So here’s something I wish I made, but as it turns out did not. It’s a monster movie and first feature for director Gareth Edwards. It screened at the SXSW Film Festival and really created a buzz. What’s really interesting is that he shot the entire thing with a minimal crew overseas on a budget of only 15000$ It was shot in HD on a SonyEX camera using the Letus Ultimate adapter. It really makes me want to go shoot something.. like a duck. The movie hits theaters this October. Check out the videos below:
Is this thing viral yet? We’re proud to announce that Avery’s Love Me or Let Me Go video we shot and finished few months ago has hit more than 500,000+ views on youtube. If you don’t believe us, you can check out the youtube link here.
Did you check the link? Ha! Now the video has even more views! You played right into our plans! At this rate, the video will have more hits than Justin Bieber. Wait, what’s that you say? Justin Bieber’s video Baby has 280,950,072 hits? Holy crap! What is wrong with this country? Well, I guess you can’t fight the Bieber fever.
It’s been a long time coming, and now it’s finally here: the fitter, happier, more productive Flying Dog Films website. Our ugly little caterpillar of a website has turned into a beautiful butterfly! Sniff. Was that a little too dramatic? Oh well. We’re excited. The new site is going to let us showcase more videos than before, and will be a heck of a lot easier to update. This is surely one for the history books. Oops, there’s the over-dramatization again.
As part of the new website, our pledge to you is that we’ll be updating the blog more than our current average of pretty much never. There’s been a lot going on at Flying Dog right now, and we’re excited to share it with you. Stay tuned! In the meantime, write us a note on how much you like the new site. And if you don’t like it, you can just shut your sassy mouth.
Those devoted Flying Dog Blog readers (hi mom) may remember all the way back to the bygone days of Aug. 10th, when we posted that our World On Fire music video had won first place at the August Film Slam and would be moving on to the Brouhaha Film Festival. Well, the Brouhaha Film Festival has come and gone, so if you were depending on this blog to remind you when it was, you totally misplaced your trust. Bummer. On a happier note, we just found out that World on Fire was selected to be in the “Best of Brouhaha” side panel at the upcoming Florida Film Festival! Boy, it’s really amazing what $10,000 in bribes, a little blackmail, and veiled threats against stubborn juror’s grandmothers can do.
So, make sure you make it to the Florida Film Festival, April 9th-18th of 2010. And don’t count on this blog to remind you, ok? ‘Cuz we probably won’t. Here’s a picture of the Brouhaha fest marquee so you can pretend like you were there:
Just to be clear; We had nothing to do with this video at all beyond maybe watching it a few times. Its a decent little rap parody of the Nikon Canon rivalry, but what’s much more interesting is the photographer behind this. His name is Joey Lawrence and at 19 He’s got an impressive amount of high end and very professional work. It really pisses me off just how good he actually is. But don’t take my word for it; check him out at Joeyl.com
Here’s the product of our zombie weekend shoot a little while back. This trailer was originally premiered on the quietearth blog. Ladies, Zombies, and Robots
So over the weekend we decided to put something together for the Doritos crash the Superbowl ad contest. It was mainly just an excuse to make our friend dress up like a giant chip, but it turned out pretty good anyway. The first and last shots are done with the RED camera and the rest is HVX with a Letus adapter. Shot and edited by Matt H and Chris Grieder. Check it out.
This last Thursday was the red carpet premiere of Gutter King, a coming-of-age fight flick written and directed by friend o’ the Flying Dog Keith Alan Morris. Keith is an indie-film maniac, and has been working like a madman these last few years to bring the movie together. Flying Dog’s Matt Hutchens lugged around a really heavy Red camera as DP for the movie, and Matt Tinley worked as DIT, as well as helping out a bit with editing and a few b-camera shoots.
The premiere was a huge success, with sold out screenings, limos, a red carpet walk, live dj-ing, motorcycle gangs, and even a zombie or two. The only thing it lacked was Joan Rivers, or maybe Kanye West jumping up in the middle of the screening and talking about some other coming-of-age fight movie he liked better. Lucky attendees were treated to a sneak preview of Keith’s upcoming zombie/sci-fi movie, Driving the Dead. That’s probably why we saw zombies at the event, unless we’re in the middle of some sort of low-key zombie epidemic we’re not yet aware of. If you are aware of a low-key zombie epidemic in the Orlando area, please let us know at info@flyingdogfilms.com.
If you haven’t seen the trailer for Gutter King yet, check out the Gutter King official site. And keep checking the site for more info on Driving the Dead, if it pleases you. Which it should.
Matt Tinley, Keith Morris, and Matt Hutchens were voted most photogenic trio by judges Matt Tinley, Keith Morris, and Matt Hutchens
Matt Hutchens uses a Red camera to document the arrival of a motorcycle gang to the premiere for posterity. You know, in case posterity wants to see the event in glorious 4K resolution!
So, you may or may not have have noticed an absence of posts on the blog this last month. Perhaps you were thinking to yourself, “Self, it seems quite safe to assume, based off of the empirical data I see before me, that the blokes here at Flying Dog Films have not had much goings ons between the dates of August the 24th and September the 28th. I shall scoff at them!” But you couldn’t be further from the truth! And besides, it’s rude to scoff. The truth of the matter is, we’ve been busy working on not one, but two (that’s twice as many as one!) ads for an ongoing competition at Current.com.
The two ads are for a brand spanking new HP Printer- The Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web. It’s a printer that can connect wirelessly to the internet without the aid of a computer, and has a cool touchscreen to boot. But why should I write about it? Go see for yourself:
