Tarts Fools & The G-Men

[Ryan E. Walters]

Journey with a Cinematographer: PART 09

Journey with a Cinematographer: PART 09

Overhead Diagrams.

Overhead diagrams are a very effective tool in the preproduction process, and they are usually something that I create after the location scout. (Which is another reason I take so many pictures when I scout a location.) For my needs and use, an overhead diagram needs to accomplish several goals. The first thing the diagram needs to do is to describe the physical layout of the space that will be filmed. Knowing what is already there, or what will be added to the set on the day of the production will help me to plan out what light sources already exist, and what opportunities I have in camera placement. The next goal the diagram needs to accomplish is the layout of the movement of the actors ...

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[Ryan E. Walters]

The completed poor man's process setup. The car is worth more than 5x all the gear in frame:

The Tarts talk about "the competition":

I REALLY enjoyed doing this! It was all kinds of fun to do rear (front in this case) projection. I'll talk about this more in an up coming blog post. There is nothing that quite matches the look and feel of projection work. We all loved the results, and the throw back to "old hollywood".

 

[Hunter Hampton]

Sweet deal! Love the speed rail dolly set-up.

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Nice pics!!

Btw, the car is worth over a quarter mil?

 

[lyonfilms]

No, but it is in the six figures from what I understand. A college friend of Kevin is a car dealer and car collector so he was cool enough to let us use the beauty.

 

[Noel Evans]

This looks... KICK ASS!

 

[lyonfilms]

This looks... KICK ASS!

Thanks Noel!

Our goal from the outset was just to have a good time. Almost everyone on the production team works with each other on paying gigs so this has been fun to just let our hair down so to speak and have a good time. So far so good!

 

[fixitinpost]

The last two days have been really fun. Hope to have some frame grabs up on Monday.

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Jerry, what are you doing with so much speedrail?

 

[fixitinpost]

Turning the dolly system into a crane after we realized that the Kessler didn't make it to our second location for the day. Good bit of inventive rigging on the fly. ;-)

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Turning the dolly system into a crane after we realized that the Kessler didn't make it to our second location for the day. Good bit of inventive rigging on the fly. ;-)

Lol, I can see that (and I was impressed in a Lego way).

I mean what were you doing with all that speedrail sitting around? Did you guys do a 3 ton rental?

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Lol, I can see that (and I was impressed in a Lego way).

I mean what were you doing with all that speedrail sitting around? Did you guys do a 3 ton rental?

A 3 ton would have been great. But no 3 ton. The speed rail is all part of the dolly system we were using. It is a great rig, quick setup and can go just about anywhere. The track was about 10'. (Probably just over 9' after you take into account the loss of the distance in the end piece tie down.

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

A 3 ton would have been great. But no 3 ton. The speed rail is all part of the dolly system we were using. It is a great rig, quick setup and can go just about anywhere. The track was about 10'. (Probably just over 9' after you take into account the loss of the distance in the end piece tie down.

Rock on. Who's dolly system is that? On the closeup of you using it I can't see how speedrail is used.

Wouldn't life be grand if we all had a 3 ton truck loaded up sitting in our driveways?

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Rock on. Who's dolly system is that? On the closeup of you using it I can't see how speedrail is used.

Wouldn't life be grand if we all had a 3 ton truck loaded up sitting in our driveways?

The speed rail acts as the dolly track. At each end there is a junior pin coming off of a cross bar. The dolly itself is a small skate board dolly system that holds a 100mm hi-hat. As far as I am aware of, it is not "anyone's system" (There is no name brand behind it.). It is just a system devised by a local gaffer & grip here in town. His name is Just Ward. You can see a better picture of it in action on his web site: http://www.dragon-grip.com/gear.html (That is an older picture that does not have the hi-hat on it.)

 

[Matty_g]

Looking good fellas!

 

[Kevin E. Curry]

Rick Dancer, who plays the older G-Man, did a video blog for his website about the shoot on Tuesday:

http://blog.rickdancer.com/2009/05/tarts-fools-and-the-g-men-no-this-is-not-a-story-about-politics/

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Roughly Graded Screen Grabs From Tuesday & Wednesday

Roughly Graded Screen Grabs From Tuesday & Wednesday

Here are some roughly graded screen grabs from what we shot on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll be refining the grade for the final edit once that is locked. But this will probably be the direction that I am headed in.

Enjoy!

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Love'em!!! More please

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Love'em!!! More please

Ask and you shall receive!

(Unfortunately I cannot post any other pictures as they give away story elements that we want to keep for the film.)

 

[Shawn Philip Nelson]

Nice

Btw, on that top pic of the cigars...the cigar to the left that has the burned stub, the tip looks uncut