Behind the Scenes: "Eksperimentet" by Robin Jensen

Just a couple of behind the scenes-shots from a short film I gaffed in the fall. The title is Eksperimentet (The Experiment), it is directed by Robin Jensen, and shot by DoP Patrik Säfström. Go see the Norwegian documentary Jakten på Hukommelsen, which was also shot by Patrik, and being screened in Norwegian cinemas shortly.

Behind the Scenes: Unknown

Assisted gaffer (though mainly DoP) Martin Edelsteen on a music video this spring. Just got a few behind the scenes shots back from the lab. The music video was directed by Kristoffer Metcalfe as one of his final projects at the Norwegian film school, and was shot by fellow student and DoP Magnus Flåto. The band actually did not have a name at the time of shooting, and I still don't know if they do.

The video was set in a large house in Oslo where the band actually lived for a while, and featured a dead vocalist, a party with the band and a lot of dancing girls, large amounts of smoke, and a fake sun that was dollied in and out of takes. Fun. The entire thing was shot on the Silicon Imaging SI-2K.

All pictures taken during my "cross processing-phase":

Gaffer, choreographer and director reviewing a take

The band and the fake sun

Again, bandmember standing by the piano

Gaffer and camera assistant

Self-descriptive

The director relaxing between takes

Behind the Scenes: "Siste stopp" by Eilif Bremer Landsend

Had some time to snap pictures while gaffing on the short film "Siste stopp" by Eilif Bremer Landsend this summer. The film is written and directed by Eilif, with Torkel Riise Svenson doing the cinematography.

We had four days of production in Tromsø in July, shooting in a hospital, on a bus and on top of a mountain. The film is about the journey of a sick old lady, towards her final destination (English for "Siste stopp"), with distinguished actor Henny Moan playing the main character. Watch out for this one at Norwegian festivals next year.


Director and cinematographer discussing the shot


Director Eilif Bremer Landsend


Cinematographer Torkel Riise Svenson


Shooting on the bus


1st assistant camera Viktor Enoksen


Main actor Henny Moan, watching the take


Sound recordist Christian Caspersen


Checking the gate


Happy director

The Enemy Is Among Us

Photo © John-Erling Holmenes Fredriksen

I'm sitting on the roof of my house
With a shotgun and a six pack of beer
The newscaster says "the enemy is among us!"
As bombs explode on the 30 bus
Kill that middle class indecision
Now is not the time for liberal thought

So I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
So I go hunting

(Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches, Lyrics: Kele Okereke)

Our Camera Obscura

So we built a Camera Obscura today. In a burst of creativity (or boredom perhaps), co-worker Eivind and I decided to turn our office into a basic camera house. We covered all windows with black cloth, and made a small hole, AKA our iris. As we taped shut all remaining glitches in the "lens", the world outside started appearing on our floor, walls and roof. Wow.

Me holding a piece of diffusion filter in front of our "iris" to expose the outside world. (Photo ©: Eivind Vaa)

Left: Relaxing between exposures, "iris" is the bright hole in top right corner. Right: The Camera Obscura in action. (Photo ©: Eivind Vaa)

The excitement of actually making a camera and capture (well, not permanently of course) an image of our surroundings, temporarily made us forget that the invention is roughly a thousand years old. Bummer.

Inspired by the worlds largest image recently captured in California, we managed to put the image up on a quite large piece of Lee 216 White Diffusion. Next step, capturing the image. Just need to research how. I wonder why we don't do this more often.

The outside of our camera, it's definately not a compact one... (Photo ©: Eivind Vaa)