about the project

Our project with the Museum of Vancouver started very unexpectedly, with our team receiving our client/interviewee only days. We had little time to prepare. However, on the day of the shoot everything came together. We very quickly realized that of all the different topics and stories we were trying to convey, there was truly only one story, one unique experience, one unique perspective that we really had to share with our audience. It was the story connecting Corey Bulpitt, his life, his work, and his ancestry with his unique urban experience as a Haida person living in Vancouver.

Shooting & Cinematography

As the lead cinematographer and editor for this project, I was faced with unique challenges of filming beautiful imagery in a tight artist studio with strong sunlight and in the deep dark vaults of the Museum of Vancouver. On both locations, artificial lighting was crucial to capturing the location as the human eye would see it. However we let the natural lighting of the location shine in our wide angle shots to enhance the interview elements within our film.

At Corey's studio, beyond the interview, we used a variety of extreme closeups to capture the detail, the experienced precision, of his work as he creates the mask. This type of shot is used again within the museum to capture the work of the Haida Masters, to show the intricate details of the treasures hidden in the stores of the MOV.

Post Production

Our realization of the core story early on and with the help of the transcriptions provided by our team, allowed us to quickly refine and focus our edit down to be very concise. From there, the challeng of crafting our visual story out of over 200GB of raw footage, was a straightforward one.