Pantheon Movies

Fall 2004 was a turning point in school projects. Having acquired a camera, our crew was ready to undertake a first attempt at a revolutionary project. With no objective expectations, it was a success. We brought discountenance upon the average "Power-Point Presentation" and random improvisation. From the movie came concrete benefits, however minor. Soon enough, we made a second and third installment to our now expanding collection, acquiring vast and essential experience from Adobe Premiere. At last, we had a logo.

We called it Baseline Shift. The name was the result of an exhaustive evening of searching for a cool name and then stumbling upon a Premiere effect... I'm not sure what the shift meant, but baselines are extreme. Especially the slap baselines from the 70s which we unanimously agree is the coolest decade.)

We redefined film and saw a huge rise of popularity in movie making among our peers. There was large demand for a fourth and final (for the school year) production. We executed our renowned high budget James Bond flick like seasoned veterans. Included were two side projects which served as tests for newly acquired editing programs (such as AlamDV2) and camera angles. Our second logo was more appealing than the last.

Rhinosyringe was a brilliant idea and came, like all brilliant ideas, from Francois during math class. X+Y+Z=XYZ -> X: Surfers are the peak of coolness. Just look at the picture of Jeff Spicoli.

Y: The animal kingdom's rhinoceros is one of the most massive and powerful creatures on earth PLUS he has a link to Buddhist ideology AND he's a vegetarian. Lastly Z: people revere as well as fear the syringe because of it's contents and the deadly repercussions from it's use (ie heroin and aids, or flu vaccine and tiny little holes in your arm. You get the picture.) The end result? A suggestive surfer hippie buddhist ideological symbol from hell.

Summer brought Pantheon, a reform in thought and a dedication to excellence. With a new (and old) arsenal of programs, such as (in no particular order):

We anticipate some new high budget productions in the 05-06 year. For every new development be sure to check the Producer's Blog.

A 1.25GHz G4 Mac mini computer with 1GB of RAM for the Final Cut front-end work.
A 233MHz G3 iMac (revision B) for back-end Final Cut and DVD Studio rendering using Xgrid.
A 3GHz Pentium 4 PC with 1.5GB of RAM for media compositing and 3D creation.
An AMD 2500+ laptop with 512MB of RAM for several other media compositing work.
An HP Jornada 133MHz SH-3HPC for writing scripts when travelling and working outside the office.
Two 19" professional business LCD monitors from HP. (model: HP 1955)
A wireless Logitech MX1000 laser mouse.
An Apple keyboard and Mighty Mouse.
A cellphone to keep in contact with our lunar base.
A cordless phone to keep in contact with several actors and other people involved in the project.
A professional JVC microphone for doing voice-over.
A gym, break room, kitchen and washroom facilities to keep the staff entertained, healthy and happy.

A 500MHz file server with a 30GB drive for final footage storage.
A 800MHz file server with 80GB and two 20GB drives for raw DV footage storage.
A 400MHz file server with a 12GB drive for temporary and transferring storage.
An ADSL with G.Lite 4mbit Internet connection for sharing movie files, scripts and medias between actors and the staff.
A few extra hard disk drives for housing backups.
Several load-balanced content servers in New York City on GigE gigabit fiber optic backbones powered by Cisco routers and switches.
And, last but not least, two 100mbit switches for keeping all of the computers networked and working seamlessly together in our office.

A Sony Mini-DV Camcorder with a Carl Zeis lens for filming with a Stereo microphone.
A custom-made broom microphone for the camera when filming voice dialogs.
A professional air-cushionned columned tripod for our film camera.
A professional Kodak 325 Digital Video Camera web-cam for communicating between remote offices.
A pair of professional battery-powered 100 watt halogen movie lights on tripods.
A green-screen for use when compositing different effects.
A Canon DLP XVGA projector.
A THX surround sound system.

Salutations from all of us here at Pantheon
Anton G
Paulius G
Francois A
Rocco P

(Want more information? Check out our crew page, you'll be happy that you knew it.)