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Bringing Life to Visual Media with Capo Productions

October 8, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

You have made your great piece of visual content; be it a short film, a montage, a full feature film or really anything – and it really needs something to give it more life. If you are like me then you turn to the set of royalty free music and jingles bundled with some of Apple’s pro apps. I find that select very limiting and invariably there is always something that would fit if only I had not already used it a dozen times elsewhere.

The answer is to invest in a library of music and audio effects that has been put together professionally and that is flexible.

Here is one solution: Capo Productions.
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Anatomy of an HDSLR Rig

October 7, 2010 in Filmmaking with 1 Comment

With my plans to go HSLR in the next month or so – wish it was today – I get to read up and watch a lot of videos on HDSLR rig components. Seeing Zacuto’s zfinderev and Redrockmicro’s microEVF send shivers down my spine. Tonight I get to go to an indieLAB Cape Town meet up at Media Hive where these kind of rigs will be demonstrated, so expect photos to be taken
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SAVE Blue Like Jazz – the movie

October 6, 2010 in Filmmaking with 5 Comments

I borrowed Don Miller’s Book, Blue Like Jazz, but for some reason it sat on my shelf for some time. It was not until I read Don Miller’s other awesome book; A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, did I get the urgency to read BLJ. Kudos to some 8bit appreciation shown by the crew over at ChurchCrunch et al, by sending me a copy of Don Miller’s book (though an amazon voucher).
In the book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Don talks about the importance of story and challenges with: What Story do you want to tell? He used the experience he had with the making of a film.
A film of his life. Based on his book Blue Like Jazz.
Wow.
I could not imagine that for myself, I wonder what it will be like for Don.
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Production and Workflow : The Enemy God

October 5, 2010 in Filmmaking with 0 Comments

This is the second post digging a little bit deeper in some of the Production and Post Production Workflows employed in Christian Films. The first was for Kyle Prohaska’s Standing Firm. With The Enemy God (Written and Directed by Christopher Bessette, Produced and Edited by Tom Khazoyan) it is interesting to see that actual Film cameras were used; as you will read below, bring a whole different set of implications than when filming digital (especially to solid state).
Here is my post, early this year that I added after I watched the film. I loved the film because it was very real; first in terms of dealing with a very real culture living in harsh scenarios, the story did not shy away from the violence that happened, and that story focused on how lives were changed not on the change that transpired.
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One Day On Earth – Cape Town

October 5, 2010 in Filmmaking with 5 Comments

One Day on Earth is a worldwide media event where all participants offer up their contribution in the form of videos. It is a collaboration event of great proportions, anyone can be involved. The Purpose, you may ask: to create awareness:

We hope to enlighten, teach and benefit humanity through global collaboration and inspired media creation. We seek to find a deeper understanding of life on this planet.

History

One Day on Earth started in September of 2008 with the goal of creating a unique worldwide media event where thousands of participants would simultaneously film over a 24-hour period. The idea for the project was conceived while watching musicians from very different regions of the world collaborate on stage at the opening night of the 2008 World festival of Sacred Music. Their initial attempts to create music together were awkward, and it was clear that they had never collaborated prior to this moment. Eventually though, over the period of a couple minutes, what was disharmony became harmony, and a beautiful fusion of music came together for the first time. The moment inspired a similar vision for another universal form of communication—cinema.

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5 Filmmaking Links

October 2, 2010 in Filmmaking with 2 Comments

Welcome to Week 3 of the Filmmaking Links Video Series, Below is Video followed by the transcript that I attempted to keep to.

But you know how it goes

Please let me know what you think.

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Going Primal

October 1, 2010 in personal with 0 Comments

I love reading books. The plan that I try to implement is to read 3 types of books (Technological, Spiritual, Fiction), and to keep these rotating. My Spiritual book this last month was Primal, A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity, by Mark Batterson. On top of just reading this very challenging book (and also implementing the principles discussed) there was also a Group Blogging project over at Andy Darnell’s Blog. Here a group of us from all over the world posted our thoughts on the chapter that we were assigned.

10 Top Posts: September 2010

October 1, 2010 in social media with 0 Comments

September was a great month in terms of visits to SynapticLight. There was a massive spike in traffic in August because of an video I posted – which amounted to over 10,000 views on YouTube and Vimeo (pity I am not translating that into blog visits.) This month almost achieved the same with a number of different posts. With discussions of new HDSLR cameras and RED announcements, and with great videos demonstrating how HDSLR can be leveraged to make great imaged. A great HDSLR month – once again – I hope to be posting videos and discussions on my entry into the HDSLR world very soon
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Pixel Porn for the Masses

September 30, 2010 in Filmmaking with 2 Comments

This is insane!
Broadcasting 7680 x 4320.
While I think that Cameras with massive resolutions like the RED One and their proposed Monstro are not insane but amazing, I do think that broadcasting is. Imagine the data that has to be transmitted to maintain frame rates for that kind of resolution. Personally I would be nervous that my brain would get fried.
I know that HD broadcast is all over the place. Here in South Africa you get 720p at a premium on top of the regular subscription for the Satellite feed (DSTV). Even better than that was the Soccer World Cup held here with 3D in HD. Anyone notice those poor cameramen with the huge cameras on Steadicam? Hope that they got paid well. Continue Reading…

Ask a Ninja Open Challenge

September 29, 2010 in Filmmaking with 2 Comments

Here’s a great contest, be sure to check it out. You are given everything, all you have to bring is effort and creativity.
If you do not know what Ask a Ninja is about – be sure to click on the link earlier on in this sentence. Some funny stuff there, and something interesting happening on 4th Oct 2010.
I will give it a try, although I may struggle working with ProRes4444 footage originating from the RED One – and over USB (don’t ask).
Here is your mission – if you choose to accept it …
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