First two weeks of a Feature

The experience of being a best boy electric. You may wonder what that is well allow me to explain with some pictures.
The Lighting

And the crew.

A best boy electric is an awesome title for the head assistaint to the main lighting expert on the film. Therefore I was the right hand man. The film was a feature called "For Robbing the Dead" you can check out more pictures and stuff on Facebook they have fan page there.
Any-who. It was my first feature film that I was on for the entire time. 30 days. The first two weeks we where at the LDS Motion picture studio which was crazy cool. We shot on some sound stages and the back lot.

On the Sound Stage

A typical lighting set up
A typical night shoot. All the grave stones are sousaphone and to light this we had a 60 foot lift with a 20,000 watt light on it shinning down it was pretty crazy awesome. Along with some other lights on the ground.
Those where the first two weeks on the shoot join me next time for the next two weeks.

Running with the Zebras

This last semester I had the rare opportunity to go to Africa and shoot Zebras.

Well, not really, but we did find some Zebras to shoot in south Utah. Go figure in all the places in the world you could find a Zebra farm in south Utah. So there we were living the high life shooting Zebras and superimposing them in a different scene.


Of course I can't take the credit. I was the Gaffer on the film. Which means I was in charge of the lighting for the film. At first it wasn't very difficult because we were outside but we did have a cave scene with torches. That was tons of fun too. Hauling a 200 pound generator up a huge hill and lighting a 30 foot high and 80 feet deep cave. It was awesome. The end video turned out great. It was tons of fun. I didn't direct. I mainly focused on lighting which was a job in of itself.
I did get the chance to help shoot.
You may think that we are using only picture cameras. However, this is the new Canon 7D which shoots full 1080p which is an extremely high quality video. It makes great images that has a nice film look to them. It has some problems but all in all it works great.

On the Brink

This is it. My first post to my silly film fun blog for those who wish to help support a starving film student make a difference. I guess? This blog is made mainly for friends and family who wish to help support me in my film making endeavors. However, if you are neither friend nor family feel free to donate. I thought it a little tacky to just ask for money straight out so I thought I would provide some sort of service. With a $20 donation you will receive, after I graduate, a DVD copy of all the films I have made in school. A more then $20 dollar donation would be very much appreciated as well. Especially if you want multiple copies. Along with the DVD I will be updating this blog periodically with adventures of my film making days. Thank you so much for all your love and support and hope to see you in the movies.


Here is one of my Demo Reels Put together really quick for all of you.