B-Rad Intern

Yesterday, I was filming with the C100 and it's a lot of fun but filming with my new intern Brandon (B-Rad) is even better. He's been killing it and I'm excited to see what happens this year. He's smart, a fast learner and will be a really talented filmmaker some day. Here's a couple photo's from a shoot we did with a professor yesterday.

Using the Tamrac Big Wheels Speedroller 2x here, which is my go to bag for anything I do.

Foothill Church - The Move Campaign

Our church is making the move to a new property and they partnered with us to create a campaign film to help jumpstart the process, show the vision and get people excited. The cool thing about this was seeing how far the church has come in such a short period of time. It's been almost 6 years since the last move and now they are taking a big leap of faith and doing it again. Below you can see a few behind the scenes photos. Our goal was to do a three camera set up with an all black background but the wide shot was the most difficult.  It needed to be a full body composition, where Pastor Chris was separated from the all black background. I think it turned out pretty well, given the equipment we had and the time frame we did it in.

Of course no shot would be possible with out bring all my equipment in a Tamrac Evolution 9 bag. Wish I had my new bags, bringing this much equipment would have been a lot easy if I only had two bags. Read more about that post here All You Need In Two Tamrac Bags.

Collaborating with Friends

I've been working on a new film this past month. I can't release it yet, but I wanted to share some screen grabs from the edit. We've been filming everywhere on campus and in Azusa, including hauling a jib up Garcia trail for a sunset shoot. The view was perfect because a small wind storm the day before cleared out all the smog. I also want to say a big thanks to all the students, friends, and my wife Chaili who helped me out. Ya'll are awesome! Thanks for collaborating with me to make this film happen.

Finally, a different football coach.

I'm in the process of finishing a story that I've been working on since September of 2011. It has been the longest and hardest task I've faced yet but it's also the project I've learned the most from. Since then two big name schools have had head coach scandals and both were not pretty and not fair to the players. The story I'm telling is about a coach who's different and wants to use football to make his players better at anything the choose to do in life.

Check out this LA Times article that talks about his influence on his players. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-nfl-draft-20120428,0,5050897.column