Super Prime - Music Video Shoot DAY 2 @ Stony Brook LI NY

The second day of the Super Prime shoot. February 4th. I was Grip and AC again, we used the same camera (RED1) but this time we used different anamorphic lenses. They were the same brand but they weren’t square and the difference was the glass was a little bit further back on the circular lens making it slightly more difficult to get the lens flares but luckily John was able to get it still and the look matched the rest of the video. 100mm, 50mm, and a 28mm. This shoot was very fun, it was all story and no band. We used two actors a guy and a girl. We actually shot it coincidentally in my home town and that worked out great for me. We shot at the stony brook avalon, harbor road, west meadow beach, the light house, and even did a night time scene in my driveway at my dads place. 

Director Christian Winters and DP John Taggart on the Dolly waiting for the talent to show up to the first location. (Avalon)

John’s make shift dolly track. A couple pipes from a car mount he had and we topped it on two light stands. C stands would have been more sturdy but we needed to get down lower than the C stands would have allowed us.

 John with the wide lens. You can see that the dolly is actually just a cheese plate with the four wheel sets strung on with wire ties, and it works great.

Going handheld through the fields with the actors. 

Flares are a huge part of the theme to this music video, it  looks awesome and it also helps give it that dream state Christian was looking for when we shot at the sun.

 The actors had to conquer walking this tree with their dress type shoes on. This was easy enough for him but she was having a little difficulty that she was able to finally overcome after a few practice takes.

 

 John and Christian viewing playback, again the video will never look as good as the actual image on the viewfinder because this is a cell phone picture.

 Talent and Producer Paul Travers

Romantic tree cuddling shot

 Christian and John by the camera, Make up and hair on the side

 Location scouting for an awesome tree that fell down during the hurricane we found this big one. I was happy to shoot over on Harbor road because eve since the hurricane I’ve been wanting to shoot something that these fallen trees could give a nice production value look to.

The jeep that “crashed” into this tree. The producer going in to check it out and shoot a fire extinguisher under the car during the scene to give it a smoke look.

Christian and Hair&Make up

Actors walking away from the car accident.

Shooting over by West Meadow beach at the light house. 

 On West meadow beach. There was a row boat scene of the actors drifting off into oblivion.

 It was freezing, I felt terrible that the actors had to take their shoes off and he had to step into the water. I was cold in my jacket and gloves.

 

 

The golden sky look John got of them drifting off. You can kind of see the difference between the real thing and this monitor if you look back at the pictures of the water and sky.

 

 We went back to my dad’s house to use the lights and set up in the driveway for the car accident scene.

 We used a 300 watt and two construction work lights my dad had in his garage to get the flare look and for key light. We would have used a thousand watt but Johns was dead.

The Crew reviewing some clips after the martini shot. This video is going to come out great.

New Office for “Lucky Dog”

This is the work office for Lucky Dog .. before we set it up. .. it’s the industrial meets NEW AGE COMPUTERS look brooklyn is so good at. I’m production Intern here on my days I don’t have work. 

Location Scouting in the Office of “Lucky Dog” feature

Office interning on the new film coming out starring Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti called “Lucky Dogs” or "Up, Up". Me chillen during my lunch in the temporary office. I think I found the brownstone they’re going to use for the film and it took me a day while all the guys getting paid to search couldn’t find one for weeks. The perks are being able to sit in on the meetings with the director, dp, line producer, production designer, and a few other important people. Also just working on a film. I’ll probably be doing odd jobs for this for the next couple of months.

Office located on 11th street and broadway, right over by Union Square.

My view.

Huntington Learning Center Commercials

These are two huntington learning commercials I did Production Assistant and some Grip work for over in Brooklyn. First commercial I worked on that I actually saw the finished product.
Dec. 1, 2011

Shot on the Panasonic ag-af100
Directed by Greg Slagle and DP’d by Joe Daniele.

Super Prime - Music Video Shoot DAY 1 @ Pier 59

I worked as Dolly Grip/ AC on this production.  Every shot besides 4 pick up and 2 handhelds were on the dolly. It was intense but some of the most fun ever, moving the camera man to the beat of the music and seeing what the result is. I don’t have any pictures of me yet since I took all of these on my phone when I had some spare time, but I gave my email to the man who was making a documentary for the band and snapping shots the whole time. Also I’ll post the video on here when it’s done.

Shoot Date - 1/13/12

Directed by Christian Winters. Cinematography by John Taggart. Shot on the Red 1 with 3 Anamorphic Prime lenses, 30mm, 50mm, 85mm.

Where it’s located in Manhattan, if you have never been there. Its on the water and it’s amazing to be in the city and look outside the studio window and see a dock and water right in front of you.

Just a quick pic I took to show what kind of place it is inside.

 Our Studio! 6.

First one there, this was the set up. The ceiling opens up and we blasted day light from the roof and windows the entire shoot. The only lightings we used was a 1000w, and 12 hundred.

Our J.L. Fisher Dolly, my tool for the shoot.

The creatives, Setting up the first shot. It looks just like a plain wall but when the Red1 is involved and the color temperature gets put down to 4600, its a whole new image as you can kind of see in the monitor is you click on the picture.

Make up and hair section

 Red 1, with 3 Russian Anamorphic lens that are really hard to come by. We had a 30mm, 50mm, and 85mm. The lens were 300 to rent each day.

 The first set up with the bands documentarian in the shot.

 Crafty Section

 

Roadies setting up the bands equipment.

The chillen section.

 Camera.

Director Christian Winters

 Stylist doing the Lead singer and guitarist’s Hair, Adam.

 Bands Vocals/Bassist in Red, Austin.

Producer Paul Travers and DP John Admiring playback.

The first Set up with Band in the shot.

Christian and John

Roadie eating some food.

Band Equipment

Band Logo - Super Prime

Bands executive on the left, Drummer - Marcus, Bassist - Austin

Second Set up, John using one 1000 watt  and bumping the color temperature to around 6500 was able to make it look like an amazing sun set.

 Christian Winters/ Band setting up

 Waiting for the band to get ready, hair, make up, etc.

Setting up set.

Something like what the shot looks like but I’m taking pictures with my phone so it’s never going to look great. Keep in mind that it was 1pm with a minor snow flurry outside those windows.

More wardrobe section.

The only 2 lights we used for the whole shoot.

Director Christian talking to the band executive.

 Shoot’s over, Just chillen

Last remaining soldiers. Producer, Director, DP, Me.

Set afterwards

The Studio’s bar for after hanging

 The view from outside the sets window.

Empty Studio during sun setting.