Filmmakers say hello to Pro Video Rental

On the Wave Productions has launched ProVideoRental "PVR"
PVR provides all the latest as well as vintage gear for all your Video and Audio needs. From DSLR's to Panasonic 3700 to Sony CineAlta 35mm Cams, PL & EF L Glass,  support gear, Grip, Gaff, mixers, PA's Vintage Mics, PRE's and a ton more. We're confident we have what you need or can get it if we don't. And we go the extra mile!
Well how's that you ask?

Nicole

Well if you don't know how to use it we have crew ready to help out. We'll even provide training to your personnel on any of the gear to get your production up and running fast. Just ask our experienced filmmakers Nicole or Julie for assistance and they'll make it happen !

From Step vans to 40ft trucks we stand ready to assist you today!

OTW acquiring new gear from it's sponsors enabling Filmmakers

SONY F3 CineAlta Cam

Teradek sends Video to Monitors and iPad

Well I believe our film work speaks for itself this year! We've worked on Indies, Feature films, Documentaries and they all have that multi-million dollar look & Feel along with a high production value thanks to the innovation in cameras and support gear that has revolutionized our industry the last 2 years.

From automated dollies, portable cranes, sliders, 35mm rigs from run 'n gun to the big Stereo rigs from 3Ality we definitely had our most productive year ever. Just wanted to thank ZEISS, KESSLER, ANTON BAUER, ARRI, LITEPANELS, ZACUTO, Paramount Pictures, SONY Pictures, Mandalay and all our sponsors for putting their faith and believing in what we could produce with their gear! We've made $100,000.00 films look like 4-5 million dollar productions and 5-7 million dollar films look like epic blockbuster 50M films ! If you want expertise and the best in film for your budget minded productions you can trust the expertise at On the Wave Productions! We're not just your normal production crew, we are Directors, DP's and most important innovators ourselves and  experts at using the newest gear available.

Our relationships with our sponsors such as Zeiss, Canon, Sony, Kessler and many more speak loud and clear. This is why they put their trust in our abilities for feedback to improve the products that they bring to market.We pioneered HDSLR film making alongside incredible people in our industry such as Vincent Laforet, Phillip Bloom, Shane Hurlbut, Robert Primes, Nancy Schreiber, Steve and Jens from Zacuto, Eric Kessler and more. Now we're integrating even more with ARRI ALEXA's, SONY CineAlta Cameras and Panasonic AF100's so you get the best fit for your budget!

Spider Dollie with Remote Head

4:4:4 UNCOMPRESSED Recorder

So checkout some of the new gear on it's way to OTW and some that has already arrived!

SPIDER DOLLIE

SeaMusic Recording Studio Busy Busy...

The load-in with Claire,Conor and the Jones Dog workin it!

Well we've been keeping Producer/Engineer Steve Miles busy as can be. Steve's spent the last 3 months producing on a new CD for up and coming artist Conor Patrick. Cello, Slide Guitar, Pedal Steel, Hammond B3 with Leslies ! It's going to be one tasteful CD in the genre of Country-Folk Crossover, very cool tunes.

Travis Tighe

Also up is Travis Tighe and this kid can really sing and slams on guitar & Keyboard too! Heading to college next year he's creating a great demo and we'll post some video of Travis laying it down in the studio soon!

Joel Jamison

 Our veteran of music is none other than Joel Jamison multi talented Singer, Songwriter, Keyboard & Guitar player and and DRUMMER! Joel just finished his new CD here at the studio!

'Bernie' screening benefits Bastrop fire relief

Richard Linklater

WILDFIRE destroyed over 1550 homes in town of Bastrop, Texas where BERNIE was filmed and where Director Richard Linklater is a part-time resident. Richard lost his home and some additional structures during the fire.


We spent a good amount of time there working on Bernie and met so many of the residents of that area who were so accomodating and opened there doors to all of us everywhere we went! Some of the locals also starred in the film!

Jack Black

Richard Linklater & Ginger Sledge along with Jack Black put on a Benefit screening last week in Austin for Bernie that raised over $175,000.00!!

For more details please checkout these video links:
Richard Linklater Interview
Jack & Richard at Theater

Is Indie filmmaking becoming a dying art ?

ARTICLE FROM SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

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Canadian supermodel and actress Noot Seear stars in Burial.

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Santa Barbara Filmmaker Premieres Burial at UCSB

The Pollock Theater Hosts Screening and Afterparty for Karl Ford’s New Film

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

By D.J. Palladino

Lately, indie filmmaking is starting to seem like a dying art. If the recession has been tough on traditional investments like real estate and banks, it’s completely deserted the onetime vibrant circles of up-and-coming cinematic auteurs.
Next Friday, though, a big preview of a little film called Burial might help buck this trend. Karl Ford, who attended UCSB as a film studies student—and got some serious real-world training working at Montecito Picture Company over the course of the last decade—is the man behind Burial. And its screening, which takes place this Saturday in UCSB’s Pollock Theater, is sure to incite some chatter. In true indie fashion, Burial was made against financial odds, with unorthodox financing from bartering art works (Ford’s also a painter) in exchange for professional cinematographer and lighting gurus, and thanks to the aid of countless friends. “The biggest help came from reconnecting with Noot,” Ford said, referring to Canadian supermodel and actress Noot Seear, who he met in his movie biz days, (she plays Heidi in The Twilight Saga: New Moon). At the time, Seear had been complaining about the dearth of meaty roles available to her. “She asked me what I was doing, and I told her about this crazy idea for a script I had. She asked how long it would take me to write it, and I said two weeks. And she said, ‘You’re full of shit.’ So I did it, and I showed it to her, and she loved it.” Turned out her manager loved it, too. With the star power added, Ford found a number of fence-sitters willing to take the leap.

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Noot Seear and director Karl Ford on location filming Burial.

They filmed fast, guerilla-style at times, though much of the 20-minute film was shot on nearby ranches. They took advantage of some surprising new digital camera technology, like the Sony F3 camera,which allowed them to use all available lenses and to shoot with astonishing available light. “It saved us a lot of money, and [the images are] beautiful,” said Ford. CORRECTION HERE:We shot the entire film on CANON's 5D Mark II and 7D's with ZEISS and CANON Lenses and NOT on the new SONY F3 !
He was also able to exploit other willing connections, from UCSB hookups, who were willing to furnish the new Pollock Theater for the free lavish premiere, to Montecito Picture Company friends like Ford’s former boss and mentor, producer Joe Medjuck, who gave him advice and timely pushes toward his path of bliss, demystifying the filmmaking process. Ford thinks of Burial as a character-driven experiment, while others consider it an edgy indie action film. Meanwhile, investors have expressed interest in funding its expansion to feature-length. “People are actually talking about investing in films again. Wouldn’t that be great?”

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Karl Ford’s Burial premieres at UCSB’s Pollock Theater this Saturday, July 30, at 8 p.m. The film will be followed by a Q&A and celebration. Admission is free. Call (310) 617-2575 or visit burialfilm.com for more info.

Cinematographers 3D Mastering at Sony Pictures

On the set Bruce Dobrin and Rich checking out the 3ALITY rig with 2 Sony 1500R's

Mike deGruy and myself were fortunate enough to be invited by Sony Pictures to a Masters class in 3D film making taught by Buzz Hayes and Bruce Dobrin. It was quite the experience and after 2 full days we walked away with the ability to add another dimension to our productions. Convergence, divergence, interaxial, orthostereo, stereography and more 3D terminology became a part of our film vocabulary and understanding. I'll be headed back to SPE to delve into the 3D realm again and can hardly wait!

Premieres galore for On the Wave - HIFI projects this Month!

Well June is going to be a busy month of watching PREMIERES for all of use here at HQ. BERNIE will be kicking off the Los Angeles Film Festival JUNE 16th ! Both Jack Black & Shirley Maclaine will be there and of course Michael and I will be there too!



Also on June 15th "The Great Camera Shootout" will premiere as well.

Zacuto’s & Kessler's Emmy award winning series, The Great Camera Shootout 2010, is back with a brand new breed of cameras, a fresh set of challenges and plenty of new episodes. The Great Camera Shootout 2011 is a documentary about the Single Chip Camera Evaluation (SCCE) which is a large scale technical camera comparison administered by Robert Primes, ASC.  The documentary was designed to educate and broaden the understanding of the elements that create image quality. 

Eric Kessler recruited Harry to Direct and DP the 2nd unit shots all on Kessler gear, Cranes, Sliders and more for this award winning series. Mike Braniger was Gaffer and Stephen Posner was my AC! See it here THE GREAT CAMERA SHOOTOUT II.

Also coming up in late July the long awaited Premiere of Karl Ford's "BURIAL." We'll have some footage up soon of this action packed drama!

The Director is now on the 6th rev of this film noire project and I can tell you it looks FANTASTIC. It was an interesting project to have 2 DP's but Orlando and I were in complete harmony and it paid off visually. We used all CANON DSLRs for the entire shoot ! Pushing the technology to it's limits with the help of Canon and Zeiss and Kessler! I had fun Directing 2nd unit as well and NOOT did all of her own stunts!!
 

Harry & Michael head to New Mexico for "As Cool As I Am."

Well we're off and running again to work on a Wind Dancer feature film "As Cool As I am" starring Claire Danes and James Marsden. This time we're packing the new Panasonic AF100's with CANON lenses. More from New Mexico next week.

Excerpt from the WRAP !

James Marsden and Claire Danes will star in "As Cool as I Am," an independent film that will shoot in New Mexico this month, TheWrap has confirmed.
Writer-director Max Mayer, who directed Danes's husband, Hugh Dancy, in "Adam," is directing the movie, which is based on Pete Fromm's coming-of-age novel.
"As Cool as I Am" is the story of Lucy Diamond, the teen daughter of self-centered parents who married when they were teens. Marsden and Danes play the parents. The role of Lucy has not yet been cast.
Anthony Mastromauro, of Identity Films and Judd Payne and Matt Williams, of Wind Dancer Productions, are producing. Virginia Korus Spragg wrote the script.
Marsden and Danes are repped by WME.

Burial nearing completion in Post. Behind the Scenes look!

Here's some shots from BTS!  I had a great time sharing the role of DP with Orlando and doing a couple of scenes as 2nd unit Director with Nicole.  It may have been low budget but it was 1st rate and more fun! You could literally envision great results as they were being shot! That's better than most features I've worked on!  Hey Noot TAKE 11 !! Actually that was a rare occasion! The fewest takes as a whole I've ever seen on any movie! Here's a magazine article that just came out on Noot & Burial from FOAM Magazine...click here!




Well Karl Ford has been working day and night to finish up Post on "Burial" starring Noot Seear. Hmmm
I'm setting up the Kessler CineSlider here with some OTW mods added to it! "You mean I have to climb up the ladder with the slider too!"  "Where's my AC!?$#%$@!"






Working with a second  DP is unusual and could have been a challenge but Orlando was incredible and we got into a rhythym that really moved the setups and shooting along quite well.Orlando with Steadicam, Karl, Stephen and Harry on the set ready to go on an ice cold rainy day.





Director Karl Ford pointing to the car, oh yeah it's time to head up to Buellton after a full days shoot to start the late night "watch the sun rise shoot." Well we better hit "In & OUT" on the way up, hey isn't that Airica and Allison & Nicole in line, great minds think alike. Well that was one incredibly long cold night, freezing! Hey that looks like dawn, right I think we actually got home at 6AM!

Harry vs. M16

John don't point that M16 at me...now's the time I'd rather be using my Zacuto EVF ( ok a shameless plug but I really had the thought cross my mind!) rather than perfectly lined up looking straight down the barrel of that M16 at a bullet with my DSLRs name on it!!

John pointing right at me!

To say I wasn't a bit hesitant about shooting that shooter about to take a shot, er uh make that automatic gunfire at about 15 rounds in the blink of an eye, well what do you think...hmmm BURIAL catchy name...

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FINALLY A CLEAR EXPLANATION OF WHAT WENT WRONG ON THE DEEPWATER HORIZON

Please checkout this link to Democracy Now and listen to a crystal clear explanation of what caused the failure at the Macondo Well, Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Click HERE