Here are some shots from day one of the short film I’m working on. I’ll write more and add some new pictures this weekend.
: : frame-grabs from raw footage : : day one
: : frame-grabs from raw footage : : day two
: : hard drive / Pansonic HVX200 / Apple laptop
: : Heather my right hand
: : Sound mixer Chris
: : a little courtesy
: : The director, Jeanette & AD Justin
: : is this good light?
As a sign of the times, my brother and his wife made a little video of my nephew riding his cart racer and posted it onto YouTube. It’s not like we’re thousands of miles away (it’s more like 70 miles), still watching this video makes it seem like they’re very close. It’s also great to see the encroachment of videos making on the every man.
I look forward to seeing more from them. One word… iMovie.
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I recently started buying more magazines and books with strong photography as reference material to aid in conversations with directors and producers. While looking for magazines, I happened upon a relatively new magazine called JPG. Its content is culled from the public at large through its website.
I subscribed and submitted a photo I shot a little over a year ago. The site and magazine are a great resource of global images and varied styles. The best part is that they’re relatively untouched by Photoshop trickery.
I saw a pre-screening of “Bobby” tonight. As part of my “getting back all the initiation fee I paid the Union” strategem, I’m again taking in a showing of a film offered by said Union. What an amazing piece of cinema. An enormous and distinguished cast, beautiful cinematography and an extraordinary script. Written and directed by Emilio Estevez and deftly lensed by Michael Barrett, the story revolves around the day leading up to Senator Bobby Kennedy’s speech the night of his assassination.
View the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/bobby/
The experimental short film I shot earlier this year finally made it to telecine. I’ve been known to say, things happen for a reason and for this project, the delay meant waiting until The Post Group could do our telecine. In that wait, it was possible to have their DI Colorist work on our project. Doug is a friend of mine and it was great working with him again.
As a recap, the project was shot using a Canon digital still camera shooting bursts of about 9 seconds or about 65 frames. We recorded dialogue along with the bursts as a scratch track. The clips were edited together, the dialogue was recorded and added and then, the whole thing output as an uncompressed quicktime. We color corrected the final cut on a da Vinci 2K with an HDCAM output. I wish I had frame grabs to show you, but worry not, I’ll have a DVD of the project in a couple of days and I’ll get grabs then. It really looks great.
Camera phone – not great, but if you look real hard, you’ll see Doug working the controls.
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