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Cameraman Glenn Harris Interview

Welcome back to Cameraman.com! First of all I would like to thank you all for your visit and for your support to the community!
This time I would like to introduce you with Glenn Harris, a cameraman, editor and director who works between New York and Los Angeles. Glenn has had a lifelong career in cinema and television. He began at the age of 2 as a child actor appearing in features and television – notably in the 80s classic “Say Anything” and a regular on daytime soap opera “General Hospital”. He switched to the production side after attending film school at USC. His hobbies include flying airplanes, surfing, and scuba diving.
Glenn tells us a bit about how he discovered scuba diving and a few tips of underwater filmmaking. As I’m also a passionate about underwater filmmaking  I will be posting more interviews… so stay in touch!

Cameraman: Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got started with diving and underwater filming?

Glenn: About a year ago I was looking for a new adventure. I’m from Southern California where most all of my friends and I grew up surfing and snowboarding. I love both of those, but diving was something not as many people seemed to do. When I breathed underwater for the first time, even though it was just in a pool, I was hooked.
Underwater filming then became a natural outgrowth for me. Filmmaking has always been in my life – through child acting, going to film school, and now leading a career in it. The difference though with underwater shooting is I was driven purely by a sense of exploration and adventure that I wanted to share with everyone.



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Posted on July 19, 2011 by Martin in Interviews, Underwater Leave a comment

Behind the Scenes of VW’s Black Beetle Commercial

One of the standout spots from this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials was undoubtedly Volkswagen’s Black Beetle which trailed the forthcoming launch of the new 21st Century VW Beetle. This Super Bowl stunner features an exquisitely animated, striped beetle that dodges natural foes in the woods with the prowess of a 21st Century VW Beetle in a heart-pounding car chase.

Alongside MJZ director Dante Ariola and agency Deutsch, The Mill London’s team of artists pulled out all the VFX stops to create the realistic CG beetle and its insect friends. Take a look at how they did it in this special Making Of fillm.



 

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Here you have a fascinating behind-the-scenes video that gives you an up-close and personal look at the making of the entomological, CGI wonderland of the Black Beetle. Tom Bussell and Juan Brockhaus, The Mill Lead 3D Artists on “Beetle”, say they created an animatic from Ariola’s storyboards to provide a blueprint for timings and how the edit would work. They researched not only iconic car chases, but watched documentaries and observed real-life footage of insects to make the spot’s cast as believable as possible.



 

About The Mill

Based in London, New York and Los Angeles The Mill collaborate on award-winning moving image, design and digital projects for the advertising, film, TV, games and music industries.

Twenty years of innovation has established The Mill as a recognised global brand for creating seamless visual effects, but we are also leaders in design, animation, live action content direction, VFX brand accounts, versioning and global adaptations, digital content creation and distribution. The Mill was founded in 1990 by Robin Shenfield and Pat Joseph, both of whom still lead the group and now have a global team of 500 plus made up of multi-national and home grown talent.

Website: www.themill.com

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Martin in Behind the Scenes, Commercials, News, Video Leave a comment