Cinematographer Notes

It’s the winter so I’ve been in doors a bit.  Lot’s more time spent watching films than making them unfortunately.  But I’ve got a new short script in the works and a location that is free so I hope to begin preproduction on that before Parallel Parking.  In the meantime, here are some thoughts on […]

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I’m working on figuring out how to write text above or below a video window.  Wordpress is making this extremely difficult.  So here’s a post on top of the post I’m trying to reference.  Purgatory Comics is a indie feature I shot over a year ago on Long Island in 10 days with just the […]

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 I don’t want to get too political on my blog but sometimes you hear stuff in the real world that you just want to let people know about.  First, the bad news, Obama has nominated Vilsack for secretary of Agriculture.  This means we can all look forward to eating lots of genetically modified food.   I […]

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Hey remember when this was announced a year ago?

Well, it hasn’t been abandoned at all.  Cineform is still working on it.  It is basically a standalone field recorder allowing HDMI capture at 1080p 24p or whatever frame rate you want.  The device is estimated to list at around $2-3K.   I’m interested cause I could use […]

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While at the library I deliberately sought out films that festivals loved this past year.  I wanted to see what is getting in and why.  Down to the Bone is a “indie” success that won the sundance directors award for 2007  Despite the fact that the film was completed in 2004 and was shown and […]

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Youtube has expanded it’s uploading window to show native 16:9 files without letterboxing.  Now, it’s not 16:9 files that look strange and letterboxed, it’s 4:3 SD videos that look pillarboxed and weird.  Finally, the last venue for 4:3, the youtube screen is gone for good.  Now when the last of the webcams sold becomes 16:9 […]

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If you haven’t read Mike Curtis’s rant on the death of indie film as a business model, read on and weep.  I’ve felt similarly for a while now.  Yesterday I bought a ticket for The Day the Earth Stood Still.  It was the first time I’ve paid for any entertainment in over a month.  The […]

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Many of us in production are experiencing the winter slowdown.  I’ve had one short and corporate work since wrapping up my last feature in August.  I wrote a feature script, am trying to secure funding for it, wrote a short and lately have just been performing routine maintenance and repair on all my gear.
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My short is written and mostly cast.  I’ve recently out of curiosity hooked up my Letus system to the GVD just to see if it would work.  I had purchased a bunch of step up rings to get the front of the lens to 80mm to work with my Chrosziel mattebox and consequently, I was […]

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