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Baby Maker music video

e. gustavo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:17:58 +0000

UPDATE: Mar 6: Funny or Die picked “Baby Maker” as a featured pick today and linked to in on the front page. Hope the momentum keeps going…

UPDATE: Mar 3: It’s up and ready for you to shake your money maker to. Keep you’re eyes out for the baby maker dance, it’s gonna be big at the clubs yo.

Baby Maker – watch more funny videos Please visit the site and vote for this video.

Feb 20: Shot a music video called “Baby Maker” for Reno Wilson (aka Lil’ Problem). It’s a parody of rap videos and it’s real funny. The video is directed by Andy Lerner (wish I had a cool nick name for him, but I got nothing). Shot here in Los Angeles and Torrance using two Panasonic HVX200 we managed to cram lots of locations into two very productive days. The video has since been finished and should be available for viewing very soon.

Reno (er’ Lil Problem) looking sporty on the green screen
Working the choreography in the padded room

Andy (Dir) with the ladies (dancers)
Andy again with the ladies

Watching playback of the madness that just happened on the Anytime with Bob Kushell set with Blair Underwood as the host
Crane, crowds, kids, cars, and Jason Mews – It’s a good day.

Get to play with the new RED chip

e. gustavo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:04:28 +0000

No, not potato chips (Mmmmm… potatoooo chipssss) but the new MX chip for the Red One camera. Shooting a cosmetics commercial later this week and can’t wait to explore what the new chip can do. I’ve seen some footage and it’s time to get my hands dirty. Stay tuned…

“Box of Shadows” trailer

e. gustavo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:37:02 +0000

The currency independent filmmakers have is time, or at least time well spent. “Box of Shadows” is the feature film I shot late last year and it is now heading for the home stretch. The updated website and trailer are online and ready to be viewed and hopefully talked about.

New Tool…

e. gustavo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:51:48 +0000

I wish I got kick-backs from equipment manufactures, but no such luck. Still, if I like it, I’ll post it. My new toy for the set and home is the Guppie from Columbia River. It’s fits great in the hand, it’s light and it does a bunch. It’s very well thought out and can’t wait to show it off on set. (And if anyone wants to send me a little “somethin’-somethin’”, it’ll be our little secret.)

Ain’t it got a purdie lil’ mouth?!

Any press is good press…

e. gustavo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:45:09 +0000

Indie Slate (issue #59) did a cover story on Corbin Bernsen and independent filmmaking. I get a brief mention which is nice (better if they had spelled my name correctly in the article or actually used a photo with me in it instead of identifying me in a photo I’m not in). Still it’s a good read worth taking a look at.

As a side note, I’m currently reading a script Corbin sent me for a project this spring. I’ll share more about that script soon.

Zombie Roadkill – PUs

e. gustavo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:14:01 +0000

Piece by piece… We get closer to the end. Had a chance to see a cut of the series and it looks good. Should be fun, funny and well received (one hopes). Of particular fun was shooting the squirrel cam footage on the front of a car with some new stuff I bought for the occasion. See the picture and prepare to be titillated!

Squirrel cam & skunk cam (patent pending, patent pending)

Good day at the office…
The fog tent or as I like to call it the “three days less of my life but the shot matches principle photography” tent

“Meltdown” wins first prize…

e. gustavo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:29:29 +0000

…and a golden underwear trophy. Awesome. Tonight “Meltdown” won big at the Box[ur]Shorts film festival (see the blurb on their website). The festival’s awards screening took place at the New Beverly Cinema and was attended by a by a packed house. It was an awesome night and all the films in the top ten were so impressive – great company to keep. A million thanks to the festival coordinators for putting on a wonderful event and thank you to the sponsors for a wonderful gift basket and the free booze. Yeah us!

Me, David (director) and Ryan (producer) and the golden undies.

“Box of Shadows” post-production nears end

e. gustavo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:04:54 +0000

2010 is shaping up wonderfully. The feature I shot late last year is nearly completed with picture lock a couple of weeks away. Today, we shot a few FX shots of the new grim reaper for the trailer and it looks absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait to share the trailer which should be done in a few weeks also.

We had planned on shooting on the Panasonic HVX200 but it produced too much noise and compression artifacting to be useful. I took along my Canon 5D Mark II to shoot behind the scenes but ended up shooting the plates with that. We were all surprised by the improved image quality of the camera in video mode and were able to overlook the annoyance of the 30fps frame rate. Best of all was when we shot full frame stills as image sequences. Very clean keys from that. Our VFX supervisors will be taking those image sequences and apply a little frame interpolation in between frames as well as other hocus-pocus. The staccatoed motion is creepy and lends itself to what we’re trying to do with the character. It’ll be a huge improvement to the film. It’ll be fun when it’s all done.

“Splice” magazine interview

e. gustavo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:37:33 +0000

Splice Magazine interviewed me on use the Red One camera. Splice is distributed in Canada aimed by The Filmpool Cooperative – a non-profit that encourages indie filmmaking in Saskatchewan.

I downloaded a couple of the back issues and it’s a very cool magazine that’s available in both a physical and PDF version. It’s got a great, almost hipster aesthetic and the information is very down-to-earth and useful. Can’t wait to get a physical copy of the magazine and share the article.

Year 8 of this blog…

e. gustavo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:49:23 +0000

HAPPY NEW YEAR!