Arizona

I went to Arizona recently with my family to see the rest of my family. Apart from seeing my family I was really excited to film somewhere new and different. I felt somewhat uninspired by the scenery here in Jacksonville. I'm sure everybody feels that about where they live every now and then, but damn.... there's really not a whole lot to look at here!

Here's the video from our trip:

Arizona from Mark Hubbard on Vimeo.

Canon 5DmkII

I did some test shots with my friend Michael and his 5DmkII for a new Electric President video. The challenge for this video is that Ben(from Electric President) wants to shoot at the beach at night. Obviously light, or the lack there of, is the issue here. I wondered if the 5D would be up to the task. So we took it out with just a $35 dollar LED flash light to see what kind of imagery we could get and I was floored by what this camera could do. It was a great first test and gave us a lot of insight into what we could accomplish.

Check out the test video!

5Dmk2 test from Mark Hubbard on Vimeo.

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-Mark

No new news

I haven't updated in a while. I really don't have anything new to talk about. Hopefully that will all change in the next couple of weeks. I've got some ideas I'm cooking up!
Until then here's a funny cat picture I found on the web...





-- Mark

First week at new job

My first week was good. I mainly just got aquainted with everything and got my workstation set up. Next week I should start getting busy with some projects which I'm really looking forward to.




This is my little area. I'm still getting it set up, but I like it. It's a very quiet and relaxed enviroment. I spent most of yesterday learning the new finalcut studio and I only saw my other coworkers twice in 8 hours.

Well anyways, here's to getting productive and earning my keep!

-- Mark

New job!

I start my new job as an "integrated system specialist" on Monday at Florida State college of Jacksonville. I'll be shooting, editing, and compressing video, which I guess is the integrated system. I'm super excited to actually be working in my field for a real paycheck and not having to wonder when the next freelance job might come my way.


-- Mark

New Final Cut Studio

With more than 100 new features, the new Final Cut Studio advances the art and technology of filmmaking with innovations that help you work faster, collaborate more efficiently, and finish brilliantly.






It's about time! Looks like they still don't really care much about DVD studio pro. Still at version 4, which is still a great application. Time to do some research on it and figure how I'm gonna update!

Mark

48 Hour Film Project

I've participated in five of these competitions so far. We had huge success in the Orlando competition, but not so much in our hometown. I feel our win in Orlando was deserving. There was no elbow rubbing to be done. Nobody knew us. We just showed up out of nowhere and ran the train on Orlando, which most of the other teams were not happy about. But I feel it's different here in Jacksonville. Something felt fishy about the whole thing. I'm not saying we should of won, but we should have gotten more credit than just runner-up for best actor for the puppet we used. I thought the film "Sketchy" should have won a lot more than they did as well. The only teams that I thought were deserving of what they got was Somebody call an Ambulance, and "Static Lullaby" By AI JAX Red Team, all those guys are good. The "best film" got a resounding "huh?" from the whole audience. It was weird. When they announced the best film, it seemed that everybody just kind of got up and started moving towards the exit, in a "that was kind of a waste of time" way. Maybe I missed something. Maybe I'm reading into it too much, but I was pretty disappointed by the whole thing. Mainly because it's a really fun competition and I would like to do it again next but now I don't know.

Here's what we entered:


The guidelines every team had to follow were:
Character: Peter/Penny Dupree
Prop: Disposable Camera
Line of dialogue: What did you do that for?

The genre we had was Romance, hence the title of the film.

Mark