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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 01:30 Edited at: 5th Apr 2006 01:34
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http://www.MilkPaton.com/episode1.htm[/center]

The Milk Paton Show is a series of short films (one every month) about a bottle of milk in high school. I've got the first one, Milk Paton and The iMac on the website linked above.

Any comments on the film would be great! It's far from perfect, and it was really an experiment with the still-photos style, (you'll see what I mean if you watch it) but I am moderately pleased with how it came out, and thought I'd share it! Like I said, it's part of a series: I'm about half way through filming the second episode now and I have a bunch more written out to film across Summer.

I've also done this recently, if anybody likes cars: http://www.drewsgames.com/ddrw/snow.htm, All of my older film work, including Dumbow & Cool stuff, can be found at DDRW.com, too.

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 03:00
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Just watched the whole thing!

I must say, when I first heard of this thing, it sounded lame, but that was downright quirky! Brilliant (imo) voice acting, and I liked the animation style.

The iMac part was funny.
You actually threw one out the window?!

Great job over all, the only thing I didn't like was how the girl had a man's voice.

Looking forward to more episodes. Long live the pizza pact!


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Milkman
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Yeah, it wasn't that bad. I thought it would lame at first also, but I was wrong. Keep up the good work, and don't do away with the still animation!


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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 16:58
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Thanks guys!

Don't forget to check back every week for new comics, and every month for a new episode!

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 17:25
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Worth every penny of chucking an Imac out of the window. In the second one I think it would be good if you had a Farrari go off a cliff face.

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EddieB
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 01:34
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That ones is easy just push a toy car of the edge of a table lol.
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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 07:47
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That was hilarious! Really great.


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Jess T
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 10:10 Edited at: 6th Apr 2006 10:11
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Haha, that was so random!

I wish I had an iMac I could throw out a window
I s'pose I could just buy one... They're only worth $5

Just a couple of notes:

1 - Put a semi-transparent milkpaton.com thing in the corner so that those ****wits at Ebaumsworld, etc, don't steal it and cut out your credits.

2 - You need more soft-transitions... Basically, when cutting between two camera shots ( like, looking at one person, then the other ), you need to keep the focus in the same general spot...
For example, imagine you have the first person on the left of the screen, then when you cut to the other person, they're on the right... That's a hard transition, and it easily disorients viewer. However, if they're both in the same general area on screen, then it is less disorienting, and the viewer doesn't have to scan the screen to find where the focus point is.

I hope that was clear enough

Good job, too!
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Saikoro
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 12:40
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I was only able to watch the first film, but I have to say thats class stuff there. Plenty of funny parts, and the strange pitch bending accent made it worth watching. Good job.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 13:21
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Nice video, kinda funny, the video came out funky (like all other wma's do) so I'm updating my drivers so I can watch it properly

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 15:33
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Thankyou all! Again, check back next month for more!

Thanks for your advice Jess, about the transparent thing though: firstly, there are no layers left in the editing program to do such a thing (I'm using Studio 9 with just 2 video tracks and a title track), and secondly there wouldn't be room on account of the subtitles.

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I was quite pleasantly surprised by your film, good job The technical things are quite good--- like when the guys are sitting at the outdoor table, frozen, and the girl puts their food on the table. The way you mix moving and still imagery is cool.

And I kind of liked the deep voiced woman--- I'm quite sure you could have gotten a female to do the voice if you really wanted to.


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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 6th Apr 2006 22:02
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Verry good work drew

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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 02:09
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Drew, couldn't you just import that wmv into Studio 9 and make a layer over the whole exported video?


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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 02:23
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Well, even if it's only a tiny, tiny little thing in the corner, it's still there, showing that it was you who did it, not anyone else

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I have to agree with Jess on this one, you should definitely get some kind of mini watermark (unless you just don't care) to protect your video from others taking credit for it. IMO it's a higher quality thing than I'd expect to see on eBaumsWorld, but its always good to be on the safe side.

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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 03:13
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I doubt Ebaums world would put that on their site. It would probably rape their bandwidth.


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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 03:28 Edited at: 7th Apr 2006 03:31
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Wow!! That was awesome!!! I loved the part with the imac... Can't wait to see next months episode.

Edit: why isn't this on ddrw.com?

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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 12:50 Edited at: 7th Apr 2006 13:05
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About the transparency thing: Yes, I could re-render it through to free up some tracks but I don't want the loss of quality that would result (even as AVI, Studio loses quality when you render stuff). End of.

Bizar Guy, I have just updated DDRW.com for you.

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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 01:49
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Just copyright it
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