February 23rd, 2010
2010 Addy Award
This past weekend, MindWarp LLC won an ADDY award for the website Paloma Films at the 2010 ADDY Awards in El Paso, TX. You can check out the winning website at www.palomafilms.com. The website displays the cinematography talents of Benny Ontiveros and his work.
Thank you friends and family for all your support!
December 16th, 2009
Our latest website redesign comes from the folks over at Integrated Transportation. Integrated is a diversity-owned transportation carrier for the dedicated freight industry. We redesigned their website’s sitemap and structure to accurately reflect the main audiences that would be visiting the site. Through a simple and clear design, customers and drivers can easily achieve their goals of completing online applications or requesting a rate quote from the company. Click the image below and let us know what you think.
View www.tintegrated.com
November 4th, 2009
Best Little Website on the Border 2009 Award
MindWarp Entertainment wins 1st Place for the ‘Best Little Website on the Border’ Contest at BizTech 2009! Our winning website was for the Texas Gynecology and Laser Surgery Center. You can view the winning website here: http://www.farnammd.com
The website won first place from among 68 submissions. Winning websites were judged based on usability, aesthetics, and effectiveness.
BizTech 2009 is the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce premier technology expo and is now in its eleventh year. It is the Southwest Region’s largest meeting place for thousands of information technology professionals, community and business leaders, telecommunications providers, fellow entrepreneurs, and others looking for the best in technology solutions from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border.
If you have questions regarding information about BizTech, please contact: Rebeca Rodriguez at rrodriguez@ephcc.org or at 566-4066.
October 2nd, 2009
Our latest web site design is a portfolio site for El Paso cinematographer and good friend Benny Ontiveros. In case you don’t recognize his name, Benny is the cinematographer who shot our feature film Hands of God. The website highlights his beautiful work through the use of high quality videos and an easy to use navigation.
If you like the web site’s design, comment below and let me know what you think. Enjoy!
Click on the image to view the web site.
Paloma Films
August 25th, 2009
The Brothers Corral
After graduating from Cathedral High School, the Corral brothers had their futures down pat. Carlos was studying computer science, his brother Octavio in biology. However, there was no disputing their true interests. “There were stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes we made when we were little,” said Octavio. After the dreaded call home to inform the lifeline about the permanent change in their future careers into a notoriously unpredictable field, both University of Texas at Austin students changed their majors to Radio-Television-Film.
Just two short years after graduating, the enterprising siblings are deep into their business venture MindWarp Entertainment LLC, a production company specializing in web design and video production. Although they run their own company with two locations in the state (Carlos, 26, is in Austin, while Octavio, 24, is in El Paso), they were still able to nurture their pet project, a feature film about an alcoholic doctor called Hands of God….
August 10th, 2009
Hands of God Poster
We will be having a special sneak peek screening of our new feature film Hands of God on Thursday Aug. 13th at 9pm and Saturday Aug. 15th at 10pm at the 2009 Plaza Classic Film Festival right here in our hometown of El Paso TX. The first sneak peek screening has already SOLD OUT and tickets are going fast for our 2nd screening on Aug. 15th.
If you would still like to purchase tickets for the second screening, you can drop by the main box office at the Plaza Theatre during regular business hours or purchase them online at Ticketmaster here.
We’ve also received some great press from the El Paso Times and What’s Up El Paso about our sold out screening. Below are some of the highlights from the news articles we have been gathering: Read the rest of this entry »
July 7th, 2009
I’m sure everyone has had this argument with someone they know or work with. I’ve had this discussion/argument with a cinematographer who has both shot on film and on RED and still prefers 35mm over RED despite the long waiting period and higher costs of production. Maybe it’s an age/generation difference. Here are some facts that I have read regarding RED footage and 35mm film and how each is handled. I highly recommend checking out Paul Wheeler’s High Definition Cinematography Book, it’s a great read!
35mm Film Camera
RED Digital Camera
RED & 35mm Cameras
June 28th, 2009
JVC GY-HM100 Handheld
Last week, my friend Phil Goetz from Texas Media Systems invited me to a JVC: Solid Solutions seminar hosted by Scott A. Burch, a JVC district sales manager from the great state of Texas. Scott introduced us to the JVC GY-HM100 and its older brother the JVC GY-HM700 back in May. This time, he hosted a full breakdown of what these cameras can do with SDHC and SxS workflows. Check out my previous blog review of these two cameras here:
The JVC GY-HM100 & JVC GY-HM700
I want to take the time to go over a few more things that I both love and hate about these new cameras. First, I will give some love to the JVC GY-HM100 on its size and flexibility. Mounting this little guy on a Steadicam is easy. And the best part of this is it’s a full 1080p camera that only weighs 3lbs. Can you say smooth and simple?
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June 17th, 2009
This month, I wanted to take the time and talk about a small problem I encountered last year while filming our feature film Hands of God. As you have read from our blog, we used the JVC GY-110U HD camera with the Redrock 35mm Adapter and Nikon Lenses for our shoot. During the production, the JVC camera’s CCD sensors would occasionally overheat and cause small white pixels to appear in our shots. Here are some examples below of some of the issues that occurred:
May 22nd, 2009
My friend Neal Barenblat and I decided to rent one and climb a mountain. We rented a Varizoom Steadicam Navigator from Omega Broadcast here in Austin, TX and drove out to Enchanted Rock. We mounted Neal’s DVX100B onto the Steadicam and climbed the 800 ft. mountain, all while documenting our experience on my Canon XL2. Worst Idea Ever? Maybe. Check out some of the photos below:
Neal & the Steadicam
Steadicam? No sweat!
Ready for Adventure!
Neal was up first. We took out the Steadicam and assembled it. Since we had only taken a small crash course on how to use a Steadicam, we were about to find out if we could climb Enchanted Rock and keep the camera steady. Neal decided to do the uphill climb and I would do the down hill climb.
Check out the short video below:
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