friday is done

So we finished pretty much on time... that's a good thing. I am back home and in bed before 1 am. So back at it tomorrow crew call is at 8am. I am hoping we can knock it out by 8pm, we shall see. keep checking back.

ready for talent

Lighting crew is done, just waiting on grip swing and talent then we start shooting, we are doing pretty good on time. for this first scene we are doing a tracking shot with the fisher. keep checking back.

4pm crew call

It's almost time for crew call. Some of us have been here for several hours already. We are hoping to knock this out today before 1am... we shall see. Stay updated I will be posting more as the night goes on.

VLOG Baby!

Roll Camera and Action! So we thought it would be cool to let you see some behind the scenes footage of our IFC shoot. We have only 3 more days of filming. This weekend is it, then we go to post. check back often because i will be updating hopefully every day.

IFC studio shoot timelapse 1

from about 4pm until midnight

That's a wrap for tonight

Just finished striking the set we are ready for tomorrow at 8am. We shot our tunnel scene and jeff going into the ifc town today. tomorrow we are shooting a lot more starting with the bakery scene. We have a great team everyone is coming together really well. Not to mention having rex there is awesome. Props to Adam Mcfarland for pulling the Executive Producer credit you deserve it brother. Excellent work as well for everyone! stay updated and ready to see some pics and timelapse footage soon.

Roll Camera

Today is the first day we start shooting in the studio. It is going to be amazing.
our schedule for this weekend is friday 4pm-midnight sat 8am - 6pm sunday 1pm - midnight we will see how it all goes but we will probably take longer on each day. oh and we are going to timelapse the production with my camera as well so you can see behind the scenes.

Action!

Sound ready... ready... camera ready... ready.... roll sound.... speed.... roll camera.... speed.... scene two apple take 3.... dolly action.... and action.

You could hear a pin drop on the carpeted hospital floor. That's how quiet it was on the set at St. Lukes Hospital. We had 14 set ups to do and we did it all in 13 hours.

Our crew call was 1pm but a lot of us were there before 12 loading up equipment and grabbing a quick bite at the dex. We shot on 16mm film with out cp-16 camera. It's pretty old but its still rollin. Troy Waters, Scott Christianson, and myself were the electrics/grips. Alex Hackett was the key grip/gaffer. We brought a crane for our establishing shot. it's almost as heavy as our fisher dolly. it takes 4 guys to carry just the arm section.

The first person to greet us was a security guard who apparently had no idea we were supposed to be there, and he didn't want to let us in. So we had to call up some people and deal with that. Once that was all ironed out everything else went relatively smooth.

The first shot took us 2 hours to set up and it was a 5 second p.o.v. shot. That gives you an idea of what it takes to light things and get the job done right. Everything else moved a bit quicker from then on we have a solid team. We had several fisher dolly shots the crane and some standard stick (tripod) shots mcu's (medium close ups) ots (over the shoulders) etc. It was a good day.

Stay updated things are moving fast.

Stay Tuned

We are almost done with the set for An Idaho Family Christmas... Filming starts soon.
I will keep everyone updated as soon as things happen, I think we are shooting the Hospital scene this weekend or next and we are shooting that on film, so that will be awesome. I'm an electric for this shoot, plus a grip. So stay tuned friends.
Chris