Welcome

Welcome to my blog documenting the production of the music video for "Slow Burn," a song by the band Takilma.  First let me give you a little background about myself...

I first picked up a video camera when I was just about 9 or 10 and ran around the neighborhood shooting my friends pretending to be cowboys or indians or astronauts or whatever.  I continued to play around with cameras off and on throughout school, making little skits and commercial parodies with friends in high school.  During my high school days I also wrote movie reviews for my cities paper with a friend of mine...sort of a teenaged version of Siskel and Ebert.

Things went by the wayside for a few years after high school and it wasn't until about 5 years or so ago that I started getting back into it.  I began shooting videos for my work and this led to doing a couple weddings for friends.  The results were good enough to motivate me to start a small event videography business that's just starting to get off the ground now.  I'm not getting rich off it but at least it helps pay for my gadgets and toys.  I'm also finishing up one more semester at the local JC for my film studies degree and I've also just completed my Apple certification in Final Cut Pro.  I'd classify myself as a serious hobbyist and bordering on professional.  A huge portion of my education has come from scouring the forums and blogs online like dvxuser.com.  The forum members are (almost) always helpful and inspirational in showing what can be done with an idea and a camera.

In the following posts I'll be doing my best to document everything from the equipment I used to the shoot location and post production.  Hopefully this will give some other shooters out there some pointers on what to do and what not to do.  Please feel free to ask any questions as well as give some helpful pointers if you see any glaring mistakes in the process.