Unlike any other profession, cinematography and photography (production) is something you can just ‘claim’ you do. Go down to Bentley’s Camera House, buy a CANON 50D camera and ten minutes later – “I shoot real estate!” This isn’t a story. This happens. Once a month. Ring Bentleys at Pacific Fair. And that very same day, …
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RED Alert #1
While turning and burning waiting for the CANON mount, we strapped on a CINEMOD for Nikon, and some old manual glass (50mm and 28mm) and shot our first commercial job for Jason Andrew Auctioneers at Brisbane’s Pink Piano Bar. Shooting 5k 2:4:1 is a blast. We blew through 128 gig in a few hours just …
Is Photography Real Estate’s Greatest Lie?
deception |diˈsepSHÉ™n| noun the action of deceiving someone: obtaining property by deception. • a thing that deceives: a range of elaborate deceptions. ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin deceptio(n-), from decipere ‘deceive.’ I’m never been backward in coming forward. My mother used to tell me I only opened my mouth to change feet. Recently, …
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Augmented Reality Channels for Real Estate
PlatinumHD launches Augmented Reality Channels. This is the next VERY BIG thing. Launch an augmented reality channel, point your smart phone at your signboard, your logo or the home you’re selling and BAM – watch the streaming video. Enabled by GPS and image recognition. See the logo – play the Corporate video. Locate the home, …
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Welcome to Nanny World
The Internet Blacklist Legislation – or PROTECT IP Act – is being championed in the US by big media and its allies in Congress, as a new way to prevent online infringement. But innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative is nothing more than a dangerous wish list that will compromise Internet security …
92 Savoy Drive. The Naked Truth About Last Night
Updated December 29, 2011: Views have now exceeded 100,000. Without any mainstream press. There are three versions of this film launched. Two on YouTube and one on VIMEO. Launching multiple versions was necessary due to some aggressive censorship on Neo content in the past. VIMEO now also offers up integration with Apple TV so seeing …
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EXCLUSIVE. Inside the Home Of The Year
Palazzo de Venezie – Australia’s Home Of The Year. A few months ago, we were approached by Richard and Anne Glenister to produce a Platinum film on their home Palazzo di Venezie on the Soverign Islands of the Gold Coast. It was a two-part project. Part 1 would be a personal ‘documentary’ on the residence, …
RED Epic Test 1
Firstly. NEVER judge a camera’s performance on a compressed video stream. And we’ve some tweaking to do to handle this stuff. We were going to call this post the good, the bad and the ugly. You can work out what’s what. We also promised to publish our growing pains with RED. If we’re in the …
The First Red Shoot
The first RED Epic shoot out of PlatinumHD. We’re still waiting for our Canon mount, so we used a CineMod Nikon mount with a 28mm Nikon lens about 20 years old. Shot in about two hours. Cut by Andrew Gibson in about two hours; starring Jason Andrew Auctioneers. Filmed at Brisbane’s Pink Piano Bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RM5lVcXFk
The First RED Shoot. Merry Christmas
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