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PVCC’s Film Program
I started teaching at PVCC with a digital photography class- a beginner’s course for SLR users who where moving from film to digital cameras. I was then offered a position with the school’s fledgling film program in 2008, where I have since taught video production techniques to student’s interested in a career in media creation. With [...]
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Rusted Metal
Some photography I recently took at a scrap vehicle processing yard in North Phoenix. Maybe it’s from all the David Lynch movies I’ve seen- but I love old machinery in disrepair, in particular- pre- 1980 vehicles. The dirt, rust, and gritty textures of metal left to fend for itself from the elements should be captured before they [...]
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Premiere CS6 Rocks Multi-Camera Edits
OK, so maybe I got a bit goofy in the picture above- but I was having a blast. You see, the last time I did a multi-camera edit- it proved to be a tedious process of layering separate clips above the master audio track, one by one. The cut took much longer than I wanted it to, [...]
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2013 Depserado Festival Filmmaker Q&As
Each year the Desperado Film Festival brings out filmmakers to speak with the audience about thier work. So in addition to creating Desperado’s promotional videos, I also record these Q&A sessions. Below are the filmmaker/audience dialogues that took place after their screenings. These were all recorded on Panasonic HMC-40 AVCHD cameras and edited in Adobe [...]
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2013 Desperado Film Festival Micro-Doc
Every year around October, I create a video “trailer” to help promote the Desperado Film Festival. Desperado takes place each year in late January at Paradise Valley Community College, and these promotional trailers help to get the word out- for the more tickets we sell the more scholarship money we can raise. Now these videos have typically been short comedies that quickly give the viewer event info- while having [...]
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For Those Who Like to Text During a Movie…
Another short PSA I directed, shot, and edited for the Desperado Film Festival. We gathered up a bunch of kids from a PVCC student diversity group to make our “movie audience” then proceeded to have Wonder Woman scare the crap out of them. In each video I make, I try to incorporate some new technique I have’t [...]
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Prometheus. Welcome back Mr. Scott!
Prometheus has landed! It’s been a few days since Prometheus opened (I was first in line) and so I thought I would give it a second viewing before writing a few words about it here. Until now, I have never paid to see the same movie twice in a theater- yes it’s that good. And [...]
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Blackmagic… designs their first camera.
Although I did not get a chance to visit NAB this year- I followed the blogs and news reports from the exhibit floor quite closely. One of the biggest stories of course, was the announcement by Blackmagic Designs of the release of their first camera, aptly named the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. From Blackmagic’s press release: [...]
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Shallow Depth of Field- too much of a good thing?
I give a lecture twice a year to my students about several compositional techniques used in cinema- and how they help cameramen and women to reproduce a three dimensional environment using the two-dimensional medium of film and video. Of all the techniques used in composing your shot to look more “cinematic”- depth of field, or [...]
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2012 Desperado Guest Speakers & Panel Discussions
Below are videos I shot and edited of the various discussion panels and guest speakers at the 2012 DFF. Editing multi-cam shoots can be tricky- the first step is getting all the tracks synced up properly. Using a flash from a photographer’s camera works well, but when that is not possible you have to use audio cues. [...]
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PVCC’s Film Program
I started teaching at PVCC with a digital photography class- a beginner’s course for SLR users who where moving from film to digital cameras. I was then offered a position with the school’s fledgling film program in 2008, where I have since taught video production techniques to student’s interested in a career in media creation. With [...]
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Rusted Metal
Some photography I recently took at a scrap vehicle processing yard in North Phoenix. Maybe it’s from all the David Lynch movies I’ve seen- but I love old machinery in disrepair, in particular- pre- 1980 vehicles. The dirt, rust, and gritty textures of metal left to fend for itself from the elements should be captured before they [...]
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Premiere CS6 Rocks Multi-Camera Edits
OK, so maybe I got a bit goofy in the picture above- but I was having a blast. You see, the last time I did a multi-camera edit- it proved to be a tedious process of layering separate clips above the master audio track, one by one. The cut took much longer than I wanted it to, [...]
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2013 Depserado Festival Filmmaker Q&As
Each year the Desperado Film Festival brings out filmmakers to speak with the audience about thier work. So in addition to creating Desperado’s promotional videos, I also record these Q&A sessions. Below are the filmmaker/audience dialogues that took place after their screenings. These were all recorded on Panasonic HMC-40 AVCHD cameras and edited in Adobe [...]
»
2013 Desperado Film Festival Micro-Doc
Every year around October, I create a video “trailer” to help promote the Desperado Film Festival. Desperado takes place each year in late January at Paradise Valley Community College, and these promotional trailers help to get the word out- for the more tickets we sell the more scholarship money we can raise. Now these videos have typically been short comedies that quickly give the viewer event info- while having [...]
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For Those Who Like to Text During a Movie…
Another short PSA I directed, shot, and edited for the Desperado Film Festival. We gathered up a bunch of kids from a PVCC student diversity group to make our “movie audience” then proceeded to have Wonder Woman scare the crap out of them. In each video I make, I try to incorporate some new technique I have’t [...]
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Prometheus. Welcome back Mr. Scott!
Prometheus has landed! It’s been a few days since Prometheus opened (I was first in line) and so I thought I would give it a second viewing before writing a few words about it here. Until now, I have never paid to see the same movie twice in a theater- yes it’s that good. And [...]
»
Blackmagic… designs their first camera.
Although I did not get a chance to visit NAB this year- I followed the blogs and news reports from the exhibit floor quite closely. One of the biggest stories of course, was the announcement by Blackmagic Designs of the release of their first camera, aptly named the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. From Blackmagic’s press release: [...]