edited on a tape-2-tape edit machine in about half
the time it would take using a computer. And most universities will
probably have a set-up like this lying around somewhere because
they are really quite cheap. And dead easy to use too, as long as
you have a good edit decision list (EDL)


Jon
"I like it here; all these people running around like Happy Meals with legs!"

Jon Lee wrote:
=2E.. and then how do you do your light-sabres, "beam me up scotty",
blue-screen effects, etc? This is SCI-FI you know, not a
drama-department production! :-)
One of the main distribution channels was going to be the website,
where, realistically, it's probably going to reach more people than VHS
would. It'll probably be shown before an IFIS film too, and yes, it'll
have to be converted to analogue at that stage, but there ought to be
far less loss of quality if it's digital (almost) end-to-end, rather
than going analogue-to-analogue a few too many times.

Anyway, most of the discussion on this topic has moved to
project@ where it belongs. Anyone who's interested in acting,
writing, filming, editing, or just laughing at this project should ask
me to add them to the project@ mailing-list, either by mailing me
direct, or on the website: www.ifis.org.uk/resources/ifispedia/guideline_to_the_lists.shtml


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Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.

Or, if the right software can be found, it can be burned to VCD, which means
that most DVD players can play it... I'm quite happy to lend IFIS my player
to allow such a film to be shown in it's full digital glory (!?)...

Incidentally, I'm still up for the whole film idea, although I still
maintain that Zombie Horror is a perfect genre as it requires almost no
budget, the effects are damned near impossible to cock up and the acting
talent requied is practically zero...

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Adrian, etc...


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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Adrian wrote:
not quite... most players have distinct problems playing CDRs... so long
as
it's mpeggable there should be no problem with sticking it onto a VCD.


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Yea, I like the sound of a Zombie flick. How about a group of zombie hunters
armed with lightsabers, I think that has definite potential. :-)
<snip>

hunters
Now all you need is a couple of scantily dressed females to scream whilst
they pounced on by said zombies. Then you want the zombie-killing-jedi to
burst in, unsheath their light sabres and yell "Fear the throbbing power of
my sabre, zombie scum!".

err I'll get me coat...

Well in the days before computers (which is most of the history of
film-makeing) they did it all optically. For your purposes you could
film the FX on a seperate format/tape and pass that through the
computer, before using a three machine suite to merge it with the
non-FX shots.
Welcome to the land of the IT snobs....


Jon
"I like it here; all these people running around like Happy Meals with legs!"

I disagree, tape to tape edit do not produce a good results as digital
capture, it may be quicker but if we have the the edit option via computer
then we should use that. It is a lot easier to tweek and gain a smoove edit.
We should use the best of what we have available.
> For what it's worth, I've got a lovely digital camcorder. I've
not yet
my
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