Over the next few months, you’ll see EricHansen.tv going through some (hopefully) exciting design changes. Expect to see an increase in content covering a much broader range than before. The main goal of the site is Production Education, but it will also follow more closely what I’m doing right now with more regular (and shorter) […]
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Yesterday we were under deadline. We had to get some Blu-Rays of a 5min promo piece into FedEx by 4:45pm for Saturday delivery, for one of our biggest clients. Failure was not an option. We had to make some editing changes, swap some shots, color correct, audio mix, and author a Blu-Ray in one day. […]
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Day 4 was our second day at Camp Pendleton. We started the day at one of the training areas for urban combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. For this commercial, we wanted to simulate what a typical training day is like for a Marine. So we made heavy use of the in-helmet POV camera we built […]
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Day 3 was our first day at Camp Pendleton, a sprawling base used exclusively by the Marine Corps outside of Carlsbad, CA. One of the Marines joked with me that Pendleton is basically a wildlife preserve with some barracks on it. He said that there’s certain places they can’t go during certain times of year […]
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From the producers of That’s It, That’s All comes a new breed of snowboarding entertainment exceeding all expectations: The Art of FLIGHT follows Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Müller, Gigi Rüf, DCP and Pat Moore as they dream up new global adventures and progress the sport to unimaginable levels. Brain Farm has […]
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Military Rider – produced by One Eyed Bird, in conjunction with Brain Farm Digital Cinema A few years ago I worked on a project called Semper Ride, a motorcycle safety film for the Marines. The number one killer of off-duty Marines is sport bikes, so we created a short video and a series of PSAs […]
Read MoreSometimes having choices sucks. My brother and his wife are looking to step up to digital SLRs and they asked for my advice. I told them about a few different cameras to look at, and some lenses to think about now and down the road. They were quickly overwhelmed by the options and of course, […]
Read MoreI’ve written in other posts that I don’t like to concentrate on vaporware like the RED Scarlet. But I think rumors can be fun and give an interesting glimpse towards the possible future. Even if the products never appear, it’s cool to see what some companies are thinking. There’s a post on CanonRumors.com about Canon’s […]
Read More“Hey Eric, I’m buying a 7D. What other equipment should I get? What lenses? What’s the best tripod? How do I record audio?” That’s a pretty regular set of questions I get. It’s the main reason I started the Current Recommendations page. I then counter with “Why are you buying a 7D?” and I get […]
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I’ve delivered tapes to many broadcasters and producers including NBC, National Geographic, Red Bull, etc. Their requirements are pretty similar, so it’s fairly easy to just use a generic template for all your tape prints. This is one I’ve been using for awhile. I will eventually add more templates for different uses, but this is […]
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