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Film one: why the desk

Why this channel exists, filmed in one take at the desk it is named after.

Enova Studio

1 min read

An antique wooden desk with a quill pen and old papers
“A Woodworkers Dream Desk” by Coffey Custom Builds on YouTube, licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Video: “A Woodworkers Dream Desk” by Coffey Custom Builds on YouTube, licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Four minutes explaining what The Desk is for: short films about the parts of the work that do not photograph well, made at other people’s benches and at my own.

What is in it

  1. 00:15 What this is not going to be.
  2. 01:10 The three rules.
  3. 02:30 Why one a month, and sometimes less.
  4. 03:30 The desk itself, briefly.

Made with

  • One camera, one take
  • A 35mm lens
  • The desk

Fourteen films later the rules have not changed, which either means they were right or that I am stubborn.

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