I just got back from my road trip out to Lake Superior to shoot a BFA film for a friend. I’m exhausted. But I have one last production still to share, and I think it’s pretty sweet. We put the 16mm Aaton camera on top of a ladder and got some slow motion shots of skater’s at the Hebron skate park. I still need to process the footage to see if these shots came out any good. I hope to get that done by the middle of August.
Fourth of July weekend was my last shoot of the summer. It was my last chance to get some remaining shots that I wanted to complete the summer sequence of the film. I think I was successful at that, but we’ll have to wait until we see the footage.
There is a lot of locations that you don’t see in this video because I kept forgetting to turn the webbie on. I again stayed with my teachers from high school, and I had a blast hanging out with their son (who you’ll see in the video).
This was the first time that I brought a video camera down to cover a HINDSIGHT shoot and the batteries made it the whole way through. Our plan was to get to Connecticut early, and shoot some nature scenes around town, then head to the high school to set up for graduation. My roommate Greg shot most of this footage and I edited it together to show a little bit of our day, plus the drive back to Boston. The music used is “City of Dog” by Console, sort of an ode to a video I made in high school, and I thought it was fitting since we were shooting graduation.
This was the last shot of my 4th of July weekend. These cliffs look out over Dickinson Creek and Roberts Road in Marlborough. I forget who first showed me these cliffs, but this isn’t the first time that I hiked out into the woods with a backpack full of gear to get some shots here. Back in high school, my friends and I shot a war movie in these woods. It was called The Greenhorn Hero. I don’t dare put it online at this point in my life.
But anyway, after a long and tiring weekend of filming, I packed my backpack with the Bolex, tripod head, hihat, a bottle of water and a bag of cherries, and cross the creek to the cliffs. The sky was summer blue and the clouds were nice and puffy. The shot ran for about an hour and a half.
Other than some timelapses around Marlborough, I filmed at the viaducts in Colchester, the skatepark in Hebron, and the boom box parade in Willimantic. This was the last shoot of the summer for Hindsight. I’m taking a break from shooting until September to 1) focus on other projects and 2) to raise funds for the next stretch of production. I have 4,000 feet of film from this summer that’s awaiting to be processed. Once I have the money together to process that footage, I’ll surely make a summer teaser to put on the website. Until then, keep up to date by following this blog, on Twitter, or the Facebook group.