Tim Buttner - Multi-Media Expert

Tim is a Multi-Media Expert with skills that span various forms of media. Tim began writing screenplays before he was twelve, completing his first feature-length screenplay at sixteen. He began filming in high school and at seventeen gained experience interning at Edgewood Studios on the set of Zombie Town. Tim continued to study film at Drexel University, establishing himself in the Stereoscopic 3D revolution after attending workshops in New York City with Florian Maier on Stereoscopic Film Production. After graduating from Drexel's Film & Video Program with a Bachelor of Science, and with a Screenwriting & Playwriting Minor, Tim worked for Digital Revolution Studios under Craig Tanner and further worked in stereoscopic 3D. While at Drexel Tim co-founded a company (One Forest Films) with high school friends and for several years helped build the company as CTO, and Chief Web Designer. Tim has been a contributing writer for MarketSaw, and as well selected as a Beta Tester for Blackmagic Design on the URSA Mini 4.6K camera.

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Tim was also a contributing writer to MarketSaw, a 3D blog. Check it out: www.marketsaw.com

Filmography

—Favorite Quotes—

"Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle." — Robert Bresson

"'Nobody's perfect' is the line that most sums up my work. There is no comedy, no drama about perfect people." — Billy Wilder

"Structure depends on strategy: strategy is determined according to events." — Cao Cao, from Sun Tzu's The Art of War

"I shall hang my 'lecturing' on the same peg with my other failures and follies. It must be a long peg and a strong peg to hold them all." — George Perkins Marsh

"Will the science of the human heart, around which all contemporary art is based, exhaust so completely the writer's powers of imagination that in future the only novels that are written will be chronicles of various events?" — Giovanni Verga

"Train easy, fight hard… and die.
Train hard, fight easy… and win." — Unknown

—Personal Quotes—

"Movies are not watched. They are an encounter with a life's experience not your own."

"I'm well trained in the art of turning shit to gold."

"'My favorite movies are the ones inside my head."

"Wolf Bite" (Official Visualizer) by Owl City

Music and Lyrics: Owl City

Composer: Adam Young

Genre: Pop

Director: Andrew William Ralph

Producers: Adam Young & Andrew William Ralph

Associate Producer: Tim Buttner

Cinematographer: Tim Buttner

Editor: Andrew William Ralph

Colorist: Tim Buttner

Animation: Andrew William Ralph

VFX: Tim Buttner

Shot on location in New York, NY

Shot on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition Camera

Color Graded Using DaVinci Resolve

Equipment provided by Tim Butt 2 Productions

Owl City

There's nothing quite like the world of Owl City. The ever-expanding creative domain of singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young instantly welcomes all with its sunny harmonies, lush electronics, and lithe melodies. The creative architect of this place rode a veritable wave of inspiration in early 2014, rolling back to shore with his most expansive…

You can learn more about Owl City at www.owlcitymusic.com