Movie Behind the Scenes Teaser...

The title might be a little misleading, but whatever. I need the clicks :).

Below are a few BTS stills from a short film that I am furiously working on. As per the title of this post, it's just to whet your appetite until I can manage to write an in-depth blog about everything, from the idea conceptualization, to the sound editing and the visual effects. Everything.

Until the more in-depth blog post, please stay tuned!!

Kylie and Fayoz's Wedding Video

Kylie and Fayoz got married back in March, and I just realized that I forgot to post their wedding video here!

The process for this video was the same as the previous two. I used my Steadicam for most of the shots with my GH2 using a 14mm lens (28mm FF equivalent) and shooting at either 60 frames per second or 29.97, so that I had the option of slowing both of them down when I dropped the clips into a 24p timeline. We went back to the temple a few weeks after their wedding to get most of the pickup shots, and I'm happy with the way that they turned out! All of the lens flares, etc... in this are real. It was just that awesome of an evening. Perfect sunset, and a great couple! Editing was done in Sony Vegas.

Park City with PixAir Productions

It's been a while.

Just a quick update: Last weekend I had the opportunity to head up to Park City with Brian and Nick from PixAir Productions to help film some aerials for the Park City Chamber of Commerce. I hacked my trusty Panasonic GH2 and brought it along to shoot some B-roll for them. It was a really fun, although long, day.

Below are some frame grabs from my GH2.

Our first location was at the Jordanelle Resovoir, filming some paddle-boarding and then a family in a sail boat.

Our next location was in Deer Valley, filming a family riding some horses on one of the trails. We had to do a test with the helicopter beforehand so we would know if it would spook the horses or not if it flew close to them. Luckily they were okay with it!

And our final location was at a golf course.

And last but not least, a shot of Brian piloting the RC heli.

So anyway, it was a lot of fun shooting stuff for the Park City Chamber of Commerce!

Zucchini Cookies Video

The other day my wife acquired a rather large zucchini from my sister in-law. Well, it's been sitting on our counter for the better part of two weeks now. But the other day, Kristina found a recipe online for zucchini cookies. Sounds kinda weird, huh?? Well, I have been wanting to get back into the mode of making little videos for a while now, as life has been kind of crazy for the past few months. Well, my wife found this zucchini cookie recipe (which turned out to be pretty good!) and I decided to film her while she made it!

Zucchini Cookies from Bills Films on Vimeo.

Below is a screenshot of my Adobe Premiere timeline of the locked edit.

What it looks like while you're editing

So I wanted to shoot this in a way that minimized the human aspect but focused more on the process of the cookies being made. If that made any sense, then you win. Something. To do this, I used my wife's Canon 60D with the 50mm f1.8 lens to get a very shallow depth of field, to direct the viewer to what I wanted them to see. Most of this video was shot in the f/1.8-2.8 range, so as to keep the nice bokeh in the shot. Music is graciously provided by Chopin.

Also, there's one shot in this film that was not shot with the 60D, but with my Panasonic GH2. If you can spot it, then you win something.