Weddings
Sometimes I truthfully love shooting weddings. At least when they look like this one. Frank and Shoma were great and I loved working with them.
SXSW part II
As I mentioned before I had a great time working at SXSW with the gunslinger/media crew. I already posted some interviews I was able to edit but they now have the performances up too. This one with Crystal Bowersox I put together the rough cut on: This one with Atomic Tom has to be my [...]
SXSW funtimes
for many people SXSW is a time to play and have fun. For those of us in the Austin film industry it is a time to make some money. I was super busy all week with both editing and camera op gigs. I even managed to rent out a fair amount of equipment too. My [...]
Music Video is Done
I have been working on a music video with Musician Maggie Walters and it is finally complete. About half of the footage you see in the video is things that I filmed. I did not edit the video myself, Maggie did the editing on her own. The shots of her walking, the greenscreen and the [...]
Green Screen!!
So those Chroma Key Lessons that Ben Bays (Benbays.blogspot.com) taught me are really paying off. I’ve been spending a lot of time doing green screen shoots lately and I’ve discovered a few thing about them. 1. Real green screens are expensive but you can make some pretty good low tech/low cost alternatives. For one shoot [...]
Animation project posted to youtube
After much deliberation I have decided to post my project to youtube. I’m doing everything I can to get it some attention so please share it with others if you like it. Hopefully the quality of work speaks for itself. Here it is enjoy:
Final Project done!!
Whew that took a long time. Note to self rotoscoping always takes longer than you think it will. I have decided for the time being not to post the whole film online and submit it to a few film festivals to see what happens. In the long run I think it will end up on [...]
Assembly
The good news is that I have finished production completely now. I have begun to assemble the project in after effects. So far the footage looks really good. I accidentally discovered a rather cool technique. I originally shot every picture at three different stops just to make sure I got it exposed properly because the [...]
Production
I have been filming/photographing with my brother in law Ian Lindsey as my “talent” for a few days now. There is still one more day left to film but I thought I would share a few of the results here in the form of a few stills of what I have been shooting. I also [...]
Final Project Pitch
Pitch: I want to make a stop motion video that uses live actors in stop motion and hand drawn animation, and then combines them in after effects using masks, motion tracking, chroma key, rotoscoping and photoshop. Proposal: I will shoot with the canon 5D mark II camera all the stop motion footage with the actor. [...]