Today was day 2 of Pitstop... man am I tired! Considering I got only about 4 1/2 hours of sleep. Nikkola(the DP) called me at 5:30AM and said she was gonna be at my place in 10 minutes... I was still in bed! So I got up, threw on clothes, and jetted out the door.
Another great day of filming on the Carson stage. I had a lot of fun, again- I love working on stages. Oh, so I got a call today from Fred Goodich's TA. Fred is a professor at AFI and they are coming in for a class on Tuesday. His TA told me that they were dropping the camera off on Monday in the morning Fred and Allen Daviau are coming in. Allen Daviau is a world famous cinematographer who did a few small pictures like Amblin', E.T., Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Congo, The Astronaut's Wife, and Van Helsing. I'm excited.
I came home after the shoot, did some dishes and cleaned a bit and then got a call from my Uncle Johnny. He and my cousin Eric are coming up tomorrow and want to meet me for breakfast. They might pick up Peter, too.
PhillM tip-of-the-day:
On HMIs, you should only be concerned with flicker if you are shooting frame rates other then 24 frames per second. The electronic ballasts have a "flicker free" button on them that creates a square wave and gets rid of flicker... but then you get singing from the HMI bulb... but if you're running anything other then 24fps, you're not doing sound anyway, so it shouldn't matter.
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