its like a day in hell or something from a warzone - something I hope I never experience first hand. My thoughts are with those involved in this terrible fate.

Well put together and a chilling sound track - very fitting for the circumstance.

Dam that looked like a war zone

Great work!

awesomeawesomeawesome

Awesome shots and editing. You have a great career ahead of you.

this is amazing. thanks for sharing.

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Very moving... it is one thing to hear and see a sound bite on the evening news... this however is entirely different... I could almost smell the acrid smoke. Excellent.

very sad....this video should be on tv news

Very well done

Whoa... I felt like I was there, you really felt the tragedy. Much more impactful than anything I have seen on the news. Excellent work.

Crazy sight, i use to live there. We moved less then a year ago and now we heard our old house is gone. Pretty intense.

Great vid by the way. Nice Music

Just amazing. Incredible what a fire out of control can do.

Nice camera work. I was suprised how destroyed it actually was. This is not what was showed on tv. This looks like a war zone.

Wow thanks everyone for the awesome feedback!

So terrible. And what a lovely place to live. The worst part is losing family pictures. That stuff can't be replaced.

Wow! Looked like a scene from the PS3 game "Call of Duty 4"! Amazing footage. I feel sorry for the people who lost their homes.

I live right next to where this fire was, awesome edit, you really captured and communicated the hopelessness that people felt and the real power of the fire.

That was incredibly powerful. The music made it very intense.

So sad about all the fires in California. My moms house almost burned down last year in San Diego. All the neighbors homes were destroyed.

That footage is chilling to watch. As people have mentioned, it looks like a warzone.

The music made it all that more immersive. Could someone tell me the name of the song by any chance?

I haven't seen or heard much about the fires in California, but this really brings you back to earth with a bump. I only hope aid can come to the people as soon as possible.

Very nice pictures!
Can you tell me whats the name of the song? And what artist?
Thank you!

fuck, thank goodness they finally have it contained, i was at SMHS watching their play when i first saw it

yeah i live in ventura county. great shots

Great work, Patrick. Except for the heat that is exactly what it was like. Oh, and the smell. Fires stink.

Really brings it into prespective at 1:07 when you can see how small the power lines are compared to the flames.

fantastic footage!

Unbelievable video, you really captured the horrific scene that it was there, great job

added to my channel, The BVV

Amazing footage!

well done.

Upsetting to see the devastation, but well-captured nonetheless.

Hey Patrick! Just moved from Ventura to Texas. I miss the ocean... oh well. Great vid for a great tragedy... there seems to be more and more fires around the area lately. I remember coming out and having ash all over my truck... anyway, cool stuff...

great shoot
i am french firefighter and when i see this video i m saad for the peoples who lost remembres

Excellent documentation of horrible circumstances you've put together a superb film

No need for special effects there! Nice shots and editing!

Bravo Patrick! Must be real hard to edit all this material without colapsing. Muy buen trabajo

Beautiful and scary at the same time.

Excellent video work!

excellent thoughtfully work

Better than anything produced for TV, that's for sure.

That's amazing and haunting. Thanks for sharing it with me.

wow it was so scary, but you captured it perfectly

My name's Sam. I lived at 407 Conejo Rd. just down a few houses from the address shown at the beginning of the video. Our house was solid wood, on stilts, and we had no renter's insurance. I discovered the fire while on SBCC campus so unfortunately I didn't have the time to make my way to the house to see if anything could be pulled out. My room mate got out my laptop. That's all.

You did do an AMAZING job of capturing what I came across when we finally got to see our place Monday morning. Police let us up early in the morning before most of the work crews crowded the area. Your footage is the most vivid I've seen yet.

Also, I graduated from Westmont, also hit hard by the fire. I got on campus to see the extent of the damage, which was more than I expected. If you wish to see photos from there, go to westmont's main web page, there's a link. Or befriend Joel Phillips on facebook--he got the during and after shots on campus. Very moving stuff.

This footage must be on medias , you can feel the heat and despair.And the nasty face of nature.

I was just north of this and upwind, so I guess I got the long stick. However, I still sympathize with all of the victims, especially with the high winds and the hot weather.

You did very well mate, love the video

The power of nature is unbelievable the movement of air and fire on the ground is just beyond words. What this doze to the lives of the people it leaves behind it’s wake.

Wow, excellent video and editing, it demonstrates the power of nature! and its elements wrath!

Wow. Fantastic compilation but sad to see. I hear that the doc from Back to the Future lost his house in it. Now, if only he could go back in time.....

great great work. thank you for this.

being that I spent the last 4 years in college there, it blows my mind how bad that fire was. Thank you for the eternal memory.

this is just amazing..like a movie except this is real.great music. my heart goes out to those that lost their homes.

amazing!

i think it's ridiculous that the fire is primarily known for its destruction of celebrity's homes, which was rather minimal. the majority of the fire was within santa barbara city, not the more wealthy, celebrity homes of montecito.

the only reason the media mentions celebrity losses is because the public can put a face on the destruction, a face that doesn't represent the other 209 homes that housed whole families and histories.

good job on that. God, that was scary that night. I wasnt close enough to be evacuated but man, everyone in SB was effected a lil. Good edit.

two thumbs up !!!!.......love the opening scenes , hit the mark big time , great soundtrack too.....well done mate!!!

Could I suggest that, if you haven't already, you watch the film Koyanisquatsi? The camera work is very like yours, except in K they linger over the images for 20 - 30 seconds, sometimes a minute or two. The effect can be breathtaking, and provocative. Watching the evening news, one sees much the same quickly edited shots of hillsides in flames as in your film. But one never sees the flames as they continue to lick up the hillside, destroying as they go, new trees bursting into flames, the ones behind now smoldering. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the close up view.

A h u c h!

Powerful.......networks can learn a thing or 2 from your "coverage" ...very cool....

Very nice. love the music

amazing footage, although very painful to watch. i cant imagine what everyone over there is going through

Awesome footage of a tragic event. I live about hour north from where this happened. This is something nobody should ever have to go through.

everyone has said it. Peace.

BTW - what cropping did you use?

Wow....

Great courage to shoot this breaking news. Wish there would be voice narration to go with this remarkable video. --News junkie

astonishing footage, and love the M83, you are like those storm chasers...

I live in rattlesnake canyon, and the fire burnt up to my backyard but not my house thankfully. On the night of the fire after watching my canyon glow from flames and smoke, I still didn't get the eerie feeling and sensation of devastation like I did watching this! The footage and music go SO well together, it opened my eyes to the how dramatic the fire really was!

AWESOME WELL DONE!!!!!!

Great Work!

Unreal and haunting!

very impressive work. Glad to see another TA putting out quality footage.

I understand why people want to move there--I use to live near there myself, and I still have family near there. However...
theonion.com/content/video/californians_gather_to_celebrate

As I watched the opening scene I couldn't help but feel like I was playing "GEARS OF WAR" on XBOX. I really felt like a battered warzone.

excellent editing - and intense coverage - well done..

how were you able to secure the music licensing from M83? I love their music but have found it impossible to get in touch with them...

cheers!

Powerful stuff there. Excellent work.

Hi there,
Let me just start off by saying that you a really did a marvelous work; the scoring, shooting and editing was great.

But the thought really bothered me- how someone could shoot such a calamity and fashion it to a form of entertainment; like your work right here.

While everyone is praising at how nice the video is, we often forget how a lot of lives were destroyed in that tragic event. It's like getting coverage of a dying person and making it a music video. idk... I just think that some things just aren't meant to be captured on cam.

But again, great work. congrats.

Pawlo

This is amazing, depressing, beautiful, sad, captivating, devastating, breath taking shocking, intriguing, you walked between the legs of the beast to deliver a shocking glimpse into hell ....thanks for sharing. My heart goes out to all who have walked in this torment!

Yes, this is a very moving video. Thank you.

A coworker of mine lost her home while she was away in Australia. No one was home at the time but she lost all of her belongings.

She is dealing with the insurance now and my coworkers and I are holding a fundraiser breakfast for her on Tuesday.

Very thought provoking soundtrack that truly captured the firestorm. that was so well filmed and edited. Great journalistic coverage.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those that lost their homes. I am so very thankful no one lost their lives in this fire.

Great doc video. Takes a lot of balls to get that close to the action. Kudos to you.

Very nice pictures!

I found this very sad, fire is do destructive. You captured what happened so well.

beautiful!!! the fire in the woods...amazing. the music is really good too. thanks

literally, this video makes me feel the heat

An ethareal atmosphere!
It strongly reminded me of Baraka and the music scored by Michael Stearns.. M83 suits seamlessly to this video!

In certain places I noticed that you edited the rhythm of the editing synching with the rhythm of the music... adds up good momentum to the horrible event happening in front of the camera.. beautifully shot! What camera did you use? Is this the HVX200 M2 Redrock adaptor?

Nice shots and good postproduction... I just hope, that you don't get too much of such horrible material with such a great picture in your life ;)