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Julius Ise: Fstoppers

THE BLACK LIGHT WARRIORS – BEHIND THE SCENE – FSTOPPERS CONTEST from Julius Ise on Vimeo.

Following on from James and Edmund’s blog for the BTS competition with Fstoppers were we contacted by another finalist who thought that you’d like to see their video also. Please watch Julius Ise’s video with a few words of wisdom from the man himself.

My name is Julius Ise and I‘m a professional photographer from Germany. Since there is a possibility to do great filming with DSLRs, my team and I are also doing video productions for clients and, of course, for ourselves.

One product we bring to every video shoot is the Glidetrack Shooter SD. We use the 0.75-meter version which gives us great opportunities for camera movement and is also easy for transportation.

This time we did a behind-the-scene video of one of my photo shoots. Because of the shootings theme, we were using UV spotlights instead of normal flashes or hot light. The models were styled and painted with special fluorescent colours. In order to take these pictures, the whole studio had to be dark.

In the pitch dark studio, where we couldn’t even see our feet, our only possibility for some camera movement was the Glidetrack Shooter SD mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with the Manfrotto

501 head. With this video we entered the fstoppers.com behind the scene video contest and are now one of the twelve finalists.

Congratulations to our $750 Glidetrack voucher competition prize draw winner Karen Bennison, and to Andrew Winchell for his film Devastated. Voted for by you as the top Glidetrack featured video!
Andrew has been kind enough to provide a few words for us in response to the good news:

“I’m so excited and honored to have won the Glidetrack contest! I’ve owned a Glidetrack Shooter for over a year now and it has changed the way I shoot. Moving the camera in a smooth and controlled way is a powerful storytelling tool. In my film Devastated, the Glidetrack slider allowed me to give a sense of depth to an otherwise static image. I believe this was very helpful in engaging viewers in feeling the utter destruction and human tragedy that was a result of the tornado.

Thanks to everyone who voted. I enjoyed seeing the other top 20 videos – there were definitely some great ones in the line-up. With over 4,000 films on Vimeo that have made use of Glidetrack sliders, that is a strong testament to the quality of the products and their usefulness in filmmaking. Thanks so much to the Glidetrack team for hosting this contest. I will continue to use my slider in the future to further the quality and storytelling in my future films. You can stay up with my work here: www.vimeo.com/awvideo”.

We had an overwhelming response to the competition, and the vote count was very close to find the top three from our short list, and again voting was incredibly close in the final heat.
If you missed it you can check out Andrew’s winning short film right here.

Here we have it folks, the final three as voted for by you.

Voting continues from today to find the best of these 3 videos, so get clicking!

The first finalist we have is:

Milk | Shaper by Dolly

The second finalist is

Devastated by Andrew Winchell

And the third finalist

The Little Things by John Kitchin

Voting ends 7 August 2011.

We are proud to announce that we’ve reached 4000+ videos tagged on Vimeo!

We want to celebrate this fantastic achievement by giving you all the chance to win $750 worth of Glidetrack kit.

All you have to do is vote for your favourite video made using a Glidetrack and you’re entered into the prize draw.

Voting has closed for the weekend while we collate the results to find out the top 3 videos. On Monday you’ll find out the results, and voting will continue to find the best. Again every vote, if you haven’t done so, will be an entry into our prize draw!

Full rules, terms and conditions and other official stuff can be found here.

Here is the short-list of our twenty favourites

1. Into the Highlands – Dave Mattham

2. Adrift – Paul Joy & Peter Naylor

3. Devastated – F-5 Tornado in Pleasant Grove, Alabama – Andrew Winchell

4. AWFILMS | Team ISO | Import Alliance 2011

5. New Zealand from Chris Benny

6. Girona from Stefan Werc

7.The Quality of Light from Jesse Tarnoff

8.Pass Her By – Short Film from Ben Vallack

9. Wood from Martin Steimann

10. Riverton Wyoming Skate Park from Matt Wright

11. Satellite of Love from Benjamin Buettner

12. Time Passes from Square Daisy

13. Life in Haiti from Leclerc Brothers Motion Pictures

14. Primavera from Metron

15. Implant Dental Surgery – Harley St, London from FX Films

16. Milk | shaper from dolly

17. the little things from john kitchin

18. Open.your.eyes from Camille Marotte

19. All Saint’s Day in Sweden from Christopher Bennison

20. When Giants Sleep – “CRANE” from Adam Rook

There is quite a variety of astonishing footage for you to check out and voting for just one favourite will be difficult. We hope you enjoy, now get voting!