Acoustic Band Live Recording

Filmed Pursuit Band's first live recording. This is the making of.

Top Ceiling–Featuring Filmmaker Alan Shelly

On this our last coverage from the Shnit Film Festival, we speak to Alan Shelly about making a short film with a pre-selected cast.

The Ultimate Guide to Become a Filmmaker

You will never need another guide ever again. LOL

Here's an equally excellent behind the scenes of this video.

Top Ceiling–What goes into building a TV studio

There is DIY and there is DIY!

Today on Top Ceiling we speak to Henry Fisher who build a TV studio himself.

These are before and after shots of Henry’s work.

 

 

A Timelapse for All Timelapses

You had a chance to do a timelapse, that time has lapsed…

This is a timelapse in 2015

Dubai Flow Motion from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.

Insane!

Top Ceiling - Chappie Trailer Review

This week we review the trailer for Neil Blomkamp's new Sci-fi action movie Chappie. Are you going to watch it?

What is Top Ceiling?

Top Ceiling – What Happened to Generations?

With a ‘new’ Generations TV soap announced, we took the liberty to talk about what happened to the original cast.

Top Ceiling attends the @Shnit International Short Film Festival

While attending the festival for the screening of our short film Magic Bullet, Paul & I took the camera gear along to record interviews with filmmakers and other people in the industry.

With Top Ceiling we want to go behind the scenes of the film industry and see what it’s all about.

Here we are with Jacque Maritz, Steadicam operator for Expresso Morning Show

For episode 5 we interviwed PLAYGROUND Cape Town manager, Sean Drummond who is one of the people responsible for bringing this festival to South Africa (from Switzerland).

We’ll bring more the this festival in future episodes so be sure to subscribe

Top Ceiling Episode 2 and 3

More to come!

Back on set filming Top Ceiling

We’ve all been so busy with work & school so it was exciting to finally come back to the Top Ceiling ‘set’ yesterday.

Can’t wait for the release of the next episode!

Wendy the host of the show.

 

If you haven’t watched the pilot episode:

Epic BMW DriftMob in Cape Town

And just when you’re thinking it’s fake, here’s the behind the Scenes video:

Spotted some serious camera gear too.

Epic Baby Announcement video

Yep, this is how we announced (on social media) that we’re expecting our first baby.

Go big or go home right?

Top Ceiling S1 E1 – iPhone Film of the Year Magic Bullet

Today we launched the pilot episode of Top Ceiling a web series concept. Wendy talks about Magic Bullet that won Best Film at the iPhone Film Festival.

Written by: Wendy Gumede and Humphrey Bande
Shot, directed & edited: Humphrey Bande

Editing live TV and for a live audience

Today was a special day as the country holds a national memorial service for tata Mandela. 

I was privileged to serve as part of the team running a parallel memorial at His People Church at N1 City, responsible for capturing the live TV feed from the official service and creating small highlight clips to air minutes later at our service.

Was so grateful for Yolisa who came to assist me with this. What an experience and everything worked brilliantly!

A small service to bid a legend farewell. Goodbye Madiba.

 

 

Our iPhone movie trailer

So excited that the film we shot on the iPhoone 5 using DSLR lenses is nearing release.

Check our Facebook page out here for more info.

Magic Bullet: Behind the Scenes (Day 3)

Tim our DP working with the iPhone 5 with a SLR adaptor mounted on it.

Hillary & Mellissa our awesome Make-up team

Watching footage after a stunning performance by Odelle De Wet

The legendary Sue who catered for the production

Errol framing while Sean Cameron Michael rehearses with Sandra Jorge

My homemade doorway dolly in action

Magic Bullet: Behind the Scenes (Day 2)

Photos from the second day of shooting Magic Bullet short film

Day 2 was at my place. Here we are shooting in the bathroom.

Brilliant acting by Mehboob Bawa & Sandra Jorge 

Errol and our AD Wendy in action

A 4 bank kino squeezed in the bathroom

Shooting a film with the iPhone SLR adaptor

Errol at my place testing the iPhone SLR adaptor by Phocus with my 50mm f1.4 mounted.

Yes, it is real! You can shoot shoot 1080p video with a DSLR lens. I’m super impressed and looking forward to shooting Errol’s short film with the iPhone 4 next week using this adaptor.

Photo: geeky-gadgets.com

We’re using Filmic Pro to lock exposure, white balance and focus.More on this next week.

Shooting a film  like this is going to be a South African first! Check out more  about the film here

Editing an Awesome Poem I shot on Video for a Friend

I shot Wendy’s poem onto video this week. It was a simple one light setup…well I also used a desk lamp as a catch and rim light although it barely worked.

I have a feeling that Wendy’s poem is going to hit home for a lot of people. I’m hoping to release it tomorrow.

On my side this is the first project where I’m having someone compose a song for a clip. Quite excited to see how it turns out.

Thanks to Thato for doing the sound recording.

Here’s the finished video: