SixSibs

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to get around to posting this but I finally polished it up to a (hopefully) blog worthy shine and am finally going to post it.

As some of you who have been reading our blog for a while might know, I (and parts of my family to varying degrees) really enjoy running. I was recently (if you call 1 and 1/2 months ago recently) able to run in the One Soul Purpose 5k, and I came in first in my age group! (for all of the results you can click here) I know my time isn’t going to be beating any records but it was really nice to come in first in my age group and actually be in 28th place instead of 129th or 173rd (my previous 5k placings), for coming in first in the 11-14 age group I got a gift bag with a water bottle, some “fancy” shoe laces and an Andy’s Gift card (which was funny because Andy’s is a (very good) ice cream store – it was kind of like “Here! Now that you’ve burned all of those calories running go over to Andy’s and consume four times what you burned!) The Andy’s Gift card will be (and was- I already used it to get an ice cream cone for Isaac’s 6th  Birthday) nice so that my younger sibling’s cheap old big brother will  have a cool (in more ways than one) thing to do with them on their birthday’s (just don’t tell any of them that I said that- it’s supposed to be very,very secret).

Anyway, enough rambling- I hope you stay cool, enjoy your time off from school (if your’e young enough) and have a blessed rest of the year!
Adam

P.S. For all of you people looking to get me a birthday present refurbished 21.5 inch iMac’s  are only $1,019! =)

Today (July 3rd) is the 148th “anniversary” of the last day of the battle of Gettysburg.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post we were able to go there about a month ago, I haven’t finished editing together all of the footage that I shot there but after I do I should be able to post a 4-6 minute “documentary” of what happened there on July 1-3 1863 (and of what we did there May 31 2011).
In the mean time stay cool, keep waiting for updates and go watch the very excellent movie “Gettysburg” (Luke, Rachel and I all enjoyed it).

Thanks,
Adam

I was looking through my memorabilia bin and I found the adds page of the newspaper that was published on my birthday (thoughtfully saved by my mother) and I found this:

Yikes! Today you can get an iMac with a quad-core 2.5 GHz i5 Processor, 4 Gb of RAM,an 8x DVD drive,500 GB of storage and a 1080×1920 display- that’s almost 100 times faster with 500 times more storage and 250 times more RAM for $100 less than the 1996 computer in the picture!

My dad bought us 3 new miniDV tapes on Saturday (and I promptly used one of them up recording a youth recital at our church) so now I’ll have to cook up some other excuse for not starting to film! I can’t really blame the weather (although it has been windier than I would like it to be for recording audio) and I can’t blame the actors because it’s kind of hard for actors to act if they don’t have a script or someone to film them! So I guess I’ll just have to own up to the fact that it’s mainly my fault (sigh). (I forgot- I have spent about 12 hours editing the footage for our trip movie, so that gives me a pretty decent crutch (there’s nothing more maddening than having two movies in two different stages of completion going at once).
So thank you for reading and expect more great pieces of cinematic expertise to come soon!
Sincerely,

Adam

P.S. (Our blog turned 1 on June 8 )

We still haven’t started on “John the Detective 2″ yet! We have two reasons: #1(and most important) we don’t have any more tape (we burned through three mini DV tapes on our trip) and  secondly I have plenty of post-production work to do editing together said three hours of footage without throwing in another “feature” film into the mix.
So hopefully we’ll start on “JTD2″ sometime this summer (I won’t name a date because something will be sure to knock it off schedule if I do) and all of our (adoring?) fans will be able to watch it.
Thank you for reading,
Adam

I said we’d be posting more videos and while this one might not be all that informative I promise it’ll be entertaining!
I hope you enjoy it!

We just got back from a 2 week trip to Boston,Gettysburg,Washington DC and the Creation museum we had a lot of fun and I recorded 3 hours of video – so expect some (hopefully) interesting,entertaining and informative videos to arrive on our YouTube channel soon!

Thanks,
The Six sibs

Our YouTube channel now has over 1,000 views!
Thanks for watching our movies.
Adam

Hello all!
It rained a lot yesterday so we probably won’t be able to do any outside movie work for a few days, until then we will keep revising the script, doing school-work and playing 4-square in the garage.
Adam

Here are (some) of the bloopers of JTD 1:
Enjoy!

We finished building the prison yesterday (if you will look in the pictures that I posted yesterday you’ll notice that our “sleeping quarters” didn’t have much of a roof and there wasn’t anything keeping the “prisoners” from escaping).
(From now on I will be referring to “John the Detective 2″ as “JTD 2″ most of the time).
Thanks for reading,
Adam

Here are some pictures of the (unfinished) prison that we are going to use in “John the Detective 2″
The lighting isn’t very good but I hope you’ll be able to get an idea of what it will look like.
Adam

The longer version of “John the Detective 1″ has just finished uploading!

I hope you enjoy the different ending.
Adam

I am now uploading the Extended edition of “John the Detective”!
I hope you will enjoy it!
Adam

We are currently working on building sets for John the Detective 2! At the moment it looks like it will be our longest movie yet.
I am also working on re-editing John the Detective 1 since there was quite a bit of left over footage that I either didn’t use or couldn’t use because my VFX skills weren’t quite up to snuff.
Thanks,
Adam

I am Uploading “Army Men” so hopefully you will be able to watch it in a couple hours!
Adam

Sorry I haven’t given any updates but “Army Men” should be done soon.
Adam

Here are some screenshots from “Army Men”:
Enjoy!

I’ve finally gotten the visual effects for “Army Men” finished! Now all that’s left is to record all of the dialogue and  we’ll be done! Thanks for reading our blog,

Adam

I was able to finish shooting all of the pictures for the stop motion movie yesterday! Luckily it warmed up during the morning and early afternoon so that the snow was almost completely gone by the time we were able to go outside, so hopefully I’ll be done with the post-production in a few days and the movie will be made public to the world!

Adam

I have been trying to do some filming for our army figure movie, but it just hasn’t worked out! First it rained, then we left for two days, and now it’s snowing! I’m trying to do as much of the post-production as I can (although it’s kind of hard to do visual effects for a scene that you haven’t shot yet). I’ll try to keep you posted on any further developments.

Adam

That’s right! 4404 Army Men (I only took a picture of 6 and then multiplied them). We are planning on doing a stop motion Army Figure video, and since we don’t happen to own such a huge number of Army Men I decided to go the cheapskate’s route and just duplicate them on the computer.
You can click on the picture to get a full screen view of the massive army.

Here are a few more particle simulations that I did:

Here is the video of a “lecture” that I gave to some of the boys at our church,I have had the video clips put together for about 2 weeks but I was just able to find the right time record it this morning(it’s kind of hard to record audio around our house because whenever it’s quiet (early morning,late night) it usually needs to stay quiet and whenever it doesn’t need to stay quiet there isn’t usually a solid 5-10 minutes of total and complete silence.)The movie making lesson was the longest “speech”(at about 10 minutes) that I had ever given (although having movies to show helped cut down my actual speaking time). The movie version isn’t near as long(less than 5 minutes)
because I did most of the talking in my lesson after I showed the movies, where here I do a lot of the talking during the movies, I also had a question and answer time afterward. The movie version was kind of crazy at times because I put together the movie clips before I recorded the audio, so sometimes I was kind of rushed. I hope you learn something about how we make our movies!
So here it is: