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David West

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I'm a filmmaker from Southern Oregon. I currently make a living entering video contests and creating content for crowd sourced media sites while I work towards my dream of working as a full-time narrative feature film maker. I've directed 10 narrative short films, half a dozen documentary shorts, and recently released my first no-budget feature film.

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Article Comment – Get the Perfect Slow Push-In in Post with Vashi Nedomansky’s Premiere Pro Preset

This makes me really glad to use Vegas. It is insanely easy to do this with Vegas's pan and crop keyframe system. Is this really not incredibly easy to do in every NLE?

3 years ago
Article Comment – How to Shoot a Feature Film for Only $7,000

Daniel, I watched the trailer for Scraps. Looks solid! I'd definitely watch the premiere if I lived in LA (I'm in Oregon). Out of curiosity, what did you spend on the film? As a no-budget filmmaker myself I'm always curious to hear how other filmmakers did it.

Here's a trailer for a feature-length adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress that I shot for my church on a budget of around $2,500. We released the film free online and are up to around 110K totally organic views. I never would have guessed my first feature film would be a family friendly musical, but overall I'm pretty proud of how it turned out given the ambition of the story and the resources we had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufnXBsA8tKE

4 years ago
Article Comment – Rian Johnson of ‘The Last Jedi’ Shares ‘The Only Advice That Matters’ for Aspiring Directors

Rian Johnson is awesome. I've been a fan since before Looper came out. I love hearing his advice.

4 years ago
Article Comment – Rian Johnson of ‘The Last Jedi’ Shares ‘The Only Advice That Matters’ for Aspiring Directors

I loved The Last Jedi, and I've never even really cared much for Star Wars before. Rian johnson is the man.

4 years ago
Article Comment – RED's Big Price Cut and Simplified Product Line Make Your Camera Choices Easier

Blue Ruin shot on a Canon C300 and it looked great. I'm hoping to shoot a feature with a low-to-mid 6-figure budget next year and the C200 is definitely high on the list of cameras I'm considering. For me it just makes the most sense to own a reasonably priced camera.

4 years ago
Article Comment – Good Things Come in Small Packages: DJI Releases Foldable, Portable Mavic Air Drone

Can't wait to get one in the next few months. Very glad to see they've upped the bitrate from 60 to 100mbps. That's one of the most exciting improvements! Kind of a bummer they've narrowed the aperture, but oh well. I'm not exactly planning on using this thing in low light anyway.

4 years ago

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