I was working alot on new business at work, when I came across this Camp4Collective’s, do you think you can edit contest. After submitting fade, I was excepted into the finals and was given a hard drive with never seen before Phantom footage and 6 days to complete a unique piece. This is what I came up with.

Enjoy!

“Fade” is a short film created by Joshua VP.

Shot entirely in one week, in and around Lake Powell. There were many different technics and applications used to achieve the end result of this film. From time lapses on an S bend motorized dolly track to Contour cameras mounted under boats. We trailer 2 jet skis from Minneapolis, MN to Lake Powell, Utah. Then used the jet skis as tools to run our gear out 20 plus miles into the middle of no where. Please feel free to leave any comments or concerns about the piece.

Music:
Misanthrop – Shadow
M83 – Steve McQueen

Credits:
Direction:
Joshua VP

Editing and Color:
Joshua VP

Filming:
Joshua VP
Brian Grabski

Score:
Joshua VP

Timelapse Engineer:
Brian Grabski

Boat Driver:
Charlie Alexander

Special Thanks:

Brian Grabski – designedandmade.com
Charlie Alexander – zipadventures.com
Stephen Regenold – gearjunkie.com
Matt Adams – guerillagraphics.net
Colt Seman – coltseman.com
John Peacock – clearmpls.com
Daniel Hennesy – jumponthree.com
Micah Dahl – micahdahlfilms.com
Colle Mcvoy – collemcvoy.com

DYI timelapse dolly’s used during the filming/production of fade, view the full article at www.designedandmade.com.

Also a special thanks goes out to all my friends that gave feedback and helped on the edit. I couldn’t have done it without my close knit friends and film makers out of Minneapolis, MN.
-Joshua VP

Winter Escape

Is the direct sequel to my Summer Escape film I released 6 months ago. This film was shot and edited during the winter of 2010/2011. During the filming, three major mountain peaks were climbed, over 150,000 frames were snapped, 3 countries hiked and hundreds of hours of footage logged. It’s a combination of personal shots, client projects, and other random fun. The majority of the shots taken are with my Canon 7d/5d and a good portion of the shots were taken on a few of our custom built time lapse dolly rigs, we engineered. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions, or concerns about the film. Thank you very much for viewing and I hope you stop by and check out my work from time to time.

Joshua VP
joshuavp.com

Music Credits:
BT – Le Nocturne De Lumiere
Wedge – Phonics
501 – St. Ives
Spor – Pacifica (Chasing Shadows Remix)
Above and Beyond – Sun and Moon(Distance Remix)

Shot on location in:
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Isle, Minnesota
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Bronte, Sicily, Italy
Zafferana, Sicily, Italy
San Francisco, California
Glacier National Park, Montana
WhiteFish, Montana
Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
Theodore Roosevelt State Park, North Dakota
Forest Lake, Minnesota

Filmed at the Twin Cities Fantasy Factory private shred facility.

Filmed by Colt Seman and Joshua VP
Edited by Joshua VP
Rider Dustin Grice

Track – The Vision
Artist – Joker

Check out some Press from the shoot.

Summer Escape

Is a short film made by Joshua VP. The film was shot and edited during the summer of 2010. During the filming, four major mountain peaks were climbed, over 40,000 frames were snapped, and hundreds of hours of footage logged. It’s a combination of personal shots, client projects, and other random fun. 100% of the shots taken are from my Canon 7d and a good portion of the shots were taken on a custom built time lapse dolly we engineered. The Film was featured on countless blogs including Hackaday.com and Timescapes. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions, or concerns about the film. Thank you very much for viewing and I hope you stop by and check out my work from time to time.

Joshua VP
joshuavp.com

Music Credits:
India Sleeping – Mars
White Lies – Mr. Hudson (Rusko Remix)
Cut you Down – High Rankin
After Glow – Phaeleh

Shot on location in:
Moab, Utah
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Isle, Minnesota
Rosemount, Minnesota
Little Birch Lake, Minnesota
Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota
Vail, Colorado
Mt. of the Holy Cross, Colorado
Glacier National Park, Montana
WhiteFish, Montana

Produced at Colle + McVoy. We shot and filmed this on Mount Etna, Catania, Italy. Rumble Audio did the sound editing. Make did the slates and ending animation. Pixel Farm did the color correction. Editing by Joshua VP.

Enjoy!

Joshua VP’s Demo reel 2009 – 2010 from Joshua VP on Vimeo.

UC building celebration

Pictured above is us celebrating our accomplishments of not only getting on top of the building, but also having a good time.. Hats off to all that was involved.. The video below is the non edited final outcome of the shot.

United Crushers from Joshua VP on Vimeo.

The plan was to meet at Jackson Hole for a solid day of riding. However, upon watching the weather and the forecast, we noticed that Grand Targee was getting shelled with new snow. So that morning at 5 am we set out from Bozeman to Grand Targee to go get first chair on 2 new feet of snow. After a solid day of riding, we decided to get a cat ride to the far side of the mountain to ride some non – skied out snow. Anyways, we were given instructions by ski patroller to duck back under this “rope near the bottom.” It was snowing so damn hard that we didn’t see the rope. After carefully studying the ski map (which was done in a sweet 2d perspective by a designer) we decided to give it a shot and walk back to the parking lot (which looked relatively close). After walking for hours in 6 ft of snow(hearing random trucking noises bouncing off the mountains), we never found the parking lot and we had to face reality that we were lost without food, water, or a lighter. We did have a dead cell phone (which saved our lives) that we somehow managed to turn on, get reception and call search and rescue. Anyways, I am not going to go into too many details, however my best friend Kyle, Ken and I found a moose den(which became our den for the night). We sat there for 6 hrs, trying not to freeze in pretty much a smelly, wet ball, of snowboarder drenched frozen ness. The next morning when the sun was coming up, we decided search and rescue wasn’t coming, and we were shipping out heading west. On our way stumbling out of our location, we heard a gunshot and it happened to be search and rescue. Anyways, upon hooking up with them, getting checked out and realizing we were about to walk to our doom. We ended hiking 20 miles out to the nearest rode (we walked 25 miles in the wrong direction). So all in all, hats off to the search and rescue for saving our asses and also charging the resort.

“Brian Grabski(Designed and Made) and I have been working on a timelapse dolly that does the following (above is the prototype – full product is in the spray booth and pics will be available shortly):

1. Moves ubber slow to get solid/unique timelapse dolly shot.
2. Has the ability to be adjustable in speeds, or even used without a motor.
2. Can turn and bend and go around a curved track without binding.
3. Can house a pan and tilt mechanism for more control over the camera (basically 2 more motors, x and y).
4. Has custom compartments for the battery, intervolometer and my viewfinder.
5. Has adjustable legs to be able to shoot on hilly or uneven ground.
5. Looks cool and takes badass shots.

Here are some of the examples shot with it using a canon 7d. Please leave any questions you could have.

-Joshua VP

United Crushers from Joshua VP on Vimeo.

SIS photo shoot dolly timelapse from Joshua VP on Vimeo.

Jesse’s Cabin from Joshua VP on Vimeo.

Timelapse dolly