this will be just a short update about the last project we have finished in August: Lokschuppen Indianer
We shot this piece in 2 days in Rosenheim (between Munich and Salzburg). If I have the time to, I will post more details in how we shot it and more details about the story.

here is the official description:
commercial / ad
client: KuKo Rosenheim / Lokschuppen
creatives:
Mario Feil – DoP
Max Meissner – 2nd operator
Martin Erd – producer
Andi Gschossmann – grip
Florian Widmann – grip
Marco Feil – post production / vfx
music/composer: Flo Starflinger, Michael Fenzl
Story/concept: Mario Feil, Martin Erd, Andi Gschossmann
Production: die-filmer.com

this is a trailer for europes largest exhibition for native north americans. Shot in June, post production in July, finish in August. thanks to our friends and family for all your help! Without you, we haven’t been able to put this together. thanks to Flo Starflinger and Michael Fenzl for the music score! composed and recorded in just 1 week.

SPECIAL thanks to Lara our main actress who did an awesome job at her very first main role.

tech specs: shot on DSLRs, jib shots with KesslerCrane KC8 + Revolution head, slides with KesslerCrane Cineslider and Pocket Dolly, SmallHD DP6 for monitoring

Ever heard of Zacuto? If you chose to buy a DSLR for video, you have definitely heard of them
They are known for excellent quality and excellent customer service. Most (or all) of their gear is pretty expensive at first glance. Well, you get what you pay for.

Zacuto has everything you need for stabilizing your camera, no matter if it’s an iPhone or the RED One. From small screws to big rigs, Zacuto has all the mounting solutions you can dream of.
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I always loved when someone at Myth Busters crashed or blew something up and they showed it in super slow motion. Why do we love seeing stuff in super slow motion? Because we are able to see things we wouldn’t see in normal life.

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keeping a blog up to date is very time consuming. Everyone who has started to post on a blog knows what I’m talking about.
I am currently working on a few bigger and smaller projects so there is almost no time to publish all the nice behind the scenes stuff we shot.

lets back up a few weeks…

the USA:
It was the first time we travelled there and we loved every minute of our 3 weeks trip.
Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas (NAB Show), Death Valley, Lone Pine, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Yosemite, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles…
4000km in 16 days!
We had a blast at NAB show! Thanks for Rob Imbs and Benjamin Eckstein (and of course Justin Carlson) for AllinFilm Poker tournament
I will propably write a longer post about our trip with a lot of footage but at the moment, I have to concentrate on my paid work which is:

1. cinema commercial for Maier Sports (Update: client approved it! Finished now)
2. GABOR shoes AG – trainee movies (Update: finished, except the making of which I will finish this week)
3. Sport2000 campaign => bad weather made it almost impossible to finish it during the weekend. We postponed the shooting until september. lets hope for better snow
4. Lokschuppen exhibition trailer => We will start shooting a trailer / commercial for this exhibition in 2 weeks (June 6-11th). Concept and Storyboard are not finished yet due to backlog of last weeks
5. We are currently planning a demo project for www.die-filmer.com in august or september. If you know someone in sports business (pro biker, kiter, whatever), let us know. We don’t have a concept yet, we only want to shoot awesome stuff

Hope to blog more the next weeks because there’s so much to blog about!
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Mario

As I uploaded the Chiemgau Impressions video on Vimeo I got a lot of messages from people all over the globe. Some asked for the workflow of the timelapsing stuff, some just said “congrats, keep on the great work”. A few ones, that striked me the most, were like “Some day, I want to be able to create something like this” or “your videos have inspired me to consider a career as filmmaker”. And I am often asked how I got into filmmaking.
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A lot of people love gear reviews since most of the equipment is not available at your local dealer (Wal Mart and so on…). I couldn’t test-drive 90% of the stuff I ordered last year (and that was a LOT of gear). I trusted all the helpful people on twitter and the reviews on different blogs and I wasn’t disappointed.

Now that I’ve worked on lots of jobs with my current gear, I wanted to write about it.
What did I learn?
What is really necessary?
Why do I need this?
etc.

First off, I’ll write about a nice rig Zacuto sent me: the Zacuto Cross Fire.
They noticed that I worked with some of their gear like the baseplate, monitor arms, Z-Finder and sent me one of their demo units. Thanks to Sara for letting me test some Zacuto products.

For the next 2 weeks I’m on a shoot in Italy. Most of the time ‘run and gun’. Perfect situation for testing.

Stay tuned. I’ll probably blog about Kessler cranes, sliders and motion control systems as well as Zeiss CP.2 lenses in May.

while doing my current backups, I found lots of footage from last year I didn’t use yet. Planned to use it as stock footage for filling gaps in some videos.

filmed between June and October.
actually, I finished it 4 months ago but never put it on vimeo. totally forgot it.

slides (real time and timelapse) were done with the Kesslercrane Cineslider (Oracle Controller, Electra drive)

Music by Nouvelle Vague – Killing Moon
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