I recently had the opportunity to teach on the HVX-200 as a guest speaker at my alma mater, Columbia International University. I promised the students that I’d make a few links available that have helped me in becoming a better filmmaker so here they are! Special thanks to my co-speaker, Ken Summerall of Wellwater Productions, for picking up the Final Cut Pro side of the class. Enjoy!

Links:

• Creative Cow: www.creativecow.com
• DVX User: www.dvxuser.com
• P2 Scene files: www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/scene_files.asp?model=HVX200
• Twitter: www.twitter.com

I mentioned a few months ago that I had the opportunity to shoot for the same company who makes Pinks and Pinks All Out. It’s a site called 1320x and it seems that the video on the site is now live! I thought I’d share it for your enjoyment. I was the end track camera, so many of the shots following the cars from start to finish were shot by me. If you see the shot of the hood flying off and over the track, I’m the little guy dead center who watches it fly over his head. Enjoy!

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1320x - Rockingham, NC

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Columbia, SC to shoot a quick fund raising video for East Lake Community Church. We had about an hour to shoot with a rather quick turn around so we had to make the time we had count. I’m pretty happy with the final product we ended up with. It was shot on an HVX-200 in “The Vista” located in beautiful downtown Columbia.

Special thanks to both Caitlin Henson as well as Chadd Bonesteel for their help at the shoot. They’re engaged to be married in May and they make a great team. I’m looking forward to where they go in the future!

Finally, I’m experimenting with a new way to embed videos so let me know what you think of the video as well as the new system!

Choose your video size:
Small • Medium • Large • HD

It’s taken me a bit to get these up, but I thought I would share a few of my favorites from our wedding photos! All photography was taken by Nathan Clinebelle. Hope you enjoy!

I was doing some research tonight when I stumbled upon an interesting concept on collaborative filmmaking. It’s called Rootclip. It takes the idea of that story you play where someone starts a story only to have the next person add the next chapter, then the next one, and so on until the end. Rootclip gives you a starting clip with an introduction to the main characters and gives some basic rules to follow with the story. What you do outside of that is up to you. The submissions are then voted on and posted only to have the same process start with that second clip. Overall it’s a pretty interesting concept and could lead to quite a bit of fun and creativity! I’ll be keeping my eye on this one over the next few weeks.