agency | blue onion
creative director | Mike Heinrich
director | Jeff Feierstein
writer | Jordan Sher
dp | Scott Tuke
ac | Doug O’Kane
dit | Eric Anolin
script supervisor | Megan Cull
gaffer | Chris Gerding
key grip | Matt Stelling
grip | Mitch Stelling
art director | Dylan Kiszlowski
set decorator | Robin Bartlett-Asnicar
sound | Scott Terhark
talent | Tom Van Ness (Donna Baldwin)
makeup | Tanya Jones
craft services | Charlene Galway
still photography | Paul Trantow
stage | Colorado Studios
production supplies | Wyndham-Hannaway, LSI

The Colorado ski season is just around the corner, and I’m ready for the snow to fly after finishing color on Matchstick Productions’ “Attack of La Niña”. The feature was shot on location in Colorado, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and California, during the 2010-2011 season, one of the snowiest in recent history.

The MSP crew shot several formats, including RED, Panasonic AF100, Phantom, 16mm film and more. I cranked out the color work in a marathon two day Baselight session and delivered Apple ProRes HQ 422. The MSP edit team layed off the final master to HDCam for the movie tour.

On Saturday, September 17th, the film premiered in two cities on the same night, two sold-out shows in Boulder, CO and Montreal, QC. I’ll be attending the Denver premiere tonight at The Gothic Theater. Tickets are still available, and as always, there will be plenty of ski-related giveaways.

**the above trailer from MSP was cut prior to final color-grade… you’ll have to catch the movie tour to see the finished looks!

director | Jeff Feierstein
location manager | Brooke Johnson
1st asst director | Bob King
dp | Darick D’Ercole
asst camera | Tod Boyle, Luke Bishop
prod assts | Shawn Roberts and Nathan Chaney
electrical | Chris Gerding, Steve Van Ness
grip | Mattt Stelling, Tony Thomas
DIT | Eric Anolin
post supervisor | Matt Struck
script supervisor | Megan Cull
art dept | Dylan Kiszlowski, Robin Bartlett, Ann Marie Auricchio, Tom McPherson
talent | Donna Baldwin
makeup | Tanya Jones, Katie McMillian
craft | Charlene Galway, Natalie Marsh

Congratulations to our festival winners:
1st Place – Tim Keller
2nd Place – Brooke Warren
3rd Place – Enzo Del Calzo

We’ll post more pictures and some of the :30ish films soon.
Right now, we’re going to take a well-deserved nap.

[Via Jezebel]

I stumbled upon this link while surfing Reddit today. It is a great collection of behind the scenes photography from iconic film shoots. Films like Metropolis, The Shining, Ghostbusters, Star Wars and Requiem for a Dream are included in the compilation. Not only do these photos show candid moments of actors out of character, but also the rigs and sets used to create such iconic pieces of popular culture. Very cool.

via (angurshamal.com) and (aintitcool.com)

agency | Network Affiliates
editor | Matt Struck
audio engineer | Kirk Clausen

Testimonials are a great way to express the personal feelings of how a product or service has impacted an individual. The benefit of this particular series of testimonials was that they were going to be used on
the internet, thus not being constricted to the 30 second requirement of a typical broadcast commercial. The footage was shot in HD on a green screen background. This, along with it being finished for the web,
provided the advantage of resizing the footage at each cut and compositing the subject over a faux environment with changing depth of field. In turn, this provided the power editing effect of tight shots
to really express the deep emotions of the testimonial and cutting wide shots to avoid jump cuts.

I will admit, back in 1989, this spot could have inspired the minds that animated “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly.” I’m sure it also took ages to render.

(via Tasteologie and Plywerk)

Continuum Fingerboard

One day your iPad may be able to do this. Until then, I WANT ONE!