
“The Zombie Opera” Production Days #4-7
Time flies! It feels like just last week that we began production on “Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera.” Now that we’ve wrapped our seventh day of shooting, I can officially say that this show is going to rock!

This friday, the Sprout Fund held their Summer Social party in East Liberty. As a Seed Award recipient of the Fund, “The Zombie Opera” was provided with a booth at the event where artistic directors Bonnie Bogovich and Liz Rishel spread the word of the show. It was a fun time with good music and really great people.

How do you blend a live stage show with filmed action on a movie screen? We set out on a quest to find out.

“The Zombie Opera” Production Day #3
It was an exciting day in Zombie Opera history. Not only did we see Liz Rishel’s character, Izzie in full costume and makeup, but we also began using the latest trend in filmmaking formats: The HD-shooting DSLR.

Skateboarding. It’s aggressive, it’s graceful, it looks great in slow motion. So we hit the town with my Canon T2i DSLR camera, two boards, and some Red Bull to see what we could do.

After preparing some test shots for “The Zombie Opera” last night, I had some free time to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: Photograph stars.

“The Zombie Opera” Production Day #2
Still feeling good from last Sunday’s shoot at Duquense University, we rolled straight into Saturday’s production in Oakland. Blue skies and a nice bright sun got everyone in the mood to create one of the most difficult scenes for “The Zombie Opera.”

Here we go!!
Today marks the first day of production for “Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera!” For those of you unaware, “Evenings” is a brand new film/stage production that will be coming to Pittsburgh in Fall 2010. As the director of video production, I am more than excited to be a part of this creative [...]

Wow! Did I say this before!? This camera is blowing me away. Here are a few low light still photos I shot over the weekend. Video to come soon.

Woo hoo!! My Canon Rebel T2i DSLR camera has arrived in the mail today, and all I can say is WOW!!!
No wonder the industry is buzzing so much! The image quality that DSLR’s can capture is above amazing. Right out of the box I played around with focusing on stupid stuff around my desk, and [...]