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Lightscapes: Non-Verbal Series on Discovery

July 7, 2010 - 12:00 am

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I never thought I would see a broadcast television series that sites Baraka as its main inspiration. Slated to air on Discovery HD Theater, Lightscapes is billed as a “half-hour experiential television series that captures famous buildings and landscapes around the world as they are transformed by stunning, large-scale lighting displays.” Read more [...]

After Effects Tutorial: Random Binary

June 12, 2010 - 11:27 pm

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In this quick tutorial/tip, I show you how to animate strings of binary code so that the values fluctuate randomly.  The effect is relatively simple, but you have to dig a bit into After Effects before you get to the right parameters.
[HD version available on Vimeo or YouTube.]

1 Great Concept, 4 Days of Shooting, 8 Months of Post: Nuit Blanche

May 14, 2010 - 1:12 pm

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Filmmaker Arev Manoukian combined all of the right elements to make his amazing short, Nuit Blanche.  From Wired:
For Arev Manoukian, capturing the live action for his elegant short film Nuit Blanche came easy: He filmed two principal actors in four days on a green-screen soundstage in Toronto.
The hard part happened over the next [...]

Tutorial: “The Kid Stays in the Picture” Effect Using Photoshop and Motion

April 8, 2010 - 5:08 pm

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In this tutorial I show you how to create the so-called “The Kid Stays in the Picture” effect (sometimes referred to as the 2.5D effect).  The idea is to separate a still image into distinct layers, move those layers in respect to the Z-axis, then animate movement on those layers to give the impression of [...]

Oscar Nominated Documentaries Cut On Final Cut Pro

March 6, 2010 - 9:06 pm

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A recent Macworld article points out that 9 out of the 10 documentaries nominated for the 2010 Academy Awards were edited using Final Cut Pro…  pretty impressive, considering that the first version of FCP was released only twelve years ago.  (The exception, Burma VJ, was cut on an Avid).  From the article:
Apple’s PR rep put [...]

‘The Virtual Revolution’: BBC’s Collaborative Web Documentary

February 15, 2010 - 3:45 pm

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From the BBC, regarding The Virtual Revolution, their collaborative documentary about the web:
It was a radical change for BBC documentary making – an open and collaborative production, which asked the web audience to debate programme themes, suggest and send questions for interviewees, watch and comment on interview and graphics clips, and download clips for personal [...]

“Cascading Effects” – A documentary on climate change in the Pacific Northwest (Part 2)

January 31, 2010 - 4:38 pm

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Following up on my previous post… here is Part 2 (of 2) of Cascading Effects.

“Cascading Effects” – A documentary on climate change in the Pacific Northwest

January 18, 2010 - 3:37 pm

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I co-shot this piece – a project produced by fellow friend, filmmaker, shooter, and producer, Jim Tharp.  A synopsis from Jim:
[Cascading Effects examines] the sublime landscapes of North Cascades, Mount Rainier, and Olympic National Parks, researchers shed light on emerging indications that climate change is real and predict how warming temperatures will affect the natural [...]

“FilmFellas” Webisodes: Round-Table Discussions With Filmmakers

December 28, 2009 - 7:36 pm

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The folks at Zacuto have been producing FilmFellas, a “webisodic series” featuring round-table discussions with filmmakers of all variety, from novice to seasoned professional.  The clip above is the first segment of the “DP Series” Cast (Philip Bloom, Trent Opaloch, Jens Bogehegn, and Robert Primes, ASC).
For anyone in the film industry, I highly recommend having [...]

My Latest as Director of Photography – “Fanihi: A Cultural Digest”

December 9, 2009 - 11:04 pm

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Fanihi (The Mariana Fruit Bat, a type of Flying Fox) have long been considered a delicacy by the inhabitants of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).   Unsustainable hunting has brought the population of Fanihi to critical levels on the archipelago’s small island of Rota -  despite recent laws prohibiting the killing of the endangered species.  Fanihi: [...]

“By the People” – Highly Recommended HBO Documentary

November 28, 2009 - 11:59 pm

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By the People: The Election of Barack Obama.  Add it to the list of amazing content picked up by HBO Documentary Films.  It premiered a few weeks ago, but is still airing -  so catch it if you can.  The filmmakers, Amy Rice and Alicia Sams, seem to have mojo reminiscent of D.A. Pennebaker (Primary [...]