It is done! We did three more interviews, took the XL2 for a spin through Humansdorp (despite the weather) and got some insane shots of Nico Malan High. Also: Cobus chased a cow. I enjoyed the past week immensely. Playing around with a bunch of expensive equipment, learning a few more tricks of the trade [...]
Today Jason arrived with additional lights, an XL2 and a plethora of other equipment and we started shooting interviews in a controlled environment. Cobus did a Cobus Live with Jason’s webcam; we also shot at the church where Cobus played drums for the very first time 7 years ago. Inbetween we devoured pizza and watched [...]
What a day… The cameras arrived early this morning. (Too early.) We charged the batteries, cleaned out the SD cards (of which we currently have 5 x 16GB) and set off to Jeffreysbay to shoot a ton of footage. I can’t, of course, reveal anything as of yet (Cobus is currently preparing a little surprise [...]
Seeing as we are waiting for two sponsored Canon FS200’s to be couriered to Humansdorp (it should arrive within the next few hours) Cobus and I spent the day eating, planning and bonding. Eating consisted of, amongst others, a plethora of sandwiches. Planning involved scanning a few old photo’s and swapping out thoughts on random [...]
During the next couple of days I’m helping out as a cinematographer for the much anticipated Cobus Potgieter DVD. I’ll try to document progress as best I can (without letting anything slip about the actual content, of course…no spoilers). As of yet there’s not much to tell, really…At about 3pm South African time today I [...]