Brainsplinter Productions

High Dynamic Range HD-DSLR Video

Dennis Mason — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:29:56 +0000

I was really excited when I saw that the fine people at Magic Lantern had made HDR video possible on Canon DSLR cameras. Then I was greatly disappointed when I realized that that Magic Lantern still has no support for the Canon 7D. Sometimes I wonder if I should buy a second camera body for [...]

The composer has been commissioned

Dennis Mason — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:49:08 +0000

We are very happy to work with Peter Avelar again. He created the music for our Mofilm AT&T commercial and now he has been commissioned to create the film score for I Hear You. He is a really talented musician and composer and we're really happy to have him on the team.

German R/C Octacopter Hoists RED Epic

Dennis Mason — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:52:05 +0000

I'd like to hang out with this group of Germans. They can make 5K helicopter shots with their new RED Epic camera from the sky! Berlin based OMSTUDIOS created this rig. Within minutes this cool rig can be up and running and can haul the camera up to 500 feet in the air! That would [...]

We have started a sketch comedy group!

Dennis Mason — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:37:07 +0000

After years of idle waiting and hoping to meet others with similar interests in creating funny, scripted videos for online distribution my partner and I have decided to be the proactive ones. We have created from the ether a new sketch comedy group. We will be having a planning meeting once a month to pitch [...]

Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camp

Dennis Mason — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:22:44 +0000

If you have any interest in making films you owe it to yourself to go to one of Larry Meistrich's Aspiring Filmmakers Boot Camps. It is two days packed with information on the business of filmmaking. Larry touched on fundraising, pre-production, product placement, insurance, production, releases, post-production, and delivery to a distributor. He stressed the importance of [...]

Language – a short, supposedly funny scene

Dennis Mason — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:15:33 +0000

Description: An inmate gets a visit from one of his associates from the outside so they can talk "business." A corrupt guard sets up the meeting in a secret room. The guard has only one rule, no swearing! This is a little project I threw together in a week or two. I had an [...]

Light and Shadow workshop

Dennis Mason — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:40:27 +0000

I am a subscriber to shootingpeople.org New York filmmaker bulletins and I’ve seen the Light and Shadow workshop advertised on there many times over the last couple years. Since it is a two day workshop the planets have to align so that I don’t have anything planned for either day. Luckily those planets did their [...]

New Series Sans Sandwich

Dennis Mason — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:27:02 +0000

I was having breakfast with my friends Brett and Rachel at the Rutherford Pancake House a couple weeks ago and Rachel pitched an idea to me that she had mentioned before. Two people standing at a refrigerator arguing over who ate the sandwich. She even posed the name, "The Sandwich Series," which stuck. This is [...]

We are (mostly) nobody filmmakers

Dennis Mason — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:32:24 +0000

There is a very good post by filmmaker Christopher J. Boghosian titled, "I Am A Nobody Filmmaker." With a title like that it could really go two ways. It could have been a rant by a guy who thinks that his work is being overlooked and is shaking his fist at the sky, but it's [...]

HDMI field recorder for less than $1k?

Dennis Mason — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:21:19 +0000

It has been a long time coming, but there is finally an HDMI field recorder available for less than a thousand dollars. It's called the Atomos Ninja. A couple years ago I tried to build a computer with a Black Magic Intensity HDMI capture card. I say "try" because the computer never came together the [...]