The corporate video Nano Power C.M.I is now in the Motion Portfolio.

Although it's a corporate video, it is actually more like a short film. Shot in a comedic, film noir style reminiscent of movies like "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with Steve Martin.

We made the video a few years back but it is still one of my favorite corporate jobs. I'd like to produce some more in this short film style. You can see the video here.

I've been busy over the last few weeks, tweaking the design and functionality of the new web site. I'm still not 1005 happy with it but who's got the time to fiddle with web sites when there are movies to be made...

What I have done though is ad some content to the portfolio section (at last).

I've split the work into two areas 'Motion' and 'Still'.

Motion is where all of our film and video productions will go, such as show reels, movie trailers, commercials, corporate videos, music clips and short films. At the moment I've added our Visual Effects Show Reel, a short little western film that was made for fun but turned into our I.D. tag, the Trailer for the horror film The Gates of Hell (which I edited and produced the visual effects for), and a slideshow of before and after work on a number of my digital art pieces.

Still is where a number of galleries will be, that show off my photography both commercial and for-the-hell-of-it work, artwork, graphic design and other still imagery. Right there now I have a small Commercial Photography gallery, Graphic Design gallery and Movie Posters gallery.

There's a lot more to go up in both areas so stay tuned for that.

Til next time.

J.C.

This is my 2010 visual effects show reel. With new shots from commercials and films including a number from "The Gates of Hell"

For a detailed breakdown of all the visual effects shots, visit the Visual Effects Portfolio page.

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After a three day grueling film shoot, I realised I still had the camera for one more day. I couldn't let it go to waste... I came up with this little idea and set off with my co-producer Chris Daniels and Unit manager Brad Armel, to find a place to film it.

Luckily we didn't have to go far. I found a fairly bare looking field with one great looking tree in the middle and a wonky windmill in the background. It couldn't have been more perfect. Brad operated the camera, while Chris and myself got into character.

About two hours later and I was pretty sure we had all the footage I needed.

Unfortunately, post-production wasn't that quick. A number of other jobs got in the way and it was a good six months before I got the project finished.

The was shot on the Sony HVR-Z1 HDV camera. I loved almost everything about the camera except the format. HDV is truly a terrible format if you want to apply visual effects and heavy colour grades to the footage. It just doesn't hold up with all the compression that is on it. Oh well, I managed to save both this and the other project I was shooting at the time.