Cinematographer Matt Kleiner Interview

I would like to present a very interesting interview on Cameraman.com. His name is Matt Kleiner, a filmmaker and cinematographer based in California and having an affinity for all things ocean. Matt’s imagery is strongly focused around the concept of water and the natural beauty surrounding coastal areas. With surfing being a huge influence in his life, he has used the act of wave riding as a primary source for his focus and creativity.

With three feature length films, several music videos and magazine covers to his credit, Matt’s imagery can be seen around the world. His films have been an official selection at numerous film festivals including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, International Surf Film Festival Anglet, Ombak Bali, Newport Beach Film Festival and many others.

Watch Matt’s Showreel of the first part of 2011 and then discover this short interview where he tell us how he started his career. The reel show some of his favourite shots from recent music videos, surf films, travel documentaries, commercials and short films. Filmed throughout North America, Australia and Indonesia.

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Martin in Interviews, Showreels Leave a comment

The Making of Carla Kosak’s “Don’t Want Your Man” Video Clip

Director Kevin Otterness takes us behind the scenes of Carla Kosak’s “Don’t Want Your Man” music video.

Title: MAKING OF “Don’t Want Your Man” Music Video
Director: Kevin Otterness
Producer: Brian Tedeschi
Camera: Kim St. Aubin
Production Assistants: Joe Petrick & Jeremy Hawkins
Editor & Colorist: Kevin Otterness
Production Company: posthousepictures.com

You can check out Carla Kosak’s “Don’t Want Your Man” Official Video Clip here.

About Kevin Otterness

Kevin Otterness got his start in the film business at age 7 when his father took him to see “Star Wars” in 1977. Walking out of the theatre, Otterness knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

Today, Otterness owns and operates CINEARTISTS and POSTHOUSE PICTURES, two independent production companies. He produces and directs independent films, music video’s and behind-the-scenes documentaries, and his clients have benefited from his artistic camera work and editing talents since 2000.

Prior to branching off on his own, Otterness worked for a local public access station, where he created and produced one of the most successful cable access television shows in the country, “Technical Difficulties Television.” TDTV was a weekly entertainment program known for its high-energy, edgy, MTV-style approach to entertainment news in and around the Chicago area. The show ran for seven years and won several local and national awards.

Throughout his career, Otterness built an impressive resume that earned him recognition for his work as a Director of Photography, his fast paced editing style, and his ability to make small-budget projects look like million-dollar productions.

Director Kevin Otterness sets up the next shot

In December 2010 Kevin Otterness released his music video directorial debut, “Life Without Love,” performed by Dave Sills and produced by Brian Tedeschi. One week later the behind the scenes of “Life Without Love” was released.

Otterness also worked with one of his inspiring directors this year, Michael Bay. Otterness was cast as an FBI agent in the upcoming film TRANSFORMERS 3 “Dark of the Moon,” part of which was filmed in Chicago. He also was cast in Steven Soderbergh’s new film “Contagion” also shot in Chicago.

Though he’s never seen himself as an actor, Otterness believes it helps him as a director understand where his actors are coming from when on set.

In 2011, Otterness released his second music video, “Don’t Want Your Man” performed by Carla Kosak.

Making of Carla Kosak Video Clip

Otterness also plans on involving other Chicago area filmmakers in some other projects he has coming up this year.

You can follow Kevin Otterness on Twitter: Twitter.com/KevinOtterness

Facebook fan page: Facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Otterness/139381506121411

Kevin Otterness’s Blog: Kevinotterness.wordpress.com

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Martin in Canon, DSLR, Making of, Video, Video Clips Leave a comment

Carla Kosak’s “Don’t Want Your Man” Official Music Video

Presenting Carla Kosaks’ “Don’t Want Your Man” music video. The clip was shot entirely on the Canon 7D and produced by POSTHOUSE PICTURES.

Title: Don’t Want Your Man
Artist: Carla Kosak
Writer: Sound Master T
Directed by Kevin Otterness
Producer: Brian Tedeschi
DOP: Kevin Otterness
Editor & Colorist: Kevin Otterness
Production Design: Kim St. Aubin
Production Assistants: Jeremy Hawkins & Joe Petrick
Production Company: posthousepictures.com/

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Martin in Cameras, Canon, DSLR, Video, Video Clips Leave a comment

The Visualmakers – Preview Trailer

This is the first trailer/preview for The Visualmakers, a documentary filmed at NABShow 2011 that seeks to find out what unites us as independent filmmakers who use the latest breed of relatively affordable digital tools. Find out what unites us all as filmmakers by taking a look at this documentary that goes beyond the gear to the person, in a way you might not have seen before. The documentary is an Anticipate Media and NeedCreative Films production, and directed by Paul Antico. The final release is scheduled for this summer.

Featuring the work and stories of (in order of appearance in this trailer):

Kevin Shahinian
Cristina Valdivieso
Jon Connor
Vincent Laforet
Mick Jones
Julia Swain
Robin Schmidt
Jared Abrams
Ben Eckstein
Philip Bloom

Here is the list of the gear used for the documentary:

Cameras: Filmed with a Panasonic AF100, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 7D, and Canon T2i

Lenses: Lenses used include Nikon 50mm 1970′s vintage, Zeiss ZE 50mm F1.4 and 35mm F2, Canon 17-40mm F4 L, Canon 24-104 IS F4L, Canon 85mm F1.4L, and Canon 100mm F2.8L IS Macro

Sound:

Mics: Sennheiser G2 and Sony UWP-V1 Wireless Lavaliers, Rode Video Mic and Video Mic Pro, Rode NTG-2, Azden Shotgun
Recording: Internal AF-100 and Zoom H4N

Rigs & Stabilization:

Manfrotto Stills and Video Tripods and Video Tripods, Manfrotto 501HDV Head * 701 HDV Head, Schatler Tripod and Head, Jag35 Field Runner, Zacuto Base Plate, Kessler Pocket Dolly Traveler V2.0

Lighting: LitePanels Micro, Opteka 128LED On-Camera Lights, Promaster Reflector

Monitors: Marshall 5″ HDMI LCD Monitor

Edited with Apple Final Cut Pro 7

Motion Graphics – Apple Motion 4

Color by Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks

Timelapses modified using Adobe Lightroom and CHV Electronics Long Exposure Plugin

You can read more about The Visualmakers and the creative process at Needcreative.net

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Martin in Canon, Entertainment, News, Panasonic, Timelapses, Trailers, Video Leave a comment

Champions timelapse

Here’s another fantastic timelapse made by Luis Caldevilla and his team from Timelapses.tv
Luis made this timelapse for Telemadrid during the match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. They used five DSLR cameras in total: a Canon 1000D , a 400D, two 450D and a 7D. The cameras were installed in different places in the Bernabeu Stadium to get the bests shots.

One of the best advantages to do timelapses with a DSLR camera is that the resolution of the images is much better than a video camera

During a four-day-work Luis and his team shot more than 50.000 photos. Luciano Rodriguez and Carlos Peña were in charge of the motion control timelapses.

They used the Motiontimer before and during the match.

Alberto Castaño did also a few unique aerial shots using an Oktokopter.

The rest of the team helped to do this great timelapse during the Champions League event.

Web: www.luiscaldevilla.com
Twitter: twitter.com/luiscaldevilla
Facebook: facebook.com/luiscaldevilla.es

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Martin in Motion Control, Timelapses Leave a comment

Interview with The Bridge director Marlon Torres

Marlon Torres, based in California not only excels as a Cinematographer but also as a Film Director. I had the chance to interview Marlon last week about his last film The Bridge and I have to say that it’s amazing to think that with only a $7,000 budget, Marlon and his team make this extraordinary 30 minutes movie. A Brilliant job!

Cameraman: Hello Marlon, first of all thank you for the interview. Let’s start by telling us a bit more about yourself and how you got started with your last movie The Bridge?

Marlon: Hello, my name is Marlon Torres and I am an independent filmmaker based in the San Francisco bay area. I specialize in writing, directing, cinematography, and visual effects. I spent my first two years out of college primarily as a CG artist. It’s a rough job. Long hours sitting in dark room. Not the life I imagined seeing myself in. Read more

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Martin in Interviews, Video Leave a comment

Making of The Chapel

I discovered the film TheChapel last week on vimeo and here I would like to share the making of. The director of photography Patryk Kizny said: “If you are not in the business, or even if you are, you might not be aware of the amount of work behind TheChapel.” Read more

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Martin in Video Leave a comment

Shooting a Comedy in Japan with a Canon 5D and a 7D

Posted by Pascal Montjovent

I’m just back from shooting in Japan a short fiction called “Igor in Japan”, where Igor is a donkey. It’s a comedy we shot during one week near the village of Komoro, in the Nagano district.

Since it seemed difficult for the production company to rent specific lights and cameras in Japan, we had to bring everything with us from Europe. It had to comply with in-flight weight and measurements regulations, so we opted for the Canon 5D Mark II and the 7D, customized with Marshall monitors and two Chrosziel Follow Focus Systems. Read more

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Martin in Cameras, Canon, DSLR, Video Leave a comment

Hands-On with the Canon EOS 60D

At this year’s Canon Expo, we had an opportunity to see Canon’s recently announced EOS 60D HDSLR. The 60D is a full-featured HDSLR positioned between the Rebel T2i and the 7D, with one notable exception – the 3” LCD now articulates, solving the problem many video shooters had with high and low angle shots. HD video functions are similar to the rest of the EOS line, with H.264 1080/24p/25p/30p and 720/60p/50p recording on to SDHC & SDXC cards.

Click blog.abelcine.com for the whole story.

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Martin in Cameras, News Leave a comment

7D

Featuring the work and stories of (in order of appearance in this trailer):

Here is the list of the gear used for the documentary:

One of the best advantages to do timelapses with a DSLR camera is that the resolution of the images is much better than a video camera

Cameraman: Hello Marlon, first of all thank you for the interview. Let’s start by telling us a bit more about yourself and how you got started with your last movie The Bridge?

Martin Ureta