Mark Stucker 

 

 

Dramatic/Music Video Frame Grabs
 a selective listing...

Marmalade Brigade Music video
"Shock N' Ahh"

Director/DP/

 

Completed in two days, shot on my Sony EX-3 & a Canon XHA1.   With a non-existent budget & volunteer crew we pulled this together using colored florescent, LED lighting, a  few fresnels and  open face lights.  I worked with my son Adrian on this. He operated out of his wheelchair (double heel injuries) for the dolly shots while I did the handheld & fixed frame work.  Adrian served as the editor on the piece as well.

video - be  sure to watch in 720p

 

Hasbro - Pox
DP/Camera Operator

      

   
  
 

35mm shoot in Rise's Studio A. Used every bit of this stage to recreate a top secret research base. We wanted a dark feel to this dramatically done story to further promote major new toy- Pox. Custom built a vault and light corridor. Spec out to the scenic dept. to build alternating panels of milk plexi and masonite for long lens shots and dolly shots. Created a rear screen projection set for dolly moves on the mother spacecraft fly-over and hero shots. I was glad to not be suffering inside the yellow containments suits.
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Barco Films - "Crocodile" Independent Film Short
Lighting Gaffer -

 

     
   
     
   
     
     
 
 

Premiered: Friday May 11th 2001 Esquire Theater - Cincinnati, OH
October 19-21 2001: Winner- Best Regional Film - Cincinnati International Film Festival
April 2002:
Bronze award in Houston Worldfest Film Festival - Dramatic Adaptation category

Summer & Fall of 2000 I completed lighting direction for the short film "Crocodile". The film was co-written by Pedro Lange-Churion and Tracy Seeley, based on the short story Cocodrillo. The authors are professors of Language and Literature who were on sabbatical from the University of San Francisco. The two respectively directed and produced the project. The film was shot on 35mm 5279 film stock, with a donated ancient blimped Arriflex IIc by Roger Holliday. Armed with a three ton truck, a rusty 6K, 2-2500's, 4 1200's, a small tungsten package, and a largely novice crew, we rolled into action on a Monday morning, and didn't stop filming until 8 days later. With 11 shooting locations, 28 speaking character parts and over 100 extras it was an involved film for a low budget independent short.

Production Pictures

 

Proctor & Gamble - Crest
Director of Photography

overhead-shadowed dance shot  CU dancer in 2nd location  CU lead singer

Music video set to Hammer's "Can't Touch This." Incorporated dance choreography & product. Shot four days in studio and on location.

 

 

Another Place Productions -"Sex & Violence":
Lighting Gaffer

 

  stairway up at night - Jerone 
 
  

Twelve minute 16mm film trailer set to a bizarre murder mystery screenplay. Created to solicit feature film funding in Europe & the U.S. Involved staying one jump ahead in a very tight production schedule that included night time exteriors, rain, fog and yes, some leather....


 

KET Film & Video Festival "Maybe a New Wave Calling"
Director/Camera & Editor
 

Julie 1 - sut-cake-tigers-light  rub-a-dub-julie- -2ghouled-julie -3  living dead- Julie with razor-4

Music video shot with friends on cable station equipment & effected/ posted at WKYT-TV 27 where I worked after I signed the station off in the wee hours of the night. The project was entered in the statewide KET Film & Video Festival 1982. It was selected along with 15 other entries for the Best of Show, the narrowest the festival selects. 

 

back to Dramatic/Music Video credits

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

Contact Mark Stucker at 513-325-4943 or at mark@markstucker.com

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, 
but when there is nothing left to take away.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery