In honor of Star Trek’s 40th Anniversary, I wrote and directed a 3 minute episode of Deliverance where the Pizza Dude delivers to a couple of comic book store Trekkies and has to decide who the best Starfleet Officer is- Mr. Spock or Dr. McCoy.
I had a lot of fun with this project. One of the cool things about it is I shot all the background plates at the original location that was used in the 1966 Star Trek episode “Arena”. We didn’t have the budget to actually shoot at that location, so I took my digital camera and shot the backgrounds on my own, then composited them with Apple’s Shake software. That’s right- every shot is a greenscreen one on this episode.
Here’s the link to a QuickTime version of that episode (latest QuickTime required). And here’s a link to it on YouTube.
Happy Birthday, Star Trek!
Star Trek 40th Anniversary
Video Trailers From A Couple of Short Films
I’ve been meaning to post a lot more of the work I’ve been doing. It’s been tough finding the time, as my schedule’s been pretty crazy. Last week I shot another promo film for a client that was for their website and dvds they send to their customers. I also have been doing some video editing for our museum client and I’m in preproduction for a very interesting movie I’m shooting in November and a series of short promo films for another corporate client. The corporate client is a well known college that is trying to attract new students with a cool, edgy video series. In my “spare time” I’m working on some concepts for my next YouTube/MySpace series and a fully CG greenscreen project.
I’ll have a new directing and editing reel up for you to check out later on, when things calm down a bit. In the meantime:
For those of you who appreciate a higher quality trailer than the pixely YouTube/MySpace look:
Headhunting, Inc. in Flash Video
I like Flash Video or QuickTime the best- as a filmmaker I don’t like how YouTube or MySpace video looks. But you can also:
View the original Deliverance trailer on MySpace.
And here’s the Headhunting, Inc. trailer on MySpace.
(special thanks to Stacy Steinkuller for posting this one)
Other Peoples’ Work
Cool visual effects stuff. I stole this link from HD For Indies. I loved the movie, of course- Charlie Kaufman is one of my favorite writers. But I put the link here so people who aren’t necessarily Hollywood people could see how much work goes into even relatively simple visual effects. This movie breaks it down.
And my friend Josh has a new short movie up. He’s clearly been working on camera motion (steadicam?) and focus pulling on this piece, which takes an inantimate object- a building- and makes it appear to be human.
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