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Normally we would not have made a horror film but when we saw the Knoxville Horror Festival had only a $7 entry fee we couldn't resist. Jason Lee, Michael Abbott and myself collaborated to come up with a story that would be a different take on the horror genre. What if the hero doesn't care about the monster?

Our film was mentioned in the metropulse article about the 24 Hour Film Festival.

Jason Lee, Tom Currie and I produced this short for the Knoxville Films 24 Hour Film Festival. Our requirements were a dictionary, a landlord and the line of dialogue "try to be incognito when you meet them." We had a great time making the movie. Jupiter Entertainment won best film at the festival but since they sponsored the first place prize they chose to let us have the 2-day camera lighting and audio package rental.

Here is the second high school football game I have shot this season.  We use a four camera setup and air the game live to WBIR as well as Comcast Sports South.

On the 19th I will have my first day shooting Smokies Baseball games for the rest of the season.  It sounds like it will be a fun part time job that will leave me open to work on other projects.

MRB Productions out of California hired me to work on a promotional film for ESPN’s ESPY awards starring Peyton Manning.  We used the large studio at HP Video in Knoxville.  I mostly worked with the art department on building sets as well as preparing props and costumes.  The shoot went really well.  It was great to work with a huge crew on a project like this.  The short film will be played during the ESPY awards on July 14^th.

I just received my Canon XHA1 high def camcorder. I spent most
of the day learning to use all the features and functions I had read about while I waited on it to get here.  I have had my eye on this camera for a while and I can’t wait to start working with it.

Photography For Foothills Land Conservancy

Elise Eustace took me on a few photography expeditions for Foothills Land Conservancy. She will be using the photos for several purposes. Some of the pictures will be used in an article for Tennessee Conversationist Magazine that Elise wrote. Some of the images are going to be printed on banners to be displayed at an upcoming fund raising event. One of the photos was already used in a Mast General Store ad. Tennessee Conversationist required exclusive rights to the images they used so now that they have been selected I can share the rest of the set.

I worked on this music video for Whitechapel with David Brodsky a few weeks ago.  He just finished editing the trailer.  It looks like it will turn out great!

I was mentioned in the Foothills Land Conservancy newsletter.

Macville Productions asked me to work on a music video for the band Seeing Skies.  This was my first opportunity to work with a RED ONE camera.  Matthew and Kelly Rogers run Macville Productions.  In addition to the camera they have a whole truck full of grip equipment.  This project also gave me the chance to learn about working with a dolly and track.  The footage looked great, I can�t wait to see the finished video.

Last week i had the opportunity to shoot an episode of 11 O'Clock Rock at Knoxivi promoting the release of Jaystorm Project's new music video by Michael Samstag and Packdog Productions.  The next night i was called back to document the video release party.

Today I worked on shooting a music video for Whitechapel with director David Brodsky. The shoot went great, I learned a lot of new things, met some new people, and had a great time.

Took an incredible tour of Hartman Farm doing photography for Foothills Land Conservancy.

I volunteered to shoot the Grits-N-Gravy Film Festival in Oak Ridge.  It was a great opportunity for me to meet members of the local film community and to see some films i would have never seen anywhere else.

After several years of serious photography I have a tremendous amount of images and most of them unfortunately wait unedited.  The benefit is that now I can delve into those old images whenever I want and bring out the gems.  I have recently added these photos from as early as 2006 and as late as last year. 

The latest show I have been transcribing for Northsouth Productions is Say Yes to the Dress.  The show is in its fourth season and can be seen on TLC.

I am always trying to find new ways to get my videos seen.  Today I started posting to Break.com and Funny or Die.

Ijams Nature Center purchased a couple of my images for use in their 100th anniversary celebration.

The outdoor collection contains, landscapes, wildlife, and sports. Click here to check it out.

Northsouth Productions also has me working on a show about avalanche cleanup and plow drivers in Utah.  Transcribing this show is especially interesting because it was shot in Cottonwood Canyon a place I got to visit in the summer of 2008.  These images will link to more photos from that trip.

We decided to make an impromptu trip to New York for new years.  We just got back last night with hundreds of pictures to sort through.  I will be posting them as soon as I can. -Mark

In November I was hired to do more transcribing for Northsouth Productions.  This time i am working on a show about auctions.  Auctions! tells the stories of buyers, sellers and auctioneers in the Canton Ohio area.  The footage is mostly interviews with and without blue screen backgrounds.  Transcribing this show has given me the opportunity to learn more about conducting and recording a good interview.  I have not only been studying the camera work but also the types of questions that need to be asked and how to get editable responses from the subject.  This experience will help me with my own projects as well as work with future clients.

-Mark
 

Story: Caitlin Rockett
Photos: Mark Lewis

We worked together to create the text and photos for this article.

This month marks the 144th anniversary of the battle of Fort Dickerson in Knoxville, Tennessee. Fort Dickerson's annual Living History Weekend was held Nov. 9-Nov. 11. It allowed Knoxvillians to remember their heritage through a weekend of Civil War reenactments.
Fort Dickerson was designed by Capt. Orlando M. Poe, chief engineer of the Army of the Ohio, and built by the Federal Army during the winter of 1863 to protect Knoxville

Photography: Mark Lewis
Photography done for Resource Advisory Services web site and print materials.