In: Video Projects
23 Nov 2009On the 11th of november I went back to the Netherlands for 6 days to be at the Northern filmfestival (NFF) in The Netherlands, Leeuwarden. Thanks to a teacher from my faculty in The Netherlands I was able to enter a workshop ‘Making Documentaries’ given by two famous Dutch documentary makers Pieter Verhoeff and John [...]
In this blog I would like to share two songs from ‘Letting Go’. I made other versions after I finished the script and never used those. After we started shooting I was able to compose more ‘visually’ then before. The first video is the song Iyi Yolculuklar. I wrote it for the film under a [...]
In: Video Projects
14 Oct 2009In this blog I want to share a few stills from ‘Letting Go’. In the next blog I will be putting two songs I composed and conducted for the film as well, but I won’t be able to do this tonight. I hope you like the still frames from the film. I think it will [...]
In: Video Projects
13 Oct 2009So, as I’ve written earlier, my short film ‘Letting Go’ has been nominated on the Noordelijk amateur Film Festival in the student catagory. You can find some more information about it on the website of the Noordelijk amateur Film Festival (click here). On the page ‘dagprogramma’ you can find the time table of all the catagories [...]
In: Internship 'Check The Gate'|Photography Projects|Video Projects
13 Oct 2009The last few days were pretty interesting. Did some video editing and photography editing to begin with and apart from that yesterday was an interesting day as well especially. I went with a photography scout all over Lisbon to look for interesting places for one of our films. We took pictures from various locations – [...]
A few days ago I learned that my short film ‘Letting Go’ has been nominated in the ‘Noordelijk amateur Film Festival’ (NaFF) in the student catagory in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. It will play on the 14th of november 2009 and the film will compete with several other films from the same catagory. During the day lunch [...]
In: erasmus|ESN|General|Inspirational|Journeys|Video Projects
24 Sep 2009Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) was born on the 27th of october in 1466. He was a was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian (and much, much more..). And he was way ahead of his time when it came to opinions about war, women rights and for example Christianity. [...]
Yesterday I rediscovered a few videos I made years ago. In this blog post I’ve added the introduction of a film I made about a journey in Croatia in 2004 with a close friend of mine. Allthough the voice-over is hardly hearable because I had no real microphone at the time. Nonethelless, I was surprised [...]
In: Video Projects
1 Jul 2009Sunday 21st of june was the day we shot my short film ‘Letting Go’. The day started out with rain so we decided to enjoy a coffee at a cafe where we ran through the script and got to know each other a little better. Currently I’m putting the whole thing together in Final Cut [...]
In: Video Projects
5 Jun 2009So, as promissed hereby the English version of the script for the short film Letting Go. Recently I found several actors and I now have a chance of doing it in English or in Dutch. More updates including various photo’s at the locations soon. SCRIPT ‘LETTING GO’ Jaap Ruurd Feitsma M = Man W [...]