Subtle slider action – with a filmmaking message
This popped on my radar the other day and it just made me chuckle so I’m sharing it… it has a good message for all of us budding filmmakers who constantly come up with excuses for not getting out and doing something. Subtle Slider Action… Can't see the video in your RSS reader or email?...
When The Music Matters–Interview with Commercial Composer McKenzie Stubbert
Erik here…As the resident video editor here at Chase Jarvis Inc, I’m on a never ending search for music. Often times the music drives the edit. The rhythm of the music can have a huge influence on the pace for the cuts and the mood can make a hilarious moment tragic. In other instances I...
Adam Forgione on Editing Songs for your soundtrack
We met Adam Forgione at the #mastersInMotion workshop and we were very impressed with his ability to talk about audio in filmmaking – and he contributed this tutorial on how to break down and edit songs for your soundtrack from his blog post: Editing Songs | Pennylane Workshops. We’ll be having Adam on planet5D live...
Pimp Your After Effects
Adobe After Effects is my go-to tool for most homebrew VFX and finishing tasks. It has the perfect blend of powerful features and editorial, layer-based ease of use. Is it as fast as a dedicated color grading system, or as responsive and powerful as N...
If You Want to be Creative, Go F.I.S.H.
This short film was part of a film series I created for a CEO’s Keynote address. He would be speaking to a room full of professional photographers from around the country about the creative process (as well as other topics). We purposefully chose artists in this piece that were NOT photographers because 1) we didn’t...
Canon Unveils the EOS C300, Jumps Into the Hollywood Digital Filmmaking Scene
Canon’s historic announcement is here, and as most people predicted, it’s geared towards filmmaking rather than photography. The company just unveiled its new C300 cinema camera in an effort to break into a Hollywood digital filmmaking scene that’s dominated by the Arri Alexa and the RED EPIC. While it’s not particularly powerful in any specific...
New Super 35 Camera
Wow, today is a big day! A new Super 35mm camera has been announced.
Litterally.
60 Second Portrait: Chris Jordan
60 Second Portrait of uber talented and visionary photographer Chris Jordan. I just love this.
[aside: He’s been on chasejarvis LIVE here – GREAT episode. His website is here. And if you dig these 60 second portraits, there are lots more...
Buy a Kindle, Be a Part of Something Important, And Maybe Even Write a Book
Kindles are now cheap.1
Many people predicted that there would be a major upset in the publishing world when the Kindle dropped below $99. They were wrong—it happened well before that.
Independent authors have been able to self-publish their wor...
Chasing Wildebeests
I had such a fun time talking with Kanen Flowers and Merlin Mann on Kanen’s Scruffy Thinking podcast. As Kanen puts it:
We discuss living in San Francisco, Star Wars, finding and doing what you love, trusting your grandmother’s advice, bei...
Gear Details: How We Shot “Dasein: Art of Being” Documentary
Hey friends. Erik the video guy here. We’ve had a bunch of YOUR questions come in about what gear/process/technique we used to make the Dasein docu-short we posted a couple days ago so I thought I’d chime in with a quick gear- and technique-specific follow up on how this film was made. First, Chase was...
A Song For The Lonely
In 2001 The Orphanage was still a brand-new company, and I was not yet a professional director. The project that changed that was a music video for Cher’s A Song For The Lonely, which Cher had dedicated “to the courageous people of New Yor...
