UPDATE: Patriots Day
The piece I did with Tim Estiloz on the Patriots Day red carpet premiere — which I discussed in my last blog post — is now online. Check it out!
The piece I did with Tim Estiloz on the Patriots Day red carpet premiere — which I discussed in my last blog post — is now online.
Check it out!
Patriots Day
Covered the red carpet premiere of Patriots Day with entertainment reporter extraordinaire Tim Estiloz.
Covered the red carpet premiere of Patriots Day with entertainment reporter extraordinaire Tim Estiloz.
A couple of pals owning the red carpet.
We interviewed Mark "Marky Mark" Whalberg, Red Sox slugger David "Big Papi" Ortiz, director Peter Berg, and many others! Glamorous!
You'll be able to watch the segment online at Spielon Entertainment soon.
Sometimes you have to improvise a shot.
The always important selfie!
Send in the drones...
A package I shot for Bloomberg on the use of drones for surveillance. The drone to drone footage was provided by the company, and there is a smattering of file footage of other corporations.
This is a package I shot for Bloomberg (the drone to drone footage was provided by the company, and there is a smattering of file footage of other corporations).
The sit down interview was the two person interview I lit in 30 minutes that I posted about a while ago.
You can also watch the package on the Bloomberg site:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-11-30/the-future-of-high-powered-commercial-drones
30 Minutes
30 minutes to set up a two camera interview, and make it look good? No problem! 😳
I decided not to do the C-stands and boom arms thing this time, though I've done that in 30 minutes or less too. I just used the available light for the background (we blocked a couple of windows with sheets of cardboard that were in the room). It actually worked out pretty well with that white board.
Helen Grenier is in the yellow jacket. She’s a founder and CTO of Cyphy (the company we were doing the story about). She also cofounded i-Robot. She’s wicked smaht.
The woman in black is Bloomberg correspondent Carol Massar.
I had to light both of them. The C300 (main camera) was on Helen. The 5D mark iii was on Carol. We used the available light from some of the windows, and set up some lights for the subjects. The reporter had to be on the air at 2:00, so we had to get her on the road by 10:30 AM. She left on time.
Their CEO Lance Vanden Brook showed us some new drones they’re working on. We also shot B-roll in their labs.
I’ll try to get a link when it airs.
WONDERAMA!!!
I did a shoot with Donnie and Marie Osmond, and their nephew David for a kids' show called “Wonderama."
Bob Conover, George Schak and Kevin Roche setting up for the three camera shoot at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
It's an old show, but I guess David is the new host. He was nice. He interviewed his aunt and uncle, and then they sang a song together that David had written. Donnie learned it with David just before we did the shoot. Say what you want about kitchiness, they were all consummate professionals and it was a pleasure to watch them work. Yeah you can quote me on that. :)
MacGyver-ing
Thanks to Tim at Rule who drilled and tapped an extra screw hole for my Edelkrone slider yesterday, just in time to shoot 8 interviews with it today!
That's better!
For some reason Edelkrone only makes this model with one 3/8" hole in the bottom to mount it on your tripod. It sorely needs a second one (a 1/4" 20) so that it can hold the camera without coming loose from the torque caused by the weight of the camera.
MARATHON: The Patriots Day Bombing
If you have HBO, check out "MARATHON: The Patriots Day Bombing." A film I worked on with DP Austin de Besche, Susan Bryant, and Daniel Jacobs. It begins airing tonight! http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/marathon-the-patriots-day-bombing
My girlfriend, Nancy, and I saw the premiere at the Shubert here in Boston. I'm proud to have worked on it.
Selfie
Ticket.
The beautiful Shubert.
Ethics
Learning about the ethics of kidney exchanges and dwarf tossing (I'm not making that up) at Harvard Business School.
Yo-Yo Ma
At the New England Conservatory with Productive Media recording Yo-Yo Ma give a master class to cellists.
Multiple
Spend the day doing multiple two camera interviews with soundperson extraordinaire, Susan Bryant. :-)
I bought this monitor because its the sharpest one I know (plus its an OLED and very pretty). I needed one I could judge focus on when shooting wide open on primes. It's worked out nicely, as you can see.
Busy Week!
Normally, August is pretty slow in the Boston area, but I was kept pretty busy this week.
Normally, August is pretty slow in the Boston area, but I was kept pretty busy this week.
Here I was shooting the Total Store Expo on the 7th.
On the 8th, I was waiting for Steven Tyler to appear. Did we maybe need a little more fog? His new album is country-western(!), and we got to see a sneak preview!
At Welsh's, on the 9th, I got to use my cool Edelkrone SliderPlus to shoot a new kind of product they’re making to be featured on Innovations, a Discovery Channel show. We also shot some interviews.
On the 10th, I shot a professor from Northeastern University for a story about the history of presidential debates to be featured on the New York Times' Retro Report. I’ve worked on several films for them. The rainy day clouds made for a nice, soft key light.
And on the 11th, I had fun with green screens at the Fix Your Funnel convention at the BCEC. I was very glad to be shooting inside of an overly air-conditioned convention center on a day when the heat index was over 100 degrees F outside!
I'm very happy to be heading to Martha's Vineyard for the weekend. ;-)
Extraordinary People
Great shoot for the BBC of the series Extraordinary People at Suffolk University.
Breaking News!
I always enjoy being part of breaking news frenzy!
Here I was shooting David Gergen's analysis of President Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton for CNN.
That's the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on the screen behind him, which is where he teaches. We actually shot in a studio at Pulse Media, Inc. in Watertown, MA. The magic of television!
Shooting at MIT for ITN with Janet Wu
Great days of shooting at MIT for ITN with Janet Wu and Daniel Jacobs.
Thanks to Daniel for the photos, lugging gear, and especially for taking care of that loud air vent in the ceiling (look carefully and you'll see it)! 😀
