Project Monday

GUNS - 1.5 hour challenge

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:23 -0400

I was in Yarmouth this weekend, and only really had a little bit of free time (while working on a larger project) so I only had ~one and a half hours.

Really fun challenge giving myself these tighter and tighter time constraints. This was an effect (Catching a thrown up gun magazine) for awhile!

David “It looks shitty because of time constraints” Fulde

The Watch

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:20:33 -0400

Greetings all! Now, this week I decided to take a break from compositing since I realized that I’m REALLY into watches and wanted to try my hand at product photography! Here are the results

Freelensing Watches by DavidFulde
Oriental Blue by DavidFulde
Oriental Mess by DavidFulde
Free as a Lens by DavidFulde
Horizontal by DavidFulde
ORIENT AUTOMATIC by DavidFulde
Date by DavidFulde
Blue and Red by DavidFulde

Next week, back to more compositing!
David “Watches are cool” fulde

Who Needs makeup?

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:28:44 -0400

Greetings all!
so, for this wek, it was literally a matter of grabbing my Roommate and heading outside and shooting random stuff like this (Using me variable ND filter :D AKA two polarizer filters on top of eachother) and I took my favourite shot and made this.

There was not planning to make this (dumb) it was all conceived within the compositor. I’ve been wanting to try this type of thing for awhile and it’s great that I can actually try it now! (Also, ignore the quick and dirty colour job, ha ha)

things done:
Removed the eye

Shrunk the nose down a touch

got rid of pimples/wrinkles

added a fresh cut/scar

David “Alway’s Learning” Fulde

big river (4 hour challenge)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:51:00 -0400

Here are the results of a small compositing test I did. Nothing big. I WAS going to do something much, much more complicated but it did not work out (I’m not as talented a roto artist as I thought >_> ). This I knocked out in ~4 hours or so.

David “May is compositing Month” Fulde

INTESITY runthrough

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:53:35 -0400

A small Project Monday today. a runthrough of my post processing for INTENSITY. I had a few questions about it so: Here we are! I hope you like it!

(Note: The photo used is not one that was used in the actual project but, rather, one of the ones that was not good enough. I just did not want to mess with the ‘master’ so to speak)

David “Now a whovian” Fulde

Dexterity 3.0

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:06:56 -0400

Dexterity 3.0 It’s here! It’s finally here!

Dexterity 3.0, the newest, and probably last, in the “Dexterity” series. This is by far the best of the bunch thanks to Matt Inkpen’s cinematography and direction. Oh, I didn’t mention that this is the first Project Monday to not be directed by me? Oh yeah. That’s a thing. Without further Ado…

Click through and watch in HD!

Now, this is the first time I’ve ever bought music for a short as well, which was totally worth it I think! Be sure to let me know your thoughts down below

David “Next week won’t be this awesome” Fulde

Glitch_art

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:57:11 -0400

Greetins all!
So, this week I WAS going to make a walkthrough of my “INTENSE”photo set but then I re-discovered glitch art

One or two of these are actually very personal. The first image more so than anything else (A poem I wrote awhile back is embedded in the image, along with playing with the code)

the second image has the first draft of a script copy/pasted into it a few times. As you can see, some of these turned out better than others. It was fun and I can see myself using techniques similar to these in the future. It is great fun!

no photo-editing programs were used to make any of these

David “*g/î

Sound Design

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:27:37 -0400

Check out this weeks Project Monday without music/VO. Just pure sound design! https://vimeo.com/62826178

No original audio was used :)

INTERCONNECTED - The most ambitious Project Monday yet

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:16:46 -0400

Greetings! So, this week I an releasing what is the most ambitious project monday ever. how so, you ask?

First: It is 1 minute long. Not the longest, but it’s up there

Second: It has 10 VFX shots
That’s ~9 more than any other single video I believe

Third: It has sound design
I have never played with sound design before this week. It was fun but I was definately out of my element.

Fourth: It has a story

This is the first, non-documentary, project Monday that has an actual story. Somthing exciting for me.

Without further ado, here it is! :)

CONNECTED from DavidJFulde on Vimeo.

MY THOUGHTS:
first off, it is what it is. It was created in 3 days and it was my first time trying to replace a phone screen and I did a bunch wrong while shooting.

I had the idea on Friday and had to release it today so the FX are rushed. There is a lot I would do differently given more time, and I might (Probably won’t ) go back to it on a later date. I like the idea of the story, kind of ripping off Watch Dogs though, ha ha.
If given more time I would have shot a bit more, as well as (obviously) fixed the VFX. Right now they are more ‘heavy proof of concept’ rather than finished product. I’m not UNhappy with this short; but I’m not jumping up and down over it either.

VERY special thanks to James Raymond for designing the UI of everything, as well as Chuck McLearn for starring and voicing :)

David ‘I’ll show the sound design stuff on Wed’ Fulde

INTENSE

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:17:43 -0400

We’re back! So, for this week, I got some friends together and did a small photo series, which I then comped together into a collage.

CLOSE by DavidFulde

Hope you like it!

Until next time
David “Really, I’m back” Fulde

Why there was no PM last week (Or: thoughts on writing my first feature)

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:51:36 -0500

Greetings all! I thought that, this week, I’d post a normal blogpost which I have not done for a very long time. “But why David?” you may be wondering, or maybe, ”What’s your excuse this time?” maybe even “How’d you get so fly?” (Probably not the latter, though.) I can answer all of these (Except the last one) with two words!
Feature Script (and, in answer to the last question: Natural blond hair)

In 8 days I went from “Fade In” to “Fade out” on my first ever feature script. Is it terrible? Yes! But it’s the first draft of my first script of this length. but this post is not about how terrible it is; this post is about what I learned writing in such an atypical way to my usual process.

Here is how my usual process goes.

Idea
Outline
Delete halfway through
New outline
Delete 3/4’s of the way through
New, new outline
Delete it
New, new, new outline
Begin script
Get obsessed about re-writes before I’m done the first page
Burn out
Leave the script alone for 6 months
Pick it up again, see it as terrible, and start the script again, finishing the first draft.

This is known as the IODeNeDeNeDeNeBeGeBLeP technique.

Then, if I’m lucky, 2 years later I’ll have a 5 page script (Or, if I’m really lucky, 1 year). Trying to write a feature script was a lot different. I knew that I could not tackle it the same way I had been tackling shorts before. Now, I do not regard myself as a writer, So take everything that I say with a grain of salt.

The idea started when I was in the mood to write, but had no inspiration. I dug out some of my old notebooks, and began leafing through them. I found an old Idea I had discarded and decided to pursue it. the prospect of writing out an outline was not a great one. I wanted to just get straight to writing story so I did something I’ve never tried before. I wrote the protagonists diary, as it would read over the course of the film. At this point, I did not know if the film would be a feature, a short, or somthing inbetween. I just wrote until the story reached a natural conclusion. I did something that I’ve never been able to do before during this process. something that I’ve always had trouble with; Ignoring what I’ve written and not allowing myself to be filtered.

It became quite clear early on that this story was destined to be a feature. And it became quite obvious to me that I could not just jump back in the pages I’ve written and redo things like I’m used to. I just had to power through until the Protagonist’s diary was done. this was a big step for me as, without fail, I am hyper-critical of my own work and will burn out before page 2 or 3 with rewrites.

When the protagonist’s diary was done, I took a few days away from it and then digitized it; rewrote everything I had written in the notebook and put it into a google docs folder (One document for each day in the diary). This is when I could tighten things up, and make it more cohesive. I left this alone for a few days: Only touching on bits of the story that had to do with the setting, and not necessarily the plot (what state the world is in and why. the fun stuff!)

When it came time to actually sit down in front of Final Draft and start writing is when it really hit me that my old method would not work. I would be dilly dallying and the script would never get past page ten. So I broke every instinct I had, thanks to the practice I had writing the protagonists diary/outlining the story and just powered through.

Eight days later, I wrote the words Fade Out and the script was done. Now, there are logical inaccuracies, how I imagined a character when I started the script had changed by the end of the script, how different characters knew each other changed etc. etc. etc. but, for the first time, I got past my insecurities and just plowed through until the script was done. Now, once I take a break for a few days to help my brain take a bit of a break and separate ’writing’ from ‘rewriting’, I can go back and fix all fo these mixups, and fix any break in the story etc.

People always say: “Just write, don’t revise. Just write until it’s done.”, and that is a very difficult thing for me to do, tackling a feature has really helped me get past that sort of block in my mind that tells me to not proceed, and to fix what I have already written.

Will anything come of the feature? Probably not. It’s my first time tackling something this long, but is still an accomplishment badge I can attach to my cub-scout sash of life.

David “Next week will be a real Project Monday” Fulde

Bird, Birds, Birds

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:33:00 -0500

Greetings all! so, a few days back I went out into the cold with a friend of mine and shot some eagles! Uh- with a camera.

Wrong Neighbourhood by DavidFulde

The Feast by DavidFulde

The Feast is probably one of my favourites of the set. There is just so much going on, yet it doesn’t feel busy.

Wait your turn by DavidFulde

flurry by DavidFulde

Flurry is another one of my favourites; As it looks so much like a composite image: But it isn’t.

Fight for the food by DavidFulde

Swooping down by DavidFulde

Soaring by DavidFulde

David “Birds are cool” Fulde

200 film project

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:22:57 -0500

Greetings all! So, I have been hella busy this week, and thought that I would let you know about a small project I’m doing this year. Next week will be a ‘real’ project monday

The goal of the project is to see 200 films that I should have seen long ago. Oscar winners, classics etc. Some of the movies on the list include

Terminator/Terminator 2
Goonies
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Godfather II/III

All movies I should have seen long, long ago. This is both to help me grow in my film knowledge, see the classics and the greats, as well as give me things to do on those boring nights.

Next week I’ll have somthing
David “No, Really” Fulde

and we're back!

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:53:06 -0500

Just a small update this week. Got pretty swamped. A ‘real’ post will come next week!

2013. The Return

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:56:13 -0500

That’s right! 2013: a new year! a new Project Monday! WHOO! I’m excited to be able to announce this. I needed to be sure that my schedule and my plate will allow this to happen (Working in this field is crazy sometimes) but Project Monday WILL be returning! January 12th will be the first Project Monday of the new year!

not 'back' per se, but I do have something for you!

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:20:39 -0400

hey all! It’s not monday, but I don’t want to wait swo long. The music vieeo I have been working on since MARCH is finally released!

check it out ofver at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Esr6o8wKU

or, if you are using chrome, you can see it at

http://pitchforkmachine.com and edit your own!

A temporary hold

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:10:00 -0400

Hello all. so, I am putting a temporary hold on Project Monday. I will still post here now and again, some time in the future I hope I will be weekly again but, currently, I can not keep up my current schedule and Project Monday. I have too much on the go and I do not want my other projects to suffer because of this exercise.

Until next time

David “this isn’t finished yet.” Fulde

Music video being released!

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:53:19 -0400

Hey everyone, so, today I can officially announce the release date for minus Wor’d interactive Music video!

September 15hthat The Company house will be the official release party!

Check out some bloopers below!

David “I might be really busy soon” Fulde

why there was no post yesterday

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:04:07 -0400

Greetings all! You may be wondering why there was no post yesterday. You see, this is because I have been crazy busy AND I am deferring this weeks post until tomorrow, Wednesday, which is when we will be announcing the release of the music video!

No Post today (Technically)

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:55:38 -0400

Alright… so, instead of talking, I will let my video speak for me:

Also: Next week we can reveal the release date for the music video! :D