Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Film. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Production: JaQuinley Kerr art video

Local actress and model, JaQuinley Kerr is also a designer and make up artist. We created an art video with her set at an amazingly unique and artistic studio in New Hope, PA. Surrounded by custom woodwork, stained glass, and metal working, JaQuinley showed off her self-made outfit and make up.







Shot on RED One #2853

Cast: JaQuinley Kerr

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Dave Kappler, Marvin Burwell

Monday, February 28, 2011

Production - Drop Anchor Music Video pt 3

The Drop Anchor music video "Always Tempting Fate" finished up with a few more days of shooting with actor Tony Slade supported by actors Paul Monte, Jennifer Snyder, and about 20 wonderful extras. Shooting locations included an office building in King of Prussia, PA, two different home locations in Lansdale, PA, shooting on a SEPTA train, and running around some empty streets of a quiet Philadelphia suburb.

Funny (and sad) story: You see the glass doors behind actor, Tony Slade in the top photo... We had him panicked and running out of the building towards the camera. The door was initially propped open with a rock but it was visible so we shut the door to have him run through. The downside is that the building is a "secured building" and even exiting the building, the door needs to be pushed at a certain speed. Tony's velocity was to fast and when he went to blast through the door, it didn't budge an inch and Tony suffered a resulting bruise for several weeks after. He healed and is okay but it was really something. In the end, we found something very small to prop the door open with and Tony finished out the day with a wounded shoulder. He's a total pro.





Cast: Tony Slade, Jennifer Snyder, Paul Monte

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Dan Sinisi, Dave Kappler, Chris Cleary, Jennifer Sheeran, Eric Toribio, Matt McGraw, Marvin Burwell, Alan Fenstermaker, Chris Long, Larry Miller, Tom Martyn

Friday, February 25, 2011

Production: Calle Luna Dance Studio

On this late night shoot, the Calle Luna Dance Studio performed one of the most intense two minutes of salsa dancing anyone could possibly imagine. The catch is, they had to do this over and over when it was shot from various angles and focal lengths. Staying hydrated with water and Gatorade, they made it through the night with about 30 takes in the can.



Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K resolution and 2K resolution for slow motion at 120 fps

Cast: Calle Luna Dance Studio

Crew: Mitch Martinez, Jake Czepiel, Steve Laramie, Burke Pushman, Marvin Burwell, Davita Pray, Erik Lu

Monday, February 21, 2011

Production: Boys and Girls Club of America

Stamphill gets signed on to produce a promotional video for a local chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of America. To be used as a fundraising tool, the video contains a lot of interviews with community leaders and attendees of the club.





Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K Resolution

Crew: Mitch Martinez, Dave Kappler, Marvin Burwell


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Production: Drop Anchor Music Video - pt. 2

The first day of shooting for the narrative portion of the Drop Anchor music video, "Always Tempting Fate" was possibly the coldest day of the year. Although we were shooting indoors, it might as well have been outside. It was about 10 degrees inside and in turn damaged the hard drive of our data transfer laptop. Luckily, AC Jake Czepiel had his laptop with him and the day was able to continue on. Power was sparse for lighting the scene but we got it all worked out in the end. Actors Tony Slade and Chris Dalbey toughed it out through the temperature and finished their scenes without complaint. Working with professionals is awesome. Everyone did a great job.


Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K resolution

Cast: Tony Slade, Christopher Dalbey

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Jake Czepiel, Tony Borzotta, Larry Miller, Matt Sinclair

Friday, January 21, 2011

Production: Welcome Home, Charlie Valentine

Stamphill Motion Pictures produced the mini-short film, "Welcome Home, Charlie Valentine" - written by Jason Lauer and starring Bruce Clifford, Frank Thon and Sarah Dewey. We shot it in the quiet town of Perkasie, PA with some great locations that fit the crime story perfectly. Minor mishaps included unwanted piles of snow in one of our shooting spots, a moving violation ticket, and a church bell that rang every fifteen minutes. All in all, everything worked out very well.









Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K (2K resolution for slow motion at 120 fps)
Written by Jason Lauer

Cast: Bruce Clifford, Frank Thon, Sarah Dewey

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Jake Czepiel, Tony Borzotta, Anastasia Hanney, Jennifer Sheeran, Korey Constable, Jason Heffner

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Production: Drop Anchor Music Video - pt. 1

With the exception of some power supply issues, this shoot went great. It was the band portion of the Drop Anchor music video for their song "Always Tempting Fate". The day featured a great crew coming together to pull off some reasonably complicated stuff for a low budget. One of the big highlights of the day's production was a swinging 2000 watt fresnel light suspended above the band members' heads and put into motion by crew members on opposing sides pulling on rope fed through suspended pulleys. It was pretty wild!





Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K

Cast: Drop Anchor (band) - Brad Holstein, Harold Echols, Matt Buckley, Kevin Mooney

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Dan Sinisi, Jake Czepiel, Tony Borzotta, Marvin Burwell, Cheryl Susforks, Korey Constable, Jeff Vernitsky, Schwa Rox, Joey DiCamillo, Dan's female friend on DIT

Friday, October 29, 2010

Production: Dodge Charger Spec Video

We tackled our first car commercial. It was a spec to show what we can do with a car mount and vehicle mounted jibs. Entitled "fun never grows old", the storyline parallels a father and son both enjoying a car experience - the father driving the car and the son playing with a toy car at home. Due to uncontrollable variables, the shoot day was a little stressed but the cast and crew performed really well and the yielded great footage.



Shot on RED One #2853 at 4K resolution

Crew: Mitch Martinez (director/dp), Dan Sinisi, Jake Czepiel, Alyssa Achuff, Schwa Rox, Korey Constable, Mike Duarte, Bryan Wlodarczyk

Locations: Lisa and Todd Frederick, Aaron Castro

Cast: Aaron and Aidan Castro

Monday, October 25, 2010

Production: A Battle to the Death - sword fight

Shooting a scene in Tyler State Park in Newtown, PA, Jarrod Weida and Josh Gieringer clashed steel for hours as the RED Oner camera flew around on the EZFX 16' Jib with remote pan/tilt head. A great crew handled the shoot to go as smoothly as possible with two tech for the battle's finale with all the fake blood that was needed. Jarrod was getting over being sick and the day definitely took its physical toll on the fighters but everyone left with smiles on their faces and we wrapped only 30 minutes past the scheduled wrap time. Not bad!

Cast: Jarrod Weida, Josh Gieringer

Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Dan Sinisi, Brian Simon, PJ DiMuzio, Chris Monterro, Alan Fenstermaker, Lora Rowland, Andrea Fulton, Zac Roberts

Photos by Andrea Fulton (www.andrealynnphotography.net)


Saturday, September 4, 2010

Production: Temple University Engineering

The Stamphill team collaborated with Digital Precision Media to produce a promotional recruiting video for the Temple University Engineering Department's Masters Program. Each day was shot on the RED One camera at 4K and 2K for slow motion footage at 120fps.

Crew: Mitch Martinez, Dan Sinisi, Jeff Vernitsky, Jason Glover, Alyssa Achuff, Brandon Ripley, Bryan Wlodarczyk, Michael Duarte




Monday, May 10, 2010

Production: Semi-Pro Skateboarder shoot

Tom Martyn set up the shoot with semi-pro skateboarder, Mikey Leven at the FDR Skate Park in Philadelphia, PA. After a brief warm up, Leven shredded the skate park and we blasted out a quick, guerilla style video - shot on the RED One at 2K resolution at 120fps. Recently, Leven's wins at East Coast skating tournaments have caught the eye of Vans - keep an eye out for him... he's definitely on the way up!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Production: Cashore Marionettes - promotional video

Joseph Cashore has been bringing marionettes to life for more than 20 years. We teamed up with him to capture his work cinematically. Shot at the Lansdale Center for the Performing Arts in Pennsylvania, Cashore performed some of his most popular works and brought a new piece he was working on.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Production: The Playing Mantis Fire Dancers

A few of the Stamphill team met up with "Mantis" and "Snap Dragon" of the Playing Mantis fire performer team to create their promotional video entitled "Ruins". Set at a construction site where some buildings were in the process of being demolished, we found the location to have a perfect look of grit for the video's aesthetic. Tim and MB of the Playing Mantis donned several outfits during the day to complement the terrain and set out to burn a great video. The day's overcast weather was perfect to give a dreary look to the video while still allowing enough light to balance exposure for the performers and obtain tremendous detail in the flame.

The video was shot on the RED One camera at 2K resolution shooting 120 fps for incredible slow motion.

Cast: Mantis and Snap Dragon of the Playing Mantis fire performers
Crew: Mitch Martinez (Director/DP), Jeff Vernitsky (AC), Schwa Rox (PA), Sun Kim (PA)



Sunday, March 7, 2010

Production: East Falls Glassworks

Glass blowing is fascinating - plain and simple. If you see it done well, it looks amazingly easy. We captured master glass blowing artisan, Jon Goldberg, creating a tectonic ordinate vase in his Philadelphia, PA studio - East Falls Glassworks. Over the course of 90 minutes, Goldberg - assisted by Nikolaj Christensen - created a $1600 work of art which we boiled down to its essence with a runtime of five minutes so you can see the majority of the vast amount of work that goes into creating the glass art.

Cast: Jon Goldberg, Nikolaj Christensen
Crew: Mitch Martinez (DP), Jeff Vernitsky (AC)