The Gift of Winter Featurette

In an effort to make more content available, I created a downloadable version of a featurette I cut together from video that Roger Roy shot while we were making The Gift of Winter back in the Fall of 2003. It is a short four minute long piece that gives you the spirit, and shows you some of the people that were involved in putting together the ambitious period short for our video class.

The Gift of Winter was shot on a Panasonic DVX-100A, a camera that shoots video in 24P giving things that "film" look, despite that it is being shot on miniDV. I'm very happy that I finally had some time to put this thing on the web, since there are many people who've never see The Gift of Winter, its still one of my favorites in my own work, just because it was so fun to shoot.

The featurette gives you some insight on our rather ambitious set, and the painting Nikolai Getman, a former Gulag prisoner that inspired the look we chose for the production design. Nikolai Getman died August 29, 2004 in Orel, Russia.