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Slugline. Simple, elegant screenwriting.
Red Giant Color Suite, with Magic Bullet Looks 2.5 and Colorista II
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 4:51PM If you're in the Bay Area or would like to be, know AE and have feature film work on your reel, send an email to recruiting[at]theorphanage[dot]com.
And if you've read and understood all the color mumbo jumbo on this blog, tell them you're applying for my job. :)
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 2:27AM The Toshiba HDDVD spot I directed for Della Famina (mentioned here) is now online, on the front page of Toshiba's HDDVD site. I hope to post more here about the making of this spot, as it was a real puzzle of previs, stock footage, a challenging one-day HD shoot, and two short weeks of post!
Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 10:47PM The commercial I directed for Ruby Tuesday, the one that features four tiny Mini Coopers, is finally online:
The Great Race (direct from rubytuesday.com)
Would you beleive that the single largest source of traffic to this blog is this thread on motoringfile.com, a Mini Cooper news and info site? I'm sure more than one Mini fan has scratched his head at some of the articles here, but rest assured you have found the home of one of your own—the 2005 Cooper S used for the interior shots in the commercial belongs to my wife, and yes, she occasionally lets me drive it!
For those who missed it, here's the article about the automatic animation system I rigged up in After Effects to enable rapid tweaking of my animatic for the spot, and here's the article on fxguide where you can see some frame grabs.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 11:17AM If you see something like this, it's a good sign:
After this discussion on the CML, I had been wanting to try the Viper with a corrective magenta filter. I don't have any issue with the green cast of the raw Viper filmstream output, but correcting for it on the lens should result in a broader dynamic range more evenly shared across R, G and B. So far I'm sold on this approach — the images we made look great, and the dynamic range will be put to the test with some sun glints off that helicopter mock-up. I'll post some images when the spot is done.
Here's an article that goes into more detail on the rationalle behind the magenta filtration.
Here's another with sample images, although I quibble with the author's characterization of the green cast as a "problem." One of the great strengths of raw images is their lack of built-in white balance, or any other subjective processing.
