Over the past 3 years, my team and I have shot 2 feature films [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Canon 5D’
Sep
9
The Need For Speed: The Little Things That Increase Set Up Count
After completing the Navy SEAL movie Act of Valor, my team and I created a workflow and camera [...]
Aug
12
Line Producing 101 – The WHAT-HOW-WHO of Budgeting
Greetings! It is with great pleasure that I accept the opportunity to guest blog with Hurlbut Visuals on the topic [...]
Jun
1
Hurlbut Visuals Launches New DSLR Rental Division at Cine Gear 2011
I want to invite all of you to Cine Gear 2011. Hurlbut Visuals is launching our new DSLR Cinema Rentals division with new rigs and out of the box innovation.
May
20
Cinematography Trainee Opportunity with Hurlbut Visuals
Why start a DSLR rental division? I have been asked this question many times. You cannot be a pioneer if you do not [...]
May
8
Technicolor’s New Picture Style- Cine Style
My last blog post was about story and not getting caught up in all the tech/gear frenzy. Now, I want to talk about [...]
Apr
29
The Story is What Matters
This year, I had the privilege of experiencing NAB from Montreal while shooting my latest feature “KIN.”
Apr
18
What’s Your Medium? by Elite Team Member Bodie Orman
You are going to Dubai to shoot a motorcycle race that will require mobility and high speed.
Mar
18
AAA Behind the Scenes: Episode One “The Drag Strip”
In January of 2011, I was asked by “The Gentlemen,” Brett Snider and Billy Federighi, a very creative and humorous, directing at Bandito Brothers, to shoot a series [...]
Jan
17
Marines: Where’s the 5D Contest II, “For Us All”
This 60: commercial was filmed over 5 weeks on 3 continents. My Elite Team members and I brought to life a public service announcement for the Marine Corp that humanizes the warrior. Three and four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have weighed on the American public. The concept is a story called FOR US ALL[...]
Jan
7
CHANGE IS COMING
To give back to a community that has been gracious, creative, generous, inventive, inspiring and passionate, we have created a new look for the HurlBlog to help fuel this revolution. The new iteration of the HurlBlog will launch next week – stay tuned.
Jan
4
Lighting Series Number 4: Extending Dawn on the Practice Field in “DrumLine”
My phone rang on an evening in the late summer of 2000 while I was directing a Children’s Hospital commercial in Kansas City. It was Tim Bourne, a Hollywood Line Producer. He asked me if I had read the script he sent me a week ago.
Dec
2
In Praise of Dissent: Adobe CS5 Paves The Way
Dissent: Voicing opinions that conflict with those that are commonly accepted or officially espoused.
When my Elite Team and I started blazing this trail, we had already become dissenters. We embraced a technology that in Hollywood was a joke, a fad, not viable. This is one of the great…
Nov
12
Helmet Cams: Visceral, Intimate, and Emotional Connection with Your 5D
The first job that I ever shot with the Canon 5D was as Director and DP on a webisode series that Director of “Terminator Salvation” McG asked me to do. We produced these webisodes as part of the “Terminator Salvation” marketing campaign to be used…
Aug
4
The Canon 5D in Big Sky Country with the MARINES
I am on the road again directing for Bandito Brothers www.banditobrothers.com/ and loving it. As a filmmaker, I am taking advantage of this inspiring, creative tool (a 5D camera) while stretching the budget. Our goal is to show the influence of the Marines around the globe while…
Apr
7
"The Last 3 Minutes" Canon 5D 24p Firmware Shines
As the pressure from commercial production companies and the ad agencies started to inquire about needing 24p and that they could not deal with the rendering time of all the twixtor files, the 7D started to rise as the premium capture. That is when the aha moment happened for me. I thought, why is everyone asking for second best when the Canon 5D is king.
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