Hectic Week

This week has been pretty busy with the ongoing jobs outside of film world. I imported the brunt of the footage for the vanity pack and have been waiting on a more solid script from the client to complete the editing. I shot some additional footage and am pretty excited about some of the action shots. Unfortunately, due to massive home renovations, I was unable to assist the crew in their first day of filming Spaceman Flannel, a dry sub-Trekian scifi short. 

Additionally, I found a great aspect ratio for masking the footage for my vanity pack. Academy styled 1.85:1 masking looks really awesome and gives the clips a hi-pro look.

Commissioned Vanity Pack

Recently through WEIU, I've been gifted with the opportunity to film a series of recruitment videos to be embedded in the new EIU sports website this fall. So far rain delays and bad weather have taken out most of the time to shoot the vanity shots of campus for the first video this week. Glancing at the forecast, I'm going to attempt to shoot the remaining half of campus and import the footage this afternoon, after helping in shooting the interview scene for a mockumentary short in the Physical Science building.

For the first of these videos, I'm going to attempt to use a Cinemascope aspect ratio in post production, much like the one used in editing A Logical Conclusion

A Logical Conclusion Production Photos

A Logical Conclusion

As of Monday, Will Addison, Andy Due, Dustin Tylman, and myself began filming a creative short called A Logical Conclusion. The script is Will's brain-child and one of my favorites in the line of summer projects. Filming began at roughly 11:30am in the Coleman Hall lecture room. The footage was captured on my Canon T2i and will be edited shortly. The most difficult shot in this project was the dolly across the chalkboard to reveal Will's character writing. It took several takes to get the timing smoothed out. We're experimenting with a wide screen letterboxed crop that will hopefully look really professional in post. Production pics will follow shortly.