Ko-Mar Productions Blog

Ko-Mar Productions Shoots WPTV Commercial

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:40:00 +0000

Ko-Mar Productions used their trusty Sony F3 to shoot some night exteriors to be included in various commercial and station promotional content. The Challenge was the tight time frame to shoot these shots and get the lighting done during daylight. This was the vision of WPTV's promotional manager, James McKay & company.

Setting up the Palm Beach county vehicles in twilight. The crew wet down the pavement for some reflections.

Anthony Angrisani (Gaffer) & Miles Henderson (Grip/Intern) raising the 1,200WT ARRI HMI.

Director Todd Kolich with WPTV Journalist, Dan Corcoran explaining the shot.

Anthony figuring out focus marks for the opening dolly shot.

Director, DP & client discussing the shots.

Night has arrived and time to shoot!

Director of Photography, Paul Piasecki and Anthony in handheld mode.

Last shot of the night, A POV of the Police caution tape unrolled from in front of the lens. Overall, we got the whole shoot done within a couple of hours on a typical hot Florida night.

Senate Debate 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:48:00 +0000

We had the pleasure of producing, crewing and lighting the Florida Senate Debate at Nova University in Davie, FL. Here are some behind the scenes photo's of the stage and sat truck.

This was a serious Satellite truck...

Control room..

Figuring out the lay out of the background and lighting. We pre-lit the day before and had time to tweek the

lighting and placement of the podiums.

Here is the basic set plot diagram

The set is starting to take shape. We had custom gobo light patterns made to project on the background.

Jose Flores adding a single bulb Kino-Flo to add some flattering lighting for the three panelist.

Final set with background elements and lighting set up ready for the candidates.

Live on the air to 7 million Florida households. The debate telecast went off without a hitch and looked great. We had a lot of help with many professionals, too many to list. All in all it went great!

New City Mattress Spots

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:18:00 +0000

We had the opportunity to shoot another set of spots for a great client of Ko-Mar's, City Mattress. The idea seems simple, President of City Mattress,(http://www.citymattress.com) Marc Schiller will walk through some of their top brand mattresses against a clean, white background. Here's what it takes to do this shoot.

Dan Taylor's son help out for a few hours, it was bring your kid to work day, the lights are big. These are 8 Thousand Watt soft lights that fill in the overall look of the set (Cyc). We hung 4 of them!

Joe Joe Gallagher bringing in the artillery.

Gaffer Marty Segal and Audio/Grip extraordinaire, Dan Taylor put together the distro box from the generator to power up all the lights.

A lot of lights are hung from the grid, Dan has hold of a 5K and is diffusing the light with 216 gels.

Marty pointing the lights where he needs them.

Marketing and Promotions Director of City Mattress, Eric Anderson and DP Paul Piasecki start to lay out the pattern of the mattresses. We use a simple string and measuring tape to grid it all out.

Shown here are the big boys doing their thing, adding a lot of soft light!

Assistant Cameraman, Ryan Dee Setting up the Sony F3 for shooting. A lot goes into prepping the camera, changing lenses and getting all the settings right on the camera.

Best Boy, Shaw Burrows is adjusting the light, yes with a pole, no time to get the lift in the set.

Marc Schiller is in his position, we are using a Jimmy Triangle Jib with a 12ft extension. It is all done with a remote at the base and operator Jib Dave and assistant Jorge handle all that is done with the jib.

Director Todd Kolich, sizing up a shot with the jib. A lot of coordinating the jib move and Marc walking takes some time, but the results are worth the effort.

Executive Producer Jim Gallagher and Eric discussing the next shot.

Todd directing the extras in the background. They have to hit their specific camera positions behind Marc who is in the foreground.

At the end of a long couple days, one of the most important jobs on the set is audio.

Another great shoot! The crew: Jim Gallagher, Todd Kolich, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Jose Flores, Dan Taylor, Douglas Taylor, Marty Segal, Shaw hawk Burrows, Ryan Dee, Dave & Jorge from Michael Taylor Jibs, Bill Welsh (Editor)and Joe Joe!

The Making of a National Show, "Here's To Your Health" with Marilu Henner

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:26:00 +0000

Ko-Mar Productions was hired to shoot and edit "Here's To Your Health" with Marilu Henner for TLC Discovery Channel this Saturday morning at 8:30am is the first show air date. But before there is a show there is the set and here is some pre-light day photo's and day of the show photo's. Let's start with the pre-light day.

Peter really getting into the set..

A really big 5K Chimera, and Joe Joe is a big guy..

Jose, hanging a soft light..

Almost finished set "A"

Same with Set "B"

Marilu Henner is on set ready to shoot..

Todd giving some direction..

Paul getting some promo show open footage with the Sony F3

Marilu making a simple tasty dish with Executive Chef , Jim Leiken, a s

asoned veteran of Daniel Boulud's New York restaurants, he is now at Cafe' Boulud's at the Brazilian Court in Palm Beach. http://www.danielnyc.com/cafebouludPB.html

Audra deep in teleprompter thought and Paul running to do a task..

The Ko-Mar Crew after a long shoot day..the show aired November 5th at 8:30am on TLC.

Hole In One at the 2011 PGA Cup Matches

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Ko-Mar Productions made it out to the suburbs of San Francisco to film the hour long highlight show for the PGA of America. This was the 25th edition of this Ryder Cup format of play. We shot at the beautiful Cordevalle Resort in San Martin, California.

We had a five camera unit to follow all the action. We had great weather and many golf highlights! Here is a quick link to our Hole In One by Team USA player Danny Balin. Caught by chance by Videographer, Paul Piasecki. It also made Number 10 Highlight on ESPN SportsCenter that week.

http://www.pga.com/pgacup/2011/multimedia/video/?q=/video/events/2011/09/17/PGACUPBalinHoleInOne.pga

Another moment was captured on hole #9 Marty Jertson for an Eagle, it was also on SportsCenter, shot by Videographer Bill Welsh.
ESPN.mp4‎ (7 MB‎)

The Sony F3, "The Next Level"

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:30:00 +0000

We are excited to announce that Ko-Mar Productions has purchased the Sony PMW F3 Super 35mm sensor camera! Due to the new sensor technology, digital cinematography is a specialized way to obtain a "National Commercial Look," on an affordable budget. With the use of high quality prime lenses, you can achieve an extrordinary 35mm film look, but with no film processing or transfer.

This camera offers creative shallow depth of field similar to what you see on commercials and motion pictures. The camera is surprisingly more compact than a , "Red One" or "Arri Alexa." It is easier to handhold and put in tight spaces, just great versatility. It also has professional XLR audio outputs and HD SDI output capabilities.

Low light sensitivity is great for shooting at night or indoors with natural light for minimal lighting packages.

Shown is the 85mm lens with Matte Box and Follow Focus.

Here are a couple from our recent City Mattress shoot in our studio..This camera has a big future in the Ko-Mar arsenal of camera equipment.

Cresswind Real Estate Shoot

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:14:00 +0000

Ko-Mar productions had a crew up in Gainesville, Georgia just outside of Atlanta for a production shoot for Cresswind at lake Lanier. (www.cresswind.com).

We had a 27' jib on the shoot. Lot's of interviews to get. The property is on Lake Lanier, beautiful area of Georgia.

We used Atlanta local Chris Conway and his assistant to help with our jib shots right over the lake entrance at Cresswind. We got some nice sweeping shots over the water.

We used our Sony F-800, brought up our 1 ton grip van with all the lighting.

Sizing up the shot......

Wonderful sunset time-lapse to end the shoot. Crew was, Jim Gallagher, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Edward Sabitini..

"Sunrise to Sunset" CBS/PGA Road Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:09:00 +0000

This was the sunrise view from our hotel room at the www.ccofcolorado.com Country Club of Colorado.

Here Anne is teaching the young one's the game of golf. Yes it is like herding cats, but she is really good at it!

During the CBS show, each PGA teaching professional does a 30 second golf tip. Chris listening in..

The next morning Paul wanted to get a little flava of the Colorado Springs area, this was a cool place called, "Garden of the Gods." www.gardenofgods.com This park takes a couple of days to go through but due to catching a plane we had an hour. Setting up a time-lapse shot. This other view is neat, it is called, "Balancing rock" for obvious reasons. What this photo scale doesn't show is that you can stand under the space on the bottom right, it is the size of a school bus!

One of the other trips was to Rochester, New York home of the famous,www.oakhillcc.com "Oak Hill" golf course.

Here, another time-lapse set up. We were there to film a segment with resident PGA teaching professional, Craig Harmon.

Hole Number 18. This course has a lot of history, many championships and a Ryder cup!

We had the pleasure of seeing Craig's father's Masters jacket that was on display in the pro shop. You don't see that everyday! We all got a quick shot. Kathy Jorden of the PGA of America, DP, Paul Piasecki, Craig Harmon EP, Jim Gallagher.

This was a treat to see this up close. Craig brings this display out for members to enjoy around the time of the Masters Tournament. Overall, we did about a dozen or so trips all over the Country. The show airs this Sunday on CBS from 2-3pm EST. The show is called, "Sunrise to Sunset, A PGA Professionals Life."

www.pga.com

Golf Digest Digital Shoot

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:39:00 +0000

It was one of those, "this is why we live down here", type of day at the PGA Village Golf property in Port Saint Lucie, FL..(pgavillage.com) for another Golf Digest Digitaln (golfdigest.com) series of tips with golf professional, Jeff Ritter.(jeffrittergolf.com)

This is a three camera shoot that will be shot in the field and posted at Ko-Mar Headquarters. Here Director/Producer Chris DeMaio controls the crew with his mind control device, just kidding..clear-com headsets and 3 monitors for the 3 cameras.

Jeff was a nice guy and easy to work with, he ended up doing a dozen or so 5 minute tips that will eventually be edited and released soon online and for ipad apps. It was a nice day, no clouds and 70 degree's.

Besides using state of the art Ko-Mar Cameramen, we incorporated a Steadicam guru by the name of Andy Montejo. He is based out of Orlando, FL. He shoots a variety of projects, we met him on a Golf Channel show with Greg Norman a couple of months ago and felt he would give us a different look and feel for these tips, come on its' a steadicam, instant production value! Its' big time friend.

Here, Andy is floating the camera around Jeff during his tip, it takes many years of practice to use this rig, it looked great!

Crew: Todd Kolich, Jim Gallagher, Chris DeMaio, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Jose Flores, Christiana Schwartz, Andy Montejo and his assistant and Golf Digest Writer/Editor Ron Kaspriske.

Latest Production Stills

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:55:00 +0000

Here is a variety of behind the scenes production stills. We start with one of our great clients, Don Braca from Adcomm Advertising. www.adcommadv.com (Don's on the left..) We set up the direct response shoot in our studio and the product is called the, "Twist Infinity Scarf."

Jose really gets into his work, he was the gaffer for the day and did a fine job.

Our Model Morgan looking very fashionable in her skiing outfit.

Here we are using a Kino-Flo ring light for another shoot. This is a great light for a "High Key", glamour look. A lot of music video's use this light, puts a nice ring in the pupils of eyes, great light!

DP, Paul Piasecki & Gaffer Dan Taylor...

Rick helped us do lighting on a shoot one day, what was he thinking?

Its upside down!

Peter wanted to fly like Superman with our background, so we let him..

Help!

The Lighting Gods came this day in Ft.Wayne, Indiana for the PGA Juniors Championship.

Shaw, Joe and Paul, doing an old school dolly shot..Don't try this at home...

Ko-Mar Shoots Bank Atlantic Spots

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:18:00 +0000

We started out the shoot in our 6,000 square ft. studio. Here we have a set up on our seamless
cyc wall.

We had many locations throughout the Palm Beach Gardens area.

Shaw and Larry setting up a back light...

Hang on to that camera! Setting up a close-up shot..

We brought out the big guns on this one, we used a set of Zeiss Super Speed Digi-Primes for our Sony F-800 camera, they are nice! They will air soon! Crew: Director, Todd Kolich, EP, Jim Gallagher, Producer-Editor, Audra Roby, DP, Paul Piasecki, Gaffer Shaw Burroughs, Best Boy, Larry Olivier, Grip, Joe Joe Gallagher, Rick Meister, Peter Parcells, audio-grip our newbie John and make-up by Jill..

Steven Caras PBS Documentary

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:59:00 +0000

Ko-Mar Productions was hired to shoot segments of a national PBS documentary on photographer Steven Caras. (www.stevencaras.com) The film is called, "Steven Caras: See Them Dance." Inspired by Steven Caras’ extraordinary career in the world of dance, Emmy Award winning film-makers Deborah Novak and John Witek have singled him out as their next subject for an hour-long PBS documentary. We started our filming at the prestigious, Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, FL

Here, we ended day one at the Kravis Center ( www.kravis.org ) for many key scenes and interviews. It was a thrill to have access to Dreyfoos Hall, the main auditorium for our shoot.

Day two, we spent the day at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts (www.awdsoa.org) This day had many stages, first was capturing Steve at work as a photographer. His signature style is unique. The Steven Caras Dance Photography Archive includes in excess of 120,000 powerful images of the dance world's greatest icons and institutions. Spanning thirty years, this invaluable photographic documentation encompasses what is considered to be the most important period in the history of dance in America.

Here, rising Ballet star, Connor Walsh from the Houston Ballet (www.houstonballet.org) gets some hang time for some action shots! Next was possibly a first in the world of Ballet, the POV helmet-cam! Deborah wanted to see what it was like for the audience to experience for a brief moment what it is like to jump and pirouette.

Here is the Small HD camera, we put a wide angle lens on the body and the only thing we could think of to mount it on Connor was to mount it on Paul's bike helmet. It worked! Amazing what gaffer tape and Velcro can do.

I think Deborah liked the shot! Connor was a good sport, he said its was a "unique experience.." The documentary is slated to premier on PBS in early Spring of 2011.

Ko-Mar Goes To Pebble Beach!

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:19:00 +0000

You know its a big deal if you send the Senior crew to an event such as this! Its the 110th US Open, and we're there to work with Golf Digest Digital. It will be a long week for them but they have a nice view.

Here is a shot of the 18th green, the boys say its a little chilly there about a 30 degree difference from hot South Florida!

This is the massive media center. It can seem like NASA central command, Jim is producing pieces for Golf Digest and Bill Welsh editing away with our portable Avid. These will post this week on their website. (www.golfdigest.com)

Todd and Jim hard at work...we're shooting High Definition with the trusty Sony V1U to capture Pebble in all its glory!

The rounds start on Thursday, so check out their work out at the Golf Digest website. The man behind the camera is......

The one and only, Chris Demaio! Chris is one of our Senior producers. Chris and Jim are producing the various segments for the site. The Crew: Jim Gallagher, Todd Kolich, Chris DeMaio and Bill Welsh. As Anthony would say.."Nice."

Golf Digest Digital Goes, "True Blue!"

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:32:00 +0000

The flowers are in bloom here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the True Blue golf course. True Blue is located on Pawley's Island of the main drag. Check it out here: (truebluegolf.com) Golf Digest Digital has a great relationship with the Myrtle Beach area. We are shooting there once a month for some great golf tips from Peter Morrice and Stina Sternberg.

It did rain on and off during our quick trip but we managed to get our segments in between the rain drops. Weather is part of golf, not good for cameras, but we had umbrellas and took a long lunch break until it was suitable to get another tip done.

Here, Stina rehearses her golf tip segment, we usually set up two cameras, one wide and the shorter one for the close-up's..

Senior producer Chris DeMaio goes over a golf tip with P-Mo..The shoot went very well, the staff at True Blue was very helpful. The Ko-Mar crew was Chris DeMaio and Paul Piasecki. Our local SC crew was Doug Kelly and company. Overall another successful shoot and we are going back next week!

Taking a Dip in the Pool!

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:43:00 +0000

We were on location to shoot the latest "How to" demo DVD's for Hayward Pool Cleaning Products. (http://www.haywardnet.com/) We had to partly cloudy days hence the Arri HMI's, we threw in a Joker 800 and 3 Shiny Boards but we seemed to manage. Here we are setting up the dolly for some B-Roll shots.

We had to shoot very detailed information, we also had the help of spokeswoman Miranda Khan. (http://www.mirandakhan.com/) Bruce Porter, marketing manager for Hayward Polls flew in from New Jersey to join the Ko-Mar gang. He had a lot of great input of the specific shots we needed.

Underwater camera services were provided by Steven Miller. (http://www.stevemillerproductions.com/) He got us some great angles we didn't even think of until he was under water. He used the Sony Z1U HDV camera and this cool looking underwater rig...

Another great shoot! The crew was: Paul Piasecki, Dan Taylor, Anthony Angrisani, and our intern Valery Lugo.

Adcomm Advertising and Ko-Mar go Solar!

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:47:00 +0000

Solar for Adcomm's next direct response video that features the "Solar Max"that Ko-Mar just shot on location in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Adcomm Advertising, Originators of the "As Seen On TV" Retail P.O.P. packaging, is a full service creative agency specializing in the direct response industry for over 20 years. They can be found here: www.adcommadv.com

Ko-Mar productions has a long relationship with Adcomm's president and CEO, Don Braca. Don is the "Guru" for direct response and long format infomercials, as well as packaging for thousands of products over the years. Here are some behind the scene photo's.

Don at the helm...

We don't need a car rig.......another day at the pool..

In this segment, we needed to do some table top product shots and set up our infamous portable sweep table, please excuse the saw horses but they work. Here the crew is hard at work.

Gary's very hands on approach.....Jose keeping his head in the game..

We had to suspend the small adapters hence the glass...Gary also had to do some old school stop motion work for one of the give away products. You need a lot of patience and time to get table top shots right!

This last shot was a day for night set-up. Actually it was closer to dusk, rather than waiting until dark, we enclosed the tent (which was outside) with black visqueen, camera and all. Overall, another successful shoot. Crew: Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Rick Meister, Jose Flores, Gary Waxler, Peter Parcells, Christiana Schwartz.

"A Passion For Golf, PGA Professionals and You"

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:07:00 +0000

We are gearing up for our second National CBS Sports special for the PGA of America. The special will air May 2nd on CBS 1-2pm EST. We have traveled from one end of the country to the other and places in between.

The first part of the journey took Producer Jim Gallagher and DP Todd Kolich to the Phoenix area to start filming a segment with Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson both highly respected PGA teaching professionals featured among top 50 list for Golf Digest Magazines' best teachers in America.

They are co-founders of Vision54, (www.vision54.com) an integrated coaching programs that increase performance and individual development for golfers, for athletes, for coaches, for business and life.

Jim and Todd ended up in Los Angeles, CA to shoot a segment with PGA teaching professional Bruce Hamilton and 2010 Ryder Cup Captain, Corey Pavin at the Spanish Hills Country Club (www.spanishhillscc.com) where Bruce is Based.

Corey Pavin

Bruce Hamilton in action.... Spanish Hills Country Club

Next was a quick turnaround for Jim, right after they got back from LA, Jim and DP, Paul Piasecki flew to Dallas to shot a segment with PGA teaching Professional, Randy Smith and PGA Tour Professional, Justin Leonard.

Randy Smith & Justin Leonard

Randy's home course is Royal Oaks Country Club (www.royaloakscc.com) in the heart of Dallas, Texas. Randy has one basically every award a PGA professional can get including "Teacher of the Year," back in 2002. Justin Leonard (www.justinleonard.com) has worked with Randy since he was a junior golfer, he regards Randy as a mentor and an old family friend.

That's it for now...more behind the scenes to come..

ko-Mar films a Shark!

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:48:00 +0000

Golf great Greg Norman "The Shark" was on hand to film a series of website & image compartments for Cybex International. Filmed at Great White Enterprises in West Palm Beach, FL.

The challenge was working in a fairly small area. We achieved a unique look with very simple building materials. Lighting the materials on certain angles created the look that the client wanted. With the help of Bob Saley our set and prop man, we achieved an industrial, sleek look with a contrasty lighting style. We also had to accommodate photographer Michael O'Bryon http://obryon.com as we simultaneously shot for still and HD video. On the right we see Gaffer Dan Taylor setting up a Source 4 Leko light.

We used various frame rates to give us some cool slow-motion shots of Greg on the Cybex equipment. Camera used was our Sony F-800 XDCAM. Overall another great shoot! Crew: Jim Gallagher, Audra Roby, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Dan Taylor, Jose Flores, Bob Saley.

City Mattress and the Gator?

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:46:00 +0000

Up at the crack of dawn for the beginning of a great shoot. This is behind the scenes of a City Mattress shoot in Naples, Florida. We shot this at the Everglades Club, nice helpful staff to get our day started.

Jim Directing...

Actually..there was no real Gator, maybe Dan Taylor who is a gator but here is the Gator I'm talking about..

This is the Gator I'm talking about. This is a Jimmy jib on a modified cart that can get you where you need to go on the course. The Jib crew was JP and Albert. The jib system is from Michael C. Taylor Productions. (www.mtjibs.com)

Here are a few more..another successful shoot. Spot will air soon, check out City Mattress at www.citymattress.com

The Crew: Todd Kolich, Jim Gallagher, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Dan Taylor, Big Wigs, Jay Schiller, Marc Schiller and Eric Anderson.

The Wonder of the Pancake Light!

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:52:00 +0000

Here is a set-up for a Golf Digest Digital shoot. The client wanted the "Charlie Rose Show" look and that's what we did. We started with the old ballroom set-up. You can never have enough room but we always make it work. We set up a 20' speedrail with our Pancake 1K light and 2 Arri 300's for backlights.

Here it is...the Chimera Pancake or China Globe light. This gives you an overall soft, omni directional key light source. The spill is controlled by a skirt that attaches to the sides and can be adjusted like so. This was an Arri 1K open-face, flooded out all the way.

Here we armed out a Arri 300WT for a backlight. We did this on the opposite side, hung a back light for our moderator with a maffer clamp on the ceiling trim.

So here is the cast for our round table discussion with the 4 top golf instructors on the planet. We have Butch Harmon (www.butchharmon.com) Jim Mclean (www.jimmclean.com) David Leadbetter (www.leadbetter.com) and Hank Haney (www.hankhaney.com) again our Moderator is Senior Editor at Golf Digest, Peter Morrice.

After fussing with mic's and make-up and a little direction from Mr. Gallagher, we were ready for an engaging discussion on Golf's biggest players. We had a switched 3 camera shoot, hung up some black duvateen to hide the walls and away we went. Crew: Jim Gallagher, Chris DeMaio, Todd Kolich, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Gunner Garrity and Terri Irwin. Big wigs were Jerry Tarde, John Marvel and Marty Hackel. Look for it soon on Golf Digest Digital on www.golfdigest.com.

"Flexor" Studio Shoot..

noreply@blogger.com (Ko-Mar Productions) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:31:00 +0000

For this client, they wanted a clean, white cyc look. This presents a variety of unique challenges. We rented two 5K space lights and some 2K chimera's for existing Arri 2K Studio lights. There's Dan Taylor (Gaffer) on the lift and Anthony Angrisani (Best Boy/Audio) positioning the lights. Paul Piasecki (DP) Trying to get the exposure and light level even to some time but we managed to get it right.

Next was the shooting process. We used our New Sony PDW-F-800 XDCAM camera on the dolly and our workhorse Sony HDW F-900 on the 21' Jimmy Jib.

Jim Gallagher at the helm
with the watchful eye on
the shots.

Here are some other shots of the crew in action, overall, it was another successful shoot!