photo 09 Apr 2008 07:25 am
Wisconsin Film Festival
This year I got the honor of being the Wisconsin Film Festival’s official documentarian. It was a great opportunity, a lot of fun, and a lot of work. Hauling a tripod and a few bags of gear up and down State Street a half dozen times a day gets a little grueling. It was challenging to me to shoot the same type of thing over and over again and make it interesting each time. I got some shots that I’m really proud of, and a lot of shots that I think are a good record of what went on and what the energy of the event was like. I have close to 3000 to sort through. Editing is a big job here.
One shot that I was asked to try was a time lapse of the gorgeous Orphuem Theater filling up. We picked a movie that had sold a ton of tickets. I set up my camera with a very wide lens at the front of the house hooked up to a laptop running the Canon EOS Utility software, which will take a picture every X seconds for you. I took a picture every 5 seconds while the theater went from about 4 people to nearly 1300. They were still letting people in when I took it down so the show could get started.
In the next week or two I’ll be editing the photos, delivering them to the festival organizers, and posting a few on Flickr and here. Here are two that I put up on dane101.com last week. The first is the Orphuem and the second is the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s lecture hall, where movies were playing during the festival.
