Show Category: Cinematography

  • Shipping Room

    The second in our North Pole Secrets series over at ChristmasBarrel.com, I rather think this was one of the funnier ones. What do you think Dick Cheney would want for Christmas? Shot on green screen using the Canon 7D. Episode Guide Episode 1 Quality Control Room Episode 2 Shipping Room Episode 3 Santa’s Warehouse Episode… Read more »

  • Quality Control Room

    This is the first “North Pole Secrets” sketch we ever did for Christmas Barrel, our Yuletide-themed YouTube channel that runs 24 episodes as an advent calendar every year. North Pole Secrets are always recorded in a single continuous shot on a green screen, unless one of the characters had to be composited in after. This… Read more »

  • Krampus Uncovered

    This is the first of our “On Point with Todd Zestermann” episodes and our most popular Christmas Barrel movie. We shot this on my Canon 7D for the most part (one shot was done with my iPhone). I imagine part of the reason this sketch has a few more views on YouTube than some of… Read more »

  • The Burden of Being

    This short was made as part of the LA Skins Fest (a Native American film festival in Los Angeles) 48-hour shootout. It one best picture in the shootout competition. The director, Rod Pocowatchit, flew in from Kansas for just the two day shoot/post-production with us, so we had to have a lot of things squared… Read more »

  • Once Upon a Grape

    Julie Hinton wrote this little fantasy story and asked me to come and direct it for her. We shot on a Canon 7D at several locations, and with a fair bit of green screen work to manage some of the ridiculous special effects.

  • Guerrilla Gallery “Hiding”

    Kenny McNett set up this unlicensed, Fight Club-esque art show in a pedestrian tunnel running under Olympic Boulevard near Overland Avenue in Los Angeles. He invited all his friends and had me come over with my Canon 7D to record matters for posterity. This is the result.

  • Late Night Worker

  • The Tea Party

    This short was the brainchild of Kevin Redford, one of the first people I knew and worked with way back in film school. We made it for an online video contest called filmaka.com. We shot it with my old Sony FX1 HDV camera that shot only at 30fps and only interlaced (so technically 60i). I… Read more »

  • Revving Wings

    The production of this music video was rather fraught with angst and hurt feelings. As I remember it, it began with one director, Rachel Anderson, who then became fed up with the singer/songwriter Anastasia Nikiforova (who calls herself Nikki Forova when she’s performing) partway through. I therefore got upgraded from director of photography to director,… Read more »

  • The Beatle Girls

    This little music video was made for the Los Angeles Young Adults Film Festival of 2008. None of the girls portrayed in it could play their instruments (or in some cases, at least, play them well enough) for the recording, so as I remember one fellow laid down all the various tracks for them. We… Read more »

  • Billie’s

    This was another Red4D production made with Kevin Redford. Kevin hoped one day that it could turn into a television series about ‘hot girls and hot cars.’ A lot of the cast did seem to go pretty far after mucking about with us, if their IMDb profiles are any indication. We shot at a motorcycle… Read more »

  • Granny’s Day Out

    This was my favorite of my Red4D Productions collaborations with Kevin Redford. We came up with the idea while sitting in his apartment. We had been brainstorming for a couple of hours when he got up to get something from the kitchen. In the few minutes that he was gone, I sketched out the entire… Read more »

  • Office Clash

  • After Hours