New Year, New Place, Back Online.

The last few weeks have been one big heap of crazy.

Lindsey and I have moved to Tuscaloosa, AL where I'm attending the University of Alabama as a Telecommunications & Film major. We've been on a bit of a digital fast and just got our internet service connected a day or so ago. I've been busy getting my class schedule settled along with all the other fun college stuff.

Today on campus I learned that the Campus Movie Festival, the "world's largest student film festival", will be at UA in 2 weeks. I'm strongly considering taking part and am already working on ideas for a script.

I'm also open to shooting someone else's script for those of you who came here from my CMF profile. If you've got a good concept or script or are looking for someone to shoot, direct, edit, DP, or whatever, then please feel free to contact me. I'm not really sure what I'm doing at this point, just fairly certain that I want to get involved.

On another note, we finally finished up the "Paranotica" music video for Chaotic Theory before we skipped town. It took us well over a year to pull the whole thing together since the band kept changing it's lineup and requesting that we re-shoot with new members. I'm fairly satisfied with the end result, but it pains me to say that a lot what I felt was the best material ended up getting cut since it was footage from early shoots featuring people who were no longer in the band. I'll probably post some of that cut footage here at some point or work it into a new demo reel.

So here's the video:

Again, as far as the CMF goes, I'm open to just about anything so feel free to email or message me on the CMF site if you'd like to talk.

Click here for my profile.

Chaotic Theory "For The Kill" Music Video - Post Production

The music video shoot went well! We were at the Smoking Moose in Anniston and it was air conditioned which is a BIG plus. They graciously let us use their upstairs as our location. Everyone was really cool and the band are a great bunch of guys so they were really fun and easy to work with. We had a decent turnout for a crowd, enough to make it work like we wanted. Everyone was exhausted by the time we were done but we ended up with some excellent material so it was all worth it. I'm working on the footage and starting editing now and it's coming together nicely so far. Here are a few stills with a rough color touch-up.

That Video We Made for Nappy Roots...

A few months back when we were still working under the name "Finite Studios", we were approached by Jon Hay who represents multi-platinum hip hop group Nappy Roots. We ended up shooting a promo video covering their Humdinger album release show at Ear-X-Tacy in Louisville and an on-air spot on Louisville's WGZB B96.5 afterwards. We did a two camera setup for the performance, one on a floating tripod on a raised stairwell and one handheld. We also had Lindsey manning a Canon D5 Rebel there for stills, some of which appear in the video. All the guys in the group were really cool and easy going, and while it was a loooong day with a pretty rough shoot, we had a lot of fun. Check out the album, it's pretty good. You can watch the video below.

Nappy Roots - "The Humdinger" Promo from Douglas Dillingham on Vimeo.

Nappy Roots Official Site

That Music Video I Directed That Ended Up on MTV...

-----------------------------------

This is from the official website of Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records, the record label that carries Louisville's Dead Child. I shot and directed the music video for "Sweet Chariot", the first single from their debut album.

"Elect Dead Child video for Headbanger's Ball Best of 2008

You might recall Dead Child had a rather kick ass music video for track "Sweet Chariot" thanks to friend and director Douglas Dillingham. MTV2 certainly didn't forget and included the video on the list of contenders for The Headbanger's Ball Best of 2008 Countdown!

The best metal videos of the year, as voted by viewers, will be played on the last episode of Headbanger's Ball for the year airing December 20th, 2008 from 2am-3am EST. The winning videos will also be featured on Headbanger's blog.

To have Dead Child "elected" into the Headbanger's Best Videos of 2008 Countdown, follow this link, click on the word VOTE and scroll down to select Dead Child's "Sweet Chariot" video: http://www.mtv2.com/#series/10952"

I think it's pretty cool when the record label that represents Henry Rollins, Dirty Three, and L-Seven says my work kicks ass.