Thursday, June 26, 2008

Untrustworthy

Art Adams | 06/26- 12:51 PM

I just got fired from a job because the producer decided I was untrustworthy. Huh?

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Cine Gear Expo 2008 - Day 2

Adam Wilt | 06/25- 11:42 PM

The second day of the hottest equipment show in LA


Cine Gear Expo on the blazing-hot Universal backlot

Day 2 of Cine Gear Expo dawned sunny and hot—our in-car temperature display registered 102 degrees Fahrenheit by 1:30pm. Despite the heat, there were plenty of things worth seeing.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Cine Gear Expo 2008 - Day 1

Adam Wilt | 06/20- 04:29 PM

The hottest equipment show in LA… literally…


Cine Gear Expo on the Universal back lot.

We came down to LA for Cine Gear Expo, a two-day showcase of all manner of production things: grip gear, lighting, camera accessories, and so on.

It is quite literally the hottest equipment show around…

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Maelstrom - Production (part 2)

Adam Wilt | 06/18- 12:51 PM

Shooting “jazz style” on a Rob Nilsson feature


Sunflowers: two VistaBeam 600s fill the shadows.

[See also: Preproduction; Production (part 1)]

Day 4 - We have a 3pm call for a 4pm start (we’re skewing later in the day as we need to shoot nighttime footage) and plan to shoot to midnight, covering the climactic dinner and post-dinner scenes. 

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Maelstrom - Production (part 1)

Adam Wilt | 06/17- 05:50 PM

Shooting “jazz style” on a Rob Nilsson feature


Still life with water bottle: An EX1 sports a DvRig Junior; Alan Hereford’s homebrew DvRig is at the bottom of the picture.

Day 0 - Finishing up our preproduction for Rob Nilsson’s film, “Maelstrom”, Tim and I head up to San Francisco and Emeryville to pick up gear. Videofax has an EX1 with wide-angle adaptor to back up ours and serve as a B camera, and Chater Camera has two Lectrosonics wireless systems with Sonotrim mikes to supplement my two existing Sony WRR/WRT-28 wirelesses with ECM-77s. 

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Monday, June 16, 2008

It’s not the budget, it’s where you put the camera!

Art Adams | 06/16- 05:45 PM

Equipment doesn’t make the image; people do. I proved this on a music video recently where we had more people than equipment.

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CMOS sensors are tastier without Jello

Matt Jeppsen | 11/30- 01:00 AM

The Canon 5D MKII doesn’t appear to suffer from excess rolling shutter skew

We’ve already seen some excellent video footage from the new Canon 5D…

How to Edit Canon 5D Footage in FCP

Matt Jeppsen | 11/28- 05:46 PM

Using freeware tools to prep Mark II HD footage for FCP

Canon’s new 5D Mark II DSLR with 1080p video mojo has been showing up in the hands of new users…

Vincent Laforet posted another Canon 5D MK2 video

Matt Jeppsen | 11/27- 01:00 AM

Canon’s accidental viral marketing genius continues selling DSLRs

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