I spent yesterday giving a talk at Westside Studio about the Red One Camera and HDSLR systems. Working with Krump Dancer Amadeus Marquez as subject, we compared and strengths and weaknesses of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Canon EOS 7D, and the Red One Camera. Personally I’ve used each of these systems for various applications – and its fair to say that each has their strength given the subject, budget, and time constraints of a project. This talk will hopefully be the first of many happening at Westside Studio over the coming months. The below images were taken by Aric Guite.
Below is my newest project – “Ballet!”. This project was made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Arts Fellowship – which is presently funding my longterm project to ‘explore the structural elements of the moving image’. The on-screen subject is Dancer Rebecca Connor of Canada’s National Ballet School. Huge thanks to The National Ballet School for working with me on this project. I really enjoyed learning about the artform, and the NBS was very accommodating in allowing me to sit in on senior classes. Ballet! was created in a similar manner to my project RGB MOVE – it is comprised entirely of still photographs and lit exclusively with photographic strobes. The camera used was Canon’s EOS 1D Mark IV. The lighting was Broncolor’s Scoro A4S packs. Thanks to Photographer Arash Moallemi who was instrumental during the testing and production stages of this project. I collaborated closely with Editor Kyle Wilson during post-production. The Music was scored by James Crosby. As with all of my work I handled the colour grading personally. In addition to the actual project, below is also a short behind the scenes video that shows a little bit about the process of creating “Ballet!”.
Below is my newest project – Bugs! – it is a creative motion project shot with the Red One camera system. The project was co-produced with Lithium Studios. I worked closely with Editor Kyle Wilson on this project, and handled the colour grading process personally. Additional thanks to Photographer Arash Moallemi and Filmmaker Darrell Faria for their help with production. Set photos below were taken by Carmen Cheung.
I spend yesterday evening co-creating a stop motion piece with Photographer Arash Moallemi. I’ll be posting the actual piece within the next week. This was my first chance to use Broncolor’s HMI lights – very interesting to work with. Below is an image from the set.
RGB MOVE is now up on Vimeo – a big improvement in terms of streaming and quality if you watch it in HD. Huge thanks to CODE Motion Pictures, a branch of The Cultural Olympiad, for commissioning and promoting this project throughout the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
This past weekend I collaborated with Editor Kyle Wilson as a team in The Young Lions Competition – a contest for media creatives under 28 years old. Kyle and I competed in the Film Category – we had a 48hr period to conceptualize, shoot, and deliver a 30 second PSA for a charity. I’ll be sure to post our project after the contest closes. Thanks to Kar Wai Ng for the photo below.
There is a write up on my recent motion project RGB MOVE in the current issue of Photo News Magazine. Big thanks to Photographer Melissa Tait who shot all the behind-the-scenes photographs during production.
I spent today at LIFT (The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) taking a workshop on hand developing motion picture film. As an image maker who caught the tail end of actually working with emulsion, I feel very lucky to have learnt to shoot with film, but cannot imagine working as I do now without the digitalization of photography and filmmaking. I’m very interested in exploring the rough quality of self developed emulsion, scanning it at a high resolution, and working with it in a digital environment. Here’s a few images from today’s workshop.
Here’s some footage from a test shoot shot last week. I’ve been working with dancers from Canada’s National Ballet School in preparation for an upcoming project. I’m several weeks into my program of work for a Chalmers Arts Fellowship that is centred around ‘exploring the structural elements of the moving image’. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting more info about what I’ve been up to in terms of the fellowship.
