The KarmaScenic Chronicles: Digital Media Services

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Johnnie Walker Taiwan

I have a photography student who is leaving for China on Monday and we had our final lesson before she leaves. As we spoke about the Asian peoples she will meet it reminded me of this shoot. One of the highlights for me was working with the international crew. This shoot was for Johnnie Walker and was to be aired in Taiwan and China and stared then New York Yankee pitcher Chien Ming Wang. The senior creative positions were filled by crew from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the director of photography Mr. Chris White from New Zealand. This 2 min documentary style commercial was directed by Yann Kung and was produced by King and I Productions in association with Vince Mann productions and Digital Media Services. I served as 2nd Assistant Director and by convenience of be the closest to the hotel key liaison to the foreign crew. As I was extremely busy on this production I don’t have a complete photographic record but I do have some. As luck would have it though DMS’s Brian Satchfeild was brought in to create behind the scenes videos for both the American and Asian markets. So Watch the video then look at the pictures there will be a link to the actual commercial at the end so follow on along to that to see the fruits of our labor.

watch the short documentary below. (it is youtube so be patient)

Short out take further illustrating the Rain rig.

Brian shooting behind the scenes vids at a tech scout

Vince and Brian at the tech scout

One of the DMS production vehicles

tech scout later that evening location 2

Vince producing

Meeting with key creative staff and art department.

tech scout next day street location. The man in the hat is the director and the gentleman with the camera is the DOP

using the Arri cam body with a 50 prime to get perspective

gettin low

What do I always say… Your not shootin till your on the ground. Of coarse this is just a scout and there is clearly no film mag on the camera, but I stand behind my statement.

Shooting day one the rig in its actual configuration

settin up the camera and the dolly crane behind

Director and producer

Camera assistants with one of the video feeds to the cam cart

Mr. White getting light readings

checking the cam

the Arri cam in all it’s glory

setting up for an outside shot the first shot of the day. Talent is getting final makeup touch ups by tony Jo our lead makeup artist

crew making final preperations

Mr. Kung giving our talent instruction before the next shot

executing a dolly shot

shooting shooting

Well that's all the photos I have as the next days shoot was even more busy and my responsibilities were many. But I think with the behind the scenes vids you get a picture of the second day. So for the final version of the commercial click below:

“Support Your Dreams” Johnnie Walker video click here

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Nautical Landings with Digital Media Services

This one is a High def video production with my boys from Digital Media Services for vacation rental condos Nautical Landings in Dunedin Florida. Click on the video below.

It was a beautiful spring day in Florida that began before sunrise and ended after sunset. Brian Satchfeild directed from behind the camera as Lance Robson and myself served in multiple rolls to make this production happen. We used friends and family of the condo owners as talent and if you look fast you may even see Lance and myself appear in the video. We used a Panasonic high def camera and a smith victor light set up. For smooth polished movement we used a steadycam merlin, and a mathews doorway dolly.

now on to the pictures…

setting up a dolly shot