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
enjoy
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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

Sorry for less blogging lately but I have lots of current and upcoming project at the moment. Read more…

I’ve always wanted to visit Scotland and finally had the opportunity to get there on vacation for 10 days (actually the first time I stayed for more than 7days on vacation since 15 years)
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I just ran into J. Jannards quote on reduser and all the comments after that. Well, maybe he meant the manufacturers and not us users, we will see. First off, I won’t rant about RED or DSLRs or anything, I just wanted to point out how I think about this:
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