Longboarding through Madrid captured on a Canon 5D2.
Here’s a short I made with some friends as part of 48HOURS, a nationwide contest to write, shoot and edit a film of up to seven minutes duration in a single weekend. Each team draws one of ten random genres (we got “biopic”) and must include several other mandatory elements.
We shot mostly with a Canon 7D and I edited in Final Cut Express with Magic Bullet Mojo for basic colour grading. I’m really happy with how the flashback scenes turned out. That’s my very obliging nephew Oscar running around our backyard in a dress. Try as we might, we couldn’t convince him to wear a blond wig for the Goodbye Pork Pie scene however.
I’ve competed with a different team twice before, but not for five years. This time it was a smaller team of close friends and we had a ball, though not without a tense moment or two midway through day two. Thanks to Morgan and Catherine for organising the team and venue, and to several of the actors who pitched in on the Sunday to help us get the edit done before the 7pm deadline.
Would it be crass of me to mention there’s 10 iPhones up for grabs for the short with the most views come the end of the month? Probably. Go watch! (via Amanda Wood)
Longboarding at Goat Hill filmed by Mammoth Media using a Nikon D90. The vintage grading is perfect.
Khalid Mohtaseb shot and graded this footage in his spare time while on assignment in Haiti following last month’s earthquake. He used a Canon 5D2 and Kessler Pocket Dolly, and all footage was shot in natural light. Stunning. (via Zach Klein)
Beautiful grading and focus on this clip for Ralph Lauren by Camille Marotte. Shot on a Canon 5D2 with f/1.4 50mm prime lens.
New York 2008 by Vicente Sahuc. Filmed with a Casio EX-F1 at 300 frames per second, but the secret to the slow, gliding shots is the one-two punch of roller skates and the Merlin Steadicam. (via Kris Lane)
South Bank by Philip Bloom. Glorious.
