Last Saturday was a pretty intense day.  I had a two hour long edit session very early in the morning from 8-10 and then I drove off to Blue Mountain Resort in Collingwood to do few videos for some restuarants.  I got there at 1 but the shoot didn’t start until 2:30 p.m.  

We wrapped up at 5 p.m. and then I drove back to Mississauga for pre-wedding event called Mehndi (part of south asian wedding).  It was a fun shoot, lots of colors, something that I have been exposed to all my life.

I will be posting previews from it on our blog soon

In May, I was part of an exciting recruitment video that was filmed at Toronto offices of Hydro One. My role on this production was of a cinematographer and assistant director. It’s always fun to see something that you shot edited by other than yourself.

Below is the video. Enjoy it.

A lot of times we waste our money on books and dvds to learn new softwares or techniques. Believe me, I am one of them. However, what I have come to realize that whatever kind of tutorial you are seeking, it’s on YouTube.

You want training on photoshop, illustrator or editing software or camera, believe me it’s all on YouTube. So don’t waste your money like me. YouTube it and 95% of the time you will find what you are looking for.

All of you who are still asking me for the brevis35 that I put up on sale a while ago, well it has been sold.

Thanks for inquiries.

IPhone is out here in Canada. But I haven’t gotten it and probably won’t until I get a good non contract deal or other companies into the market. Not to mention, lot of people went through problems this past weekend when Apple servers crashed.

Rogers cheapest data plan of $30 for 6 gig data plan and my existing plan of $70 that includes 700 minutes and unlimited incoming along with voicemail and text messages is more than enough. I love the idea of having IPhone but not yet. Not yet:)

On Monday night, I saw back to back shows of ‘Wanted’ & ‘Wall E’. No I didn’t use one ticket but used two cineplex odeon passes I had thanks to spending money on my mastercard.

‘Wanted’ is one heck of a exciting film with a good story line and humour. I enjoyed it very much. My only beef with the film was that in some ways it promoted the idea of guns being cool and if you are not a assassin you are no one. For adults that premise doesn’t bring much harm but youngsters these days, that’s way too much. I was thinking about that during the film and felt upset but then after the film, I looked behind me and found a 11 year old with their parents. Now what’s that??? Kids are bad these days but parents are getting worse. What’s the point of bringing them to such film. Yikes.

As for ‘Wall E’, it is by far the best animated film ever made and definitely one of the best films ever made. It has such a heart just like other Pixar films but a brilliant story and a thought provoking message. Not to mention lots of humor. So check it out with your kids or nephews or nieces or whoever. The film is for everyone.

Just like how people love going out to different events and sight seeing and are much busy than in winter months, production business is similar in that nature.

This summer has been insanely busy as it comes in mix bags of live events, corporate coverage, documentaries and much more. Currently, I am behind editing 3 weddings which are due in a week and also have several shoots coming up in the next 2 months. Lastly, I am also finally getting the ball rolling on a short film/music video I am producing.

I will keep you all posted. For now, I gotta get ready to run some errands and prepare for few meetings in the afternoon

There are dozens of consumer and prosumer video cameras out there within the vicinity of $1000.  All have their ups and downs.  However, none of them come close to Canon HV20.  Not only it’s cheap (retail value $800) but also shoots HD 1080i at 24F.  Now that’s wicked.  I recently used HV30 (one model up) but still HV20 has better features and boy it looks like a pro camera.  I loved it so much that I just bought a used one and can’t wait to get it.

To add on, the beauty of this camera is that you can mount on 35mm adapter and make it work almost like XH A1 and other high end cameras which cost 4 times as much. I sure will be putting up footage from the camera when I get it in a week’s time. Take a peak below

Back on February 1st, Sky Blue Productions (my production company) filmed set of Recruitment videos for one of the leading construction companies in Canada, Kenaidan Constructions. I still remember that day to be the first of the many major snow storms that hit us during this past winter. The crew call was at 8 and myself and Michael (second cameraman) drove through 2 hours of driving that was originally not more than 13 minutes.

We got there on time and started filming at 9 a.m. We were to film 9 set of interviews with b-roll footage. Originally scheduled to be an 8 hour shoot, it turned out to be 5.5 hour shoot and the result was satisfying. I was the primary cameraman as well as director and editor on these videos.

Although we filmed 9 different videos, Kenaidan Constructions which just went live with a new website have only put up two so far. Check them out here.

It is long weekend here in Canada with July 1st being Canada Day.   I was busy Friday doing some editing, attending an Annual Relgious convention and some filming.  And then on Saturday it was a long day at a wedding that was held at Markham and Bloomington.  Nevertheless, it was fun and entertaining to experience a Chinese wedding.

Today was Day 3 of the Annual Convention which Mississauga News and many other news outlets covered and I was there for most of the day.