behind the scenes and more
So as I indicated in the earlier posts, while we did a lot on destruction tech, plus covered up coming feature films and also project management stories ( – as you are seeing in this terms Background course with RV, Shotgun, 5th Kind etc), there was a lot of stereo work discussed on this last [...]
The first part of our trip was focused on stereoscopic cinematography. fxphd has of course done several Stereo projects but the gear afforded to us by Sony Pictures for our special training was the best we have been lucky enough to use. As the system is fully remotely controlled and self aligning, it makes it [...]
I had intended to blog while in the USA, but it was just impossible. Which surprised even me, I mean how hard can it be to just post a paragraph a day or so. But please take it as a good sign that we just had that much great stuff to do that we ran [...]
Yes that is my dog walking all over me … again, as part of some camera and workflow experiments we are doing for our grading courses, with Alexa, F35, Epic and others. I have to say it is so hard to imagine life without our studio space and everything that it affords us. This year [...]
We have launched the new Oct term and of course we have been working on it for some time now to get ready. From a production point of view one of the tasks has been filming heaps of stuff for the grading course. We have been shooting apes, woolsheds, micro closeups, DBS Aston Martin, sunsets, [...]
We had a great time shooting with the EPIC camera using the new Canon mount this week. I went to the Zoo here in Sydney and filmed for half a day. Having even already spent filming with the EPIC for months – it was a process of discovery as to how to film with the [...]
Up at 4:30 this morning to catch the morning light on this DB-S Aston Martin. We were filming it for an upcoming fxphd class. Car shots are such a part of the industry and there are few cars I’d rather have breakfast with than an Austin Martin DBS (and few better colors to grade with [...]
Today we said goodbye to Gary Ticehurst, husband of long time fxphd contributing Professor Teresa TiceHurst. Gary was one of Australia’s best known aerial filming pilots, shooting decades of films, tvc, shows and news programs: from the Matrix Reloaded to ABC news. He was also the key lynch pin in many air to surface rescues [...]
We had a great shoot last night, shooting high speed footage on the Epic - at dusk on the beach. It is really great to shoot this material, but even shooting stills – I love the challenge of getting some great shots. That wonderful process of exploring getting the right balance of light metering, blur, [...]
Last night I attended a wonderful dinner with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman at Sydney University’s Great Hall. The talk was focused on Behavioral Economics, which is a subject I’d like to explore for an upcoming Background Fundamentals course in fxphd. In the last 30 years Behavioral Economics has transformed our thinking on pricing, quoting, bidding [...]