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? Read the rest of this entry »
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:
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.
My friend Phil Geotz from Texas Media Systems invited me to a small filmmaker get together where I met fellow Austin filmmakers Matt Iha and Rod Cole. We all got to speak with Scott A. Burch, one of the JVC district sales managers from Texas. Scott recently returned from NAB 2009 and provided us with some hands on experience with the JVC GY-HM100 and its older brother the GY-HM700. Allow me to post some fun facts about this camera.
Spencer Pharr will be producing and directing a new upcoming short titled “Sawed-Off” during the first week of May and asked me to sign on to the project as their editor. Spencer gave me some RED footage to play with in order to understand and choose a workflow for his film. This will be my first post-production gig dealing with the RED workflow. I’ve been reading up on a lot of workflow types with RED and I think I found one that I am happy with. Since I have a Dual 2.8Ghz Quad-Core MacPro with 8GB of RAM, I’ll be going with the following workflow Read the rest of this entry »
Neal Barenblat, E.J. Enriquez, and I began production for part one of Texas Burning’s new intro. Tony Curtona, the executive producer of Texas Burning, booked Patricia Vonne and Sam Baker to give the opening introduction for the broadcast. Tony decided to go with the Green Screen approach since we have more control in a studio space and wouldn’t have to deal with any of the outdoor elements. We rented our lighting equipment and green screen from Omega Broadcast and shot in their studio back lot. E.J. brought his HVX200 for the shoot since you need that good ol’ DVCProHD 4:2:2 codec for green screen work. Everything went smoothly.
Our second to last day of production. Manny had to leave for LA to audition for a TV show called Easy Money. He would be returning tomorrow to finish his final scene. This gave Benny, Monica, Sandy, and I a chance to finish the final scene with Marco and Karen since we were rained out last week. We set up the shot outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral and we were able to finish everything in about 30min. We needed to work fast since we were running out of light. We said our goodbyes to Karen and Marco and thanked them for working with us on our production.
I had thought about it for a really long time and I always wanted a place to dump all of my current ideas and thoughts. So then I was reading some articles online and stumbled across this: Free Lancers: Why You Need a Blog. The article didn’t really convince me, but it did have a quick link to this site. I didn’t even have to sign up since I already had a Gmail address. So all in all, it was pretty easy. Yup, so I made a blog. Now lets see how long I can actually keep this up.
And since I don’t really believe in posts without some type of media to keep peoples attention, I will attach MindWarp Entertainment’s new intro. Created by Neal Barenblat and Carlos Corral.
