"The Downtown Vineyard in Grand Junction, CO is a church made up of all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds. We are deeply spiritual and yet very casual. We love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. We are fully committed to Jesus and fully dependant upon the Holy Spirit. We like music that moves the soul and strong coffee that soothes the soul. We are spiritual but not religious. We want to be a church to our community not simply another church in our community. We believe that God loves everyone and a person's physical location doesn't always have a bearing on a person's spiritual location. We believe God is engaging people in bars, just as he is engaging people in church, because God is everywhere."

Filmed by Seth Schaeffer of Hoptocopter Films

Pastor Paul Watson and Worship Pastor Tim Nutting featured in the commercial

After a long haul on this Colorado Video Production, we get to post the 2009 GEICO Commercial we did with Layne Shranz on Pikes Peak for the Internaional Hill Climb.  Take a look and let us know what you think!

GEICO powered Pikes Peak Stock Car driven by Layne Schranz heads up the mountain....just a simple "Sunday Drive." Good thing Schranz has GEICO Insurance. Produced pro-bono to help promote the world renouned Pikes Peak International Hill Climb by Chris Nazarenus, Triple Nickel Films (http://www.triplenickelfilms.com) and Seth Schaeffer, Hoptocopter Films (http://www.hoptocopter.com). This short form YouTube film (30 second spot) highlights the 156 turns, asphalt to dirt, 3000 foot drops, a 5000 foot elevation change - in less than 12 minutes on one of the most demanding courses known to man - Pikes Peak. This short form viral film was shot completely on the Canon 5D. GEICO NASCAR driver, Max Papis, was the Official Pace Car driver for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb in this YouTube video. Custom music score: Seth Schaeffer.

We finally posted the iPhone 4 video we titled "156 Turns."  It was a blast to shoot and we've posted it to YouTube here.

We used OWLE bubos which allowed us to use lenses.  We shot the whole thing on iPhones 4s.  We had some crazy mounting gear from RAM Mounts (www.gpscity.com) to mount for the onboard stuff.

Here are some pictures... more to come.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel featured our upcoming iPhone 4 film today in the paper.  Take a look at the article here.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/filmmaker_to_shoot_entirely_wi/

We've now officially tried out the iPhone 4 in preparations for the Pikes Peak shoot.  There were many hurdles we thought we may need to overcome, but most questions have now been answered...

Activation

You don't HAVE to activate your phone to use it as a camera.  We just plugged them in and then cancelled before it activated it.  We can now use many phones without activation so that for the sake of this film, we'll still have phones for communication while we're filming.

File Transfer

I had major concerns about transferring footage from one iTunes account.  I thought it may cause problems... so I didn't try it.  I used a program called Phone View.  It rocks and works like a dream.  It transfers footage seamlessly with as many phones as we need to transfer from.

Stability / Shot Quality - Owle (www.wantowle.com)

Once we got the phones activated, another concern was a phone's stability.  Then we got converted... we're now permanent Owle fans.  We got 4 Owle Bubos form the guys over at Owle and let me tell you they rock.

Not only are they solid and a perfect balance of weight, they have a wide angle lens, a macro lens, a hot shoe to put mics or lights, a 37mm lens adapter, a port for audio in, a port for the transfer cable, tripod friendly mounting, and I'm sure a bit more that I missed at first glance.  The best part about Owle... they're fairly priced.  Other units that lack about 90% of what Owle's built are 3 times as much.  They're finally a production-focused company that gives quality at a fair price.  Thanks guys!

Testing the Owle Bubo late at night before our shoot the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with Ducati

Tomorrow

We're taking our first test runs and getting preliminary footage and tests tomorrow.  Practice runs and Fan Fest are on Friday.  Saturday the crew shows up and we debrief them on the pros / cons and tips that we've found we'll need... Again another HUGE thanks to the guys at Owle on iPhone filming insight.

I'll keep you all posted.  Stay tuned for the iPhone 4 video we'll posting sometime late Sunday night.