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Murder My Sweet & Petals

Paul and I went out last night and did some shooting for Murder My Sweet & Petals, two Austin bands we hold near and dear to our hearts. It was a good time and we got some great photos and footage with Paul’s Panasonic GH-1 and Lesley’s Canon 20D. Enjoy!

Paul shows off his GH-1 Paul takes photos Britani Kagan Karl Anderson and Dawn Younger-Smith Murder My Sweet & Petals Show Kerri Kerri & Ruby Paul Gandersman and Amanda Elmore check out the GH-1 petals_mms_show_0113-1 petals_mms_show_0112-1 Amanda Elmore Ruby & Kerri

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Into the Whole Concept Art

We’re working on a pretty secret, pretty badass project. Not going to go into all the details but Ben and I are doing some concept art for it. Here’s a sample – not colored, obviously.

Of the Light



Bleutuna & the Lumix

Bleutuna, thanks to Paul Gandersman, has a new camera! The Panasonic Lumix GH-1! This joker is great and actually provides a much better image than the Panasonic HVX-200 that we’ve been using for years, and most imporatantly, allows us to easily use real lenses in the process!

Thasright! No more crazy rotating glass adapters with their own batteries, making everything hard to move and pan without dealing with a ridiculous amount of shakiness!

Paul and I will be headed downtown to shoot some footage for a couple of projects we’re doing right now, one being the feature film Conflict of Interest! So note to our actors who we contacted last week – get ready, cause we’re gonna’ shoot with you pretty damn quick!

We’ll be back with some nice new footage here soon – so stay tuned!




DubLab & Ringo Deathstarr

Paul Gandersman and I went out and helped with an Austin School of Film shoot yesterday for local band Ringo Death Starr. LA based DubLab was heading up the whole thing. It was a great time.

Thanks Frosty, Bryan & Jennifer! Fun stuff!

Check out the video below. You can see my behind the camera wearing a Wilco shirt and later saying “Rolling!”




Sons of Gods: Prologue Logo




Number Seventy Four in E-Flat Poster




Director’s Reel 2009

Just finished editing my Director’s Reel for 2009. I’ll be changing this site and all that jazz soon eonugh, but I wanted to get this posted.

If you’d rather see it in all it’s 720×405 glory in QuickTime rather than on Vimeo, Just Download the Quicktime!

Q Manning Director’s Reel 2009 from Q Manning on Vimeo.




Giant Klondike Bullies Girl! News at 11!

What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?

So, there’s this contest, you see, where people create ‘commercials’ on the subject of ‘What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?’

My group and I did a couple of commercials, and one of them I’m wanting to share here, and hopefully, garner some more votes. So let’s get that out of the way first:

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO! YAY!

What did I do on this video? Well, I wrote, directed, shot, edited, color graded, sound designed and did the motion graphics work. Oh, I also sculpted/built the big, huge, stinkin Klondike bar, with the help of Lesley Sullivan and Angela Maldonado.

John Gholson does the amazing voice for the Klondike, and he initially had the concept of a ‘giant klondike bar.’ Jennifer Blair plays the lovely lady who is doing all the deeds, and Paul Gandersman plays the dumped fiance.

Lesley Sullivan and Peter Yoder produced this, which means they busted their ass making sure everything went well. Lesley made the ’skirt’ for the klondike, which looks so much like foil it blows my mind.

Angela oversaw the ADR session, giving me the CLEANEST audio I’ve ever gotten. It was amazing.

Alright. Go watch the video. And vote! OH, and if you want to see a higher quality version, just ask me. I’ve got one, I’m just keeping it on the downlow until the voting period is over :D

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO! YAY!




Number Seventy Four in E-Flat DVD Menu




I Got Clocky!