Saturday, September 20, 2008

Director of Photography

This semester I am taking CAS 351, Advanced Media Production. For this class we are making a short film, temporarily titled "Doug," a story touching on the facts of job loss in our current market and state. 

We had to apply for the positions we wanted on the crew, from Producer to Electrician. Since I have some experience at Director of Photography I thought it would be good to give it a shot. After applying we waited a week and our professor announced positions, I was to be the DP!

I will be using the JVC 200u with a Cinevate Brevis 35mm lens adapter. I am very excited and I will post some test footage of it up asap.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Photomotion/stopmotion

Lately I have decided to forego making videos with my crappy camera to make photomotion videos using my much nicer digital still camera. Now I can get HD quality videos, which is nicer in a certain sense, but it is jumpy do to the nature of photomotion. 

Along the same lines as HD video, I have been helping Jake Bosmeijer set up Calvin's new HD studio cameras this week, running cables to the switcher and figuring out how to get the new equipment to do all of the same things as the old gear.

A new video should be up soon, I am currently having codec issues...