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Interview with Greg Yaitanes, Director of “House” Season Finale shot on 5D – A Summary

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

As most might know the finale of “House” season six was shot on the Canon 5DMarkII. Philip Bloom (DP, Director and DSLR Expert) interviewed Greg Yaitanes, director of the episode, about working on a show this popular with the 5D.

You really should follow both of them on Twitter: Philip Bloom, Greg Yaitanes.

You can find the interview here: In depth interview with Greg Yaitanes, Executive Producer and Director of “House” Season Finale shot on Canon 5DmkII.

Since it’s an hour long i thought i’d sum up the – in my opinion – most interesting parts of the interview. I don’t claim that this summary contains every detail of the interview, but i think i captured the essence.

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A little project with Canon's 7D

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

I shot a little image film for Divina Art, a handicraft club who organizes the christmas market on Karlsplatz, Vienna.

I’ve been involved in a Canon 7D shooting right before, but i wanted to give it a try for myself – and i’m pretty impressed by that little thing.

You can watch the video here (the music is once again from Andreas Grass & Nikola Paryla):

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A Place Of Peace

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

While in the last time it has been a little quiet around my short movie project, but Joana and myself have been very busy working on it.

We solved major story issues, fleshed out the different characters and killed stereotypes, reconstructured the plot and – finally – found a name for our short movie: A Place Of Peace.

Due to some scheduling conflicts we moved the shooting date a month back into December this year, so we´ve got some more time for the pre-production.
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Geo-Racism

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

In the past i´ve already complained a lot about location based restrictions for viewing videos outside the US, unfortunately nothing has changed.

In my opinion the current situation more and more evolves into a loose-loose-loose situation between the audience, the filmmakers and the studios & film distributors, let me explain why.
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The human factor

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

To be honest i´m a really really bad fiction reader, but all the time i could spend with reading fiction i spend with reading non-fiction books and magazines, mostly all of them about filmmaking. While there are books that are de-facto standards (Story, etc.) you´ll always find some not-so-popular gems, the one i´d like to write about this time is The Audience Contract: the human factor (thanks Dirk & Toni for the tip).

The thought behind that book is based on two ideas, 1. a contract with the audience and 2. the theory of the human factor.
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