It took me a while to get this put together because of other life events, but I had as a project to try and recreate a scene from a movie, shot-for-shot. In this case, I put together a scene from Bong Joon Ho’s movie, Memories of Murder. It was really a good learning experience, because it got me to really understand both the scene itself, as well as the “logic” of how the scene was put together. It also helped…

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 a look inside my camera and saw that there were some spots. While they initially looked like spots on the sensor, they were in fact…

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 of dust specks in the shot – something that doesn’t show up when you shoot inside. So, I basically need to clean the lens. Cleaning…

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 some kind of dialogue cut, or a POV cut? The way I see it, is that the cut to the bottle works, because it is…

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 of filmmaking. Probably because I used to be a painter, and color correction shares so much psychology with the act of rendering in painting. But…

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 as part of the press process for an album release. Over the years, I’ve come to really enjoy the process of making music videos. The…