Alien Workshop‘s Mind Field is out after about five years in the making. I made it to the Dayton, Ohio premiere the Wednesday before its worldwide release and I was blown away. Once again Chris Carter and Mike Hill have put out a film second to none. Props have to be given to the director, Greg Hunt, as well as to Hill and Bowers for all the motion graphics. If you’re into J Mascis you’ll love the soundtrack as well.

If you’re unsure what tilt-shift photography is click here. Then read about tilt-shift miniature faking.

I’m a big fan of time-lapse and tilt-shift photography so when I came across Keith Loutit, an Aussie, needless to say I was impressed. It’s hard to believe that some of these shots aren’t models. Watch this video then check out his vimeo page for more videos, like Metal Heart, and watch them a little bigger as well.

* after watching this video I had to download the music. Check out the Headless Heroes here.

Writer/Director Trevor Hollen has recently finished two music videos, one for Atomic Johnny‘s “Galaxy Girl” and the other for Captain of Industry‘s “Healthy Spines.” csDM did the effects on both videos… the film effects, both video and audio, on Galaxy Girl as well as all the effects and editing for Healthy Spines.

Both videos were edited in Final Cut Pro and all effects were completed using After Effects CS3 and other 3rd party plugins and/or presets.

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*NOTES*
The CoI video had a bunch of those “invisible” effects in it. One of them was the elevator door. Since Trevor needed to watch the band perform, the door had to be open. This forced us to add the door in post. Since the elevator was shaking all around while they were performing during filming, I had to motion track the elevator door to the performance shot as well.

The elevator shot is a cropped letterbox and used a Sony PD-170 and the Century Optics .3X Ultra Fisheye Adapter.

The VHS look was added after the film was shot on a Panasonic AG-DVX100B. We added some bad video effects to the raw footage after we had a picture lock, then exported it to a VHS tape. We then dubbed it back and forth to another tape then sucked it back in the computer. FYI… a dub of a dub 10x looks terrible.

Good times.
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CAST/CREW

Healthy Spines___________________________________

Captain of Industry is:
Nathan Peters – boards, guitar and vocals
John Lakes – percussion and vocals
Kevin Oldfield – guitar, percussion and electronics
Ian Sperry – bass and vocals
Tommy Cooper – guitar

Cast:
Man – Nathan
Saddeste Robotte – Kelsey Hopkins

Crew:
Writer/Director – Trevor Hollen
Cinematographer – Joe Telich
Editor/Effects – Chris “biZo” Stevens
Producer – Christa Bloede

Galaxy Girl______________________________________

Atomic Johnny is:
NAPALM 69: Vocals & Farfisa
MISSION 13: Guitar & Vocals
RAYGUNN 138: Expresso Drums

Cast:
The Galaxy Girls were The Gem City Roller Girls & The Ohio Roller Girls as themselves.

Crew:
Writer/Director/Editor – Trevor Hollen
Effects – Chris “biZo” Stevens
Cinematography/Camera – Joe Telich & Chance Madison