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Here is the latest in our series on Investigator Profiles for the Research Lab of Electronics.
This is the first in a series of Web commercials for one of our clients Work N’ Gear. The commercials were modeled after a spot shot for Dickies. The film was shot on location in Lawrence MA, and features our own CB Kearney talking about his fine woodworking business.
The spot was shot, and posted in a weekend.
Thanks to Rabbit (editor,) and Gary (Designer) for the hustle in turning the project out on a super fast deadline!
Shot some more video interviews the other day. I think interviewing is one of my favorite parts of working with video. Its such an amazing chance to sit with brilliant people and get the chance to learn!
A good interview makes or breaks a film. It is the basis for a solid story, and is the narritive that drives the film along.
Stay tuned for another of our finished films. You can also check out some of our video work on YouTube.
Here is the latest film in our Investigator Prifile series or IP’s for the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT.
Hope you enjoy!
Rabbit sets up for the interview
Started on another film on our RLE Investigator Profile series last Friday.
The workflow process for these films are as follows: Two camera video interview on either black or white seamless. B-roll of the subject teaching, in their lab, as well as their students. Possibly some more B-roll around campus, then into the editing room.
These films roughly take 110-150hrs of post production before they are finished, which takes roughly 8-12 days to finish. I’ll post it when we finish.
To see some other RLE films, you can find them on YouTube.
Here are some of the rushes that go along with the post Movie Tools.
The footage was all shot using the Eazy-Jib.
Enjoy!
We are shooting in a very cool world these days…. Because the newest generation of digital SLR’s have such keen images at high ISO’s, we can often time shoot with a hot light like a Lowel Tota.
1000w Lowel Tota in a small Chimera
The question is: Why would we do this over strobes?
Switching between stills and video is easy with the Tota Light
This isnt a solution for every job. If you want really high quality and need the resolution, you will still want to blast the shot with a strobe, but if the stills are being used on the web, or are not being blown up out of sight, then you can start to think about hot lights.
We just finished the latest film in our Investigator Profile series on professors over at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT.
This film was a lot of fun because Prof Sarpeshkar gave a great interview… Which made the edit go very smoothly. It was also the first IP film where we added the use of the Steadicam, as well as incorporated aerial photography.
I hope you enjoy!
Mass eMail from Graphis
I just got an eMail from Graphis for their Annual Report 2010 call for entries. I was excited to see that they chose my portrait of Designer/Photographer Michael Weymouth, owner of Weymouth Design.
The photo was shot for a feature story on Mike that I believe is in the latest issue of Graphis.
To read the behind the scenes article on the shoot day last fall, click here:
You can also watch a short film on the photo shoot as well.
Last Wed was spent over at MIT at Franz Kaertner’s lab. The professor had requested a simple video tour so he could show prospective new students what his lab looked like. We cut the film over the weekend, and will be posted on his groups web site.
We shot the tour down and dirty using available light, and a wireless mic. This new footage will be inter cut with more graphic photos and video captured the last time we shot in his lab.
You can watch the Investigator Profile film we produced previously here:
I will post the film when we finish final revisions.
Checking bags at Logan
As an older photographer friend used to say… this job sure beats tarring roofs!
Just in the nick of time (winter is getting old) we are off on another adventure. Its not really for a long bit of time, but we are fortunate enough to be heading down to the Dominican Republic to shoot tourism photos for a remote Hacienda on the north side of the island. The photos (as well as video) will be used for a new web site.
Rabbit wont be needing that hat
We will be shooting architecture, environmental portraits, underwater photography, video interviews, and video interviews of the owners.
Boston to Miami, then off to Santo Domingo DR where we rent a car, and then drive 4 hours across the mountains. I will post more as the trip goes along.
Leaving Miami
Sawing logs...
We had a great new business meeting this week with our colleges over at Kor Group here in Boston. We have been exploring a relationship between our two companies with respect to the photography and video, and have found a project that might really be able to showcase both.
We spent the two hour meeting flushing out concepts, and listening to the exact need of their client. The job will entail lots of photography as well as several film modules. The end result will be print and web.
What makes it so appealing to work with a firm like Kor is their drive to work with creative people. Every time we go over to their office, there is always such great energy and a positive vibe. It is contagious.
The project sounds like a really exciting campaign, and we are very excited to get started!
Stay tuned for more developments…..
I got an eMail asking about how we mounted the cameras for the gratuitous “about” film we made, so here are some of the “behind the scenes” photos…
Basically what we did was pretty simple, and consists of mounting a bunch of grip gear in a creative way.
The first thing you need is a solid platform to mount things from. In our case, when we bought the Toyota Tacoma, we installed a front bumper made by ARB. This bumper has a tubular top, which makes it very easy to attach pipe clamps as well as super clamps.
Just finished another film.
This one was to showcase CIPS or the Center for Integrated Photonic Systems. The film follows basically the same format that we have been using for all the films done for RLE at MIT.
Enjoy!
To watch our other fillms, click here.
(L-R) Chris, Anthony, Greg, Gary flush out ideas for a television commercial
For those of you who have been following our silly goings on, you have probably been aware that we have been shooting and producing a LOT of video lately.
It’s not really that strange for me actually. When I left Emerson College back in 94′ (I studied film) I left Boston and headed out to LA where I worked in the motion picture industry as a camera assistant. For the past 10 years in the photography business, film and video production has always been just an arm’s length away, and over the past two, the convergence of the two has been unavoidable.
Today, Richard (or The Rabbit) heads up full blown production department complete with HD cameras and two Final Cut editing suites. For our biggest video client (RLE at MIT) we are producing one film roughly every 2-4 weeks. When we hit the road and go on location, we almost always shoot video. This tends to be a big selling point to our clients, as we often shoot what we call “companion video” at no extra cost to the client.
As I posted briefly, last Thursday we had the opportunity to photograph our friend Shepard Fairey.
Shepard is in town for his show at the ICA or Institute for Contemporary Art here in Boston. If you have a chance to come out to Boston to check it out… you will NOT be disappointed! You can also watch him on the Colbert Report, listen to his interview with Terry Gross of NPR, and catch him on Feb 2nd on the Chalie Rose Show. Shepard’s Obey Giant work can be viewed at his site, and his commercial work can be found at Studio Number One.
For those who are unfamiliar with his work, Shepard has been influencing pop culture since 1989 when he came onto the scene with his early Andre the Giant screen printing. Personally, Shepard’s work has influenced my own artistic direction since high school when my good friend Eric Freedman (now at Modernista) gave me one of the early “Andre The Giant Has A Posse” stickers. Since then, I have followed his work and have purchased several of his original pieces. Recently, the buzz around Shepard has been associated with his Obama Hope poster, which then lead to a commission and then donation by art collectors Heather and Tony Podesta to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
Layover in Las Vegas
Well, Rabbit and I are back out on the road again.
Yesterday we made our way via Las Vegas to Los Angeles. We escaped just in time I may say as they just got blasted with a crazy Arctic freeze.
Goodbye winter... for now
Anyway, we have a couple of very busy days here in the City of Angles. First, we are shooting photos and video for our old friend Aaron Haesaert again at Catapult Thinking at the NAMM show from 6am till 11-ish, then we scoot across town to have a meeting for a job we are doing in February, and then we head north to shoot a portrait for another client. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is the latest in our series of “Investigator Profiles” for the Research Lab of Electronics over at MIT.
This is a profile of Prof. Jeff Shapiro and Franco Wong.
