“Stop being a wallflower – your neighborhood wants to dance.” is the spirited tagline to a 2-minute film by CA-based Micah Moss. And what started off as a muse about streaming vs. DVDs and the physical act of walking to a mailbox to drop off a DVD, has turned into beautifully simple mini-masterpiece.

‘The Latter’ was shot entirely using an iPad 2 in Highland Park, CA. and edited with Movie Looks HD. With one or two other options available on the App Store we asked Micah why he chose Red Giant’s Movie Looks HD for this engaging short.

Micah told us “”When shopping around for a coloring app, I settled on Movie Looks HD for several reasons. First of all, Red Giant (the developer) is just that – a GIANT in the world of post-production; they’ve been developing sophisticated editing / coloring tools for years for the biggest of Hollywood productions, so I knew their touch would come from years of expertise – that was a no-brainer. After testing the app, I found it to be easy and intuitive, with a couple nice little unique features to boot. You can trim the length of the clip before processing with easy-touch sliders, and (my personal favorite) you can specify what keyframe you want to use when sampling effects. Very handy (especially if you were still calibrating your exposure for the first several frames of each clip).

Micah continued “The filters are beautiful and complex, and aren’t so “one-note” as many other coloring apps; if you’re looking for a distinct visual tone above the “anything-but-subtle-current-mobile-8-MM-fad”, then Movie Looks HD will allow you to deliver on your vision. Cold tones, warm, bleached, cross-processed, diffusion – they’re all there and more, and they’re just a starting point. Once you’ve found a kindred “look” you like, you can adjust the “strength” and “brightness” of the process (again with easy-touch sliders – everything was made with the touch-screen in mind), and even select “full or half” resolution in case you want to do a smaller, quicker test on the footage. All in all, Movie Looks HD is incredibly powerful, sports a clean, minimalist interface perfect for the iPad, and is a total steal for a couple bucks.”

iPad Creative Magazine called ‘The Latter’ superb and we’d add it’s utterly charming and clever and certainly not to be missed.

Check out more of Micah’s work HERE.

‘The Latter’ has also been entered into the Original iPhone Film Festival, so we wish Micah all the best with that. If you’d like to enter your own film do check out the site, there’s about 6 weeks left for entries.

We got a lot of great imagery in our Plastic Bullet International contest. Too much, in fact. All that great stuff made for a tough decision, but thankfully I didn’t have to make it on my own. The entire team at Red Giant voted on our favorite images, and below are the 3 winners:

@daveweekes68 - Dave Weekes, from Anan, Tokushima, Japan. This was our clear winner. It received more votes than any other photo.

@motogotoe - Tanner Thompson. We loved this one almost as much as the image above. But the last few votes brought it into 2nd place. Still, a fantastic image.

@lorenzobax - Lorenzo Bassotto, in Verona. This image didn't score quite as high in the voting, but it still rose high above the remaining images. It's got some real character and emotional depth.

Winners receive either a $50 Apple gift card or any single Red Giant plug-in. Congratulations folks! Great work!

Hey folks – we just picked the random winner for the Plastic Bullet International contest. The winner was @scoodog (Tom Myler) with this image:

When we let Tom know this morning, he responded: “Wow, thank you so much!!  I am so happy to have won. I love Plastic Bullet so much.”

Congratulations Tom! We love Plastic Bullet too!

FYI – We used Rowfeeder.com to capture all entries to the contest. After removing any posts that were ineligible (based on the contest rules), we used Random.org to randomly pick the winner from list of contestants.

But now on to 2nd Prize… We’ll anounce the skill-based winners later this week. We have to go through them as a team, here at RG. We’ll let you know soon. Thanks to everyone for their great submissions!

Hey folks – our Plastic Bullet International contest is now closed. Here are our favorite entries that came in over the last few days of the contest.

Don’t forget – ANYONE who submitted an Plastic Bullet-ized image is eligible for the grand prize. So even if your image is not featured in our blog, you can win big.

Winners will be announced a few days after the Thanksgiving Holiday. Thanks so much for all of the great submissions!

We had a lot of submissions come in for our Plastic Bullet International contest, from Friday through today, and I’m trying to catch up with them. But, for now, here are our favorite images that came in until Friday @ 11:59 PM EST:

Today is the last day to enter the contest.

I’m out for the rest of the week on a 1-2 punch of jury duty and Thanksgiving, so we will probably post the rest of our favorites next week, and then pick a winner.

Don’t forget you can use ANY CAMERA, so long as the final image is processed with Plastic Bullet. And even if you don’t have serious photography chops (or any at all) EVERYONE who enters has an equal chance at winning the grand prize. There are also prizes for the best images, but anyone has a chance at the big one.

• Get Plastic Bullet HERE.
• Enter the contest HERE.

Let’s cut to the chase: A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you’re here because, in our Plastic Bullet International contest, it may also be worth an iPad. Here are some of our favorites from day 3. These are images that came in until Thursday @ 11:59 PM EST:

Don’t forget you can use ANY CAMERA, so long as the final image is processed with Plastic Bullet. And even if you don’t have serious photography chops (or any at all) EVERYONE who enters has an equal chance at winning the grand prize. There are also prizes for the best images, but anyone has a chance at the big one.

Get Plastic Bullet HERE.

Enter the contest HERE.

OK. Now we’re talking. Our Plastic Bullet International contest is really starting to heat up. We’re getting a lot of evocative pieces as well as some cool looking vintage, scenic, and family stuff – not to mention your pets (Who’s a good boy?! It’s you! Yeah! It’s you! Your going to win me an iPad!).

Here are some of our favorites from day 2. These are images that came in until Wednesday @ 11:59 PM EST.

Great stuff! Keep the entries coming!  Don’t forget you can use ANY CAMERA, so long as the final image is processed with Plastic Bullet.

Get Plastic Bullet HERE.

Enter the contest HERE.

Hey folks – Our Plastic Bullet International Contest is in full swing, and we got a TON of great images from you yesterday. I thought I’d share some of our favorites so far – and there are a lot. These are images that came in until 12AM EST. Man, this contest is going to be hard to judge.

Great stuff! Keep the entries coming!

We’d also love to see some iPhone 4 HDRI photography with Plastic Bullet. But FYI – if you use it, it won’t give you an advantage (well, not unless it looks totally awesome). Don’t forget you can use ANY CAMERA, so long as the final image is processed with Plastic Bullet.

Get Plastic Bullet HERE.

Enter the contest HERE.

Our awesome iPhone app, Plastic Bullet, has been optimized for iPhone 4 and translated to work in 6 additional languages (French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese). So we’re celebrating with a new international contest! Tweet a photo that uses Plastic Bullet, and you could win an iPad or other prizes. This contest ends on November 22nd, at 11:59 PM PST. Winners will be announced a few days after that date (probably right after Thanksgiving).

Enter the contest and read the rules here: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/social/plastic-bullet-international/

The contest is open to international submissions. Only ONE ENTRY per user.

Get Plastic Bullet HERE.

Here are some great shots from the last contest:

We had a lot of great entries for our Plastic Bullet contest, but, ultimately, we had to choose only 3 winners. And here they are:

A fantastic shot, right out of a magazine I am not hip enough to be reading, from @jculpjr.

A perfect memory captured in time, by @LonnyQ.

Nice black and white shot from @luxurymindz

Thanks again folks for your fantastic entries. It was truly painful bringing it to just a final 3, because we really loved so many of the shots.