I am sure you have seen a few of these “Sh*t People Say” meme videos floating around the past few days and I had to share these two.

Which sayings are you guilty of?

Remember that interview I did with Director Ken Simpson and DP Alex Dacev? Well, they have recently finished their feature film HEADCASE. You can watch the trailer here. Ken has put together a great series that debuts today. This series gives viewers a look into how these filmmakers made such an ambitious film for only $50,000. Every monday they will be releasing a new episode.

They also set up an IndiGoGo page to raise money for marketing and distributing the film. Definitely take a look and give them a hand in getting this film out.

Watch all the episodes as they come out here.

You can also get more updates on the Facebook page.

I know a lot of the time I fret much too much about what I will use to film something, or how I will go about filming something and I completely miss the point. Filming the darn thing. Well, its a new year so I will have the opportunity to reform my filmmaking behavior.

All that said here are a couple videos from a group of incredibly creative guys that just went out there created something. Sure their backgrounds aren’t to greatest, but they didn’t let anything stop them:

Just stumbled across this brilliant project by Frederic Brodbeck. He has been working on a way to visually give films a finger print and has come up with a clever way to do so.

Check it out the video below and the project home page.

I have always admired Tom Lowe and his work. Here is his most recent trailer for the upcoming film TIMESCAPES. You can preorder the film here.

I Have corresponded a little with Andy Newman online in the past few months. He has done some really cool projects and recently he shot this BTS for the FStoppers contest. I really enjoyed watching how the photographer Nick Fancher accomplished these shots.

Video Description:

ABOUT NICK
Nick Fancher is an experienced photographer of fashion, weddings, and men’s and women’s lifestyle. In 2007, he founded Shutter-Think Photography, specializing in portrait and fine art photography. 

His work has been featured in the international publications Photo District News (PDN) and JPG magazines as well as locally in C Magazine and Columbus Alive. His wedding work has received awards from the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) as well as Bride Magazine and PDN. His art has been featured in ROYGBIV and BoMA galleries.

nickfancher.com
twitter.com/nickfancher

ABOUT ANDY
Andy Newman is a freelance video producer, camera operator, and editor specializing in commercial, short form documentary, fashion and modeling videography. His video work has been featured by the NHL, the Columbus Blue Jackets, The Hockey News, Yahoo! Sports, OnScene Productions, JackThreads, and Camelot Cellars.

madebyandy.com
twitter.com/andynewman

CREDITS
Nick Fancher, Photographer
Andy Newman, Videographer & Editor
Meredith Miller, Stylist
Lauren Buckley, Stylist
Ryan Steele, Model
Ross Monat, Model
Nick Maikut, Model
Alex Franko, Model

Brands featured include Penguin, Levi’s, Andrew Marc, Reebok, Palladium, and Lab Co.

Music: DJ Shadow – “Giving Up The Ghost”

Official entry for FStoppers 2011 Behind the Scenes Contest. Find more info on the contest here:fstoppers.com/2011contest

Time-lapse photography is a popular thing. They look cool but there are thousands of them out there. Most just show space, the sun, and cities busling along. But I recently stumbled across this gem of a video and loved how it used time-lapse photography to create a narrative. Check it out:

I found a very interesting video today. Its kind of abstract and narrative all at once. Love the operation and editing in this piece. Check it out:

From the Vimeo Decription:

CREDITS

Short film by USMANOV ELDAR “2D SOUL” / Director of photography: USMANOV ELDAR/ Sound Producers: OLEG SAXONOV; ALEXANDER KENDYSH; KIRILL BELORUSSOV. Studio – “OAK PROJECT”/cast: LEONID ROMANOV/ Sound director: ALEXANDER KENDYSH/ Edit & VFX: USMANOV ELDAR/ music & Sound Design by ALEXANDER KENDYSH/ Music supervisor: KIRILL BELORUSSOV/ Sound editors: IGOR MIHAYLOV & DONAT RYMSHANOV/ Requisite: Studio “SVERTOK”/ Spacial thanks: STANISLAV ONATSKY & LUBOV HOBOTOVA/ produced & directed by USMANOV ELDAR.

DSLRs are fantastic. Great image, small, and have a close to film aesthetic. Aside from dynamic range, the main difference between an HDSLR’s image and film’s is grain. Grain carries such a warm organic feel to it. It kind of smooths over the whole image. Thanks to the folks over at CineGrain.com we can now bring that look and feel to our digital projects. With their indie collection its now very affordable to get a pack with tons of different film scans and effects.

I also love how simple it is to apply these scans. Simply drop them in your NLE set their composition mode to “Overlay” and boom. You’re in business

Check out their video above to learn more. Also watch the two videos I shot using their 8mm and 35mm scans.

8mm Effects

35mm Grain

Here comes the bride, the kiss, limo, cake, dancing, more kissing. There are a lot of wedding guys out there. And while some do great unique work, the subject matter is rather limiting. Sure you can change the shots, angles but at the end of the day its a wedding. But today’s Monday Like surprised me. Filmmaker/Photographer Lee Morris of FStoppers.com used over crank and black and white to create something I haven’t seen. Check it out below. Be sure to also check out his BTS on how he shot this wedding.