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Hasbro - Product Tabletop
DP/Camera Operator

         
     

Product shots for Hasbro for their New York Toy Fair sizzles. Games shot on seamless with gobo shadows. 'Bop-It' series featured moving shadows with snap zooms. Monopoly sizzle was entirely macro lens hand-held.

 

 

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Thomson/Proscan-RCA Video On-Video
 Lighting Gaffer  
Proscan TV's on Columns  RCA remote control  Large Projection sets- three abreast 

Proscan VCR's  Projection set with chair element- 

Nationwide point of sale video disc project. Setup two simultaneous areas in 90 x 120ft. studio, toggling back and forth for 6 days to shoot over 200 separate shots. Specified gels, gobo's and color combinations on angled & flown wire mesh columns, cyc and carpeted studio floor. Devised strategy to light black glossy TV's etc. for moving dolly shots, avoiding glares off rounded and irregular surfaces. Incorporated moving color changes into many shots.   Shot exteriors on location for certain products.


 

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Hasbro - "Batman Ninja Action Figures"
DP/Camera Operator

  CU Batman chopping board in two  
Robin fighting monster with dry ice fog on minature set

New York Toy fair vignette shot on 16mm. Miniature set was built to portray a dark urban sewer setting. Lit for a night time feel using lots of blues and lavenders while still keeping a white reference on the action figures, so all colors would be true to the actual product. Used a system of dams and channels to corral dry ice in creating fog effect flowing out of the Sewer entrance.


 

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ProScan "Year Review":
Lighting Gaffer
 

Product display shot on location on the 6th floor of the Pendleton building. Involved extensive rigging of the ceiling joists to suspend lighting. Shot at night for an evening feel, exposed so the lighted Cincinnati city skyline was visible outside the windows.

 

 

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Aronoff Center "Opening Night Video":
Lighting Gaffer

 

 
Persuaded producer to light architect model this with a nighttime feel since that was how most of the patrons would experience it. Working with an Innovision Probe lens used pools of light to recreate street lights. Lit the curved cyc wall a subdued blue. Jib created many dynamic shots of the 60 million arts center that were intercut  within the opening night video.

 

 

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YMCA "After the Holidays":
Lighting Gaffer

 

Tabletop food shots depicting the aftermath of a large fattening holiday meal to emphasize the need to get back in the gym. Used subdued evening feel lighting to contrast with the bright high key lighting in the rest of the spot show casing the YMCA's facilities.

 

 

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Kenner Toys "Bad Beast":
Lighting Gaffer

16mm film vignette for new product introduced at the Fall 1992 New York Toy Fair. Involved a working miniature "Escape From New York" type of cityscape set for the toy truck to crush miniature props in. Lit set for a gritty night time feel.


 

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DP blocked action, created lighting, composed shots
DP/Cam blocked action, created lighting & composed/op shots
Lighting Gaffer created and directed all lighting
Gaffer directed lighting from DP's instructions

 


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