Hope you’re all having a good year so far! As January moves forward more and more projects are popping up – combining work on these projects, alongside with the four exam films I’m working as Director of Photography on, will be a challenge but a fun one at that.

Since I last wrote here, I’ve worked hard on the first of the upcoming exam films. Just finished the first draft of the storyboard for the film. I drew all of the storyboards in Photoshop using my Wacom tablet. This was I had full control over things like blur and moving different layers and lights around, to best present my vision of the scenes. It’s been a time-consuming process – finished the storyboard in about five days, working half-time mostly. During the process of making it, I feel I’ve gotten progressively better at both drawing basic shapes in general, but being able to distance and tell apart foreground from background using shadowing, and lighting effects. It’s been a fun project so far – I’ve just started work on another one of the four films I’m shooting. It’s sometimes pretty maddening to juggle the projects (which are all quite different from one-another), so I’ve assigned specific days on which I’ll be working with so-and-so project, etc., to keep my head straight.

All this work focusing on the exam films means that my romantic drama, TiD, will be pushed back slightly due to there only being a finite amount of hours a day (anyone got a solution to that yet?). With it originally being set to debut at the Pixel short film festival in April, I feel what remains is not worthy of just being rushed out the door to meet that deadline. The film is rapidly approaching something I’m quite proud of, but it’s still a while left. During the upcoming few months I’ll be switching my attention to the exam films at Skurups Folkhögskola, so I won’t have to short-change on any project concerning its premiere state.

During the upcoming week as production draws closer and closer on the four different short films, I’ll be updating in more rapid and shorter bursts here to keep you posted. Oh, and as I’d do last week, I now have my Tumblr feed linked to the website. Please follow me to see what I’m up to film-wise on a day-by-day basis!

Hope to speak to you all more soon!

Hope you’ve all had a great holiday and have had some time to rest up and grab some new energy for the new year. I came back from a three-week holiday just two days ago and whilst suffering from some jetlag, most systems are pretty much go. As the new year dawns, many projects approach quickly.

First, check out the short VFX and stunt master class on which I worked on the crew as 1st Assistant Camera along with director of photography Dennis Trulsson and director Anders Banke. The film was shot on the Arri Alexa camera, which was amazing. The film turned out pretty great – keep in mind it was done as an exercise focusing on how to set up, shoot and post an action scene rather quickly.

Some updates concerning TiD. Work is continuing on the film – we’re currently on our fifth edit, and have just signed our composer for the film. Ronnie Christopher Doyle will be composing the original score for the film, something I’m really excited for. But as many of the exam films at Skurup are approaching, TiD will take a minor step back for the moment so that I’ll be able to focus fully on my role for those films. This may mean the film will be pushed back a while, but it should all be for the better. Originally, our plan was to finish the film for the Pixel short film festival in the middle of April – with time constraints though, it feels as if that date may be difficult to hit. It feels better not to rush out the film – it’s going through some pretty major changes at the moment, but in the end it should be a better product. Also, check out our release poster which we released just a week ago! For the latest updates on TiD, you can always check out the film’s official Facebook Page.

Then we have human, the latest collaboration with director Martin Wikner on which I worked as DP for two days(sharing the role with Kervin Tran). The film’s edit is coming together, and we’ll soon be heading into working on the VFX-heavy green screen sequence I shot for the film. Very excited to see how it’ll turn out – we’re looking towards focusing all our time on a few weekends – basically lock ourselves into an apartment and only do VFX non-stop. We used the same time-saving method on Wikner’s last film, Fatale. Very much looking forward to starting post work on that project, which will occur sometime before the end of February of this year.

So, what about those exam films at Skurup? Well, in total eight short films will be created, alongside with three documentaries. I’m acting as Director of Photography on four of the short films, and I recently dove head-first into pre-production on the films. They’re all quite different from one-another, which acts as both a challenge whilst being a good opportunity to get some different genres onto my CV and showreel. I’m hoping to give you all a quick introduction to the four projects sometime closer to the weekend, along with a short presentation of the directors. While I’m only student who’s not directing my own exam film, I feel it’s a better for me to focus (no pun intended) on my role as a DP and not have my own project as well.

I’m gearing up for a very busy year ahead, and this year I’ll try to bring you along for the ride in a more focused manner. I’m looking into integrating Tumblr into the website in some way, so I can post images from the making of the exam films. But time will tell!

Stay tuned for more news and more details around the exam films coming very soon…

Take care everyone!

Hey everyone, a small update for today about what projects I’m currently involved in and have been working on. I’ve been involved in Martin Wikner’s new short film “Human“, which I’ve worked on and is working on as DP and VFX Supervisor. We shot on a green screen for an entire weekend and had our first post-produciton meeting yesterday and vfx work on that is set to commence in early 2012.

Along with that work is starting to kick into gear seriously on our new ambitious short film TiD, which we shot earlier during the summer but is now on its fifth edit draft which is being sent around to various filmmakers I’ve learned to know throughout the years. Have got some great feedback which has been really helpful in continuing work on the project and I hope to have a locked edit before I go on christmas holiday in just over a week from now. But we’ll see.

Currently at Skurups Folkhögskola writing screenplays for a small writing class, but also starting to think a lot about the big final projects we’re going to work on during the next year, and which I’ve decided to focus on being a DP for. More details on that very shortly, hopefully including interviews with the different directors.

I also worked as 1st AC on an exciting short film project shot on the Arri Alexa camera by my good friend Dennis Trulsson, more details on that very soon as well.

Oh, and our latest release “Harry Spexter och Petriorden” has been a good hit on the internet with over 400 downloads in just over a day! Thanks everyone!

Speak more soon and take care everyone!