More Production Stills

Here's some extra shots taken on my Nikkormat SLR two weeks ago. This was my first go at the Fuji Neopan 1600, and I'm really happy with the results.

The Breeders - "Iris"

Another great song. I'm starting to think I should have been born a few years earlier to catch the 90s alternative wave as a teenager and not a six year-old.

Production Stills

Here are a few stills I shot last weekend while I directed my movie. I checked out the Mamiya 7 kit and picked up a few rolls of Kodak Portra 160 VC. These turned out pretty cool.

Tread Lightly

I just spent the past three days directing a short film as part of my curriculum in the School of Film + Television. The months of work that went into writing, visualizing and creating this project culminated in the last 72 working hours of my life.

Whether or not any of them see this, I'd like to sincerely thank the entire crew of students that came out to collaborate and help me get exactly what I wanted from my script.

 

 I'm processing my negative and digitizing my film in a week, and I can't wait; I don't think I've ever been so anxious to see a project through to the end.

The Mirror

This is an amazing sequence shot for Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror. The one thing that still photography can't do for me is allow me to capture movement like this. You get a sense that the camera has a mind of its own.

The Boy Done Wrong Again

Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I'll want to listen to a depressing song just because I know it will make me upset. I still can't figure out why I enjoy doing this; my best guess is that my thought process changes when I get in these moods.

Listen to this song. The first verse will swallow you and you will feel small. You will blame yourself for some unknown, irreversible mistake and without explanation a guiltiness will coat you, and you will go on listening and accepting its melancholic advances because as it reminds you of your wrongdoing it also manages to lift your spirits.

Listen

Plastic Filters

Toying with more colored filters with some dated Kodak consumer film while I was at work.

Cellular Sunset

Another cell phone snapshot taken on a dinner break while crewing a student film set.

Cell Phone Shenanigans

Here's a shot I took with my cell phone last night. I was interested in seeing how well that tiny camera can handle low light situations (or I found Christmas lights in my trunk and needed an excuse to use them).

True Grit

Just saw the trailer for the new Coen brothers movie, True Grit. The photography is amazing. Roger Deakins, the director of photography, has never won an Academy Award for cinematography. If this one doesn't get him one, I don't know what will.

Check out the trailer:  http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/truegrit/

Night (aka Even More CVS Prints)

Taken with my old Nikkormat SLR. There seems to be some light leaks, but I like the effect it gave the shots.