April 13th, 2009
by Carlos in Film, Video
Spencer Pharr will be producing and directing a new upcoming short titled “Sawed-Off” during the first week of May and asked me to sign on to the project as their editor. Spencer gave me some RED footage to play with in order to understand and choose a workflow for his film. This will be my first post-production gig dealing with the RED workflow. I’ve been reading up on a lot of workflow types with RED and I think I found one that I am happy with. Since I have a Dual 2.8Ghz Quad-Core MacPro with 8GB of RAM, I’ll be going with the following workflow Read the rest of this entry »
April 6th, 2009
by Carlos in Video
Neal Barenblat, E.J. Enriquez, and I began production for part one of Texas Burning’s new intro. Tony Curtona, the executive producer of Texas Burning, booked Patricia Vonne and Sam Baker to give the opening introduction for the broadcast. Tony decided to go with the Green Screen approach since we have more control in a studio space and wouldn’t have to deal with any of the outdoor elements. We rented our lighting equipment and green screen from Omega Broadcast and shot in their studio back lot. E.J. brought his HVX200 for the shoot since you need that good ol’ DVCProHD 4:2:2 codec for green screen work. Everything went smoothly.
Green Screen Setup
E.J. & his HVX200
Setting up the shot
Patricia Vonne & Sam Baker
Lights, Camera, & Action!
Rehearsing their lines
April 5th, 2009
by Carlos in Film
My friends John Handem and Galen Carter-Jeffrey invited me this morning to the set of a new film shooting in Austin, TX titled “El Coyote”, currently being directed by Jay Galvan, produced by Steven Lane, and the Assistant Director is Jolyn Janis of Digital Defacto. The Director of Photography is Austin’s very own Michael Morlan of Austin Film Tools. Charles Nwachukwu, was also running around the set as well.
RED Camera 01
RED Camera 02
100mm Carl Zeiss Lens
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