JUST A THOUGHT: Define who you are as an artist, creative, and you’ll then be able to more clearly define who your audience is and who you need to market your talents to.
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Green Screen Interviews
Shooting video in front of green screen is not new. In fact, the director for the best animated feature at the Oscars said that moving from live action to the animated world was easy because so many of the FX are added in post. It’s everywhere. But if you haven’t had the opportunity of working your way into this workflow, you will find some helpful tips…read on.
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No Money? Bring Passion!
As filmmakers, we are typically short on what we believe is the only key element of seeing our stories grow into films, money. However, I want to challenge that thought. No film was ever made with just money. And while it is a necessary element, no matter how much money is thrown at a film, unless the filmmakers have passion to see it through, it will never happen successfully.
If you believe you will fail, you are gauranteed to do so. If you think that way find, in yourself, the off switch for that line of thinking! Continue reading
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Tricks In My Bag
I’ve used the line many times over the years, “Production is not what you see, it’s what you think you see!” If we execute our talents well, then I guess you could say that we’re masters of illusion. The whole purpose is to put the audience someplace where they cannot go or would not go own their own.
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Finding Your Cast
Two of the most important elements of a great production are a good script and good casting. If you have energy, enthusiasm and even a fair technical understanding of your craft, most of the rest will fall into place.
But if you have little money and haven’t had the opportunity to do a lot of casting in the past, where do you start, where do you go? (Actually, if you have little money, this would be a good read one of my previous blogs: Good, Fast, Cheap…
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Finding Your Creative
I’ve been encouraged by a colleague to write a book on the creative process; I’ve written a good bit about it in my blog. Naturally, I want it to hit its mark and find readers. So, I’m encouraging, requesting, asking for you to post comments, feedback on what part of the creative process you’re involved in, what topics would make this appealing and useful to you, and how you would use it?
Here are some of my thoughts to get the conversation started:
1. Do you prefer to engage in the creative process as a team or on your own?
2. What do you use to stimulate your creative process, other visuals or drawing on your own experience?
3. If you aren’t living up to your own creative potential, why? Is it because you hold yourself back or you’re in a job that holds you back?
4. Should this be structured more as a workbook or a read?
5. Are my past experiences helpful as case studies or would you prefer that I stick with just the facts or suggestions on how to engage others or to jump start your own creativity?
Now it’s your turn. What are your thoughts?
Two Minds Are Better Than None
I write frequently about “creative” and “concepting”; it is my started place, always. And while I don’t consider myself the most creative person, I do recognize that great production starts with good concepting and good creative.
So, my title, Two Minds are Better Than None is written because we have a tendency in this business to hold everything very close to our chest. But all final production would be better if it’s creative were bounced around before we go into production. Continue reading
Photography Cartoonification
I often write about where we “find” our creative, where we start and how we evolve to where we end up. Here’s an example of an existing project that my client wanted me to see because the principals are the same but the concept needed to be updated. The existing video led our creative thoughts to a graphic novel theme, which in turn led to a hybrid modern day/1930s era, the era to the music, which became a 21st century graphic novel theme on screen. Continue reading
Kelvin Scale for Production – Part 1
It is not my intention to make this a history lesson on where the Kelvin scale originated-there is plenty of info on the Internet to do that on your own-but to apply the scale to production and how to “trick” the viewer’s eye when using the info on set, or in photography.
The best information that I could find on setting this up can be found at the following link: http://www.3drender.com/glossary/colortemp.htm
It would be helpful to read through 3DRender’s info and then come back to proceed and I thank them for their advance work.
GRAPHIC: color temperature conversions
Check out the chart of gels and their color temps here: http://www.rosco.com/us/filters/roscolux.cfm#colors
TITLE: Winter Lake
I shot this last winter behind our house. Were it not for the snow-it was actually not a sunny day but a bright one-this would look more like a summer day. The darker exposure (I under exposed this shot by about 1 1/4 stops) and the fact that I shot it at 4000K makes you believe it is a cold, winter day. Continue reading
Good Is Great When it Makes Sense
Good=a production well executed. Great=a production well executed that also makes sense and pulls in the intended audience.
CAPTION: Bulb and Candles B-roll shot for a testimonial about a woman who practiced spirit worship. While it was abstract, it worked very well for the content. See the story: Lilliam Continue reading