Chris McKechnie
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A cool little One-Take music video I DP'd/Shot for Tiffany Alvord. She's so incredibly humble and sincere and was an absolute blast to work with.
iOS Link: https://vimeo.com/137317618
Was a single day shoot. Didn't close down the street, so we were constantly battling traffic which made it a challenge. We only had like an hour or so to shoot it once we started rolling since we were utilizing the sun and needed it to get low enough in frame to not cause mad/ugly flare. Shot in HDRX to help retain some sky detail, and we just bounced the sun with shiny-boards/checkerboards. We were a little limited since we couldn't really go into the street or run mobile generators during the track, so couldn't really have any mobile lighting. I used an HMI inside the little shop's main entrance, then another one at her stage performance and used a kino as fill there as well.
In order to keep up with her, I sat on my mobile cart and had the DIT pull me since at several points through the song she skips and then gets on a skateboard. I tried many times to keep up with her walking backwards, but it just wasn't working at all, so I enlisted the DIT to pull me on my cart, which saved my legs!!! We ran it about 6-7 times, and the 4th take is what they used.
Choreography took most of the set time as there were a lot of people that had to be incorporated. All the people throughout the tracking shot are the same people listening to her performance at the end, so they had to book it right after camera cleared them.
All in all, was a fun shoot that we pulled off. One-takes are always difficult, this one especially since it covered so much ground, but it was great to be a part of.
Shoot Details:
Shot on Epic MX
Contax Zeiss Glass
MoVI M10
Tiltamax Armorman Support Exo
Cinegears Wireless Follow Focus
Paralinx Triton for monitoring
Zero post-stabilization used in the edit
Just did a quick grade in Davinci
iOS Link: https://vimeo.com/137317618
Was a single day shoot. Didn't close down the street, so we were constantly battling traffic which made it a challenge. We only had like an hour or so to shoot it once we started rolling since we were utilizing the sun and needed it to get low enough in frame to not cause mad/ugly flare. Shot in HDRX to help retain some sky detail, and we just bounced the sun with shiny-boards/checkerboards. We were a little limited since we couldn't really go into the street or run mobile generators during the track, so couldn't really have any mobile lighting. I used an HMI inside the little shop's main entrance, then another one at her stage performance and used a kino as fill there as well.
In order to keep up with her, I sat on my mobile cart and had the DIT pull me since at several points through the song she skips and then gets on a skateboard. I tried many times to keep up with her walking backwards, but it just wasn't working at all, so I enlisted the DIT to pull me on my cart, which saved my legs!!! We ran it about 6-7 times, and the 4th take is what they used.
Choreography took most of the set time as there were a lot of people that had to be incorporated. All the people throughout the tracking shot are the same people listening to her performance at the end, so they had to book it right after camera cleared them.
All in all, was a fun shoot that we pulled off. One-takes are always difficult, this one especially since it covered so much ground, but it was great to be a part of.
Shoot Details:
Shot on Epic MX
Contax Zeiss Glass
MoVI M10
Tiltamax Armorman Support Exo
Cinegears Wireless Follow Focus
Paralinx Triton for monitoring
Zero post-stabilization used in the edit
Just did a quick grade in Davinci
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