Sorry for the sporadic, er- total lack of, posts this month I have been very busy prepping for my latest short film “Initiation”.

“Initiation” is the story of a gun-for-hire who is hired to retrieve some diamonds, he botches the job and has to report this back to his boss who has the power and authority to kill him is she wishes, basically your worst day at the office times 10.

We shot on June 9th, it was a very, very fast shoot, too fast really and I wish we could have taken two days one for each location but that was not the case.  Despite the hurried pace I am quite happy with what we got.  I am almost finished with the rough cut now and it looks great.

Photos from the shoot (click to enlarge):

‘The Gang’ prepping for a scene.

Emily.

James pre squib.

James post squib.

Camera protected from blood spurting.

Working out lighting.

Directing.

Me with camera protected from blood spray.

All photographs are property of Bekky Gibson.
www.rekahgphotography.com

written by Travis \\ tags: blood, fantina, Initiation, Shoot, Short film, squib

I’ve been very busy lately, however for about the last six months I’ve been trying to fix the ‘movies’ section of my website good news is: I am making some progress.
I am still very busy shooting music videos, working on a short film and writing tons of scripts. When I find a free moment I will try and edit together some of my more recent work (Stuff I shot this year), and post it online for all to enjoy.

Anyway as far as Other Mysteries go, about a month ago I posted a pretty elaborate and special effects heavy video of unknown origin. Sorry for not posting sooner, but the origins of the above mentioned video have been revealed to the world.
/film has the scoop, turns out the popular theory that it was just some very, very smart people playing around with a video camera and some software is correct.

written by Travis \\ tags: Editing, fantina, Film, Filmmaking, Short film, travis, updates, videography, What's in the Box? Mystery, Writing

Today I uploaded a new video check it out with the rest of my movies. A brilliant man once told me that I should torrent my films, true I but I don’t actually consider the movies I put up here to be films. Think of them as short representations of my work or a demonstration of what I’m capable of, trust me when I make a short film (coming this June), I will present it in proper fashion.

In the mean time I recently read something on Cineobscure about the possabilaty of a higher definition Youtube video. It’s actually quite simple, by adding this;

&fmt=18

at the end of any Youtube video URL you should get a higher quality version of that same video. I’ve tried it on a few videos and it’s worked very well. Keep in mind this won’t give you HD or anything close to it however I noticed the video is much cleaner. I have done this with every clip in the movies section of my website and it seems to help quite a bit.

Click the above image for a comparison of the two (the one on top is without the code the one on the bottom has it).

Image: ‘Once’ trailer.

written by Travis \\ tags: comparison, hacks, HD, Once, Quicktime, Short film, torrent, Youtube