Silent Winter

It's already been quite a winter here in the North Country! Today we are getting hit with 12-18" of fresh snow. Last Friday I managed to get out for a few hours to shoot some new winter stuff at Pt. Au Roche State park here in Upstate NY. It was an especially quiet afternoon. No wind. 20 degree temps and very still! It was a wonderful time, 3 hours flew by in no time at all. This is the short film I made with the footage I shot that day. I added all the dark corners in post, I know some try real hard to keep vignetting out, but to me it enhances these shorts. Focusing peoples attention on the main frame while breaking up the flat expanses, especially in these winter ones. I guess some like it, some don't. I have given up years ago trying to please everyone! So take it for what you will.

The music is by Bill Douglas. A tune called "Earth Prayer".

Enjoy and spring is coming...sometime!

Silent Winter By Paul Frederick
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Ice

I'm continually fascinated by the incredible formations of ice that a winter stream can produce. These intricate patterns change by the hour as water that has been super cooled collides and freezes to anything it touches. The river banks and rocks widen with the ice until it completely engulfs the water underneath. I added all the vignetting to the images, to me it looks better with the darkened and blurred corners. It focuses your attention more to the middle. It looks slightly more extreme on here than it does on a real TV due to over scanning on a TV. I edit mostly for TV so that is what I used for a reference.

This was shot with my Sony EX1 with Letus Extreme adapter and Nikon 35-70mm F-2.8 lens. IndiSlider used on a few shots. Music is called "Minor Blue" by David Darling.

Ice By Paul Frederick
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When the Snows Fall

I love this time of year. Really! It's a transitional time, when the colors of fall have all but disappeared only to be replaced with a fresh blanket of snow. Everything can be so still and quiet during a snow storm. This new video shows the transition from fall to winter, the last colors and the first snow. There is an abrupt change between the two pieces of music, done intentionally to show the abrupt change from snowy evening to crisp morning light with fresh powder everywhere!

The music is "The Promise" from Michael Nyman's soundtrack to "The Piano", one of the most hauntingly brilliant piano pieces I've ever heard. After the change it goes to "First Time Outside" from the movie "Secret Garden" by Zbigniew Preisner. Buy these CDs if you can find them! I've had them and enjoyed them for nearly 20 years, I felt like they fit the mood perfectly for this video.

Enjoy!

When the Snows Fall By Paul Frederick
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Happy Holidays!

Here's a new video! Climb aboard a horse drawn sleigh for a holiday ride! Special thanks to Don Sayward and his horses. This is a compilation of several trips out with him. I hope everyone has a safe and happy Holiday Season.

The Ride By Paul Frederick
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ADK SEASONS on Black Friday @ Wild Center

Black Friday is fast approaching and if the thought of being anywhere near a shopping center has you quaking in your boots (it does me!) then come to the Wild Center in Tupper Lake! They have a magnificent facility http://www.wildcenter.org with a state of the art digital theater. I'm showing my new scenic program "Adirondack Seasons" at 1pm. Singer/songwriter Scott B. Adams will also be on hand to perform and discuss his roll in the film. I showed it there in October to a full house and the experience was just AWESOME! The screen is probably 20 feet wide and they can show it in full HD quality! Of course, we'll have copies for sale on DVD for a special price so you can say you did SOME Christmas shopping on Black Friday!

Once you pay for admission to enter the museum, the screening is free! So come on down, kick back and relax to the sights and sounds of the Adirondacks in all four of it's glorious seasons....unless you like the sound of screaming parents fighting over the last available Wii console!

35mm Adapter comparison

I thought about making one of these videos, a comparison of a camera with and without a 35mm adapter attached, but while surfing VIMEO today I found this one, already made! A perfect example of a short sequence with and without an adapter attached. This is not my video but it is a great example for those who still don't understand what the difference is. Notice how much more film like the adapter shots are? THAT is what you see in a movie made with film. Have you ever watched the extras on a DVD that shows a scene for a movie being filmed from behind the scenes and notice the behind the scenes stuff looks so...video like? They are shot with video cameras with regular video lenses. A film is shot with Film lenses with proper depth of field! It makes a big difference.



35mm adapter versus adapterless camcorder from Bewegtbildarbeiter on Vimeo.

ADIRONDACK SEASONS trailer

Here is the trailer for my new scenic show ADIRONDACK SEASONS. It is going to be broadcast in the Albany NY market on WMHT on December 7th. I'm not sure of the exact time yet. This video is from Exposure Room. That is another site like VIMEO that allows you to put videos up for free (A high quality YouTube) and then embed them on other sites or blogs like this one. They offer the best compression yet, videos look and play much smoother than VIMEO.

"Adirondack Seasons" Trailer By Paul Frederick
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