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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/312675

This is my camera, we used it for B-cam on a commercial recently. I had to pull focus and zoom while rolling so I hooked up one of my Nucleus-M handles to the camera and used it like a Preston Microforce. Not the most optimal setup, but it worked for what we needed.

 

This is my camera, we used it for B-cam on a commercial recently. I had to pull focus and zoom while rolling so I hooked up one of my Nucleus-M handles to the camera and used it like a Preston Microforce. Not the most optimal setup, but it worked for what we needed.

 

Gaffer Len Levine takes lighting design to another dimension for the hit sci-fi sequel.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS trades stylization for simplicity in Darren Aronofsky’s poignant study of a damaged soul.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Four cinematographers help transform the frightful video game into a hit horror series.

 

One of my favorite films by one of my favorite DP's.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/249015

Little messy cause I had to find places for all the sounds stuff to fit that we normally don't have to deal with, but it ended up working out pretty well.

 

This is for some social media ads done for a very large potato chip brand doing a collab with another big time athlete

 

Little messy cause I had to find places for all the sounds stuff to fit that we normally don't have to deal with, but it ended up working out pretty well.

 

Some photos from the article:

 

Love having all my tools nearby and accessible at all times.

Another view in the light:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it has definitely slowed down a lot recently. This was a non-union feature we shot about 2 months ago, but nearly everyone on the crew was union because none of the normal shows were starting back up, even months before the strike (because the studios knew it was coming) so the union folks were taking whatever they could get. Though this project was a lot of fun and has some very notable talent. We're actually shooting another week of pickup shots this month to finish it off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is Paramount Ranch, not too far away. Though I did find out that Melody Ranch did suffer a major fire in 1962 that burnt down much of this street you're seeing. When we were there it felt very old and authentic. We spent about a week filming in the same saloon that was used in Django Unchained when Christoph Waltz's character shoots the town sheriff towards the beginning of the movie. We also had a lot of live animals like horses, oxen, and chickens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, shooting content for a brand's social media. We just flipped a Red Komodo on it's side, and since the image was sideways on all our wireless monitors, I flipped them 90 degrees so I could see it normally when I pulled focus (that's what the wooden-looking device with the knob in the blue holder is, my wireless focus pulling hand unit Nucleus-M).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol, in reality there was about 30 minutes of freaking out and then an hour of waiting for them to dry and praying for the best. It all worked out but I guess it'd be a better story if it hadn't haha!

Edit: Here's another story from the same shoot I just commented in my community:

"The producers/director/DP were all from New York and came out to Los Angeles to get crew and film this, so they were kinda out of there element. This shoot was 5 overnights in a row, and one night we were filming on an active bridge/road in LA. They assumed that the weather was always nice in California so didn’t check ahead or prepare, and suddenly we had a lightning/thunder storm starting in the distance. We had a giant Condor crane with lights up over the bridge, and as the lighting strikes got closer the Gaffer got spooked and brought the condor down. Within an hour, it was pouring rain and they didn’t have any pop-up tents so we had to rush to throw all the gear in different cars and get out of the rain. We wrapped early that night (early on an overnight means 4AM instead of 6AM).

I found out later that a woman and her dog died that night in LA from being struck by lightning. Shit can go wrong very quickly, especially when you’re not working with professionals."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Give it a shot now, I made it public on imgur and I think that fixed it!

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