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UPDATE 01/29/09: The new version is online with a great voiceover, by Spunky. Check it out at:
vimeo.com/3010024

I shot and edited this in one day, just me, in about five hours total start-to-finish. I plan on shooting a short film with a few people I work with in February, so this is basically a site survey. It was very cold and the lake in Ashland, Massachusetts has almost 12 inches of ice on it. We are looking for a desolate, cold, stark outdoor location for a horror film that is in pre-production.

I just got my Nikon 16mm f2.8 manual fisheye lens from a guy on eBay.

I used my Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM with the Letus Extreme. I used a Vinten tripod and only shot through the 16mm Nikon fisheye lens.

The lens works great. It is super wide and does not have real crazy barrel distortion. It is fairly sharp, edge to edge, but I need to do more with it to know for sure.

I again went nuts with Magic Bullet Looks to create the sunset. The colors you see were done entirely in post.

I used three different audio transitions in this short film. One is a slowed-down hawk for the first dissolve, the second is the gun shot and the third is the "Lost flashback sound" to transition to the dead guy in the snow.

The boot-in-snow sound was recorded at my home, just outside my door with the Zoom handy solid-state stereo audio recorder.