Shooting this spot was the most cold and miserable shooting days I've ever had. Out in the plains, freezing cold, wind so strong it would catch your car door and bend it back.
It took 3 days to shoot. The production company put everyone up in a motel. We actually snuck our cat into our motel room because he just had surgery and needed to recuperate. So he lived under the bed.
Read MoreYou don’t typically find many big feature Cinematographers that started out in nature photography. The nature people typically stay in that niche for their entire career. But Will R. is an exception. How you manage your career in film makes all the difference.
I asked Will R. how he became a big feature Director of Photography and this is what he told me.
Read MoreWhat I want to share with you in this blog is how you can have a career in the film industry: What kind of film jobs there are, the money you can make, and how to get in, even how to find the best online film school. I also want to give you a realistic view of what it’s like working in this industry. To do that I put together stories about what happens on a film set and what it’s like working on professional sets.
One of the best things about working in the film industry, is that you work on fun stuff all day long and you get to work with your friends. It’s a fun, lighthearted environment most of the time. After all, we all left the real world to have a different, more exciting lifestyle. We get the work done and are focused on that, but any extra time and energy we have, we’re spending with each other.
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