It was just a pick up day but it was nice to see familiar faces such as Robyn Wiener, Kelly-Ruth Mercier, Luke Barlow, Josh Alkof, Stephan Heincke and Dawn Mollerup to name a few. My Boom op was a new one to me - Jason Seagal (who has skills) and Jes Mathieson who came along for [...]
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In February I did a feature called Cold Spots and it wasn’t a very good experience for me. In short a lav mic went missing and the Production (well the Producer) stiffed me on it. It is a long and involved story of a screw up on my part, lots of things getting damaged and missing [...] Ed Brando (of William F. Whites and long time acquaintance) emailed me that he had a project in January (Yes I know I’m behind here but hey read on…). He wanted to know if I was interested in helping out doing what I do. Well anytime Ed has a project I’m willing to help because he [...] 2009 has been a challenging year not only for me but for the world as well. On a personnel level it has been very fulfilling and the people that I have met have been good solid people, people of their word and have kept me honest to myself as well. On a business level it has [...] Yes indeed. Been a very lazy boy, working when I want and having fun. Sounds good until you wake up and realize that you really miss working harder and doing more. Meeting people on set and the challenges of the job are always changing. So it is time to step back in to the world of [...] Some jobs you do for the money, some for the travel and others for the challenge. On this shoot I was doing it ….why was I doing it again? Let me explain. When anything is designed, it is the best at what can done given time, price and other constraints we are bound by. And things work. So what if they work BUT you want/need them to be better. This is when I get my thinking cap on, soldering iron out and do a little research. Now, some [...] Every year I do around 12 “freebies” to help out the struggling Indies. To give back and help people out. Now most of these are on ultra low budget Videos and Movies. I like to be able to contribute and to just help the process of making a better film for people. Some shoots are well [...] Now have a Lectrosonics Venue system in my Cart. The Microns have served me well and I will use them when I need to. The size of the units, power consumption, range and overall performance are quite good on the little (and I do mean little) Lectrosonics SMD transmitters. Have also modified my Audio [...] It has been a little quite these days so I tend to get into what I call Design and Improvement Mode (DIM for short). It is when I come up with some brilliant(least I think so) idea that I can incorporate into my gear or make to replace or improve upon an existing idea or [...] I just wanted to wish everyone a safe, fun and prosperous [...] I think I worked on one of the first RED VIDEO CAMERAS with BLOOD: A Butchers Tale and all it was, was a small lens box attached to a MAC. It didn’t like Audio then and it doesn’t much like Audio even now. In the Video world it has made a huge splash and yet I [...] That is what has happened to the summer for me. Did lots of projects and worked with some really great people. Some of the more notable things that happened where: Became a member in good standing with I.A.T.S.E. 891. This in particular made me very happy. It was really nice getting in on merit and not because [...] I’m sure that it will. Having become an official member of I.A.S.T.E. 891 (as a mixer) August 15th 2008 I’m all excited and ready to go. I’ll be looking for second unit work with a passion because that is what I want. Not that my skills couldn’t handle doing Main unit. [...] Got a call from “The Thaw” a local production, more specifically Craig Stauffer the mixer, who had a pinched nerve in his back. Having gone through that I had great sympathy and wanted to help however I could. Well what they needed was a Boom Op for a couple of days [...] I find it humorous how life sometimes lines itself up and gives its own punch line. Example with a call from Keith Toms the Line Producer for CINENOVA Productions, who just happen to be doing a story for National Geographic. When Keith called he did have “touth mroubles” (a cute way of saying [...] April has been a weird month for me. To start off April I released my first short called “Voices” in the first (annual I hope) Terminal Cinema Film Festival. And to my surprise people liked it. Not that it was bad or anything, I just didn’t realize that it was that good. [...] Just when you thought that it was safe to go out and record … stuffis, for your own library, along comes work, the nerve! Got together with the talented people at RETHINK and Dean Ekstrom to do a whole lot of spots for the very humorous “Julie” on the Coast Capital Savings . At first I just [...] Every once in a while I will get a phone call from someone that goes like this… “Hi Peter? We’re doing a no-budget Indie and we’re wondering… Now I’m sure that the eyes roll and smirks abound yet, I still like to help out once in a while for two reasons. The first , it is where we [...] Drama. I think that I can live without it. And just when you thought that it was safe to go and do something nice. Let me explain. A lot of times I do flats for people, to help them out with their finances. For those that don’t know what flats are: flats are when you [...] |
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