C100: Sean Callery's Music Underscore Empoirum - Emmy Nominee clip

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Have you ever been assigned a project to make it look bad? I shot mega talented composer Sean Callery's (24, Homeland, Bones, Backstrom, amongst others) Emmy Nominee clip. Remember, he is a composer, not an actor, he did a nice job of being cheesy and we had a fun shoot. Canon C100 + Atomos Ninja Blade, Nikon 85mm F1.8 Ais, he is lit with three LED Panels (two CL LED600s, one through a small Chimera and one bounced into a 48" white Flexfill, a CL LED256 for a hair light) while I lit the green screen with two Kino Flo Diva 200s. It was a tough choice on whether to actually light him badly but in the end, we decided to light him decently and let the editor make it look worse in post. I could have just lit him with a single open faced 650 but I didn't to make it look too terrible. It raised an interesting question of is it better to make things look actually bad or to imply that things look bad, starting from a base of something not looking terrible?

https://shar.es/17YmvB The clip, inexplicably, is in Shockwave (who still uses Shockwave?!?!) so I can't get it to embed here so click on the link. The Academy is old school.

Sean CalleryNominee, Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special Original Dramatic Score for 24: Live Another Day2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards
 
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Have you ever been assigned a project to make it look bad? I shot mega talented composer Sean Callery's (24, Homeland, Bones, Backstrom, amongst others) Emmy Nominee clip. Remember, he is a composer, not an actor, he did a nice job of being cheesy and we had a fun shoot. Canon C100 + Atomos Ninja Blade, Nikon 85mm F1.8 Ais, he is lit with three LED Panels (two CL LED600s, one through a small Chimera and one bounced into a 48" white Flexfill, a CL LED256 for a hair light) while I lit the green screen with two Kino Flo Diva 200s. It was a tough choice on whether to actually light him badly but in the end, we decided to light him decently and let the editor make it look worse in post. I could have just lit him with a single open faced 650 but I didn't to make it look too terrible. It raised an interesting question of is it better to make things look actually bad or to imply that things look bad, starting from a base of something not looking terrible?

https://shar.es/17YmvB The clip, inexplicably, is in Shockwave (who still uses Shockwave?!?!) so I can't get it to embed here so click on the link. The Academy is old school.

Sean CalleryNominee, Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special Original Dramatic Score for 24: Live Another Day2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards
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Hey this is awesome. I think he's one of the best TV composers around. I have the season 4/5 soundtrack and it's fantastic. Good work, man.
 
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Sean is a great guy. I first met him when I visited him in his studio for a piece we did for 24, called, "Music by Sean Callery." He spent hours with us and patiently walked us through the process of how he approaches scoring a show. He is so talented and a stand up guy too. Thanks for your comments Fahnon.
 
Thanks for comment and link Ned, I am too lame to have figured that out, I just used the link that their Shockwave player provided.
 
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