Author: Andre Theelen
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Background Footage For The Title Sequence Of My Short Film
A couple of days ago I got an idea for the title sequence of my short film. I had already finished the title sequence itself which consisted of a few simple text animations. White font on a black background. A bit boring… The idea was to shoot some out of focus footage of the set…
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Reshoot “I Want To Believe”
Last Saturday I did a reshoot of a couple of scenes for my short film “I Want To Believe”. All went well although there were still some things I could have done better. But I guess that’s the curse of every filmmaker.
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STIPOH Promo Video
Last year September, I shot a promo video for STIPOH (Stichting Promotie & Ontwikkeling Handboogsport), a Dutch foundation promoting archery. They managed to secure an excellent location, the old open air theater “de Lichtenberg” in Weert, the Netherlands. At the time of shooting the theater was being renovated and we could only use it for…
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I Saw The Hobbit in 3D HFR
Tonight, I went to see the 3D HFR (High Frame Rate) version of The Hobbit. I read a lot about HFR the last couple of weeks and read positive things but also a lot of negative things of people who experienced the movie. Just to tell you where I’m coming from: I don’t like 3D movies.…
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Recording Additional Audio for my Short Film
Today I recorded additional audio for my short film “I Want To Believe”, also called ADR (Automated / Additional Dialog Replacement). I recorded the dialog of Martine, the voice actress, who, in the film, is on the phone with the protagonist. I recorded the audio in the quiet living room of Martine’s home. I used a…
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Progress report on “I Want To Believe”
I have been working on the edit and I’m satisfied with its current state. I still need to tweak some cuts to optimize the flow of the story. The audio recording of the second actor is planned for next week and in the first week of January we’ll do a re-shoot of a couple of scenes I’m not happy…
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Movie poster design “I Want To Believe”
I designed a movie poster for my short film “I Want To Believe”. I made the photo using the background lights that were in the scene and added a studio flash with grid to light the actor for dramatic effect. It came out just the way I envisioned it. I used the very nice and free…
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Shooting My First Narrative Film “I Want To Believe”
Yesterday, I shot my first narrative film “I Want To Believe”. It was a long day but eventually we got everything we needed. A big thanks to my crew who made it all possible! This film has been in preparation since the beginning of this year when I got the idea and wrote the script.…
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Storyboarding My Short Film
I finished the storyboard for my first narrative short film which I will be shooting at the end of this month. I already made a shot list and I took that as a starting point for drawing the storyboard. I had a quick look at a couple of software tools for storyboarding and although some of…
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Silver and Light
I came across this beautiful documentary today. It’s about the wet plate photography of Ian Ruhter and it is just amazing. It shows the process of creating something extraordinary, by hand. It’s photography at it’s rawest form, resulting in unique one of a kind images.
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Photokina 2012
Today, I visited Photokina in Cologne, Germany. It’s a photo/video tradeshow held every two years. The main reason I went to Photokina was to check out Cinevate’s new add-on kits for their Atlas slider family: motion control. The add-on kit has been developed by Polish company Dito Gear and will be available soon. With the…