Super 8 Post Apocalyptic High School movie pt. 3 of 6

[ghostoferkrussell]

Long live Dr. Death! Lord of the apocalyptic wasteland of Oregon!!!

[screamingskull]

@ghostoferkrussell It's a lush, green apocalyptic wasteland

[KeyFilmation]

what film stock did you use? kodachrome?

[killdoser666]

is this coming out on dvd?

[screamingskull]

you can write to me and I can send you a dvd

[killdoser666]

awesome how much would it be?

[jsl151850b]

CineMagic Magazine?

I was featured in one issue!

Google for 'Fun 1981 sci-fi home movie' and the boing boing article has links to the video I helped make and my flickr page with scans of the corresponding issues.

[screamingskull]

I totally remember that issue, of course. Really incredible how you used the color wheel.

[jsl151850b]

At the start of 'Asteroid' the countdown leader shows the color wheel needed some work.

The 5 shouldn't have flickered, but I like it.

I switched from photodetectors to microswitches for wheel position indication on the last version.

The old (old!) The Mind's Eye video showed CGI polyhedrons with similar flicker.

Speaking of flickr, did you read the scanned magazine articles? There are photos of the camera rig.

What did you think of the film?

It came out well, considering.

[screamingskull]

Your film was very professional for Super 8, had a lot of production value when most of us were just trying to get an in-focus image to appear on the film. What kind of camera did you have? I did look at the scanned magazine articles, and I looked through my Cinemagic collection last night and I think I'm missing that issue! But I found the one which shows you accepting the award.

[jsl151850b]

My flickr page has issues 16 and 23 (The corresponding articles anyway.)

That's Steve and Bill at the awards.

I was more of the 2nd unit animation, although I attended the gravel pit shoot.

At the end of the film, bloopers!

The Google video version has better quality,

(I tried correcting the underexposure in the GenMet interiors, my scene from Earth, and the wireframe asteroid animation.)

Did you notice some scenes should have had a monitor around them? 01:45, 02:02, 14:48. Fix in Post?

[dwichers]

I'd love to smash a dozen of tv sets! I bet recording that part was cool!

[Leichenpapst]

Haha, the postapokalyptic saga continues!

[holbrookprieto]

very interesting.... i'm just starting up my old super 8 hobby again and this quality is inspiring!

[4darin5]

This has inspired me to create a film where high school football jocks of the '20s destroy vintage television sets to prevent the rise of the apocolypse. Yes, in the bible it speaks of these events, it's somewhere in the back, next to the story of how Jughead spilled his banana split all over Veronica at the Sip and Flip.

[4darin5]

So, it was old television sets that caused the apocolypse! Spoodle, get my ax, I'm going to grandma's.

[DaremasterSpoodle]

MEH - It's not much of a loss! They're switching to digital cable in '09 anyway so smashing those TV's was a good idea anyhow. LOL!

[screamingskull]

You mean my dad?

[ahealey1004]

man- they just keep getting better and better!!

the dream-sequence was very sophisticated. sort of a dream-within-a-dream thing going on. and how did you get all those TV's? I'll bet dad was pissed when he had to clean up all that broken glass!