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Richard Dawkins Foundation / Michael Shermer / The Baloney Detection Kit

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This is a video I shot and directed for The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. It stars Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine and is titled "The Baloney Detection Kit".

Red One #4809 with the Red 18-50 lens.

On RichardDawkins.net:
http://richarddawkins.net/article,3...r-The-Richard-Dawkins-Foundation-Josh-Timonen

YouTube (HD):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU
Quicktime (1280x720):
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c116791/The-Baloney-Detection-Kit-720.mov
Quicktime (640x360):
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c116791/Shermer-Master-web.mov

From the website:
With a sea of information coming at us from all directions, how do we sift out the misinformation and bogus claims, and get to the truth? Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim.

Presented by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
( http://RichardDawkinsFoundation.org )
Directed by Josh Timonen
Produced by Maureen Norton
Animation by Pew 36 Animation Studios
( http://www.pew36.co.uk/ )
Music by Neal Acree
( http://www.nealacree.com/ )
Post Production Sound by Sound Satisfaction
( http://www.soundsatisfaction.com/ )
Supervising Sound Editor / Re-Recording Mixer - Gary J. Coppola, C.A.S.
Sound Editor - Ben Rauscher
Production Assistant - Graham Immel
(c) 2009 Upper Branch Productions, Inc.


UPDATE:
I also recently uploaded Richard Dawkins' US tour talk which I filmed and edited, titled "The Purpose of Pupose". This was also shot on Red, with the same camera setup:

http://richarddawkins.net/article,3956,The-Purpose-of-Purpose,Richard-Dawkins
 
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Dawkins is a true hero of mine. Bravo. Shermer doesn't have the eloquence of Dawkins but still good to see the conscience raising work the Dawkins Foundation is doing.
 
Hey Sean, very cool. If the Dawkins Foundation ever needs any additional post/design assistance, Id be happy to offer my companies services
 
I enjoyed the video very much.
 
Very nicely done, enjoyed watching!

One small technical question: watching on Youtube in HD mode, when you had the typewriter graphic up and a brighter area sweeps across the paper, it looks like there is a hard edge to the center (brightest) part of the white on the paper. Is this just an artifact of my screen, or is it a case of an image done in PC levels (white=255) getting clamped to Studio levels (white=235) somewhere in the chain?

Edit: well, it's not really a hard edge, I guess it's just that the white saturates to a flat featureless region, that I notice.
 
John,
It actually doesn't look that bad to me in Safari on my macbook pro, perhaps the youtube hd compression isn't consistent across different platforms, etc? I exported those sequences out of Motion using the animation compression, and they looked great in their native form. Perhaps somewhere in the compression chain they've lost some quality.

Josh
 
Great work Josh!

Graeme
 
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