Kosmonavt - Music Video
- Creative Director
- Commercial DP
- Documentary DP
Joseph M.
Auckland, New Zealand
$300 - $2000 / Day
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Joseph Michael embodies a magical balance between fine artistry and forward-thinking technical knowledge. With a passion for the philosophical at his core, Michael seeks out the rare and sublime in the natural world and represents it with dynamic vision and cutting-edge technology. He has worked with revolutionary motion control techniques on Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”, built 3D time-lapse rigs and created 360-degree cinema experiences, always pushing the boundaries of the technology available to him. Michael's work has been featured on 60 Minutes and National Geographic. His luminosity series has been shared by hundreds of thousands of people and issued as a limited edition stamp series by New Zealand post. Michael’s current project is an encompassing international installation which celebrates the profound, untouched beauty of Antarctica.
Top Services
- Creative Director
- Documentary DP
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Top Projects
Watch This Guy Transform Huge Buildings Into Icebergs
- Creative Director
- Documentary DP
Antarctica - While you were sleeping
New Zealand artist Joseph Michael creates a cinematic collision of nature and architecture. In this video a 1:1 scale iceberg was projected onto the entire exterior of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (8,800 m2 surface area) using 360 degree projection mapping.
- Creative Director
Shooting stars
A short Behind the scenes clip, capturing some time-lapse elements for the "Flying South" film, a timeless and emotive journey that follows three generations of one New Zealand family as they journey across the spectacular South Island of New Zealand.
- Commercial DP
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
CARNIVOROUS GLOWWORMS TURN CAVES INTO STUNNING STARSCAPES
GO SPELUNKING IN some of New Zealand's limestone caves and you can leave your headlamp behind. Thousands of Arachnocampa luminosa, or New Zealand glowworms cling to the walls and ceiling, casting an eerie, soft light. These worms, endemic to New Zealand, fill natural caves and abandoned mines. Photographer Joseph Michael hiked into four of them.
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
Voice of the iceberg
Artist Joseph Michael and a team of eight film-makers head to Antarctica on a yacht, to record the sights and sounds of icebergs
- Creative Director
Equipment
Camera
- 4K Camera
- Drone Camera
- DSLR Camera
Camera
Camera
Audio
- Directional Microphone
- Lavalier Microphone
Audio
Audio
Miscellaneous
- External Recorder
- Slider
- Stabilizer
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
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Production Support
- Commercial DP
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Audio Storyteller
- Production Assistant
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Drone Operator
- Reporter / Journalist
- Documentary DP
Production Support
Production Support
Post Production
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Video Editor - Commercial
Post Production
Post Production
Miscellaneous
- Creative Director
- Fixer
- Production Company
- Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous