Photographer. Digital Artist. Motion Technician

Early in 2011 Shin Sugino asked me to put together a reel showing some of our most recent footage shot with one of our Phantom Cameras. The footage is a mix , coming from both the Phantom HD Gold and the newer Phantom Flex. The reel features work from Shin Sugino and Rob Quartly.

I arranged some music using resources available in stock libraries and than timed some transitions, speed ramps and camera zoom/focus effects around the sound. The idea was to have it sound aggressive yet slow to complement the footage. I also added some tempo matched particle effects to some of the shots to add some depth.

The Phantom demmo reel along with artist specific reels was advertised in Lurzers Archive in the spring of 2011 via QR codes. As of the time of this posting chances are our Phantom is not the only in-house Phantom Flex anymore.

I worked on this back in 2008 and seemingly never posted it on my blog. It was an interesting process because it was one of my earlier RED camera projects. It was shot by a combination of our artists and the direction grew as we shot it. About 15 minutes of footage was recorded per person. The footage was paired down to less than 20 seconds per clip. The initial edit was in FinalCut using a ProRes422 HQ path. The output was later processed in After Effects for Color, additional timing changes and all post effects.