Joseph Nasto

MY FILM RIOT MONDAY CHALLENGE SUBMISSION VIDEO!

Hey, everyone. Last weekend I shot a video for Film Riot's Monday Challenge. For those of you that don't know...Film Riot is a weekly podcast that takes the mystery out of the effects and techniques of your favorite hollywood films.

For the past few months Film Riot decided to do a new segment called Monday Challenge. A challenge Film Riot issues to their viewers. A few challenges they've issued were day for night, slow-mo, cloning, headshots, etc. You have a week or two to complete your submission video depending on the challenge. Film Riot's latest challenge is to create a 30 second or less video that has an explosion in it.

After thinking about it for a bit I came up with a concept. Hard to do when you have no more than 30 seconds to get your point across. I didn't want to do what a lot of others did - to show some random out-of-context explosion.

I shot this with my Canon 7D and edited the video using Premiere Pro and After Effects (CS6 version). The explosions were from Action Essentials 2 from Video Co-Pilot and the sound effects from my Digital Juice SFX library.

I had a two person crew. Colin O`Brien assisted me while I shot and directed the video. He's a writer friend of mine and boy was I glad he was available to help me out. My actor was my step-son, Terry Russell, who has no interest in acting but did a good job.

I storyboarded everything on Saturday and we shot the piece on Sunday. Believe it only took 3.5 hours to shoot. It took me about 6 hours of editing time to complete - including After Effects, SFX and color correcting.

I wish YouTube was more like Vimeo. In Vimeo, if you upload a video and once it's posted if you forgot something or don't like the way it looks or what have you...you can re-upload a new version of that video without losing any stats and it won't change your embedded link - unlike YouTube. I found one mistake I didn't catch with the audio after I posted it but since it's on YouTube I can just do back, fix it in Premiere, and re-upload it again without losing everything. Oh well. Hopefully many people won't notice it. It's nothing major but it bugs me.

Anyway, Monday Sept. 17th I'll find out if my video made it on the show. There are no real prizes. Think the challenge is mainly for bragging rights and to form a little filmmaking community to share and critique each other's work.

TONY SCOTT (1944–2012)

Tony Scott, a British-born film director and younger brother of Ridley Scott, died on Sunday, August 19, 2012 in an apparent suicide. Reports say he jumped from a suspension bridge "without hesitation" around 12:30pm into the Los Angeles Harbor.

My condolensces to the Scott family. Cinema has lost another great director. Tony is best known for 'Top Gun', 'Days of Thunder', 'True Romance' and 'Enemy of the State' to name a few. You can check out more of this work here http://imdb.to/2qIxaG

If you're a fan of his work you should watch this 8 minute video (posted above) about Tony Scott discussing his craft.

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