The Company Man

Here are some pictures of how the film, The Company Man, will look. Rob Hauer took these reference pictures during filming!, so the colors are probably going to change a bit, but you get the idea. I am very excited though, because we are probably going to get an optical film print of it! Yay









































If you want to see behind the scenes pictures, click: here.

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
Remember, drama is one of the hardest genres to do effectively in the short format because it takes time to develop characters the audience can sympathize with as well as create a story with enough dramatic tension to hold the audience's interest and allow the characters to go through a dramatic change.

Funny Story About Sissy Spacek

Ok, so Joe and I go out last night to a spur-of-the-moment wrap party with the crew of the short film, The Company Man, we just shot with Rob Hauer over the weekend. Rob has been dating this girl named Schuyler(pronounced Skyler) Fisk who plays guitar and sings and she has been playing shows ever Monday at a little venue not too far from our house called Hotel Cafe. So we wrapped on Sunday and figured it would be fun to meet up with the crew there and go see her play to support Rob and everything.


So a few people come over to our place early and we make dinner and then head out. It's only about a 10 minute walk so we all get there around 9:00 or so and we are waiting for the rest of our friends to show up when Schuyler's mom comes out and talks to the door man. She sees Rob and they talk for a little bit, it was funny because she reminded me of Sissy Spacek. Anyway, Rob comes back after Schuyler's mom goes back inside and I ask if that was her mom and he says, "Yes." I make a joke; something like, "Oh, you mean Sissy Spacek over there? Hahaha, her name doesn't happen to be Carrie does it? Hahaha" Rob laughs a little.

So the rest of our group shows up and we get in and Schuyler's mom comes back out as we are getting tickets and she says, "Rob, you're on the list." and so Rob shows us in... but he introduces me and Joe to Schuyler's mom while everyone else gets their tickets.

He turns to her and says, "This is my gaffer, Phill. Phill, this is Sissy." And I thought, haha- how funny because she looks like Sissy Spacek and I made that joke earlier and her name happens to be Sissy and... ooooh.

It was Sissy Spacek.

Turns out that Schuyler also stared in that movie called Orange County with Tom Hank's son...yeah, she was the girlfriend.

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
I find that a good, simple eye light ir a 650w Tweenie with all the wire(scrims) in it bounced into a 4x4 or 2x2 piece of beadboard. Try it.

Updates...

I am in the Kodak magazine!

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2008/heartArgos.jhtml

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
216 looks great on Kinos. I'm still not a big fan of them, but they are nice with a heavy diffusion on them.

Dolly Moves!

Joe, this is for you!



PhillM tip-of-the-day:
Remember, wheels save your back.

Check Out My Work...

You can see some of my work with Rob Hauer on his website f you watch his reel. Look for the 3 piece in his reel, it is a movie called Stereopsis which we went to New York this summer to film.

http://robhauer.com/feature%20reel.html

And you can watch the Sundance accepted short film Aquarium that I worked with Rob on here.

And here is the movie Keys that Joe and I did up in SF with our friend Chris Babers: Keys Trailer

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And check it out, we just got into a bunch of festivals, so let me know if there is one near you, I can probably get you a free ticket: Key's website

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
A simple cure for an eye light is shooting a little 650w or 300w light into a 4x4 beadboard and place the beadboard in the spot where the actor looks. The trick is to get a glowing surface that is bright enough to reflect in the eyes but not bright enough to effect your contrast ratios on the face.