Jonathan Fowler
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Interview with Documentary Filmmaker Barry Ptolemy
I recently had the pleasure to direct this Big Think interview with documentary filmmaker Barry Ptolemy. His latest project, Transcendent Man, chronicles the efforts of techno-prophet and futurist Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil visited the studio the same day, but we interviewed the two separately. Watch Kurzweil share equally entertaining thoughts, here.
Barry shared some pearls of wisdom applicable to storytellers of all flavor – from writer or filmmaker, to businessperson or teacher. Watch above as Ptolemy explains The Hero’s Journey.
Tags: Barry Ptolemy, Big Think, Documentary, Filmmaking, Interview, Jonathan's Work, Ray Kurzweil, Storytelling, Video
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Uncaged: Cultural Canvas Thailand, Art Relief International, and Baan Piranan
January 23, 2011 - 5:46 pm
Tags: Art Relief International, Art Therapy, Baan Piranan, Cerebral Palsy, Chiang Mai, Chrissy Foreman, Cultural Canvas Thailand, Documentary, Don Wilcox, Jonathan Fowler, Jonathan's Work, NGO, Non-Profit, Philanthropy, Sara Latshaw, Thailand, Video, Zoe Lambe
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During my stay in Thailand I produced this short piece, Uncaged, which tells the story of two young children, Nong Mai and Nong Wichai. The boys have cerebral palsy, which can be devastating if left untreated. Three organizations (Cultural Canvas Thailand, Art Relief International, and Baan Piranan) have teamed up to give these children a [...]
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Video: The Latest Breakthrough in Videography
September 10, 2010 - 3:00 pm
Tags: After Effects, Bracketing, Canon 5D Mark II, Cinematography Techniques, Engadget, Exposure Latitude, HDR, HDR Time Lapse Instructions, High Dynamic Range, Inervalometer, Nikon d200, Quicktime, Soviet Montage Productions, Time Lapse, timelapse, Video, Vimeo
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I’ve been a big fan of HDR photography since I first discovered it three years ago. While it can be overdone, or applied without motivation, it can produce some amazing results under the right circumstances. Capturing detail in the highest of highs and lowest of lows results in an effect that I like to think [...]
Lightscapes: Non-Verbal Series on Discovery
August 7, 2010 - 12:00 am
Tags: 4K, Baraka, Broadcast, Christopher Frey, Cinematography, Discovery, Documentary, Experimental, Lightscapes, Non-Verbal, Peter H. Chang, Time Lapse
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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 about the [...]
After Effects Tutorial: Random Binary
July 12, 2010 - 11:27 pm
Tags: After Effects, Animation, Binary, Computer, Editing, Fluctuating, Graphics, Jonathan Fowler, Jonathan's Work, Matrix, Postproduction, Randomized Binary Code, Tip, Tutorial, VFX, Visual Effects
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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.]
My Latest as Director of Photography – “Fanihi: A Cultural Digest”
June 15, 2010 - 11:04 pm
Tags: CNMI, Conservation, Director of Photography, Endangered Species, Fanihi, Flying Fox, Fruit Bat, Jim Tharp, Jonathan's Work, Poaching, Rota, Weird Delicacies
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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: [...]
1 Great Concept, 4 Days of Shooting, 8 Months of Post: Nuit Blanche
June 2, 2010 - 1:12 pm
Tags: 3D, After Effects, Arev Manoukian, Car Crash, Compositing, Editing, High Speed, Maya, Nuit Blanche, Photron APX, Post-Production, Shattered Glass, Short-Form, slo-mo, slow motion, Video
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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
Tags: 2 1/2 D, 2.5D, 3D, After Effects, Animation, Apple Motion, Digital Effects, Documentary, Editing, Graphics, Jonathan's Work, Ken Burns, Photoshop, Post-Production, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Tutorial, Video
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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
Tags: 2010 Academy Awards, Apple, Burma VJ, China's Unnatural Disaster, Documentary, Editing, Final Cut Pro, Food Inc., Macworld, Music by Prudence, NLE, Oscars, Post-Production, Rabbit à la Berlin, The Cove, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, The Last Truck, The Most Dangerous Man in the World, Video, Which Way Home
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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 [...]
‘The Virtual Revolution’: BBC’s Collaborative Web Documentary
February 15, 2010 - 3:45 pm
Tags: 3D, 3d Documentary Explorer, BBC, Collaborative, Documentary, Interactivity, New Media, Open Source, The Virtual Revolution, Video
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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 [...]
“Cascading Effects” – A documentary on climate change in the Pacific Northwest (Part 2 of 2)
January 31, 2010 - 4:38 pm
Tags: Cascading Effects, Climate Change, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Global Warming, Jim Tharp, Jonathan's Work, Mount Rainier National Park, National Parks, North Cascades National Park, Olympic National Park, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Science Filmmaking, Scott Wiessinger, Video, Washington
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Following up on my previous post… here is Part 2 (of 2) of Cascading Effects.
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