The Story Beyond The Still
The Story Beyond The Still is an ongoing contest held by Canon through Vimeo. How it works is Canon asked commercial director and photographer Vincent Laforet to interpret a photo in to a short film, with the image that was sent to him to be the opening shot.
The real contest started when his film was posted and there was an open invitation for anyone to submit a film shot with a dslr. The entries must begin with the last shot of the film that preceded it.
The entries are then judged by a very worthy group, which includes; Vincent Laforet, Blake Whitman, Phillip Bloom, Russell Carpenter, Rodney Charters, Nick Childs, Rick McCallum, Shane Hurlbut, and Stu Maschwitz.
The winner receives some pretty awesome prizes and the still used at the end of their film will mark the opening of the next chapter.
There will be a total of 7 chapters and submissions for chapter 6 are due in the next few weeks.
All of the winning submissions are nothing short of fantastic and I highly recommend that you watch them , as well as the finalists. the one downside is that to watch them all in sequence, I found that there was a lot of clicking around to too many pages. So for your convenience, I will list the winning submissions of chapters 1 though 5:
Chapter 1: The Cabbie - Submitted by Vincent Laforet
Chapter 2: Job Security - Submitted by Runner Runner
Chapter 3: The Beach - Submitted by M. Keegan Uhl
Chapter 4: Allison - Submitted by Jeff Turick
Chapter 5: Miracle - Submitted by Ryan Booth
I very highly recommend taking a look at these. They are all very unique and done on an extremely professional level. It's so interesting where each chapter takes the story and there's something quite charming about how the actors change but their essence is captured so thoroughly throughout the series.
I will be posting the remaining 2 chapters as they are released so be sure to check in for that. In the meantime, feel free to comment on what you liked and didn't like about these chapters. Also, what would you have done differently with the story, and how do you think it will end?
For the full details of the contest, visit the "The Story Beyond The Still" Vimeo Page.
Congrats Shaftesbury High!
I'd like to offer a big congratulations to the grads of Shaftesbury High School!
I was commissioned to create a video slide show of their dinner and safe grad and, I have to say, it was a great time. All of the parents, teachers, and students involved deserve a lot of credit as I think the night was a huge success. Also, being a part of my own grad committee a few years back, I know that there is a ton of work involved to make something like that happen.
Even though it was a pretty big job on a fairly tight schedule, I'm very happy with the result and I hope the students, staff and parents enjoy it as well.
Digital Tattoo in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I explain how to add a virtual tattoo, quickly and effectively, in Photoshop.
Chroma Key In Photoshop
In this tutorial I explain a very simple, effective way to remove not only green screens but it can be very effective with many other backgrounds.
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