Monday, November 03, 2008

Making “One Man, One Vote”

Adam Wilt | 11/03- 06:19 PM

Production and post for a seven-minute short.

Ten years ago a fellow named Marshall Spight posted a challenge on DV-L called “Throwing Down the DV Gauntlet”, in which he said, “everyone talks about shooting serious dramatic films with DV, but does anyone actually do it?” I responded, and we wound up making a 20-minute short called “The Beautiful Thing” using Sony DCR-VX1000s, the first 1/3” 3-CCD DV camcorders. It came out so well (it was for a time the top-rated dramatic film on iFilm.com, an early and long-defunct predecessor to YouTube) that we set about making a short political drama/comedy (?), “One Man, One Vote”. This one gave us a few more challenges.

Monday, November 03, 2008

The RED Camera and Green Screen

Art Adams | 11/03- 06:08 PM

What you need to know before you learn the hard way

After working in this business a while (this year was 21 for me) I find that I don’t worry about venturing into the unknown. And three weeks ago green screen with the RED was certainly an unknown for me.

Monday, October 27, 2008

More Fun with RED

Art Adams | 10/27- 07:34 PM

In which a four day corporate shoot for Sunpower goes exceedingly well

I just finished a four day shoot for solar energy company Sunpower where we used the RED for three days of location shooting and one day of green screen. More about the green screen later--here’s how I did all the live action shots.

Monday, October 20, 2008

What I’ve learned about the RED in the last three days

Art Adams | 10/20- 09:06 PM

My tips, direct from the set to you

Tomorrow I finish a project that has shot for three days already on the RED, build 16. Here’s what I’ve learned and discovered:

Friday, October 17, 2008

The HVX-200 Strikes Again

Art Adams | 10/17- 04:46 PM

In which I present the results of a spec job that I wrote up a while back on PVC

A while back I wrote an article about a spec shoot I did promoting an as-yet unfunded motion picture project. For various reasons the project wasn’t finished, so I took it upon myself to cut the footage into a short piece for my reel. I mixed in some footage from a light drawing test that we did for the same project using a Canon DSLR.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

No on Prop 8 (California)—shot on RED

Art Adams | 10/16- 08:04 PM

Another successful RED project on a shoestring budget

I’ll revisit this next week when I have more time to write (I’m about to go into a four day RED project that will shoot over this coming weekend) but I’m very proud of this spot and--as it was just released onto YouTube--I wanted to show it off.

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