Preping Film Equipment for a Commerical

Earlier this year Danielle's boss and her husband invited us to dinner, at the dinner they introduced us to their friend who, among other things, AC's on commercials. Their friend was very gracious and when he found out that I wanted to learn film production offered to help. After sometime and a few calls he invited me out to prep* for a production.

At that prep I met both his 2nd** and his Loader***, I also got more acquainted with the Arri LT film camera and was shown how to load a film mag. Awesome experience! Ten times better than going to school. At the prep he asked if I wanted to come on set one of the days that week... this is what I really wanted and hoped he would ask, but it didn't work out.

Next time we talked he invited me to prep for another commercial the next week. "Of course," I said. At that prep I became even more familiar with the gear and how to prep. Again he invited me to set, and this time I was not going to let anything stop me from going...



*Prep - going to the rental house where you are getting your equipment for the production and laying it all out and putting it all together to make sure everything works and that you have everything you need/ordered. (Later I found out that only the AC gets paid on prep day, and the 2nd and Loader show up only to help and keep up their relationship with the AC)

**2nd - the assistant to the AC

***Loader - in charge of film stock, from loading it into the magazines to sending it to be processed. Lowest on the totem pole.

Behind the Scenes with Sharpstone

Here is a video I took with our Canon 5D while shooting Bill Palmer's short Sharpstone, later to be a part of a feature film he's written. Jeremy Hayward is the DP and Matt Iseman, of Clean House, is Sharpstone.

Sharpstone

Been helping some friends with a short movie/trailer... here are some pictures from the shoot I've taken thus far. Picasa Web Album (for easier viewing)

Hackensaw Boys in Atlanta

Last night I went out with some of my Clean House crew to see the Hackensaw Boys.  Might have been the best concert I've ever been to...

After the first part of the show they came back out and played a song fully acoustic... then they walked right in to the audience with all their instruments and played another two to three songs acoustic... and they came right to us, we all had a spot on the rim of the circle surrounding them. I thought the can player, percussion, was going to whack me while playing. It was awesome! Later on that night Justin, the percussionist, came and chatted with us all. Turns out, though the band is from Virginia he lives in LA and like me needs to find some work when he gets back in town.