Members BillESC Posted November 5, 2012 Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 I've been on a movie shoot. Hired as Key Grip, I've been in charge of the cameras, dollies, sliders, steady cam and jibs.Steady cam rig.Camera on jib, jib on dolly, dolly on tracks.Staging area days one, two and three.Yours truely moving the dolly to the next location.Slider on the bar.The Gaffer rigging a camera position on the outside of the pickup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scarecrowbob Posted November 5, 2012 Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 Nice-- do you do a lot of grip work? I've ben having fun over the last couple of years doing indy film projects, usually I'm doing boom/recordist work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted November 5, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 Very little actually. My area is not a hot bed of the movie world. This particular production was written by a man who lives one town away from me and it's about his daughter, so all of the locations were local. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted November 5, 2012 Members Share Posted November 5, 2012 I used to run local 35mm dailies until that business dried up abouty 15 years ago. No question that you earn every dollar of your pay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tomm Williams Posted November 9, 2012 Members Share Posted November 9, 2012 Very cool deviation from the usual sound gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted November 9, 2012 Members Share Posted November 9, 2012 Originally Posted by agedhorse I used to run local 35mm dailies until that business dried up abouty 15 years ago. No question that you earn every dollar of your pay Film? Did you run it on foot or via pack dinosaur ? Kinda funny, one of the companies I'm consulting at these days used to be all about film handling automation for processing - that business went from full bore to zero in the span of 30 days I'm told. They expected it to taper off over a couple years, not fall off a cliff like that . One of their machines ran the very last roll of Kodachrome processed at Dwayne's - truly a sad day :http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...de-show-201102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Telecruiser Posted November 9, 2012 Members Share Posted November 9, 2012 I've done 13 hrs/day, 7 day a week for the last three weeks in my shop. Long hours but the work was very profitable. Today is my day off and then back at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IsildursBane Posted November 9, 2012 Members Share Posted November 9, 2012 Over here it's been 60 hr/wk for the last 6 weeks and 50hr/wk for a couple months prior to that. I'll probably be on 60/wk through thanksgiving. -Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted November 9, 2012 Members Share Posted November 9, 2012 Originally Posted by RoadRanger Film? Did you run it on foot or via pack dinosaur ? Kinda funny, one of the companies I'm consulting at these days used to be all about film handling automation for processing - that business went from full bore to zero in the span of 30 days I'm told. They expected it to taper off over a couple years, not fall off a cliff like that . One of their machines ran the very last roll of Kodachrome processed at Dwayne's - truly a sad day :http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/fe...de-show-201102 Pretty old school, 1000' split reels, picure interlocked with 3 stripe mag audio on a syl-sync dubber. Last time was for Clint Eastwood's "Pink Cadillac". Small world too, my late riding coach was the second unit stunt coordinator and I was screening some of his stunts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tomm Williams Posted November 10, 2012 Members Share Posted November 10, 2012 Originally Posted by agedhorse Pretty old school, 1000' split reels, picure interlocked with 3 stripe mag audio on a syl-sync dubber. Last time was for Clint Eastwood's "Pink Cadillac". Small world too, my late riding coach was the second unit stunt coordinator and I was screening some of his stunts! Were you up at Lake Almanor for the scenes at that little store in Taylorsville where they blew up the dumpster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted November 11, 2012 Members Share Posted November 11, 2012 Originally Posted by Tomm Williams Were you up at Lake Almanor for the scenes at that little store in Taylorsville where they blew up the dumpster? No I wasn't up there, but I screened all that footage down in Sacramento where they were spending most of the off-set time. I must have screened 7 or 8 hours of raw footage. My riding coach was the principle stunt driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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