CMF came to the University of Alabama in January this year. In lieu of producing our own project, we teamed up with filmmaker Xavier Burgin of Que the Lights to work on his film I.F. , a drama about a little girl who has an imaginary friend who helps her to cope with a tragic loss. You can read his post about the movie here. Lindsey and I edited the film and I served as visual effects supervisor on several shoots. Xavier had a few VFX shots in mind when he wrote the script, and my job was to make those effects happen. I’ll blog in more detail about those effects at a later date.

Here’s a blooper take!

It was a whirlwind production with shoots on virtually every day of the production week. We were editing in tandem with the shoots, ingesting new footage immediately after each day wrapped and bringing it all together piece by piece until it was finished. There were many sleepless nights and we were racing against the clock on the final day, bringing in our completed cut within the last hour before the deadline.

The DP on this project was Greg Kubik (that guy knows his way around a DSLR) and the original score was written by the multi-talented Rae Marshall (also featured in the Fstoppers contest entry we produced a couple of months ago). Working as producer was Matthew Cocozza, who coincidentally also served as producer on the T.V. pilot “Goodnight Mrs. Malaprop, Wherever You Are” with Tom Cherones of Seinfeld fame. I worked as camera operator on that project and will also blog about it at a later date. We just wrapped that pilot around 2 weeks ago.

I.F. was selected as a top 16 film and screened at the finale. It was one of three films nominated for “Best Drama”, but didn’t win. However, the film did go on to win the “Wild Card” prize, thanks to everyone who shared and watched the film online, meaning it will now compete in a higher online bracket with a chance to go on to the finale in Hollywood. You can watch the film below. Enjoy!

The project, called “Broken Reality”, is a short film that documents the behind the scenes action of the production of a series of artistic photographs. The theme is derived from a response to the devastation of the April 27 tornado outbreak in Tuscaloosa earlier this year. The video follows the process of finding and shooting on location and then working in a studio to shoot a subject separately before combining the two in post.

I’m a big fan of digital manipulation and creative photography, so I really enjoyed working on this piece. Plus, the footage I was given was so well shot that the whole thing really came together on its own and looked great from the start.

You can watch the video here

And check out the post at Fstoppers.com here. Here are the sites for the artists involved if you’re interested in more of their work.

Kevyn Bryant – Photographer – KBryant Images

Xavier Burgin – Director/Cinematographer – Que The Lights

Rae Marshall – Photographer/Artistic Model – Rae Marshall Photography

He presented me with some great looking footage and asked me to put together something emotional and compelling that would reflect the feel of the event. I think we did a pretty good job with this one as I’ve had a few people get a little teary-eyed while watching it.

Enjoy.

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I ended up Director of Photography on William Mason’s He Buries My Mistakes. I shot with 2 Canon Rebel T2i cameras using the 18-55mm kit lens along with a 24mm and a sweet 50mm.

The music is an original composition written for this piece by Rae Marshall of Rae Marshall Photography.

You can find more info about the gallery here:

http://art.ua.edu/site/galleries/paul-r-jones-collection/

Check out these stills from the raw footage.

Also, I recently edited a music video for award winning filmmaker Xavier Burgin. The artist is Alabama rapper Drama and the track is titled “Work.”

You can check out Xavier Burgin’s company, Que The Lights, here:

http://www.qtlimages.com
http://www.quethelights.com

I’ve been tied up with my day job and lots of school projects lately, but there are some new ZombieSquid projects in the works and I’ll be talking about those as they develop.