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The cover of my video
available at Pulsar Productions

My video "Forest Streams with acrylics" is live! click  here

 

Just click on the video to get access to the whole full length, hour long film in HD.

My videos are published worldwide by  Pulsar Productions Australia

They were very pleased with the result and wrote:
"Fabulous, superb paintings, very educational and excellent production values. Well done for braving facing the camera, I know you're not keen, but that picture in picture of you speaking to the camera helps give a connection to you."
Although it took me a ridiculous amount of time during a ten month period I am also pleased with the result. In most cases a film like this is produced by a whole team of experts which you normally see in the rolling credits at the end of a film. 

 Apart from the music this was entirely a one person show. While I painted I filmed and recorded everything using a DSLR camera on a tripod. Sometimes I even used a Gopro camera, or iphone, ipad or a DJI mavic pro drone which I  sent up for footage from an altitude of 65 meters.

 One of the difficult scenes was especially time consuming. I painted a leaf flying over the stream and wanted to capture live footage of the leaf

flying. I tried standing next to the stream while throwing a leaf in the air and letting it sail downwards while filming with the camera on a tripod. The slightest gust of wind blew the leaf away before I could catch it in the viewfinder. Over and over I tried until I finally caught enough footage to render it in slow motion.

 

Me talking in front of the teleprompter

 

Another difficult scene was when I wanted look straight at the camera and talk frankly and sincerely about my trials and errors. (Even though I have been an artist for over 50 years I can still make mistakes.) I used a home made teleprompter for this which I described in my last post.

Starting the recording at the right moment

 

 

 

 

I then worked with the very time consuming process of editing the video. This was especially difficult as I was using many tracks in the editing program Premiere Pro: The tracks consisted of superimposed pictures in pictures, original video footage, and two tracks each for the stereo audio recordings : ambient sound, narrative, sound effects and music.
                                                            

                                                           

Editing the video

The video is available for download or streaming on vimeo