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30. PROFESSIONal
1 year ago
Metal-fabricator Neil Youngberg never planned on taking over his grandfather's business and is now faced with passing on his legacy.
In this short-form profile, VitaBrevisFilms interviews Neil Youngberg for the beginning exploration of our "Professional" series. Shot on location in Neil's metal fabrication shop, the 3rd generation craftsman gives a sincere overview of his life's work, dispensing hard-worn wisdom while illuminating the sobering realities of the role private business plays in an ever changing economic landscape. A deeply personal project for all involved, this on-going series seeks to shed-light on forgotten trades and practices in an evolving America.
Music:
Caspian: For protection
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Destined for great things
Bon Iver: Beach Baby
Direction: Skylar Nielsen
Cinematography: Ian Rigby, Lance Clayton
Title design: Michael Hall
VitaBrevisFilms.com
*UPDATE: Its official...PROFESSIONal won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary short at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival....
Thank you Slamdance!!!
In this short-form profile, VitaBrevisFilms interviews Neil Youngberg for the beginning exploration of our "Professional" series. Shot on location in Neil's metal fabrication shop, the 3rd generation craftsman gives a sincere overview of his life's work, dispensing hard-worn wisdom while illuminating the sobering realities of the role private business plays in an ever changing economic landscape. A deeply personal project for all involved, this on-going series seeks to shed-light on forgotten trades and practices in an evolving America.
Music:
Caspian: For protection
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Destined for great things
Bon Iver: Beach Baby
Direction: Skylar Nielsen
Cinematography: Ian Rigby, Lance Clayton
Title design: Michael Hall
VitaBrevisFilms.com
*UPDATE: Its official...PROFESSIONal won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary short at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival....
Thank you Slamdance!!!
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Crazy enough though we didn't do any grade or post process to the footage at all It was just a great location with beautiful available light. Skylar just knew the perfect time of day to capture it at it's best..
Thanks again
What a compliment!
Thank you....
going to check out your channel right now!
you brought it alive by reminding us that it is a person doing this work. It invokes sentiment of loneliness, uncertainty of the future, pride, and that which can pertain to a human life that is often over-looked. THANK YOU for sharing.
great video btw
From a humanity standpoint, very powerful and straight to the heart. It makes you want to take a trip to meet this gentleman, and that is what proper storytelling is all about.
I hope these types of works are just the beginning, because you are very, very good at them. This is what our art is all about.
Thanks for all your kind words!
Interestingly enough, the director Skylar and I had looked at the footage and decided that the footage was perfect as shot. No post processing or grade was done at all!! We just had great light and a great location!!
I Think we will do more of these soon.. It's just finding other great subjects now..
Thanks again Jason
If you don't mind me asking as well, what's the name of the closing track at the end of the video?
Thanks and keep it up!
I could easily watch another two hours of this.
Excellent!
Wow! thanks for the incredible comment!
This really is an impressive work, each time I watch it it's still just beautiful. Bravo.
Thank you for watching.. We hope to do more works like this soon..
Thanks again for the kind words
Thanks allot!
Thank you for watching and the compliments!
Incredible!!
Thank's
The camera was a Red with a Mysterium-X sensor..
thank you for watching and the nice comment!
It was Bon Iver.. Beach Baby
Neil truely had some great words of wisdom.. It was incredible to be able to see him work and hear his story..
Thanks again, and we would love to see this on your site for sure!
Great colors. Amazing little details that make it really sing.
But at the end of the day. i just loved it. Thanks.
Thanks guys! we are honored to be featured on your site!
Carlos Canhisares.
What incredible compliments!!
Thank you for taking your time to watch the film and for all of your kind words!
PrashanthVFX.com
The sound was recorded via boom pole and shotgun mic.
Thanks.
MaTt
Thanks for watching the film!
We appreciate your compliments!
It's a shame that they've closed almost all the vocational(ie useful) courses around here(Bay Area). I wish there wasn't such a stigma in learning a trade in America.
It sparked some ideas about how we take the chaos and noise of our surroundings and break it up into meaningful segments. We regard most of the world as noise and disregard about 90% of our world as such. As filmmakers, we reduce and segment events further, until we arrive at what is essential. Filmmaking is essentially about event segmentation. This film made me realise that this concept applied as much to shooting as editing. Thanks. (The 1080p is stunning too. It makes me wonder again what the point of 3D is.)
Read more here:
bradbell.tv/2010/11/event-segmentation-and-film/
Thanks for a s great video.
backbonemetals.com/blog
Fantastic story telling, and held my attention the hole ride.
We lucked out with some incredible light in the shop...
Wish all locations looked that great..
Thanks again!