I wrote the first script of this short propably 5min after Canon Germany called me to confirm they will send me a pre production unit of the new Canon C300. I wanted to get my hands on it since Nov 3rd and was glad they’d send me the camera right away. In fact, we were the first team in Europe working with this camera in the field after their presentation in Hollywood on Nov 3rd.

I called Nino Leitner who was on that “Pre-Pro-User”-List too because we wanted to shoot a short with him depending on who gets it first. So we continued our plans to shoot in Vienna, packed the gear, called friends and colleagues, got to Vienna and started shooting from Saturday to Sunday.
After 15-16 hours, we wrapped our shoot and were pretty happy how it turned out, even if it was WAY too short to get everything like we want it to be.

Our main goal was to test the camera in a “real” production environment. I love cameras that don’t stand in the way. A camera is great if it doesn’t force you to make compromises. If you want to be creative, you don’t want to think of camera flaws, quirks or even battery life. This cameras proved to be such an easy to use and yet powerful camera. We were impressed by the results we got out of it and are convinced to order one for our daily business depending on when it will be finally released

this was our schedule:
Wednesday: Canon called
Thursday: Pre-Production (script, actors, locations)
Friday: first test shots and further planning
Saturday / Sunday: shooting
Monday-Wednesday: Post-Production

I hope you will enjoy our little “test”-shortfilm
Here’s the camera review from Nino www.ninofilm.net

If you follow me on twitter, you propably noticed that I’m currently spamming your timeline with C300 posts. That’s propably because after working with it the past 4 days, I really got excited about the capabilities of this Camera. Read more…

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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