HB's movie trivia quiz..

$5 for the person who can successfully answer all of my following movie trivia questions...

And please no cheating by using google to find the answers!!! Or we may have to boot you off the crew... haha, just kidding :) I will post correct answers in here on friday..

1. What was the full name of Jim Carrey's character in the film "dumb and dumber" ?
2. In what month of what year did "The Matrix" get released to cinemas in Australia?
3. Who is the leading actor in the movie "American beauty" ?
4. Who directed "braveheart" and what year was the film released in?
5. In which star wars film does Leia Skywalker call Han Solo a "scoundrel"?
6. What name does forrest gump give to his shrimp boat? And what's the name of the man who becomes his first maid?
7. What's the name of the actor that plays Rose Dawsons (kate winslet) Husband in the film "titanic"
8. Name one film starring both Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves.
9. Why does Joaquin Phoenix's character kill his father in the movie "Gladiator" ?
10. Who directed "Speed" ?
11. Name 5 Nicholas Cage Movies.
12. Complete this piece of dialogue from The Matrix...... "If you are killed in the matrix..... do you die here? __ ____ ______ ____ _______ ___ ____ "
13. Which actor plays a role as the enemy german sniper in the film "enemy at the gates" ?
14. Why is the film "memento" slightly different to most other films?
15. Who played Mary Magdalene in "the passion of the christ" ?
16. Where was actor Sam Neil born?
17. Who was the lead female in "silence of the lambs" ? and name 2 other films that she has been in..
18. In which James Bond film did Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean star together in?
19. How does Arnold Schwarzenegger's character as a terminator get destroyed at the end of terminator 2?
20. Which film did Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson do together in 1969?
21. Name the film in which Jeff Daniels is an ultralight pilot?
22. Who directed fight club?
23. In which Lord of the rings film do the trees come to life?
24. What year did Michael J. Fox travel back to in the first "back to the future" film?
25. True or False.... William H. Macy is in the movie "Air Force One" ?

600 ep weekend!

Thursday Night Hertime Crew..

Well we've just finished shooting hertime.. and i must say it was a Job well done. Thankyou to all the volunteers that served over the 2 nights. It ended up looking really good..

Here's a few pics we took of the crew after wrapping things up on Thursday night. I had a play with them in photoshop too just for some fun.

I can't wait for this weekend already.. My team is on sunday morning for Watoto childrens choir and also a TV record... And then Sunday night we're practicing for the album record. Should be a great weekend to be in church serving.

HB

Alberts Baby Dedication

Jaydon now features in his 2nd RVTV post as the press was on hand to catch this magnificent dedication on saturday night.

Congratulations to the proud & happy parents Albert & Donna.

The Winning Short Film

Here's the film that stormed home on saturday night to claim the championship as number 1!! as voted for by the beautiful people of RVTV.

Congratulations to Maura Widjaja from Team 4 for her masterpiece, "Can't Hold it Anymore" she was the proud recipient of a box of chocolates for all her hard work!

It only goes for 2.5 mins, so check it out when you get a chance.

600EPS

Well what a weekend!
Congrats to all crew members past and present, its a job well done!
Can't wait for 700!!

Huge Weekend!!

We just had one of our biggest & best weekends of the year!

Friday night my team was on (team 4) and we wired in the HDCam to do a 6 camera shoot, as training for the album recording.

Saturday night we shot a vox pops clip in kids church, had a baby dedication with Alberts baby getting dedicated, and baptisms after the service.

This was followed up by a really successful social night with 40 rvtv members coming in for a short film night. We watched about 13 films including the Rwanda doco & enjoyed a great night of catching up/hanging out, with some excellent & entertaining films.

Sunday morning we recorded our 600th episode of churchlive, it was highlighted by a clip we put together comparing todays tv programme to our 1st ever episode back in 1995. Phil also made special mention of our superstar Polishman Peter Toczyski, who has been with rvtv for all 600 episodes!!

We rounded out sunday night with team training & a great guest speaker during the service.. so all in all it was a massive 3 days!

This week i'll post Alberts baby dedication pics, shots from the social night, Phil's 600 ep history video, the Polish Pete honour clip, and lots of rvtv shots from the 600th recording.

Its an action packed week on the film crew blog!

Mugshot by Request.

Here are some Mezza the Pez mug shots, personally requested by Paul Smith.. (please see the comment under the social night post)

I'm sure you'll all agree they fit the category of mugshot particularly well :) hehe

They call him the PeZ.

Kazza Kazza Kazza

Well its not everyday you get 3 stunning Kazza's in one place at one time. I would have been a madman not to make the most of this unique Kazza capturing opportunity.

As promised to Carol, here is a collection of shots from Kazza 1, Kazza 2 & Kazza 3.

I've also included a sample shot of Jin-Kyoung, who we are currently trialling for the position of Kazza 4. if you think she has what it takes to make it as a Kazza please let me know and i will follow things up.

Abra da kazza.

common mistakes on camera.

Well previously i did a post called "characteristics of great camera operators"

This time i thought i'd go the other way and do a post outlining some of the many common mistakes that can be made by a camera operator. Not that i like to focus on the negative, but it's very productive to our skill level to learn from our mistakes by highlighting them.

So here's 10 mistakes a camera op can make...

1. Zooming in or panning at a speed too fast or too slow for the tempo of the particular song...

2. Forgetting to re-crash focus once a speaker comes up after worship. the speaker will always stand a few metres in front of where the worship leader was standing... so it's important that camera 2 and 3 zoom in to the new speakers face and re-set their focus. This also includes praise and worship where often Camera 2 will zoom in to get a full close up of the electric guitar at the back of the stage.... After doing that shot they zoom back out wide to do another zoom in without re-crash focusing on the worship leader.... this makes for an ugly shot once they get in close to the singer to reveal it's actually out of focus.

3. Doing a "Pull focus" during a mix but starting the shot too far out of focus to successfully get back into focus by the time the mix has finished. It doesn't need to be a total blurred blob for the Pull Focus to be effective, a subtle one works nicely though.

4. Zooming into the worship leader from 2, 3 or 4 but not tilting upwards enough as they go to keep the subjects eye-line a 3rd from the top of the screen.

5. during a slow mixing song, pulling away from a shot too soon before the director has fully mixed out and gone off the shot. Very important in slow mixing songs to hold the same shot until the red tally light has fully dissapeared.

6. Trying to do a "pan down" or "pan on" from another object (perhaps a plasma screen or a painting on the back wall) and starting the shot too far away from the worship leader or the destination subject to get there quickly enough... hence there's just an empty shot for 2 or 3 seconds sometimes. Always practice these shots beforehand to make sure it can be done quickly enough to fit in with the tempo of the music. If you find you need to pan overly quickly to get there in time and it's a slow song, then it'd be best to either scrap the shot or start it much closer to the finishing shot.

7. On handheld, starting a shot on a close up of an instrument (often guitar) and then zooming out and keeping the subject directly in the middle of the frame. This will complicate things for the director because they won't be able to smoothly cut back to their Midshot without doing whats called a "Morph cut" which looks ugly. The 2 ways around it are to either stay tight on the guitar or to zoom out but consciously keep the guitarists body in far left or right of the frame.

8. Doing any shot that resembles a shot that Nat Brown would attempt.... hahahhaha. This involves spinning the camera ferociously through the air and very rarely having a shot that isn't upside down...... hahahaha (Just kidding nat, love ya mate..)

9. Zooming into a singers face and zooming too far that the shot becomes an extreme close up of their eye or nose... Try and slowly come to a stop on medium close up. Head and shoulders size.

10. Losing focus too quickly out of a mix... A nice effect you can do on camera is to "push focus" out as their director mixes out of your shot. However this looks really yucky if it's done to quickly. When doing a "push focus" hold down your preview button and make sure you time it with the speed of the mix.... Push focuses work the best in really slow songs when the director is doing nice long, slow mixes... I personally wouldn't try one if the director is mixing quite quickly.

I hope this may help some people in some way to improve their camera work and go to the next level. We are essentially there to serve, but we want to do it with excellence too.

HB

The RVTV Leaders

Team 1 - Joelle O'Donohue - alias Chippy









Team 2 - Carolina Rahayu - alias Kazza 1









Team 3 - Kok-Keen Chan - alias Darryl









Team 4 - Francis O'Donohue - alias Frank PoL









Team 5 - Paul Smith - alias Smithay









Team 6 - James O'Donohue - alias Harry Boy.

Social Night - 19th May

Inspired by Adrian from team 3 we will once again be hosting an all-crew social evening.

This time round we're meeting up for a short film/video viewing here at the church.

We'll be playing short films by matt j, carol, nat & tracy, along with classics like the 1st ever episode of churchnews, the Rwanda doco we put together, and maybe even my proposal to Joelle for anyone who wasn't at church that night!

If you have a film or silly video you want to play, (hopefully worse than some of the 1st year uni projects i'm contemplating showing) then let me know and we can schedule them into the runsheet.

The night is coming up quickly on Saturday 19th May, 8.30pm in room 9.

TV Episode Stats

Here's some very interesting stats on tv episode numbers, RiverviewLive has a tremendous amount of history when you compare how many we've done to some of the most famous tv shows. Here are the numbers courtesy of TV.com

Home & Away - 4,400
Seinfeld - 180
Neighbours - 5,195
Friends - 237
The Simpsons - 395
Big Brother - 413
Prison Break - 43
RiverviewLive - 581

We'll be recording our 600th episode THIS weekend during the sunday morning service, but it won't air till at least 4 months time.