Spring update…
It’s been a while since I placed a news entry. Although I have updated the projects section occasionally I never got around to placing a new blog entry. I haven’t been sitting still though. Besides working with Katja Schuurman to create a leader for her television show, I’ve spent this winter working on Eis Frei, a short film starring Sylvia Hoeks.
Eis Frei started out small - a couple of sky replacements and set extensions. In the end it developed into a vfx heavy production (considering the very limited amount of time…) with over 20 shots of bluescreen and a couple of other shots requiring heavy rotoscoping and animated matte paintings.
I have updated the vfx demoreel with a selection of shots that I have worked on over the last year.
And the winner is…
American Dreams, directed by my friend Eelko Ferwerda and starring Victoria Koblenko was selected for the prestigious Hollywood Film Festival, and won a Hollywood Discovery Award for “Best Short”.It was a lot of fun to contribute visual effects and postproduction to this project, but I never expected this kind of exposure for it. This kind of international recognition might turn out very valuable for Eelko when trying to raise funds for the next projects - and we’re proud to be a small part of this.
Digital future
I was interviewed for +3110, a cross-media magazine published by the Rotterdam Filmfund. The entire issue is focussing on the impact of digital video on film as we know it - and my views on ‘digital’ as a film professional and educator.
Alongside the paper magazine, there is a website where you can watch bits of the interviews with industry veterans like Kees Kasander and Ben Zuydwijk. And then there’s me…
Blog launch
I spent a day or so integrating an open-source blogging mechanism into the site. I wanted an easier-to-maintain news mechanism and some sort of blog tool. I’ll use the ‘news’ category for news that directly involves or concerns raamw3rk.The blog will contain personal observations about film, design, motiongraphics and the film and television industry in general. Whatever I stumble upon.
American Dreams
After finishing 7 visual effects shots for American Dreams, Raamw3rk is now doing fully digital color grading and finishing for this project. The director was not completely happy with the film-transfer that was rushed for the premiere, and after a lot of wasted time at a different post-house the project was brought to Raamw3rk.Raamw3rk is doing a full DI (digital intermediate) at 1920×1080 including grain removal and color grading. We will also provide MPEG compression and DVD authoring services.
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