I’m thrilled about this. After carefully navigating the political and somewhat bureaucratic waters of non-profit goodness we are able to release this and others live. There are more short biographies to come and we are very, very excited about them! You can watch the embed below, subscribed to Red Futon Film’s Posterous and find us on Twitter, Facebook ,and YouTube. I hope you enjoy it. We are working primarily with a local Montana church but also loosely with a large NGO out of Atlanta.

For the techs of the crowd, this was the workflow:

Filmed on Sony Z7U – 1080/24p HDV

Edited in Avid MC4 (DNxHD transcode)

Onlined via Premiere to transcoded Cineform masters

FX’d in After Effects

Colored in After Effects with First Light, Color Finesse, and Colorista

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Note: This is a Reblog. I do have lots and lots to write about but simply, mostly out of time right now.

So one of the guys I had just the joy of hanging out with and getting to know at NAB (thanks to him seemingly randomly Twittering me at the Poker Tournament) is pro producer Jon Mckee- wicked talented, easy to talk to and is just that type of guy that everyone wants to work with.

Jag35 caught up with him at NAB- Click the pic for the vid:

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So a few of my chaps on Twitter recently said that there’s a whole lotta gear blogging going on. So I thought I’d blog a little bit about business. I have two businesses. One of those is very successful, the other one, is successful but not as lucrative. And everyone knows I’m a Zombie nut so what better way to share my business advice. Here you go:

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