Abandoning Exposure Room for Vimeo

Well, that does it. Final nail in the coffin for Exposureroom.

Nothing worse than sending a client to a link - a dead link that was fine a few days ago - especially with a client that had every intention of funding a feature film a friend wrote. That deal just walked off the table - and I have only Exposure Room to blame. Very embarrassing! SO now, Vimeo is the only video server we will be using. I can't begin to express the level of my irritation with Exposure Room's service.

stills from "Eat Me!"

"Eat Me" wraps!

We shot 36 set ups over 14 hours the last day - stunts, Michael Bay knock off shots, and rain - all wrapped up in Zombie makeup and a semi fascist new American sub culture determined to take the country back ... from the undead. Long days, but a great crew and some AMAZING shots (I promise you, you will be slack jawed once Rocco gets this thing chopped).

I shot mostly on Zeiss lenses the second weekend as I needed the glass to match across many lens changes. The 100 macro is a new favorite and a must have piece of glass for a RED owner with a Nikon mount, I promise you. It excels at macro work, and is a reliable workhorse as a portraiture lens as well.

lighting was mostly kinos and 250W practicals being swapped out where possible. I will post more here as we move through the edit, grade, and final comps for VFX. NOTE - Zombie makeup was all done in camera - and it is simply stunning and outlandishly creepy. Susie Prisk made the Zombies up in her witches brew of latex, cotton, and sundry other parts. Excellent work Susie!

Zombies!

Work began this weekend on "Eat Me" - a post apocalypse short zombie thriller shooting on RED with Rocco Nisivoccia Directing - and New Jersey stands in for somewhere in NY. After two days so far, the film is extremely fun to shoot, and the crew is a very dedicated bunch of lovable lunatics. Next weekend should be a great time.

As for lighting, I am mostly relying on a small kino set and a small selection of tungsten lights ranging from 300 - 2K - mostly fresnels.

Lenses range from 15mm nikkor to 70 - 200 Nikkor - with most footage on the 50mm Nikkor.