Unicorn Obstructions: Bob DeRosa 2

Here is the latest video in our Unicorn Obstruction project. Here we seek a compromise on one of Bob DeRosa's obstructions.



You can see all of Bob's obstructions and the original "Unicorn" short film we are remaking as well as all our video on our websites: http://www.carboyfilms.com

Betty Cocker

This is a sketch we shot for our good friend Jason Moyer featuring a character from his live show: Betty Cocker. Enjoy!

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Urthel Hop-It - CarBoy Films Beer Review

Here at long last is our second beer review where we discuss a Belgian beer called Urthel Hop-It.

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Will gave this beer 4.4 out of 5 Gnomes while Kevin gave it 3.75 Gnomes for an official CarBoy rating of 3.975 Gnomes. Not bad.

You can learn more about this beer at: http://www.urthel.com

2000 Hits Celebration

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CarBoy is celebrating its 2000th Hit. Thanks so much for watching!

Daniel's vlog

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This is the first sketch we shot for our friend Jason Moyer in a series we are shooting for him to use in a contest for "The Big Gay Sketch Show."

Homebrew Blooper

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It's not often you get a blooper clip on video when making beer in your kitchen, but we got one. Enjoy!

Doritos Commercial

We shot a spec Doritos commercial for their "Crash The Superbowl" contest. Take a look and please go to their

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Hop 15 - CarBoy Films Beer Review

For this, our first ever CarBoy Films Beer Review, we tried a beer called "Hop 15".

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According to our sophisticated and ever-changing rating system, Will gave this beer 3 out of 5 Reindeer while Kevin gave it 2 1/2 Reindeer, giving it an official CarBoy Rating of 2.75 Reindeer. Which is certainly a score to be proud of.


Hop 15 is a double IPA from Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, CA. You can check them out at http://www.portbrewing.com

Women for Sarah Palin

CarBoy Films teams up with One Hott Mess.

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This is a sketch we just did for an all female sketch group called One Hott Mess. Some of you may have already seen it. As of right now, it has been viewed on funnyordie.com 18,235 times.

Our Trip to the Stone Brewery

So we recently went to the Stone Brewery in Escondido, CA just outside of San Diego. We took the tour, ate some great food and drank some terrific beer. Here are some of the things we saw.

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Setting Up the Greenscreen

It's hard work making films about talking dogs. So to prove it, here is an old-timey silent film to show you how we did some of it.

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A friend of ours, Joel Svensen, gave us a butt roll of greenscreen material and we built a pvc frame to hold it based on plans we found online. It's a very inexpensive way to have a lot of fun.

Dog School Part 1

Professor McGrueder teaches his students the finer points of American History. Enjoy!

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Homemade Steadycam

We made a homemade steadycam based off of plans we found online prepared by Johnny Chung Lee. It cost us more than the $14 he claims it will, but we are very happy with the steadycam. Here's how we did it.

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We've tried this steadycam with our tiny Sony DCR-HC20 and a Canon GL1. It works really well with both cameras. It works great as a "hand held" option.

This is our first "how to." It's mainly an experiment with the format, trying to give information in a concise and helpful way that is also entertaining. Let us know how we did.

Unicorn

Hi everyone. Here is a short film that we shot a really long time ago. In fact, it is probably the first CarBoy Film. We shot it on my little cheap Sony MiniDV camera, a DCR-HC20 to be exact. We finally got around to finishing it. The footage has been sitting on a firewire drive for quite sometime. I'm glad we get to share it with you. Enjoy!

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Cowboy Hat Logo

So here is a new CarBoy Films Logo from something Will came up with.

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More Cell Phone Animation

So here is another animation made with a notepad, a marker, and a cell phone. The only media came from my Treo 650 and even though I monkeyed around with it in After Effects some, it's still a very basic idea. Animating something in a simple way is a fun little exercise and gives me some ideas about how things can work on a larger scale.

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Anatomy of Santa

This is a sort of a holiday homage to the famous title designer Saul Bass. He did everything from "Vertigo" to the original "Ocean's Eleven" to "Good Fellas." It is based on his opening title sequence for "Anatomy of a Murder" and features Santa Claus.

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And here is a split screen of the same piece with Bass' original artwork included for comparison.

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"Your LA" News Piece

So I saw someone I hadn't seen in a while and he told that he saw me on TV a couple of months ago. I immediately thought he was mistaken. Why would I be on TV? But he insisted. It later donned on me that maybe there was a news story about Instant Films, the 48 hour film festival I entered in November. (You can see my submitted short below.) Sure enough "Your LA", a local news show aired a piece. It is all about my film. I remember a little crew on set and being interviewed, but I didn't know what it was for and that we were the only film being followed. In any event, here it is:

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Also, it is a new year (Happy New Year by the way) and we are really trying to commit ourselves to getting this blog off the ground. We are setting a goal of posting a new video every two weeks. I can't imagine us generating a finished short film at that pace but we can at least post videos related our movie making activities and show you what we are up to in a raw form as well as a finished product.

Thanks for watching!

Halloween Pic Logo

The WGA is on strike and I had a little more time on my hands at work today than I am used to. So here is a stab at a temporary logo I made today using a photo of us from this past Halloween. Will has something in the works for a real logo, but until then I thought I'd monkey around:

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Silent All-Nighter

This is a short film we shot for a 48 hour film festival call Instant Films. This is the exact cut that showed at the screening on Sunday night. It has not been altered or re-cut in anyway.

We received a script and three randomly selected actors on Saturday morning at about 9am and turned in this movie Sunday night at around 7pm. With daylight savings being Saturday, that's a turn around of about 35 hours. We had an amazing crew and were lucky to pick three great actors. It was a really cool event, we had a lot of fun (a specific kind of fun), and I hope we get to do it again sometime.

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