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Reel World: Growing My Brave Teaser Shot on the 5d

Reel World: Growing My Brave Teaser Shot on the 5d

I first met Kristen Turick from Artifact Documentaries about two years ago in Austin at Re:Frame. We instantly hit it off. She was completely inspiring to me. She was producing amazing films and was completely humble and, just like her films, totally sincere. Almost a year and a half passed until I got to see her again and during that time so much had changed for both of us. Her and her husband, Jeff Turick, who like her, is extremely...

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Concept Film Shot Entirely on the 5d: “The Key”

Concept Film Shot Entirely on the 5d: “The Key”

“The Key” was written by Adam Forgione, Bobby Shortle, and RJ Weyant. This concept film began as a vision from the moment Adam met with his wedding client Linda and Mark Spencer. They were up for something different and the light bulb went off for Adam after recently watching his friend Kevin Shahinian’s feature film “Sno.” The screenplay was written from scratch three times. The last one (this one) was conceptualized and...

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Reel World: First Look at Tom Lowe’s Feature Film TimeScapes

Reel World: First Look at Tom Lowe’s Feature Film TimeScapes

Absolutely beautiful short film shot by Tom Lowe, which will be part of a feature film, titled TimeScapes, he is currently working on . From Tom Lowe’s Vimeo page: This is production footage I shot over the summer for my debut film, “TimeScapes,” a modern portrait of the American Southwest. I used Canon and Red MX cameras. Follow the production of the film at: twitter.com/​timescapes Also here: timescapes.org and here...

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Reel World: “The Drop” shot on the T2i

Reel World: “The Drop” shot on the T2i

We met Erik Parise from Arise Productions at the Vimeo Festival and got to talk to him a little bit about one of his recent projects, “The Drop.” When we first watched it we were totally impressed by the quality so decided to do a little q+a. q. Can you tell me a little bit more about how this was shot? a. It was shot with a Rebel T2i using a 50mm F1.8 for the close up shots and 18-55mm IS for full body shots. We used blue...

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Reel World: VANS Uses the Canon 7D and Twixtor

Reel World: VANS Uses the Canon 7D and Twixtor

Check out this great piece by Greg Ephraim. It was shot on the Canon 7d and Twixtor was used in post to get that great slow...

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Reel World: Timeslice Films Uses 52 Canon T2i’s for Matrix Style Shoot

Reel World: Timeslice Films Uses 52 Canon T2i’s for Matrix Style Shoot

The “bullet time” effect popularized by the movie The Matrix was recreated by Timeslice Films for surf company RipCurl using 52 Canon T2i’s. No,that is not a typo. 52. Now that is a serious shoot. Here’s the final video. Here is a behind the scenes video as...

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