Michelle Tofi

Xander’s “Requiem for a Dream” video featuring Amzo dropped at the start of this week and has already racked up over 13,000 views on youtube. Here’s the link from my Vimeo page.  I shot the video and it really was a fun shoot - Xander has an incredible amount of energy and creativity and brought loads of ideas to the shoot we got to try out, including shooting 50fps for most of the piece on 550D, then time-remapping in Motion’s Optical Flow in post.  I hope you enjoy the video!

I made a new film! Here is the rough cut. Obviously it’s yet to be coloured, and I will be looking at adding some Hindi narration courtesy of my lovely co-conspirator and partner in crime, Kim. This was an excellent chance to get out on the streets with my fellow filmmaker Adam and shoot some DSLR footage. I used IndiSystem’s glorious IndiSlider Deluxe (Mini) for the glidetrack shots, and my own Zacuto inspired Viewfinder for body stabilisation on the handheld stuff. All in all, it was great practice for our shoot in February ‘11 for Sacrifice and remember, if you like what you see here you can help us get Sacrifice made with a small donation over at our funding page! This is what I can do alone, but imagine what your funding could do combined with our two HD camera set-up, lighting rig, a whole church set to shoot in and a professional camera crew shipping over just for our shoot!

Anyway, here’s Brick Lane in all it’s dirty sexy glory. East London never looked so Hi Def. Enjoy!