Shot & Edited by LOGAN McMILLAN
19Feb
Dave & Nicola – Same Day Edit
06Jan
Tristan and Justine – Same Day Edit
Shot & Edited by LOGAN McMILLAN
17Dec
Simon and Danielle – Same Day Edit
Camera & Edit LOGAN McMILLAN
05Dec
Katie Thompson – Impossible
Directed & Shot by LOGAN McMILLAN | Produced by KATIE O’BRIEN | Grip/Gaffer ANDREW DEAN | Art Department GUY | Makeup & Hair BRAE TOIA | Talent LAINE TOIA & PAUL CORBETT
18Nov
The Helmet Teaser Trailer
So over the past two nights we shot a teaser trailer for the Make My Movie competition. Check it out below and please go to our page here: http://www.makemymovie.co.nz/finalist/finalist-the-helmet/and click the Facebook ‘like’ button so we can get $100,000 and make this film! :)
15Aug
Mel Parsons – I Won’t Let You Down
Shot this video in San Francisco for New Zealand singer / songwriter Mel Parsons. We drove our old beat up Cadillac (that I bought for the trip) around the city to find cool places to shoot. Not all the locations worked out well. But we struck the Santa Cruz boardwalk on a beautiful afternoon and that formed the backbone of the video…
Directed & Edited by LOGAN McMILLAN | Makeup MELISSA HALL | Directors Assistant DAMIEN SHATFORD
It snowed pretty heavily in Christchurch today and some of the students from St. Bede’s College (across the road from me) made a make shift ramp and did some jumps….
Timelapse of the snowman we built… (shot on a Lumix GH2)
Saw these guys play in San Diego – and was so impressed with their live performance that I offered to shoot them a free video. We had 3 hours to shoot the video at Hemmingways in Los Angeles.
Shot, Directed & Edited by LOGAN McMILLAN | Directors Assistant DAMIEN SHATFORD
This is when I saw them playing in San Diego. I operated one of the cameras for this gig and contacted their management straight after the show. These guys are AMAZING live.
NOTE: This review is a work in progress! Only a very brief post for now.
The good folks at Atomos shipped me their new ‘Ninja‘ HDMI video recorder to review. What is it? It’s a hard drive recorder that records straight into Apple ProRes from a HDMI source – thus skipping the cameras onboard compression. For the review I’m pairing it up with my Panasonic AF102.
I really wanted to put it in a real world test so I took it on a job with me to Hong Kong for a solid week of shooting. Initial feedback is it’s a brilliant tool that really speeds up your workflow.
I started out with no way to mount to the camera. So I had to have it on its own tripod.
The weakness - HDMI ports are not sturdy.
Mounted on camera.
A simple Manfrotto arm type thing attaches it perfectly to the AF102 so I can have a camera light on top as well.
My editing setup. Thats the Ninja caddy on the bottom left - editing the ProRes directly into Final Cut Pro. No transcoding, no waiting around, Firewire 800, bam.
I was lucky enough to get the lovely Anna Coddington and her band to fly down to Christchurch to shoot her latest music video for the very catchy song ‘Little Islands’. We only had a short timeframe to shoot and she wanted something simple for the video. Thought it would be a great time of year to get out and shoot amongst the leaves in Hagley park.
Purchase the single here http://www.annacoddington.com/music/
I’m really starting to love the Panasonic AF102 – it feels like a serious camera.
Director / Editor / Producer LOGAN McMILLAN Grip / Gaffer ANDREW DEAN Makeup LUCY HARVEY Production Assistant BEN SPINK
Shooting handheld on the Panasonic AF102 with a Canon FD 50mm f.14 FD lens
Ben Spink (PA), Anna Coddington, myself and Andrew Dean (Grip / Gaffer)
