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What comes after the DSLR…?
Lots of filmmakers love HDSLRs, but the still camera can’t be the end solution for video. Follow focus systems, dual-audio, eyepieces, tons of memory cards…it’s not simple. Apparently Panasonic and Sony noticed that people were spending money on all these items that are being built by other companies like Indisystems and Zacuto instead of on more expensive cameras that incorporate everything to begin with…so the next evolution of the video camera in the sub $10,000 range appears to be DSLR chips in video camera bodies. Check out the full story and interview with Philip Bloom at coolhunting.
Here’s a little outtake from the interview with Philip Bloom. He told me a little bit about his friends:
Philip Bloom’s Friends from Aaron P Kohn on Vimeo.
Philip Bloom in NYC with his friends on the Highline
See the full story at coolhunting.com.
BREAKING NEWS! The Final Cut of People Suck!
Here it is! A full post coming soon…
People Suck! from Aaron P Kohn on Vimeo.
“I need hardly remind you that people are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones, and hence my account will carry no less conviction than yours.”
-The Decameron, Boccaccio
Richie is a normal guy who tackles the question many of us face in life about how much to trust people. Just as Richie decides to give up on humanity, things change for him.
Directed by Aaron KOHN
Written by Robert CAUDY
Starring Kostas PARAGIOS
Shot on a Canon 7D
with Support from Zeiss, Indisystems, Humble Monkey, Columbia University Film Productions.
People Suck!
Click the link to see it in HD on ExposureRoom.
Also, my interview with Mitch Aunger at Planet5d!
Announcing Spectrum – First 7D Video
So I’ve taken the dive, and I’m now a HDDSLR filmmaker. This is the first film I’ve made on a HDDSLR. Okay, well not exactly. I did shoot a film in Quito on a 7D, but it wasn’t mine. So I think this counts as the first.
I’ll be writing more about shooting on HDDSLRs as the production for People Suck! begins. In fact, we will be blogging and posting videos about what equipment we’re using throughout the production…more on that soon…and our sponsors (hint hint)!
Anyway, I am a training editor at the Columbia Spectator, so I help train people to incorporate multimedia throughout the workings of the paper. I decided to make a release video for their new website and their new blog, Spectrum. Check it out here.
You can watch the HD version if you watch the video on Vimeo.com
Finding Truth (and our NGO)
Today was the first full day of the Truth With a Camera Workshop, and we got a lot of groundwork done so that we can get to work. We began by meeting all of the students and the NGO’s that we’re planning to work with at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, a beautiful school near our hotel in Cumbayà.
Through Friday I’ll be working with Alejandro Reinoso, a local photojournalist who is on the staff of a local paper, El Telégrapho. It’s great since he’s familiar with Quito, speaks Spanish, and seems like a great photographer.
Our first assignment was to take portraits of each other. Also, we learned that tomorrow we’re heading downtown to make contact with our assigned NGO who was slightly MIA today, but hopefully that works out.
My instructor for the workshop is Dave Ellis, the Director of Photography for the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star. The other instructors are Stephen Katz and Josh Meltzer.
Updates also at: http://www.truthworkshopblog.org/ and http://twitter.com/TruthCamera
Three Weeks in Congo (stay tuned!)
Earlier this week I finished the rough cut of a film I shot over 3 weeks this summer in Congo for an NGO called INCEF. I hope to get a fine cut done in February that I will post online. Also coming will be my journal entries and photos from the journey. Here is the first entry in the film, “Day One” of the journey. Stay tuned for the finished piece!
Day 1 (Rough Cut 1/3/10) from Aaron P Kohn on Vimeo.
Here is a photo I took in the village of Liouesso as Erick and Ella, INCEF’s educators conducted a night screening. INCEF used it for their holiday card.
A Soldier’s Story
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