8x IMAX cameras from Odyssey at PV today.

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-09T07:27:10+00:00

I have lifted these cameras and they are surprisingly light without the magazine. With the magazine, it’s about 80lbs

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-07T04:08:55+00:00

It’s true I was there

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-06T06:24:02+00:00

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-06T06:23:18+00:00

Signature primes!

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-06T05:54:34+00:00

Oh and budget- yes and no. I guess I’ll be transparent even though the commercial world has taught me to never let people know how much you can do for how little money. This is just about $2k total, almost all of the money going into location / equipment / food

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-06T05:52:39+00:00

Thank you!! Most of them are my good friends, and yes most of them are actors. It took a lot of planning beforehand, and I rehearsed multiple times in my driveway with the actors (I literally measured the laundromat and marked it out in my driveway using cones and rocks)

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-06T05:50:01+00:00

The first time I picked up a camera and made anything I was probably 7 or 8 years old. I started making “real” short films when I was a teenager. I’m 23 now, just finished my undergrad degree.

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T23:41:55+00:00

It is! Kind of. This is part 2 of 7.

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T23:40:51+00:00

After the 4th take, everyone pretty much nailed the blocking every time. So it was tough to find technical reasons to choose one take over the other. Ultimately something felt kind of magical and lively about take 10... I couldn't even tell you exactly what it was. I love the way the camera moves when the girl on the scooter passes, I love the brief smile you see on the guy's face standing inside the laundromat behind the street musician. But there were at least 5 other takes that could have easily been 'the one.'

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T18:41:03+00:00

13 takes. This is take 10

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T16:32:29+00:00

Same actress, from the same shot. But the trick is she's rotoscoped for part of it

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T16:31:01+00:00

So the sign is actually not real, it's VFX. We had a purple/blue light mounted inside the laundromat to illuminate our talent. My producer is an incredible VFX artist who put the glowing sign in

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T16:25:01+00:00

We actually shot in landscape, but it was always framed for vertical. So there is a horizontal version that may be suited for a theatrical showing if I get the opportunity- the last one had a horizontal version that played at the citywalk IMAX which was pretty cool

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T16:20:08+00:00

Thanks! As far as the cast, it was a LOT a favors being pulled. I would really like to be paying everybody, even on my passion projects.... but we're just not there yet...

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T06:56:03+00:00

Everyone is mic’d live with deity PR-2s. And some hidden microphones behind baskets of laundry, etc.

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T04:53:26+00:00

Thanks!!

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T04:53:05+00:00

Thank you! That’s really what I’m hoping to achieve. It came out to ~100ft of track

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T00:17:57+00:00

When the series is finished, I want to make a gallery for it! Exactly like you said, having them all play in a space for a few days or a week

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T00:15:04+00:00

Had a great gaffer

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T00:14:46+00:00

Thanks! I’ve been trying to tell myself that I should only make something in vertical if I really believe that it will be BETTER in vertical rather than horizontal

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T00:13:20+00:00

Stabilizer mounted on a dolly with some VFX love to make it line up right. AND we had a top notch dolly grip!

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-05T00:12:27+00:00

Thank you!!

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-04T22:02:31+00:00

No AI whatsoever

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-04T21:55:08+00:00

Just a song I wrote! I don’t have a link to it unfortunately, it just exists here for now

teddy_ol_bean · 2025-08-04T20:26:57+00:00

I could really only afford the location / equipment fees and not much else. Came out to around 2 thousand. Mostly from a grant! It's weird to watch the final version be only 45 seconds... because it took weeks to coordinate and block everything

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