Meet My Monkey

Parachute

Working hard on my monkey movie

Amsterdam Zuid

More timelapse for my catch your breath video

extra shots

When I was editing the video I found I that I missed some shots so I shot some extra this week.

In a far away galaxy

I'm still working on my planets, combining different techniques, the sun for instance is a balloon that I left to 'age' for a week so it would get a bit wrinkly. The clouds are actual clouds that I photographed and worked on in photoshop. The sky are pictures of salt on a painted surface and the planet is a scale model (you can see how it's built in one of my previous posts). Everything will be animated in AFX, so the clouds will move in the wind, the stars will shine, and my spacemonkey will go on an adventure.

Kermis

Rotterdam

This weekend I visited Rotterdam for the Catch Your Breath video

Planet surface step 2

Planet surface

I've just laid the finishing touches to my planet surface model. The top picture is the cardboard model, after that I covered the surface with a layer of sand for extra texture and then finished it up with two layers of paint.

'Catch your breath' Day 1

Day 1 14/02/2011

On this oh so romantic valentines day I shot two parts of the 'Catch Your Breath' Music Video.

We spend the morning and afternoon shooting the footage that will be placed on top of the buildings. These are the shots of all the band members individually, but also the band shots (all 6 band members together). We shot over 50 takes that day, and also did some takes for the promo video of the EP that is coming out this spring. The shots of the individual members consist of a wide, a medium and a close-up. With Stefanie I did the same thing but also tried out some other things.








As you can see in the pictures below the light is produced by 2 light sources to get a ' tangverlichting '. My first plan was to only use two TL-lights, one on each side. But after testing this at home I found out it wasn't enough. So I build two wooden frames and attached 3 TL-lights on to the frame.






After we had diner we packed our stuff and drove to the train station of 'Hengelo', at least that was the plan. But when we got to the van the gate to the parking lot was locked. So we had to find someone who had the key, an hour later we were back on the road again. When we arrived at Hengelo station we shot for three more hours, we did the shots that were in the script but also tried out some different other things.







Special thanks to 'het vestzaak theater' who've let us use their theater for the day.