Just A Little Fun

Friday Afternoon

There's something to be said about loving your job. But being able to have creative freedom combined with an office that is open minded and fun when it's appropriate and business when its business time, is pretty damn rad. Having a beer is more of a metaphor for the feel that we have in our office every day. Hey you know life is good when you are excited to go to work in the morning.

Editing WSF movie "The Butcher"

So tonight Tyler (Producer/Director) and I decided, what the hell, lets edit this whole damn video. And we did. It felt great. And now I am home and its after 2 and I am blogging :)

Everything went well! I couldn't have really done anything differently on this project... with exception of a few more lights (a whole new kit would have been amazing...).

Here are some screen grabs... Tyler is gonna kill me...







The videos will be played throughout the band's show on September 10th at Midwest Skate Park (with Four Letter Lie) in Rochester, MN. I will be shooting at the band's next few shows and the final product will be a 45ish min film called "The Butcher" (working title) and will be submitted to many film festivals, including South By Southwest in Austin.

Some Screen Grabs from WSF Day 1

Of course everything will be in black and white...

When Skylines Fade Photoshoot

I am doing a video project with this band and I thought since I was there and we had the lights and wardrobe part done already, I would snap some photos with my Nikon D50. I don't really see myself as a professional photographer, but I take stills every day, and I light subjects every day, and I frame, focus, adjust exposure, etc etc on a video camera every day, so I figured what the hell... Here are a few of the results.

When Skylines Fade Part 1

I have been working on a project with a band called When Skylines Fade this summer. It has been a challenge, but after looking at most of the footage, I can safely say it should be worth it. I will describe it a bit more in the next couple of blogs as the post production process progresses, but for now I will say that it is a project combining film (video), music, performing arts and finally, history. The film is basically a 1930's mob movie. I am shooting on my Canon XH-A1 with my SG pro 35 mm adapter and Nikon prime lenses. I shot most of it with a Nikkor 50mm lens that is about the oldest one I could find. That along with my 35mm I got on KEH.com and just looked for the oldest ones possible so that I could achieve a look that could be similar to that of an old film camera from that time. Also, I saved money on the lenses since they were so old ;)

The film was produced and directed by the band, primarily Tyler Diekman. the lead singer. The actors were all fantastic. Most of them were friends, but all were very talented and experienced in stage acting, but they did really well in front of the camera.

In my next blog I will post screen grabs of the shoot, and then a clip or two if its ok with the band. For now, here are some photos I took with my Nikon D50.