In honor of Company 3 sponsering the Tribeca Film Festival this year, they had a little Facebook competition.. and I won! My prize was this cool Crumpler camera bag. This bag is actually perfect to hold my 5DMKII for location scouts.
Thanks Co3!
Cheers,
Matt
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This month a Dutch magazine called Broadcast Magazine published an article about camera ergonomics. The author featured the one and only Ergocine and asked if they could use some of my photos for the article.
Funny enough, they used a photo of me when I was an intern holding an Aaton LTR7 that Diana shot on 35mm film!
Here is Dave’s/Ergocine post.
http://www.ergocine.blogspot.com/2013/04/history-repeats-itself.html
Cheers,
Matt
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The Tribeca Film Festival and Apple host an event called “Meet the Filmmakers.” For the last two years a friend of mine, Daniel Choy Boyar, has been a speaker at the event. This year, his session was called “Lighting Your Film with Daniel Choy Boyar.”
Veteran gaffer Daniel Choy Boyar has worked with numerous cinematographers on hundreds of productions, ranging from commercials and music videos to independent shorts and major feature films. Join him for a discussion about green-screen lighting, interview lighting, and lighting professionally on a low budget.
Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m.
Dan and I have worked together on many commercials and for the last few years I’ve been developing my own style of technical drawings to illustrate the lighting plans. There are multiple programs like Vectorworks and Omnigraffle for 2D overhead lighting diagrams, but I wanted to make mine in 3D.
For his presentation this year, Dan asked me to make several diagrams to illustrate the lighting setups he’d be presenting. I was excited to part of the event and treated the assignment as a speed challenge. I”m happy to say that I created all of the diagrams and designs in about an hour. I have a continuously growing library of 3D rigged and textured lighting, grip, and camera equipment that I’ve created in Maya over the last few years.
You can see Dan’s whole presentation in this PDF.
http://directedlighting.com/pro-lighting-042413.pdf
Cheers,
Matt
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The Smart Car commercials I shot with directors Dark Igloo and production company M ss ng P eces are live on the Smart website and their Youtube channel. The spots look great and coincidently the set photos look great too. I basically live on Youtube/Vimeo these days so I was excited to see the Smart Youtube channel header featured a set photo with the directors and myself.
You can see the Smart Youtube channel and the 4 spots here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/smartusatv?feature=pvchclk
Cheers,
Matt
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Here is my case study on my previs work for the New Jersey State Lottery commercial I shot a while back. This was my first time using 3d character animation, which was exciting for me. The lighting was all real time Viewport 2.0 playblasts from Maya.
Article Link
http://www.mattworkman.com/v7/previs-new-jersey-lottery-commercials/
Cheers,
Matt
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