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Jeff Caudill – music video

2009/05/17 / posted in music video / No Comments

This turned into quite a cool project. It’s a music video for Jeff Caudill and his new album, Try To Be Here for the song “Remember the Time”. The project was directed by long-time friend and music video collaborator, Guy Julian.

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↑ Guy J. (director) talks about the shot.
→ Here’s a quick-and-dirty frame of what the final video will likely look like. While on set we wanted to see if the green will composite well – and it did. In addition, we added a mild vignette and as you see, the green in the frames have been replaced with a black-and-white image.

In the final video, the picture frames will have a still image or a series of animated still images.

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Are you ready for your close-up?

More news in the coming weeks (or given my schedule, maybe next month).

Festival bound…

2009/05/15 / posted in narrative / 1 Comment

“The 20 Second Rule” (director Clay Delauney) is officially in the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (that’s a mouth full). It’s the first film festival for this project which makes it a world premiere. Here’s a teaser to the project:


Box of Shadows – testing, testing, testing…

2009/05/14 / posted in narrative / 1 Comment

Finished shooting a two day “test” for a feature I’m shooting late next month. The project is called “Box of Shadows” and it’s being directed by Mauro Borrelli. We shot about seven pages from the script that included several key elements that we needed to test. Those included the look of the coffin and how it looked on camera, the visual effects, and post-production workflow with the Red One camera as well as trying to find the look of the film before day one of production.

Overall I think the two days went extremely well and I feel we learned a great deal. This week we’ll debrief about what we learned, what worked and what didn’t. I understand a rough assembly is done – can’t wait to see it.

Oh, so what’s the story about? Stay tuned…

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Mauro (director) and the Vincent (art director) review the coffin.

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→ A perfect fit. (The photo is a bit creepier upside down isn’t it?!)
↑ Red on the slider.

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And that’s a wrap…

Here’s a look at our tentative post-production workflow (Click to see a larger version).

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UPDATE: Saw the rough assembly and it looks great! Very happy. Can’t wait to post a web version online for you to see.

Back to school…

2009/05/07 / posted in other / No Comments

I’m a big fan of the fxguide.com podcasts, especially the Red centric news and information podcast, Red Centre (it’s spelled right… they’re Aussies). The folks at fxguide also have a series of instructional course that they offer via their website fxphd.com. The emphasis of that site is, as you can gather from the title, visual effects work with software packages like After Effects, Shake, Smoke, Flame et al. but they also offer courses on Final Cut Pro and the Red One camera use and post workflow. Currently I’m taking four classes (Red Tale from production, Red Post Production, & Stop Motion and Miniatures) and I just added other class (Digital Color Theory).

The way it works is each week a class and class materials are downloaded as QuickTime files. Each class is about 45 minutes worth of information and instruction, sometimes as a lecture and other times it’s interviews with industry professionals. While it lacks the face-to-face exchange, they have a forum for each class where you can ask questions of the instructor or other classmates. Win, win.

I have to say that after three weeks of “class” I’ve gotten a bunch of useful information and think it’s gonna be very well worth it. It’s the wave of the future kids…

CineGear Expo 2009

2009/05/05 / posted in other / No Comments

The time is nigh… I just registered and so should you. For my friends in the area or abroad, park by my house and we’ll walk there since this year it’s at Paramount Studios. You’ve got till 28 May but don’t procrastinate.