Martin Beek DOP / Cinematographer at Marvels Film Production

2011 has been an exciting year in many ways. I’ve been involved in a few interesting projects, met interesting new people and took on a few very interesting new jobs. Regretfully, 2011 was not a very prosperous year income-wise, but i survived…

I had to procrastinate and shift time from my beloved feature film project “Littekens” to more profitable activity – read: paid work! I was really hoping to get that feature on my planning in 2011 and finish the script (as a start), alas…  the script is still not finished and i heartily hope this will be the case before Q1 2012. It’d be a real shame to put that project on hold, because i won a script competition (organized by the Dutch Film Festival) with it’s synopsis earlier this year! You can follow it’s progress on facebook.com/littekens or twitter.com/littekensfilm .

I was “forced” to make a new investment in camera equipment, for several reasons. First, because i need a cinema camera to complete the Littekens project, second because i need to limit my tax assessment, third because I’ve had enough of DSLR and video cameras that shoot RGB. I want to be able to shoot raw (or Redcode). I’ve made the decision on nov. 7th to order the Red Scarlet-X package. I could have bought a car instead, but cars don’t have a Canon AI mount… (yet).

I know that this website is not very exciting yet, but after it has been hacked at the beginning of this month, i have been trying to put the pieces together again from old backups and the incredible Google Cache. I hope to deliver some good content in the coming few months.

I wish you all a very prosperous and happy 2012, may all your dreams come true…

Martin.