After the issues with outdoor shooting last week, I cleaned my lens – in this case a Takumar F1.2 50mm, and did some shooting outside. While the universal glow effect did disappear with a clean lens, there were still some dots that appeared in the image, which you can see below. Given this, I took […]

The assignment for today was to shoot a transition from outside to inside. I also wanted to include a basic match cut. I haven’t shot film outside in a while, and wanted to get practice with that, since lighting is very different. Here, I ran into an easily-identifiable problem, because you can see the shadows […]

My assignment was to put together a short scene that involved several transitions and a dialogue, using the more speeded up process that I used before for color correction. Here, I have maybe 4-5 different shots, the first two cuts are what I now know are called “cut on action”, and the remaining cuts are […]

I have always had difficulty with color-correction, and have gotten in my head about it. What I decided to do with this video was to use some LUTs to make the process of color correction faster. I suppose a while back I might have felt that color correction was an expressive part of the process […]

I’ve started this blog, using an old website, to work on my film skills while I’m in between albums. Unlike many indie musicians you might have heard of, I began releasing albums when I didn’t have the money to pay someone to make music videos for me. So, I started making my own music videos […]