“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.

Get MORE beautiful cinematic looks, now for iPad & iPhone movies

Magic Bullet Movie Looks HD turns your family into movie stars with glamorous color effects inspired by popular films. Our new Movie Looks HD gives your movies even more Hollywood appeal by including all 40 looks from Movie Looks premium packs. Now your purchase includes our popular ‘Blockbuster’, ‘Popular Film’ and ‘Black and White’ looks… for the same $1.99.

• See examples of Movie Looks HD videos
• Go to App Store to buy Movie Looks HD
• Learn more about our mobile apps family

Add a burst of movie magic with these new features:

• Includes all 40 looks from Movie Looks, with no separate purchase required
• Support for Portrait videos (so your dog doesn’t hurt his neck turning sideways)
• Support for videos up to 5 minutes in length (’cause your daughter can’t twirl around forever)
• Fully optimized for the iPad, including support for iPad 2
• Updated trimming and frame selection to simplify your movie setup
• Universal app for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iTouch, iPad 1, iPad 2

FREE UPGRADE: Do you already own Movie Looks? Then you get Movie Looks HD for free. Go to the App Store for easy upgrade information.

Tell a story with cinematic looks on iPhone, iPad & iTouch

Building on the success of Plastic Bullet, we are expanding our family of mobile products with two new apps that apply beautiful cinematic color treatments. Magic Bullet Movie Looks adds instant Hollywood appeal to movies on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, making them look like they were shot for the big screen. Noir applies rich black-and-white and dramatic lighting to photographs on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPad, for an easy and fun way to tell a story. Movie Looks and Noir were designed by filmmakers and professional colorists, and bring a decade of experience in crafting industry-standard color tools directly to your mobile video and photos.

Get Plastic Bullet for free

For a limited time, we are offering our signature iPhone app, Plastic Bullet, for free to celebrate the expansion of our mobile app family.

• See examples of Plastic Bullet photos
• Go to App Store to download Plastic Bullet for FREE (Regularly $1.99)
• Learn more about our mobile apps family

Magic Bullet Movie Looks

Turn your family into movie stars with glamorous color effects inspired by popular films. Cue the soundtrack, ’cause you’re the superhero behind the lens, adding warmth and character to your iPhone movies in a few taps. Movie Looks adds cinema treatments designed with the same tools used by professional Hollywood filmmakers.

• See examples of Movie Looks videos
• Go to App Store to buy Movie Looks (Only $2.99)

Noir

Don’t just take a photo. Tell a story. Noir lets you transform your photos with beautiful, dramatic lighting and instant results. Peel away the color to a cinematic black-and-white, apply a lovely tint, and then light up your subject. Noir is a fun and easy way to create images that tell a story – with instant, beautiful results.

• See examples of Noir photos
• Go to App Store to buy Noir (Only $2.99)

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.