In part one and two of our Making-of VINES series (you can read part 1 here) we already talked about filming and some aspects of postproduction. This blog post will cover the elaborate process of creating the VFX for VINES. I will give detailed information about the problems that occurred and how I have fixed them. If you […]
We already covered preproduction and filming of VINES in part 1 of our Making-Of. In this part, you can read about our postproduction process including editing, colour grading and sound. The Visual Effects will be covered in detail in part 3. If you have not seen the film yet, you can do so here or […]
When I started planning the cost-efficient promotional Short Film VINES together with 3D-Artist/Filmmaker Noah Hähnel, we did not anticipate that it would take almost a year to finish it. Below you can watch our short film, a short Making-of Video and read about Pre Production and Filming. A post about Post Production and one about […]
I recently finished shooting my first feature film The Rebel as director of photography. Directed by Randa Chahoud, The Rebel tells the story of the young Syrian student Karim (Mehdi Meskar), who is leading, together with his pregnant girlfriend Lilly (Emily Cox), a carefree life in Hamburg. When he finds out that his brother has been imprisoned in the […]
For a commercial shoot (which can be seen here or at the end of this article) we used the GH5 on the Ikan Beholder EC1 Gimbal and soon realized, that the stability of our shots could be improved by the camera’s Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). Therefore we shot a short test to find out how different […]
I just shot a small Jewelry commercial (you can watch it here or at the end of this article) for which we chose the Panasonic GH5 (why we chose that camera I will explain in an upcoming post). I knew I had to use the autofocus for some gimbal slow-motion shots so together with co-director Noah […]
I recently re-uploaded my 2003 short film The Last Goodbye (Der Abschied) in a slightly better quality to Youtube. The film was shot on Super 16mm film and was scanned in SD to DigiBeta tapes. So I did an SD-to-720p upres using Apple Compressor. You can watch the film below with English subtitles (activate the CC […]
To create a commercial for 3D printed jewelry, I am collaborating with 3D artist/filmmaker Noah Hähnel to showcase his jewelry in a fairy-tale-like fashion. The jewelry is designed in Cinema 4D (C4D) and printed into different materials. In the commercial vines are magically coming to life and eventually turn into jewelry. (Update: you can watch the finished […]
In this short video I am testing the new Dual Pixel AF of the Canon 70D in movie mode to see how good it can track an object when the camera is moving. All shots are done with the Canon 17-55 2.8 IS USM. As you can see the AF does a very good job […]
Corporate Film shot on the Red Epic. Director/Cinematographer: Sören Schulz and Dennis Jacobsen Client: Heinrich Elbracht OHG, Störk & Terbeek We shot this corporate film in 4.5 days, which sounds like a lot for a 3.5 minute film but was necessary considering we had five different major locations and most of the shots were done […]
