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Trumix.com listings available of Take Zer0 Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. TZ35 - Getting that “Film Look” With this digital revolution sweeping the world of independent cinema, it seems that more and more people are out to emulate that film look of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Here we’ll lay out the basics of what that “film look” consists of, and why your digital camera may have difficulty reproducing it... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: Choke Sean… This isn’t a movie about a sex addict, this is a touching movie in the ranks of Harold and Maude. Peter… Vulgar, disgusting, but it will put a smile on your face. So, Choke turned out to be quite a little surprise for both of us... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: Burn After Reading Peter… It’s not a dramatic, classic Coen brothers’ film, but you should still check it out. Sean… It’s not Fargo and it’s different from The Big Lebowski, though I loved it and definitely recommend it. Is this the last, good movie of the summer?.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paintedsheep Dolly Review With Take Zer0 Version Two just around the corner we thought we’d post a review of something many of you would be interested in. Introducing the Paintedsheep camera dolly... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer ‘08 - Update Episode With the last of the summer blockbusters coming to an end, we’re just about ready to end our hiatus and get back on track with our usual Take Zer0 episodes. [See post to watch Flash video] Download the video! | Watch on YouTube! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: Tropic Thunder Peter… This is an undernourished comedy that gets a reluctant recommendation. Sean… The characters aren’t always funny, but there’s a lot that works. Is this the biggest comedy of the summer, or is it the second biggest comedy of the summer? Which one was better?.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: Pineapple Express Peter… Each moment feels pretty inspired. This is a well put together comedy that’s better than it should be. Sean… I don’t want to say I was disappointed, but there was some humor that I didn’t find that funny... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: The X-Files IWTB Peter… An old fashioned thriller that sticks to the basics and works... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: The Mummy 3 Sean… Not even its decent action sequences or special effects could make up for how poor everything else was. Peter’s still in France, so we headed to the theater after work without him... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: The Dark Knight Peter… Payoff after payoff for two straight hours with mind blowing set pieces. Sean… Incredible performances. I’ve never seen a character like The Joker. How eager were we to see this movie? We caught a midnight screening in L.A. and wrapped up this review at six o’clock in the morning... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S&P Just Saw: Hellboy II - The Golden Army Peter… Underwhelming, but worth it for the characters. Sean…. Cool; better than the original. Neil….. Too much fluff that distracts, but worth seeing. Fresh off a nine-to-five shift, we went and saw Hellboy II. Neil, our friend and “boss,” tagged along as guest reviewer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Warhol’s “Sean” YouTube link. In a culture steeped in sponsored viral videos and SNL clips, we decided to turn our back on the “internets” and create a daring work of art... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean & Peter Just Saw: “Wanted” and “WALL-E” This time we decided to make it a double feature. We also decided to double the people. Joining us are friends Lainey and Joseph. As usual, we’re here to give our opinions mere moments after we saw the movie(s), improvised and unscripted, all in the deserted parking lot of a nearby grocery store... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farewell, DVX So, we’re selling our camera. Bid high, guys!.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean & Peter Just Saw: “Indiana Jones 4″ Fresh off an afternoon at the theater, we pick up some burgers and fries on our way to the park, where, for better or worse, we spontaneously do our best to describe what we just saw. [See post to watch Flash video] Download the video! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Movie Review - “There Will Be Blood” Five years since “Punch-Drunk Love,” Paul Thomas Anderson has returned with a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s book, Oil!, and proves that his vision is just as insane as his material... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean & Peter Just Saw: “Cloverfield” This weekend we saw the much-hyped Cloverfield. [See post to watch Flash video] download the video For some trivia, the title (something we wondered about) comes from the name of the street where the Bad Robot production company resides... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ24 - Practice Filmmaking + “AlKarMar” (Short Film) Sort of a long episode, as we decided to include Peter’s old short film. It’s about four minutes, and it’s not really a true short film so much that it documents a random night out... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farewell, Drew Steck Imagine the news when Drew told us he was moving back to Wisconsin. It broke our hearts. After being in two whole episodes with us, he will be sorely missed... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take Zer0’s One Year Birthday! For our birthday, we decided to go to the beach and reflect. Reflect on a year of learning. A year of passion. And a year of self-discovery. Join us on our journey… /sarcasm [See post to watch Flash video] Download the video! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrested Office, Part 2 As promised, here’s part two. [See post to watch Flash video] Download the video! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrested Office, Part 1 Peter likes Arrested Development. Sean likes The Office... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ31 - Location Scouting The garage became stuffy, so we decided to head out and get some fresh air.No, this isn’t location scouting in the professional, industry term, where often paperwork and legal matters become involved... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Easter Everybody! [See post to watch Flash video]Download the video!Technorati Tags:Easter,Bunny,Happy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ30 - Sound Design Sound design is when you mix sound elements to give a scene an audible, tactile sensation. This must not be confused with the art of Foley, which is the craft of creating sound effects to match on-screen actions.The best way to learn about sound design, hands on, is to shoot a short film without any recorded audio or dialog... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ29 - Camera Shutter Speed Ever notice the dreamy quality of a British sitcom? How about the “shellshock” look used in war movies? And we’re all familiar with the look of an amateur home video, which can be…surreal... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 28th Episode Spectacular! Okay. It’s not really spectacular. In fact, it’s sort of a clip show. Sean was sick with a fever, and so we quickly shot this “episode” as a filler... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ27 - Ideal Lighting for Better Video The term “ideal lighting” may sound pretentious, but we’re not here to impose style. Lighting is ideal when it does not conflict with your finished product; because post-production will not fix everything. Don’t expect to Photoshop your movie as you would a photograph... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ26 - Basics of Tracking Shots Film buffs adore tracking shots the way the Guinness Book of World Records adore a hot dog eating champion. But tracking shots accomplish a lot more than meets the eye. As with Orson Welles’ B-movie masterpiece, “Touch of Evil,” the opening shot remains one of the most famous examples of a sustained tracking shot... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ25 - The Cutting Room Floor Unbelievable. Someone managed to steal one of our tapes and leak the footage online. The tape itself contains only leftover footage from the cutting room floor. It exposes the ugly side of Take Zer0, and the hurdles we go through to shoot an episode. We may as well post this embarrassing footage, just to confront the inevitable... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ23 - Discontinuity Editing We’ve all heard of continuity, but what about discontinuity? Discontinuity is the black sheep of the family. All the other shots flow together and behave like all good continuities should. But discontinuity picks fights, hangs out at MacDonald’s, and listens to rap music... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ19 - Roles in the Production Process There’s pre-production, production, and post-production. This episode highlights the roles regarding the middle process. There are the obvious ones, like the director. Then there are ones you probably never heard of. But this is the contest episode, after all, and so we took a few creative liberties in having a little fun for ourselves... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web design, Story ideas, and Déjà vu Clifton, over at fusionfox, has agreed to design v2.0 of Take Zer0. When it goes live, expect weekly video reviews of movies, a shorter but more comprehensive series of tutorials, as well as our usual episodes... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Late Apologies + An Early Video Talk about busy. Sean and I have the sort of schedule that leaves us little time to smell the roses; and if we are smelling roses, it’s only because we should be doing something else... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ Contest Winner! Today we’re finally announcing the the winner of the first Take Zer0 contest. It was a difficult decision (with over 7 pages of entries when printed), but Peter and I both came to a decision... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Updates! More of the contest in today’s video. We’re also putting together version two of the Take Zer0 website. Expect changes in the layout and in the content; that is, we’re pushing for more content, as opposed to altering our original format. Oh and we both bought a Nintendo DS... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ18 - See Through Clothes + Camera Contest In today’s episode, we’ll teach you how to be able to see through clothes using a blank roll of film and any video camera that has night vision. Stay tuned to the end when we show you how to participate in the first Take Zer0 contest... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The making of In Memory of CameraFace We know, we know. We said we would have a contest this week, but unfortunately we only had time to shoot half the episode. We’ll still be giving away a camera. And trust us, you’re going to want this camera... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ17 - The Clapboard and some Updates Ever wonder what all the different uses of a clapper slate are? Ever wonder about the video camera we’ll be giving away next week?.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ16 - Mise-En-Scene A lot of interesting things have come out of France over the years. In this episode, we’ll be going over a French term and how it can be used it in your films... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bad Touch Redux We ended up watching Superbad last night instead of making another episode. So now it’s time to pull something out of the archives. This is what we created to test our dolly (this was our second dolly, hence the title “Redux”)... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ15 - The Storyboard…And YOU Unless it’s a scene with so many punches and kicks and explosions, storyboarding an entire movie or short isn’t a requirement... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ14 - How to Shoot Day for Night The sun can change positions during a shoot. It’s pretty annoying. But don’t worry. The human race will advance enough to provide each and every person with their own weather dome... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Memory of CameraFace Peter and I were a little busy this weekend, so we decided to go through our archives and dig out an old short film we made... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ13 - How NOT to Edit Here we explain the core rules of how to neatly cut footage. Because proper editing is what prevents a movie from becoming a slideshow. It is also the only thing that keeps the audience from batting their eyes left-to-right along the screen, where the subject is like a ball in a tennis match... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ12 - How to Use a Camera We all know how to use a camera. You pull it out of your back pocket, flick it on, point and then snap the button; whereby a flash illuminates all your friends. Now imagine if that camera took a picture every 1/24th of a second. The shutter speed, the aperture, and the gain would all have to be adjusted... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ11 - The “Stop-and-Go” Analogy “Stop-and-Go” is like a pulse or a heartbeat. Or a seismograph. It can even be like a stoplight at an intersection that makes your car…stop and go. But for the most hands-on analogy of Stop-and-Go, stand up, step two paces, and then stop... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ10 - Sound Equipment Talkies. When talkies hit the screens in the late twenties, careers were destroyed. Because when foreign actors opened their mouths, American audiences realized for the first time that they were, well, foreign... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ09 - Story Structure: “Inciting Incident” This is what happens when you shoot an episode at two o’clock in the morning. Oh the first act of a movie. Here we tell you what usually happens before the “Inciting Incident”—the moment in the first act that propels the rest of the story into motion... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ08 - The Importance of Audio Yes. Audio is pretty dang important. Yet it still is one of the most overlooked crafts in the industry. In this episode we explain why, in most cases, audio can even be more relevant than video. The point is made with sound effects; or how sound effects, used stylistically rather than realistically, can enhance a scene... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AmyBot Sorry to disappoint again, but it seems we have to post yet another filler episode. Our sincerest apologies. The next episode will be shot on Sunday and posted on Tuesday. What happened was that, at the last minute, we had to shoot a sample episode for a client of ours. So here is a video of my sister, Amy, the robot... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode Delayed We apologize for another episode delay. Allen, from the Allen Rockwell Digital Photo Podcast, noticed in our previous video that our camera’s sensor had dust on it. Considering that our camera was fixed by having its casing opened, we wanted to make sure... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ - Clip Show Oh the dreaded clip show, used when the writers of a TV series run into a drought of new ideas, or when everybody in the production staff wants the week off. This isn’t a true clip show, but you get the idea. It’s a quickie that we put together as a placeholder episode... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ07 - Beginner Editing Peter tells you all the little things he knows about how to properly cut your footage together. He’ll ramble about stuff like “leading the viewer’s eye” and “cut between movement”—principles of movie editing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZQT02 - Focusing Your Camera In our second Quick Tip episode, we show you how to properly set the focus in your camera, because sometimes it’s hard to tell if your subject is clear and in focus. We’ll cover: Adjusting the focus by zooming, manual, auto, and aperture size [See post to watch Flash video] download the video Technorati Tags: Focus, Zoom, In, Out, Auto, Manual, Camera, Quick Tip Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ06 - Lighting #2 We cover the topic of lighting, again, because lighting is and always will be an expansive area. We begin by describing the reasons why proper lighting will help to accentuate a scene... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ05a - Short Film “Two Years Ago” Here is the short film (5:16) we made for Episode 05. The story is paper thin, as it was written in under forty minutes. Storyboarding took an hour. As for the shots themselves, we completed roughly sixty shots inside one night. I edited the next day. We made use of the zoom lens, the dolly, the fluid tripod head, and static shots... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ05 - Camera Stabilization Equipment In this episode, we dive into the expensive, or, at the least, tedious realm of camera stabilization equipment. This ranges from the all-powerful, all-knowing fluid tripod head, to the much used and often abused dolly... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ04 - Basic Composition in a Single Camera Setup We apologize for the late episode, but Memorial Day weekend had us pretty busy. Without further delay, in this episode we discuss the differences between the multi-camera format used in television, and the single-camera setup most often used in film production... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ03 - Lighting In this episode, Peter and I talk about Lighting... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ02b - Quick Tip We didn’t have time to film a short, so here’s a quick tip. [See post to watch Flash video] download the video show notes: Tips from the Top Floor - Tips and tricks for the digital photographer... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TZ02 - How to make a movie in 10 easy steps In this episode, we’ll go over the very basic steps to make your own small movie. [See post to watch Flash video] download the video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take Zer0 - Episode 1 In our very first episode, Peter and I talk about why using widescreen and 24 frames per second for movies is ideal. [See post to watch Flash video] download the video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website