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.

In 2010 a friend from school (we’ve been there 4-5 years ago) who volunteers for a fire department called me if I would shoot and edit a corporate film for their upcoming 150th anniversary.
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my 4th year in doing all the filmmaking stuff is almost over. As I started at the end of 2006, I never thought it would be possible to do it for a living.
Countless hours of learning, trial and error, searching for solutions and late night edits later, I finally felt a decision: I will focus on my passion and leave other jobs behind.

It has been an exciting year and my most successful so far.
theme park commercials, corporate videos, cinema spots, product videos, band promotions etc…
thanks to all the lovely people I met and thanks to all the people who helped me, finishing all those projects

Have a happy, peaceful, healthy and successful year 2011

Mario