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Awards:
Audience Appreciation Award - Group C
Best
Sound Design
3rd place out of 33 teams competing -

 
The 48 Hour Film Project


August 2004   Lead Producer/1st unit Director of Photography






 

   We did it again this year against our better judgment - 48 hours of total madness. 48 hours where a film owns every part of your mind body and soul. This year I headed up the Pixel Farmer team again. We had a combined cast and crew of 29 people strong.

  We further refined our process & strategy in pre-production meetings, weeks before. Four locations were scouted in advanced. Head shots of potential actors were taken amid taking  care of as many other producing details as possible before the clock  started ticking at 7:30pm  the Friday night of the competition.

 We drew MYSTERY  and decided on our warehouse location in lower Price Hill.

  A two hour brain storming session kicked everything off, then a writers team took over, as other departments met and made plans. A script with casting calls - directions etc. was completed by 3:30am.

We started shooting the next day at 7:00am and didn't  finish until after 3:00am. Picking up shooting  again at 8:00am Sunday, the final tapes were ushered back to the edit at 2:30pm. The edit had started Sat. with the first tapes delivered around 1:00pm and continued all night.

The edit proceeded up until the last possible moments, then we raced the tape to the deadline location at a Main St. bar. We made it with only a literal minute to spare. See all the details on the Fermata website. It was indeed another wild ride again this year. Download the film from here.



 

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EvolutionUSA - "The Mansion"
August 2004
   Gaffer/Camera
 

  This July and August I found myself a part of a reality show shooting in Cincinnati. The production was being produced by the same people who brought us Fear Factor, House Rules & Big Brother. It was called "The Mansion" and was based on eight people living together totally remodeling a Mansion with the winner picked by the viewing audience to take it all.

I served as gaffer on this as well as a day player camera later when it started shooting. Many hot days in July were spent mounting lights in trees with a 40ft. boom lift, battling wasps and bees poolside, doing detective work on 80 year old wiring & turning a carriage house into a studio lighting  wise.

We evened out the lighting in the some 20 plus rooms of the house and  had an  additional 150 amp service installed to augment the existing power to accommodate the show requirements.

Actual shooting ran the end of July through the first weeks of September. It started airing the first of Oct and  can be found Sat. mornings at 10am on the TBS  cable network.

   
 
   
   
   
    
 

 

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