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  • Lincoln11Lincoln11

    @rockroadpix Chris, I worked there when I was a kid. It was called Big City Films when I was there I think. Remember a guy named Ron Leysner with a year round tan?

  • AriaAria

    Hello all :) I'm a long time Audio Engineer and Songwriter. I used to be a working musician, but had moved on to running a professional Recording Studio and a small Indie Label. I was born and raised in New York but have lived in Georgia for the last 8 years. I've been filming local TV talk shows, Music Videos, events and even produced a Televised Music Talent show that did quite well locally. I have a GH1, T2i, Vixia HG20, S21 and older Pro DV camcorders. I'm still very new to all of this but it's been fun learning and improving in my technique.

    I want to produce documentaries and hopefully one day a short narrative film. In the meantime i've got a LOT to learn, but it's really fun and exciting so far.

  • rockroadpixrockroadpix

    My name is Chris. I live just outside NYC in NJ. I have been in production since July 1993 when I moved to NYC and got a job at City Stage (Film production facility with 4 stages then) working with Steve Steigman (he took a fairly famous photo). Freelance since 94.

    I set my sights on DoP duties when I was Crew or before that, PA'ing and somehow got shoe-horned into producing/AD'ing about 13 years ago. Over the last 7 years, I've transitioned more into directing and shooting. Back where I wanted to be all along! It's a strange trip. I started my own company 3 years ago and things are picking up, though I still hire myself out to other companies. I work on mostly commercials with some corporate work, but I'd like to start doing more narrative. I have a couple of good doc subjects rattling around upstairs along with a script or two. I need to get it onto paper- tough at times with wife and two small kids. I've worked on more than 270 gigs I have (2) Gh2s a buttload of lenses and other gear. Currently have a MFT BMCC on order...

    Cheers!

  • FrankLanternFrankLantern

    I'm a Jazz Guitarist from Northern California. Pretty much a noob around video but fairly comfortable around audio. I am here to learn more about the video side. It's always been a goal of mine to set some visuals to an album I recorded. It's a drums, bass and guitar trio. The sound is ambient but organic...uh...that sounds ridiculous but I can't think of a better way to describe it off the top of my head.

    Here are 8 10-20 second snippets of some of the ambient tunes. I have called these soundtrack material in the past.

    https://soundcloud.com/frank-lantern/flying-boats-soundtrack

    Here is one of my jazz tunes

    https://soundcloud.com/frank-lantern/10th-and-j

    My main gear is a Warmoth Tele, Warmoth Strat, Cubase, Fireface, Fractal AxeFx II. Just purchased a Gh3 with a 12-35 lens.

  • B3GuyB3Guy

    Hey. I'm a very soon-to-be graduate of Bethel University in Minnesota, with a BA in my own custom major, titled "Film and Art". I spent the previous semester studying fine art in New York City at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies (NYCAMS), and the semester immediately preceding that, I spent at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center (LAFSC) in Los Angeles of course. My primary interest is in film as a serious artistic medium, but I also study philosophy, literature and other dip into other subjects whenever I get the chance. I love anything creative, and play several instruments. I claim the Hammond organ as my primary instrument, although I also play electric guitar, piano and electric bass. The Beatles are and always will be my favorite band, but I'm also a big fan of The Glitch Mob and Washed Out (to name a few).

    I'm here because I am a big fan of the GH2. The image out of a GH2 with Vitaliy's modified firmware and the Driftwood's All-I settings fit my tastes and filmmaking style like a glove. I shoot with a Kowa 16-H anamorphic an increasing percentage of the time. I'm hoping to work up to shooting my own feature-length film set in Minnesota. Los Angeles and New York City are amazing places with lots of creativity going on, but everyone's seen films set in those places a million times over. I've got a sneaking suspicion that filmmaking is going to continue to change slowly but surely with the advent of affordable RAW cameras and the ever-increasing ability to deliver high definition content via the internet. Hopefully this enables a few more independent filmmakers to achieve success over time, with stories and films made right at home on a home budget.

    Besides, the only accurate Minnesota film is Grumpy Old Men. We could use one or two more. (Because, let's be honest, Fargo isn't set in Minnesota, it is set in the Cohen Bros. crazy brains.)

  • tcarrettitcarretti

    Hi,

    My name is Tony and so far, videography is just an expensive hobby. I've made a little back doing small projects for people, but my real job is as a personal fitness trainer. I've had aspirations (as many probably do...) of making interesting short films, but unfortunately, it's difficult to find like minded people here in San Antonio, TX. Not the greatest moviemaking city in the States!

    What I have decided to do (as of this morning...) is to finally start my own exercise and nutrition blog so that I can share the 23 years of experience I have with people outside of my normal circle of influence. I'm 50 years old, and I've seen and helped a lot of people realize their health goals. Hopefully, I'll be able to use some of the gear that I've amassed over the past few years so that it will be quality content.

    If you're interested in getting advice on fitness, exercise, nutrition and motivation, take a trip over to my newly minted blog at:

    http://www.carrettiworld.net

    My goal is to post content a few times a week ranging from healthy recipes, exercise videos, health strategies and a lot of my own (sometimes helpful, sometimes not..) opinions of those subjects. I'm glad to have found this community, I just wish that there was a way to meet up personally with some of you for collaboration, maybe that way, some more of my passion for movie making could be realized.

    Cheers to all of you,

    Tony

  • QuickHitRecordQuickHitRecord

    My name is Nick. For the past five years, I have worked in corporate video in the Washington DC metropolitan area. I write, produce, direct, and edit, but my main focus is shooting. I'm always trying to get involved in some interesting side projects (that don't involve talking heads in suits).

    Currently, I own a GH2. It's a heck of a lot lighter and easier to carry than the cameras that I have to lug around at work. I'm a sucker for anamorphic lenses -- I have owned and sold almost a dozen of them at one point or another on my quest to find my favorite.

    A few years ago I spent two weeks backpacking and bushwhacking through Alaska trying to get some good footage of bears with my 7D:

    Best time of my life.

  • BurnetRhoadesBurnetRhoades

    Hi, my name is Sean. I share my name with the famous creator of the Friday the 13th franchise and since nearly the birth of internet e-mail I'll get a few messages a year intended for him which is at least part of the reason for standardizing on my current handle at online forums and such.

    I'm a long time visual effects professional but have spent a good chunk of the last twelve years trying to focus on independent film. Over the last year my brother and I successfully acquired distribution on our second feature length motion picture, Sick Boy, which I shot on a Canon 7D. The project serves as a first time project as DP on anything this length. I also created all of the more difficult visual effects and color graded the film.

    In my "former life" I did stuff like animate the Maverick missiles fired by the Harrier jets during the causeway sequence of True Lies, designed the flying traffic for futuristic NY, NY in The Fifth Element and turned Senator Kelly into a puddle of water for the first X-Men film (I've since "killed" this actor a second time with a bullet to the head for The Millionaire Tour, LOL). I guess those would be considered my "greatest hits" but I've got some pretty cool b-sides too.

    Right now I'm getting prepped for what will be the next film my brother Tim and I make. It could be a scifi period script a friend (and producer on Sick Boy) wrote or could be the horror-fantasy-documentary Tim is writing now. Until then I'll keep working on paying the bills pushing pixels and having a good time with my camera (currently GH2) and anamorphic cinematography while I procrastinate on my own writing.

  • ahblezaahbleza

    Is this the PV addiction support group? :-) Hi, I'm ahbleza, and I'm a documentary and narrative filmmaker. So far I've shot a few short films, music videos and documentary or news pieces, but hope to lens my first feature length narrative later this year. My background is IT, so I tend to geek out over the technical aspects sometimes, but I love stories and their telling.

    Nothing unique in terms of gear. I have a Nikon D7000, Nikon D800, Panasonic GH2 and AF100. I also have a hexakopter for aerial shots. My BMCC MFT hasn't arrived yet.

    I'm based in New York, but travel occasionally to other cities for work.

  • MeierhansMeierhans

    Media designer from germany, doing ads, image videos and technical documentations. Once in a while also live stuff (sports, theater). Teaching part time in a school. Been into spinning music and doing visuals for events in the past. (Less wild now. ;) My focus (itm) is on lighting and grading, but do (like) all the other departments as well. I work with Adobe Suite, can handle FCP, Color, Pro Tools and the like if I need to. I love the fact that you never stop learning in this job. Sometimes I miss the wild times. I still live somewhere between 120 and 140 BPM.

    Things like this make me happy:

    https://soundcloud.com/mysterymix/max-cooper-i-long-version

    http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_de.html

    Guess there is a lot more to say, but as this is a public space I believe it does not really fit in here.

    I love this place for the people. I read it like a daily newspaper. ;-)

  • FlaaandeeersFlaaandeeers

    Kind of a writer. One novel written and a few short scripts. I've studied filmmaking for a while, but I'm learning more here than at school. From Argentina. John Carpenter, my mom, then the rest :)

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    how about you Vitaliy? I am sure many are interested in your story.

    You can just google 43rumors interviews

  • cmountmancmountman

    Hi I have just purchased a GH2 last week I am new to this group. I have several 4/3 lenses: Leica 14-50, Sigma 30mm F1.4, Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 and M4/3 14mm. I also have some C mount Cine lenses for 16mm old film cameras an Angenieux 12-120, Schneider Variogon 18-90 and a few prime lenses.

    I have built a dolly from a skateboard and am trying to get the pieces together to build a steadycam glidecam...I don't think it should be too difficult..

    I am just learning to use the camera so any advice or tips is greatly appreciated

    Thanks

  • jfilmmakerjfilmmaker

    I make art films and videos, sometimes narrative, sometimes documentary. Attempting to working on a avante-garde feature documentary here in Los Angeles (PM for topic). I do everything in terms of making my films, so I have to be reasonably competent in all areas. On a personal level, I'm into progressive politics, political philosophy, art, and I try to bring that into the work.... Also, I'm really into world cinema.

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