D-Day 65th anniversary! And A Video.....

[Erwin Kretschmer]

65th anniversary! To keep this thread in with the Historysection, here's some history...


Let me just tell you a little unknown history.. As usual...
You know how many Allied ships the German Kriegsmarine sunk on this date, that participated in the landings? One.. Off nearly twelve thousand ships that was there, the German Kriegsmarine sunk just one.

It get's even weirder... Off all the twelve thousand ships there, the Kriegsmarine did find their way to a Norwegian ship. We had like.. 3-4 bigger ones? I just find that too weird. The unfortunate vessel, HNoMS Svenner:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Svenner-370_53766a.jpg
[Picture from Wikipedia]



Uboat.net writes the following about it:

History:

Svenner (Lt.Cdr. T. Holte) was torpedoed and sunk off Normandy during an attack by the German torpedo boats T 28, Möwe, Falke and Jaguar.
The wreck lies in 31 meters in position 49º27'42"N, 00º15'06"W. 41 Norwegians and 2 British died, 187 of the crew survived.



Funny, isn't it?



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But as I didn't go to Normandie this saturday, I decided that the night of D-Day +1 (just 4 hours since D-day ended) I went outdoor and did a very short movie.. Why? I don't know.. Just felt to it. Funny thing is, this is my first WWII video.

Here's a few preview pictures!


The German (Played by Erwin Kretschmer)
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde8.png
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde9.png


The American (Played by Lasse :icon_razz: )
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde11.png


And we had to remove some lighting and colours (Hey, it was afterall filmed at night!!) Here's how I did that:
First, we start with this clean and fresh picture:
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde12.png

We lower the colour to give a more black&white effect, while still keeping colours:
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde13.png

Lastly, we change the lighting and contrast, to give a more cinematic feel to it:
http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/huxyp/D-day%202009/Bilde14.png

So, yeah.. That's how it goes! This video is just under 3 minutes long. Hope you enjoyed my little "how I do it" :)



So, 34 minutes into D+4 I was done editing and all. It was uploaded to YouTube.. Here's a link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtSbi-vXEqQ&feature=channel_page

The video costed me alot of sleep, but I am finally done. Was really fun! :D

Hope you enojy!
-Erwin Kretschmer

[Karl Ritter]

Amazing work as always kamerad.
The smirk, is gold:D.

[Ernst Hoffmann]

hahahaha... nice camera work, is that a gebirgsjager anorak?

Regards
Ernst Hoffmann

[Erwin Kretschmer]

Thanks for the kind replies, both of you!
And Ernst, no.. That's no Gebirgsjäger anorak. If it was, specifically an original one, no way I'd be using it like that :p

It is actually a Swedish one from the 70's-80's or maybe newer.. It's damn good and simply perfect! :D


Also, was this film festival thingy at school yesterday evening. Two (of three) grades from the mediaschool sent in different videos we've made, and 25 was chosen and showed for all of us, friends and families. It was rather cool. Somewhat embarrassing aswell! But thing is, it was also awards. One of the judges was an actual everything man.. Filmphotographer, filmdirector, filmproducer, photographer, etc.etc.etc...

I could sadly NOT enter this beatuy of a D-day shortie as it was completed two days after deadline for entering.
But... One of my videos won! :eek:

It was an informationfilm I made quite some time ago. With two classmates. If you want to see it, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHNXR53dJQ&feature=channel_page

It is uploaded 19th December...

But what I won:
-Best informationfilm
-Best videophotographing

Yes, TWICE!
That ended up in two papers, one memorystick and a thick book of Digital Photographing. Says to be the best one on Norwegian, and really covers everything.
Sadly, the actor guy kept the best informationfilm paper, and the memorystick.. I got to keep the videophotographing however, mainly because I did the recording, and I just love cameras :rolleyes:
But I will try to get mine photocopied!!

I'm talking to much.... Have fun! I know I will! 3 awards, and I'm not even 18!! :D

-E. Kretschmer

[Wilhelm Stahlschmiedt]

Very creative.