Once again, the True/False Film Fest was an amazing weekend for everyone. And for us here at Boxcar, it represented a chance to truly challenge ourselves again this year. First of all, in January we complete the TV spot for the festival which aired around central Missouri during the month of February. The concept for the commercial came from the timelapse tilt-shift videos of Keith Loutit and others. We created the video using a Canon 5D Mark II camera with a normal lens and the tilt-shift affect was added using After Effects (as was the giant hand and magnifying glass). We used a song by our friends Capybara and the finished spot came out great.
http://www.vimeo.com/9236794During the festival we wanted to create something similar to last year’s Thank You video, but we had the idea to finish the video before 7pm on Sunday so that it could screen in the Missouri Theatre before the closing night film of the festival, which was Lixin Fan’s “Last Train Home.” Jonny Pez only slept for 2 hours on Saturday night on a couch in the edit room, but we pulled it off. At the theatre that night several festival staff told us that this video reminded them why they work so hard to create this amazing film festival every year. The video is now on the True/False website as well as our own. For this video we mixed the tilt-shift concept from the commercial with the montage idea from our Thank You video to create something that we hope captures the essence of True/False 2010.
http://www.vimeo.com/9835211Our friends Nathan Truesdell and Kim Sherman and the team at Arable Entertainment created the bumpers this year, which turned out great. The bumper was shot on the RED camera and was screened before all of the films during the festival. Nate has created the bumpers for the past several years, but the bumper is the most ambitious and entertaining one I’ve seen so far.
