One Hell of a Feature

Some of you may know, some of you don't but I have been gaffing a feature for the past 3 weeks. It's a low budget feature (only about $500,000) but there have been some big names in it including Ed Harris(yes, THE Ed Harris), Amy Madigan(yes, Oscar nominated Amy Madigan), Peter Weller(yes, Robocop), Rance Howard(yes, Ron Howard's father) and a bunch of other great actors. The production has been hard at some points, easy at other points, but always fun and a great experience for me.

This is the first feature I've completed(the first one went off to Morocco without telling me(thank goodness) and the other was in China but never actually happened. The director is fun and the cinematographer is forgiving and easy to work with... which makes the 360 degree lighting set ups that much easier. The crew is tight and we quickly became friends in the first week due to all the setbacks and roadblocks all the departments are having to deal with.

Here are a few pics from the shoot:


Brian Deutsch, the key grip, and Tarin Anderson, the cinematographer

Keegan Thomas, who plays the character August

A great pic of Tarin

Brian and Me relaxing on set

Me and Ed

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
Recently I have been turning on all lights with a double in it from the beginning. This way when the DP asks for more light out of the unit I can pull the double and get more out of it:)

Don't Vote!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UaRXvRwhOk

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
Sorry for all the politics, but this is important... for our industry and for every other industry in the US and possibly the world: http://www.maps.google.com/vote

Distant Thunder Films

PhillM tip-of-the-day:
Recently I have been adding 1/4 CTS to all of my HMIs in order to take the edge off and warm up the light a little bit. So far it's worked really well and has brought the light to a more acceptable color temperature. CTO works well, too if you don't have CTS.