AXP Anders Øvergaard

DSLR Actionfilm

Anders Øvergaard — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:59:19 +0000

After using my Canon 550D/Rebel t2i for shooting different project the past months, I decided that I wanted to make an actionfilm to test it even more. I bought a new lens for my camera: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, and a field sound recorder: Zoom ZOH4NK H4n and a boompole so I could record much better sound and get closer to the object with my shotgun microphone.

We filmed everything during one day with a Canon 7D and my Canon EOS 550D on homemade shoulder-rigs, and used only natural light (the sun and the existing lamps on location). I used Final Cut Pro to edit the film and Color to colorcorrect. I added blood bursts, muzzle flashes, gun-shells and so on in After effects.

I hope you enjoy the film! Don’t forget to turn up the volume a bit and watch it in HD =)

New actionfilm next week!

Anders Øvergaard — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:02:26 +0000

I’m currently working on a new short actionfilm to test my new soundequipment, new DSLR camera and some digital effects. I have just finished the first rough cut, and a music composer is creating music these days. We filmed the whole thing during one day shooting with one Canon 7D and my Canon EOS 550D, both on homebuilt shoulderrigs. I also used my new ZOOM H4n Handy Soundrecorder and Roede Boompole.

I will upload the actionfilm during the next week, so stay tuned! I will first add it to my Youtube account at youtube.com/Andyax. So if you want to be the first to see it, you can subscribe =)

“Kontakt” shown in Poland

Anders Øvergaard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:34:36 +0000

At 24th of June “Kontakt” was screened at Festiwal “Strefa: Norwegia” in Poland. The festival focuses on showing Norwegian drama-works, such as plays from theater and films. Well known films such as “Kautokeino opprøret” and “En folkefiende” were screened, but also student films such as my film “Kontakt” (”Contact”). This is the fourth time “Kontakt” has been screened at a filmfestival.

To visit Festiwal “Strefa: Norwegia”s website, click here

Press the image to see the description of “Kontakt” in the festivals brochure.

Hello, I’m back!

Anders Øvergaard — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:57:12 +0000

Three months have passed since my last update here on axp.no, and some of you guys have probably been wondering why I haven’t uploaded any new projects? Have I been to lazy to update anything, or could it be that I have been to busy working with a new big project, like a big budget film? Could that be it? Fortunately yes! For the last three months I have been working on my new upcoming feature film that will have a premiere at the cinema in Norway in 2011. The working title is “Kehilan comes home”, and it’s a feel-good film about girls and horses (take a look at “My time has come”).

The first weeks we worked a lot with making the script ready, and we had several auditions to find actors. Then we gathered a crew and prepared for a two week long shooting in Brønnøysund, north of Norway.

I’m directing the film, and have been working closely with nine other people in the crew. The DOP, production sound mixer, makeup artists, key grip, script writer and producer are all professionals and incredible talented. I’m so privileged to be able to work with them, and they are truly giving everything to make this film as good as possible. The actors are also really talented, and that makes my job so much easier.

Obviously I can’t tell to much about this project, since it has not yet been released. But I have uploaded some pictures from the set, that I hope you enjoy.

Thanks for dropping by, despite of my lack of updates. Don’t hesitate to come back, because I will definitely release more news regarding my feature film, and other projects! (:

Broadcast yourself!

Anders Øvergaard — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:26:40 +0000

For me, uploading and sharing videos on the Internet started with Youtube. I was so exciting to be able to show people my work and get feedback from viewers all around the world. I uploaded my first video three yeas ago, and today I have a total upload of 41 videos. Throughout all these years, I have received a huge bunch of e-mails and messages from people that have seen my work and telling me that I have to continue making films. This has motivated me a lot to make more and to write more about my newest projects on the Internet.

It all started with some short and funny videos I made in front of the webcamera three years ago. Then later, I uploaded shorts, trailers, tv-commercials I made and also tests of new video-equipment i bought. I realized that people on Youtube were quite interested in watching test-videos of video equipment, and after some months over 10 000 people had watched one of the test-videos I made with my new camcorder “Canon XH A1″. I got new subscribers every day, and I thought I had to start thinking twice before I uploaded a new video to not disappoint my subscribers.

Some years later I created this homepage, and found out that I would upload tests, trailers and hobby-films on my Youtube channel and more serious work on this site. Today I have more than 580 subscribers on Youtube (that’s maybe not to much, but for me it’s a BIG number), and it’s still growing by five more people every day! It’s very cool to see that people like my work, and want to subscribe. Maybe you are one of them? If so, you can visit my Youtube channel at youtube.com/Andyax and get updated on all of my new videos.

This video under are one of my typical Youtube videos. Here I test my new Canon EOS 550D with my little sister:

My time has come!

Anders Øvergaard — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:44:04 +0000

When I meet new people and tell them that I’m a film director, they always ask me what kind of feature films I have made. Unfortunately I have to disappoint them and tell them that I have only made shorts, commercials and series. It’s strange, but it seems like every single person that doesn’t work with film, thinks it’s normal for a film director to make feature films. In most cases, this is wrong. It takes a lot of courage and patience to make a full length feature film, and you need to get the right contacts and enough money for a project like that.

However, I can say for sure, that it’s every film directors (actually also every young boys) dream to make a feature film for the cinema. You get the opportunity to make your own full length film, with a big crew and a big budget and you also get the opportunity to show your film for thousands of people. Most likely your feature film will be released on DVD’s, and what isn’t better then to see your own movie in the shelter of a DVD-store, next to The Lord of the Rings and Avatar II? This may actually happen to me.

A while ago, a producer sent me an e-mail about a feature film she had written a script for. She wasn’t a hundred percent sure that this feature film project would be realized (because of too little money and time), but she thought it may be possible. And to my big surprise, she asked me if I wanted to direct it! First I didn’t believe my own eyes, but then I realized she was serious. She also sent me a treatment for the film, and I read that the story was about girls and horses. “Hehe, that’s not my type of film at all”, I thought to myself. However, this didn’t matter because I was just so privileged to get this opportunity. The genre could be anything, I would still make it! Except porn-film (I guess…)

Today everything is going very well with the project. We are soon finished with the first draft of the script, before sending it to different film funds. We are also doing some auditions to find actors, and we are gathering a crew for the shooting. Soon I’m going to Brønnøysund in the north of Norway to check out some wonderful locations and to find the horses I want to use. I have heard it’s a mess to direct animals, so we will see how that goes. It will be a tough job to direct both horses and girls in my first feature film ever, but if you don’t dare, you don’t win! =)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy

Flashback on “Fortapt” (2006)

Anders Øvergaard — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:12 +0000

Yesterday I started to clean up all the files on my old Imac, and after looking through some of them, I found several episodes of a TV-series I made in 2006-2007. I was still studying at High School when I first had the idea of a TV-series about some teenagers that got enlisted in to the military. I got some inspiration from a war film called “Tears of the sun”, and I knew at this point, that this was the kind of film I wanted to make. Luckily enough, I got this opportunity during High School, when we had a project that lasted one month. Even though I knew to little about how long this TV-series would take to create, I started writing a script. I thought that if this project would last longer than the month I had to do the project at school, I would even do it. If I first started a big film project, I wouldn’t give up before it was completely done!

After one year and two months, my TV-series, “Fortapt” (”Doomed/Lost”), was finished. It consisted of four episodes with a total lenght of two hours. I had used 12 000kr (2000$) in budget, and over 40 friends and family were involved in this project. Most of them were actors, but some were also helping with scenery, sound-recording, music and assistant camera. “Fortapt” had a successful premiere at the local cinema in October 2007, were over 100 people came to watch.

For more information about “Fortapt”, click here (Norwegian page)

Unexpected feedback on test film

Anders Øvergaard — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:07:45 +0000

Two years ago, I received my SgPro adapter (35mm adapter), for my camcorder. With this equipment, I could use different camera lenses on my camcorder, to achieve the typical “Film look” on my videos. Some days after I received this adapter, I went to my cabin in Valdres with family, and here I wanted to make a test film with the adapter. However, I didn’t just want to make some simple shots with it; I wanted to make some kind of a short film, so I could see how it might look like if I made a film with it. I didn’t care about how good the short film would be, since it just was a test of the equipment, so I simply made a script one night. The day after, we started to shoot the test (short film). I used my uncle, my sister, my father and my cousins as actors. We used three days to shoot the film, using only the XH A1 with the SgPro adapter (with Pentax 50mm f1.7 lens), the shotgun mic (Sony ECM-674) I had attached to my camcorder, a homemade shoulder rig and a follow focus. I pulled the focus myself, recorded the sound from the shotgun mic on my camcorder, and used no external light what so ever.

Then, after some weeks, I came home and edited the short. I uploaded it to vimeo.com, to show people this test (short film) I had made with my equipment. Suddenly, for my big surprise, a huge bunch of people started to comment on this video after a couple of days. They wrote that it was the best short they had ever seen! The comments just poured in, and people started to comment the short as if it was a well planned short film, instead of commenting the equipment I hade tested. As mentioned, it was a big surprise for me, but I was also very happy to see that people liked my work.

Here are some of the comments:

Chris Fallon: I have no idea what they are saying yet everything still makes sense. Everything about this is wonderful. Editing, sound, music, and especially the grading. 10/10!!!!!

Me7sin: Don’t dare do anything else with your life. If you could do that in a hurry I’m eager to see what you can do with a real production

Shannon Solis: Good stuff, Some of the best I’ve seen. Your cinematography was pretty impressive, I’d think twice about letting someone shoot your next film…

Adam K.: damn, you’re so talented. This shot is really impressive.. Everything looks so pro..

Adam Cooper: this is the end to boring norwegian films, excellent job

Press “read more” to read some more comments and to see the short film!

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“Kontakt” won price at filmfestival

Anders Øvergaard — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:49:38 +0000

”Kontakt” was awarded a golden frame and won the price for the best amateur film on “Amatørfilmfestivalen” in Norway. Over 30 films were sent to this filmfestival which was held 6-7 nov. This is the first time “Kontakt” has won a price, and I’m very pleased to get this award. It’s really motivating to see that people like my work. I want to thank all my friends that came to the festival to see my film and participate in the ceremony were I was given the trophy.

“All for Norway” was awarded a bronze frame on this festival, and was also shown for the audience.

Komplett.no TV-commercial

Anders Øvergaard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:43:36 +0000

I’m currently participating in a contest for a netshop called Komplett (komplett.no). They are the leading netshop company in Norway, selling electronic devices over the internet. The contest is based on making the best TV-commercial for Komplett. There were no restrictions to the content of the video, but it couldn’t last more then 45 seconds.

I shot the TV-commercial with Canon XH A1 and SgPro. I didn’t have any film-lights, so I just used some working-lamps I found in my garage.

I want to thank the lovely café “HIMMEL-blaa” at Vettre, and the manager of the café Lindy Skjellestad Wettre for borrowing your barn, and for your delicious cakes!