2011-12-12 - Back in bizniz

The last couple of weeks has been crazy. All work and no time for blog updates makes me something something... ;)

Anyway, after a weeks deserved vacation, it's back on the sadle and here's a pic of a rigged speakerbooth using a DIY Speakerbox made from an IKEA box and Roadrags II as a reflection minimizer.

2011-10-17 - SmallHD DP6

Just revieved my SmallHD Dp6 monitor and I was worried about the weight but it seems like it was uncalled for.

Just love this little monitor and the 720p resolution makes focus pulling a breeze.

I am trying to find out how to rig this little sucker best with an articulating arm.

2011-10-02 - "Here I Am" short

This weekend we have been busy shooting a short called "Here I Am", which is going to be my contribution for the Malmoe I love You project which has premiere on Nov 30th.

In the pic we are shooting the last scene were the girl kisses the guy.

2011-09-27 - Location scouting

Been location scouting after a nice and quite place with some decent nearby lights.

We have a night shoot that we to do as cheap as possible so we need to use available lights and a LED panel.

2011-09-14 - Fresshhh

Nothing beats the feeling of a fresh installed workstation! ;)

2011-08-24 - Adobe CS5.5

So my copy of Cs5.5 showed up at the door and first impression is a little more snappier Premiere Pro. I guess they made some improvements in their mercury engine because the start/stop delay when editing avchd is almost gone.

Im also gonna see what Audition can offer, at first glanze it seems pretty darn powerful.

2011-08-02 - Storyboarding

I've found this really cool program called Frameforge Previz which allows you to storyboard your entire movie with fully customizable 3D characters and objects. The last two days I've been storyboarding my soon-to-be full feature film "Emendo", a dark scifi thriller. It's a real rush watching your movie come together like this!

2011-07-26 - Jibb time!

Time to do some seroius jibbing today.

A steppermotor mod is in the works and I may have found a suitable solution,  those jerky start and stop are somewhat annoying.. 

2011-07-15 - In front of the camera

Last weekend was one of those few times I happened to be in front of the camera. It was really good fun,  and a whole new appreciation was founded for all the hard work from the actors out there.

Remembering your line is one thing but to keep the same energy and performance after the eleventh take is just not that easy. You should try it.

2011-06-27 - Trying out the jib

The jibb is finished and I tried it out last weekend. Works pretty good and I think I can get even better results with some practice.

Some day I will probably mod the proaim head anf install frictiongears to eliminate all backlash and switch to steppermotors.

2011-06-20 New short online!

 

Check out our new short about daydreaming dude imagining the most awesome actionmovie ever made! We had a blast shooting and editing this short.

2011-06-14 - Jib in the works

I'm very close to finish my custom made jib with a Proaim jr pan tilt head. 

It's a cheap motorized head from dvcity.com and I actually didn't have much of it being useful and I planned all along to rewire the head with diy controller and stepmotors,  but it actually worked better then expected out of the box. 

The only drawback would be the noiselevel of the motors but for the work I plan to do with the jib they will do just fine.

2011-05-29 - "Working for life"

 

Have a look at the latest production we did for Skane Hospital. Filmed on a HMC150. Lots of greenscreen, graphics, 3d and sound design.

2011-05-27 Tweaking AF100

I've noticed that the Panny AF100 is quite biased to magenta and it's very noticable in the skin tones. Comparing to the Canon 60d I managed to tweak the settings in the AF100 giving it a more pleasing skintone without that sickly magenta cast. I might have gone alittle overboard with the color saturation setting, but it's nice to know that the AF100 is tweakable.

2011-05-17 Making subs

I am using Premieres Title Tool to make subtitles.  I've made a custom workspace in Premiere and found a pretty straightforward workflow.

2011-05-09 - Pimp my camera

The Af100 is fully rigged for tomorrow's adventures!

2011-04-11 Lowel rifa DIY

Just saved me some $$ by moding a cheap umbrella softbox with standard e27 socket to take a ordinary gy9,5 bulb.

Alittle bit scary to fire up a 650w lamp inside the umbrella but it worked surprisingly well,  and now I can ditch my knockoff red head with the  big and cumbersome softbox. I will most likely be doing more of these mods,  next one will probably be a 40x40cm ( with a smaller bulb of course.)

2011-03-29 - Canon Fd to micro 4/3 adapter

Just got this adapter for my Af100,  so now I got a whole new use for my collection of old Canon FD lenses.

The 50mm 1.4 is pretty sweet on the panasonic.  Looks ridiculous,  though. :)

2011-03-13 Setting the light

Rigging a pretty complex scene with 6 lights, all tungsten fresnel.

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2011-03-07 Rotoscoping

Doing some rotoscoping work for Skanes University Hospital.

The actress had blue clothes and green bike, so no chroma key or blue screen would work.

Luckily we found a red garbage dumpster that we could use as a makeshift "redscreen". Sometimes you got to work with what you have. :)

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2011-03-07 - Shipped!

Awesome, the camera is shipped

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2011-03-02

So they found something wrong with my af100 after all.

That is good news, but I guess they wont be able to fix it before friday. Doh!

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Linking the blog

I've managed to setup the blog so that it updates directy on my website btbmedia.se via RSS feed and the facebook page.

This post is mostly a test to see if everything updates gracefully!

Sending my AF100 to service ..

My Panasonic Af100 got wierd issues with the lcd monitor, so tomorrow away it goes to Uk for service.

It's actually the first Panasonic camera I've had to send to service, and I've had a quite a few, so that's a good grade I guess.

Cross my fingers that they'll fix it quickly, cause we got scheduled production on friday .. :S

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Editing RMC Malmoe

Using Premiere Pro Cs5 with mercury engine and it's working like a treat. Can do alot more stuff quicker and heavy use with dynamic linking flawless. Just love it.

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