Today I’m continuing my Video series with a roughly edited film I made for class back in school. I can’t remember the requirements for the assignment; but I think the results were pretty OK. This was really my first experience lighting for color negative film. After seeing the footage for the first time, I was extremely happy with it. Now I see aspects I like; but as a whole pretty inconsistent.
On the transfer end of this it proved to be a great exercise in matching shots.
You be the judge on its consistency. It was shot on a Bolex EBM (with one VERY faulty run switch) with Kodak Vision 2 500T stock.
I wish I could say I had some sort of emotional attachment to this film. Either by its content or the period of my life it was shot. However, it wound up merely being a technical exercise than anything else.
I can assure you that my next video update will be close to my heart.
This was the first piece of film I ran through my Bell & Howell Filmo. I had inherited it only a few months prior when my grandmother gave it to me. My grandfather bought it brand new in the early 1950’s/late 1940’s and baby-ed it. Being the only one in my extended family who could possibly cherish it, it was given to me. He used it on all his travels, so I thought I would try to carry on that tradition to some extent.
This was back in October 2006 I decided to take an extended weekend to visit my friend going to school in New York and get away from the stress of school. Taking the camera with me was a bit troublesome as it was both heavy and aroused suspicion with various security guards. However, once they realized it was just a camera I was able to draw quite a bit of enthusiasm and interest about it.
The following footage was shot in Central Park not too far from the Natural History Museum. The people featured are my old friend, her then boyfriend, and myself when I had terrible black dyed hair (I’ll explain this later). I recommend viewing this footage on Vimeo to see it in its full resolution.
This, of course, was 16mm using Kodak Vision 2 50D stock. It was just recently transferred to video on a Spirit 1 Datacine and color corrected on a da Vinci 2k Plus in HD. It was framed for Full Aperture. You may be able to tell I was lazier in some parts compared to others. Regardless, I’m happy with how it turned out.
Just for the sake of comparison, I transferred this a year ago when I first started working. Though it was off of a workprint and in SD, I think it accurately shows my evolution with this equipment over the past year .
Let me know what you all think.
Coming up soon will be excerpts from a silent short I made for a film class.
This the first post in the latest incarnation of my website. Previously, I had a site that I built from the ground up as a way to showcase the pieces of my portfolio and resume in order to help my chances at landing a job after graduating from college. It looked pretty and all but was a severe pain to update; so often it went long periods of time between updates. After landing my job it sat neglected for months before I finally took it down. This time around I wanted something I could update regularly with new content. Thanks Wordpress!
To give you my very brief background: my name is Jeff, I’m 23, and I aspire one day to become a Colorist for short and feature films. At this moment I’m working as an Assistant Colorist in a commercial post house. Though my job does not entail actually color correcting; I’m running the machines and am slowly learning from some incredible talents.
This site will focus on the media I’m working on on the side. I’m in the process right now of revisiting my old projects and sorting through all the footage my grandfather left behind. Many things to come!