Jared Abrams from Cinema5D stopped by the studio on Tuesday to sit down and chat. He caught me at an interesting time, as my crew and I were in the midst of packing for our trip to Italy (leaving today!). We still had time for a good talk though, and he even got me to expound on my love/hate relationship with gear - notice all the gear strewn about in the video - we packed 22 bags for the trip! The interview is embedded above, and you can read more at Cinema5D.com. (Sorry for the poor audio quality - apparently they had an issue w/ audio on their end.)
I also had the chance this week to talk over the phone with Scott Bourne - who many of you may already know - for his Photofocus podcast. I am featured in episode #45, which you can listen to for free by either subscribing to the Photofocus podcast feed - OR - streaming it from iTunes.
Ciao! I’ll be updating from Rome next.
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@Andrew, Yes the audio got screwed up terribly. I apologize for the sound personally.
Jared
it is crazy ironic considering the folks involved here, that the audio sounds like this. Still, thanks for the great interview!
1:19 amany way to upload the vid again with *OUT* the annoying guitar riff? good vid anyway. always super to hear an interview with great people in the industry.
-jm
Screwing up audio is easy if you’re operating as a one-man band.
Over the last few months, on several jobs, I have discovered that focusing on both interviewing and doing camerawork/audio at the same time is challenging, to say the least. Any of those is likely to suffer, if you try do it all.
Instead, if you can focus on camerawork (and regularly check audio recording levels) and have someone else capable enough do the interviewing, the whole production rises to new levels: better Q&A and better images/audio quality.
Jared abrams Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
@Richard van den Boogaard, Yes we have learned our lesson with audio for the last time. I would have used subtitles if I could do over. Check out the new stuff at C5D it is much better. Thanks
Jared
Andrew Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
@Jared abrams, Nevertheless, it’s a good interview and we all appreciate your hard work on providing us with great content. Apologies for my first comment, as a 1 man band it’s hard focusing on all the elements at once.
Thanks again for the interview Jared.
Vincent, do you know when Zeiss lenses will be available in town for rental?
Jared abrams Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
@Gianluca, The cp.2’s are shipping now. We will have a set at birns by the end of next week.
Jared
Thanks Vincent. Your advice was just what I needed to hear. I’m new at this, purchased the 7D, bought the nd filters, the tripod, the fluid head…and I can’t figure out what story I want to tell nor how to tell it with a simple camera and a good edit. I’m going to start with my iPhone. If I can’t create a good short film with that, I’m wasting my money on gear that I’ll never put to good use. Thanks again for the advice.
jared Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
@Matt, That sounds like a great plan. The iphone is very handy for location stuff.
Jared
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Vincent Laforet Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 3:14 am
@John, Yeah - and he even had this thing called a lav or something like that too
Seriously - better it happens on this interview than on a big job no?
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