The good news is that “Nocturne” will be back up at some point soon.   The long and short of the situation is that Canon’s request that I take “Nocturne” down temporarily had absolutely nothing to do with me, the short film, or any technical reason whatsoever.

Canon is large, multi-national corporation – and at times things can hit a snag.   I had a meeting with a few Canon USA executives this week in New York at the Photo Plus Expo – and they went as far as to ask me to communicate to you that they are genuinely apologetic that this has happened.

The only bad news for me – is that this is a bit too much of Deja Vu – and that I did everything that I could to prevent a repeat of last year (when Reverie was also pulled down after it was initially posted – and then reposted a few days later on Canon’s site.)    This kind of “excitement” is not something that I look forward to – and I had wished to have this video available to share with everyone for the week of the release of the Canon 1D MKIV.  It was awkward to say the least to be presenting on stage this week at the Expo – and showing “Reverie” again – a video that was more than one year old.

And the last “bad” news – is that I haven’t been given an exact date as to when the video can go back up just yet.    The sooner the better of course.

Thanks for your patience.

Canon has requested that we take down “Nocturne.”   As a professional courtesy I am going to honor their request until they can figure out things internally and our little film can be shown again in public.   As some of you may remember this happened last year and all was fine a few days later.  I’m sure they will be able to figure things out on their end and hope to be able to share the short with you again soon.  The response so far has exceed that of “Reverie” both in terms of numbers and in terms of how fast it happened – something that I would never have expected.

David Nelson and I - late late Saturday - or I guess that makes it Sunday - Morning. As a technical reference - this is a frame grab from a 5D MKII. The light was SO yellow we se the 1D MKIV to 2500K... and it was still yellow.

First of all – thank you for all of the positive comments (and a few of the nasty ones too!)

I wanted to clarify a few things – because I won’t have time to answer all of the e-mails / blog posts – many of which are asking the same questions.

First – I really want to give due credit to Stu Maschwitz & David Nelson – my co-filmmakers.  We agreed to work together (having more than one director is never a good idea – we all knew it – but we were too swamped with our day jobs to pull this off alone under such short notice) but things worked out for the best in the end.

Collaboration is a wonderful thing.  This film would not have been what it is without them.   I also want to thank Michele the producer – as well as everyone on the cast and crew.   Some of you may be rolling your eyes – but until you’re on this side of things, you may not appreciate just how much of a team effort filmmaking is.    The film is only as good as its weakest link – and we didn’t have a single weak link on this cast or crew – no matter how late in the morning it was.

Almost everyone had a day job to go back to after each night – often on other productions that lasted more than 10-12 hours…  Ben Nussbaum and his post house Pictures in a Row were exceptional.  Ben worked 5-6 days straight on this – day and night working in between his own projects.   He owns a huge part of the creative puzzle that made up this film. Read the rest of this entry »