Check out the October issue of International Cinematographer’s Guild (ICG) Magazine for an in-depth discussion of the making of the NASCAR slot-car commercials that I shot at the beginning of the year. I believe they are still airing on the ESPN networks until the end of the season. PDF version viewable here: icg-10-08-nascar-article.pdf
It’s probably bad contemporary etiquette to use a blog as reference on a blog, but this entry sums up everything I’d want to say about our recent music video for Francis and The Lights. Both Jake and I are proud of this seemingly “simple” video, but I thought it would be better to circuitously have someone else do the praising of it for me:
Last month, Jon Watts and I shot a full-fledged, Cinemascope (albeit commercial-length) musical in Vancouver, B.C. as a promo for the upcoming season of the SciFi Channel’s very popular show “Eureka.”
I am pretty excited about this spot. It’s sort of the sequel to the first 1950s style musical piece that Jon and I shot years ago for Fatboy Slim: Fatboy Slim’s “Wonderful Night” Music Video This video was nominated for two MVPAs and won Best Groove Video at the Japanese Space Shower Music Video Awards…whatever that is.
Our little interactive film, as it was designated, for Sprite’s Sublymonal Project was placed on the Shortlist for a Film Lion at Cannes this year. One of the 30 second sections of the film was also nominated in the non-alcoholic drink advertising category. Full coverage here:
http://www.canneslions.com/winners/film/short_0_1.htm
I also have many recent spots to post from jobs in Buenos Aires, Vancouver and elsewhere, all of which I will put up as soon as they air.
It was brought to my attention that you can now see the entirety of the Sprite movie / campaign called “The Sublymonal Project” that I shot for Jon Watts last year in its full narrative glory. So, if you feel like today’s filmmaking is lacking in overt product placement or, conversely, that your favorite commercials are 12 minutes too short, enjoy:http://youtube.com/watch?v=CAe4jwTXuPA
We introduced the first RED One to work in Barcelona, Spain last week as part of our multi-city shoot for an upcoming Reebok athletic campaign. The Barcelona portion centered around soccer star Thierry Henry, whose high profile and short availability created a lot of initial trepidation about using this “work-in-progress” of a camera system. However I was, for the most part, pleasantly surprised. Please feel free to send me an e-mail if you want to hear my full rundown of the cautions and curiosities of the Red. 
Well, it’s January and therefore, a bunch of music video websites (pretty much the last place you can see music videos in the US) create their top videos-of-the-year lists. I’m proud to have at least three showcased on Shots Ring Out’s top 79 listing. Check out the videos by the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem on my site, as well as a hidden gem by a band called “!!!” SRO’S Top 79 or 2007
Last week I shot a campaign for ESPN’s upcoming coverage of the Nationwide NASCAR Series. It involved many, many days of shooting 40+ highly detailed slot cars on an extremely authentic slot car race track…uhh…call it Ceco Studio Raceway. ”A” camera was the Panavision Genesis but the hero cam was an Iconix lipstick HD head running to a Sony SRW-1 deck that we built onto a miniature shotmaker rig to get the driver’s POV shot on a 1/32nd scale. 
There’s a lot more material (until I can update everything here…) at Source E Creative.
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Next up should be two new spots… the first one is a Ukrainian Brandy commercial shot in various locations around Kiev with Mr. Jake Schreier. This was followed by an extensive tourism campaign shot for the Korean Tourism Board throughout South Korea.