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.

Don't let the picture fool you!

Yeah, you all know Marj. She is the gate keeper of our facility. She will be the gate keeper of 30ish as well. If you don’t RSVP, she will get all crazy and won’t let you in. Absolutely terrifying if you ask me. No need to worry though, there is a quick fix, just send a quick e-mail to info@crosspoint.com

Done. You’re in and you kept Marj happy. That’s really all that matters after all.

[Via Jezebel]

You’ve got the creative juice. Put it to use making something you enjoy without doing client monkey work. That’s right. No tags. No legal. No format whatsoever. Enter your video before it goes viral in the :30ish Film Festival, brought to you by Crosspoint.

This is how it works:

Create a :31 to :39 movie (camera. cellphone. webcam. whatever.).
Submit your video to Crosspoint by June 28 July 7*.
Your film will be judged, laughed at and mercilessly scrutinized by a jury of your peers.

Then join us in the Crosspoint parking lot on Thursday July 21st, from 5pm to 9pm, to witness what the best creative minds in Denver could come up with. You could end up with the $300 Grand Prize. Food will be provided by three of Denver’s hottest food trucks. If that’s not enough, FREE BEER and wine. No celebrity swag bags at this festival, just door prizes provided by the finest establishments along West Colfax.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Entries should be :31 to :39 seconds long… or :40. Whatever – as long as you don’t cut a boring :30 with 10-frame fade ins/outs.
2. Quicktime ProRes HQ or H.264 is easiest, but we’ll find a way to project whatever you send us.
3. Please submit your entries no later than June 28th July 7th* via Dropbox (dropbox@crosspoint.com); or in person at 940 Wadsworth Boulevard, Suite 200, Lakewood, CO, 80214; or contact us at info@crosspoint.com to set-up an FTP connection.
* When is the last time a client gave you a deadline extension?

CONTEST RULES
1. A panel of judges will rank the top three entries.
2. 1st place wins $300 cash. 2nd place wins $150 cash. 3rd place wins $50 in gift certificates to Casa Bonita.
3. All cash prizes will be paid to the winner if present at the end of the event on July 21st. If a prize winner is not present, a check will be mailed, eventually. In other words, you don’t have to be ‘present to win’, but we’d like to hang out with you, so come by and have a beer.

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.