June 26: I have been so derelict in not adding this to my blog, so here goes… “The 20 Second Rule” screened at the Palm Springs Short Film Festival.
View from our hotel room. Jeff Cole suggested this hotel – what a great suggestion! I loved this place.
Our room key. A great room, full bar, more like a loft than a hotel room and it’s dog friendly! Loves it.
Clay’s “taxicab photo” – nice
And the contestants are… This was one of the best run film festivals I’ve been to. The last film festivals I’ve had a film in have been scheduled with an odd sort of films. This one, all the films were first and foremost, actually short (how novel). The all has the same tone, in our case comedy. It made it more cohesive and easier to watch one after the other. Great job.
Pimping our movie.
Packing the screening. Say “cheese” everyone.
My beautiful wife and me.
What a fine way to end the evening. A little fight broke out back at the hotel between a drunk and a drunk. It seems that the Mike Tyson school of fighting is doing well. You might be able to see it in the photo but if you look real close in the upper third of the screen just left of center, you’ll see a tiny bit of ear. That’s right… ear! Dude really, what the hell. Fight like a man!
2009 Aug 07 – “Meltdown” will be screening on Aug 09 at 8:30 PM as part of HollyShorts Film Festival. If you can make it to the screening, your support and boisterous laughs will be much appreciated, not to mention your five star rating of our little awesome food movie. If you want to learn a bit about the movie, check out the official website or read all about it on my blog.
2009 July 25 – “Meltdown” was accepted into more Film Festivals. It’s on the road to stardom me thinks. It’s a good thing because we just finished the final color grading on it at AlphaDogs with colorist Brian Hutchings manning the controls. I’m hoping we’ll be able to show it online soon. Till then, you always have my previous posts to look at. Here’s a list of some of the festivals our awesome little movie will be screening at…
San Francisco International Short Film Fest
Fantastic Fest
DC Shorts Fest
HollyShorts Film Festvial
2009 Aug 7: Over the half million mark on break.com (531,145) and on YouTube.com it’s at 123,188. Awesome!
2009 July 25: Combined hits has reached over 400,000!!! The video can be viewed at the following sites:
http://www.break.com/index/amazing-american-psycho-music-video.html
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917592
http://www.milesfisher.com/music.htm
Do a search for “Miles Fisher” and you’ll find dozens upon dozens of links to the video and links to the video on YouTube. Please hit 1 million soon!
2009 July 21: It’s here… children of the 80’s rejoice. I can finally talk about the music video I worked on recently. The video was for Miles Fisher . It’s a re-imagined take on the Talking Heads song “This Must Be The Place” set to a musical version of American Psycho. Inspired! The project is directed by David Green, produced by Jake Avnet and Ryan Hendricks and lensed by your truly. I’ll post some picture and post some stories from the shoot after I’m done with the feature I’m shooting right now. Until then, here’s a link to the video so you can watch. Comment, share and enjoy. It’s wicked cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29d6RDSK1c
Here are some pics from the shoot. I’ll write more after I finish the feature I’m on.
2009 July 19: Final cut and final color is done on the video. There should be an online version Wednesday. Hope you all like it.
2009 June 29: Just finished an awesome music video. I am, sadly, sworn to secrecy until it comes out. Curious much?! Here’s what I can say and I mentioned this on Facebook… great artist, great song, great concept and a great super model. Tantalizing isn’t it.
2009 July 19: The final spot is online. Please watch it (a few times) and write a nice note if you can. A thirty second version will be available to watch on Hulu in the coming weeks.
http://www.trojanvideos.com/video/130/sri-lanka
2009 June 06: Just shot a web commercial for Trojan condoms, directed by David Green. Will post more in the coming weeks as well as a link when it’s on their site…
I’ve become a huge fan of the following iPhone apps. Here’s my plug (I wish I got a cut).
Helio: Right now this is my favorite by far. It’s a sunrise/sunset calculator that includes what other sunrise/sunset apps lack and that’s a shadow ratio calculation. The app gives you a multiplier that you use against the height of an object to calculate the length of a shadow at any time of the day. If for example you want to know how long a shadow will be at 7PM on the 4th of July at the location 34°5′ by -118°19′, the multiplier would be 4.66. So if you have an object that’s 1.5m tall, the length of the shadow that object would cast is 7m long. Very useful for pre-production and production planning. It also has a handy inclinometer for determining the location of the sun in the sky. Sweet.
MatchLens: Also a great little app when using a DSLR camera to take recce location photos. I can take a photo with my point-and-shoot G10 and if we like the shot and want to reproduce it on the day, the app will calculate the focal length for the shooting lens based on the lens I used on my G10. So if the G10 takes a photos using a 6.1mm focal length and I’m shooting a show with the Red One camera at 4K, the lens I would put on the Red is 17.8 or an 18mm lens. Fantastic.
I’m taking a few more courses at fxphd. Two Apple Color classes and one Shake class. Color seemed to be a logical course to take give my “day job” but the Shake class is a good extension to my work with After Effects. The courses I took last summer last semester have been indispensable with the recent Red One movies I’ve shot. Definitely recommend these it to anyone involved or interested in post production. I’ll report more on the later in the term.
