Category: Filmmaking
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Movie poster design “I Want To Believe”
I designed a movie poster for my short film “I Want To Believe”. I made the photo using the background lights that were in the scene and added a studio flash with grid to light the actor for dramatic effect. It came out just the way I envisioned it. I used the very nice and free…
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Shooting My First Narrative Film “I Want To Believe”
Yesterday, I shot my first narrative film “I Want To Believe”. It was a long day but eventually we got everything we needed. A big thanks to my crew who made it all possible! This film has been in preparation since the beginning of this year when I got the idea and wrote the script.…
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Storyboarding My Short Film
I finished the storyboard for my first narrative short film which I will be shooting at the end of this month. I already made a shot list and I took that as a starting point for drawing the storyboard. I had a quick look at a couple of software tools for storyboarding and although some of…
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Photokina 2012
Today, I visited Photokina in Cologne, Germany. It’s a photo/video tradeshow held every two years. The main reason I went to Photokina was to check out Cinevate’s new add-on kits for their Atlas slider family: motion control. The add-on kit has been developed by Polish company Dito Gear and will be available soon. With the…
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Prepairing for shooting my first narrative short film
I remember when I was a kid a friend and me had a lot of Star Wars figures and wanted to make a Star Wars based sci-fi stop motion film. Of course that never happened but I guess, somewhere in the back of my mind, the desire to make a film stayed dormant. It wasn’t for…
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My Experience With A Chinese “Like ARRI” Fresnel Light
More than a year ago I bought one of those “like ARRI” 650W Fresnel spots on eBay. I was just starting buying some filmmaking gear and it was the first “decent” light I bought. I want to share my experience with it so far. I did not use this light very much, mostly for indoor test shoots…
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LEGO Turing Machine video on the Biowall
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Randy Scope, the director of content of the BioWall in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He asked me if my LEGO Turing Machine video could be part of the programming of the BioWall. The BioWall is an outdoor public space art and education video installation featuring non-commercial, life…
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What Happened To Your Dreams?
Jeremiah McDonald made a very amusing and touching video where he talks to his 12 year old self. While talking to his younger self he discovers his childhood dreams again and wonders what happened to them. [youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/XFGAQrEUaeU[/youtube] It’s a great film with a fundamental underlying question: What happened to your childhood dreams? Think…
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Customer Showcase on cinevate.com
Two weeks ago I e-mailed Cinevate about the LEGO Turing machine video I made and asked them to consider it for their regular “Customer Showcase”. Purely coincidental, later that same day, I had a short chat on Google+ with Dennis Wood of Cinevate about the Panasonic AF100 (which I used for the video) and mentioned…
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The Last Couple of Days Have Been Awesome
I finished editing the LEGO Turing Machine film last Sunday night and uploaded it to Vimeo. Monday morning the team at CWI started sending out the message to the world. What happened after that is nothing less than amazing. None of us expected this kind of response! As the news spread over the world more…
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LEGO Turing Machine video
I finished editing the video of the LEGO Turing Machine. You can watch it below. There is also a YouTube version of the video if you prefer to watch it there. Although there are a couple of things that I could have done better or different, I am really pleased with the end result. I…