HDSLR enablement – helping a 15 year old rock a video contest

Posted on 13. Jan, 2011 by planetmitch

HDSLRs are enabling all sorts of things to happen – in this case, a 15 year old future filmmaker Michael Rees is using a Canon Rebel T2i/550D (reviews) to gain attention and possibly win a contest. It is quite astounding to find a 15 year old who is writing/directing/filming a 60 second commercial that has turned out quite well. (And the sound guy is 14! Ha)

the contest entry

Hello everyone, my name is Michael Rees. I am 15 years old and found a contest to make a commercial for Netflix. The commercial had to emphasize the fact that you can instantly stream movies and TV shows straight to your Netflix device. I wrote, directed, shot, and edited this short commercial in just one afternoon. My cousin Ryan, who is 14, handled sound and other various key jobs to pull this one off.

Writer/Director/Editor/DP: Michael Rees
Sound Engineer and Assistant Everything: Ryan Rees
John: Thomas Boudreaux
Wife: Rachel Rees (Ryan’s sister)

Camera: Canon Rebel T2i/550D
Lenses: 28-135, 50mm 1.4
Edited with Final Cut Studio 3
Color Correction in Color

We used three point lighting for all of the shots of the husband. And as for the grocery store footage goes…that was all rushed big time. Mainly because we didn’t have permission . No lighting was used other than just the store’s lights for that scene.

Michael would appreciate comments on the video to be posted on poptent please

Where’d a 15 year old get a pregnancy test anyway?

(Photo credit: snap from the video)