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Hello boys and girls. Today's flim school lesson is "Never Use an Old Timey 1000 lb mining cart to get your gear onto location.

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this looks awesome elton! i can't believe you had a mine shaft and cart at your disposal, what a location. the makeup effects look great!
 
Matt Harris said:
this looks awesome elton! i can't believe you had a mine shaft and cart at your disposal, what a location. the makeup effects look great!
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Thanks Matt. Shooting in a cold mine shaft was hell, (about 45-50 degrees and then added wind chill from the shaft) especially on the kids, but it was worth it. That said, I don't recommend it if you can avoid it. :)

Chad and I had fun brainstorming a basic story idea, but then he had to go and get all ambitious with the damn screenplay. I had to try and get a good location or it might've not worked. We'll see...I'm pretty happy with what's in the can so far.
 
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One saving grace about shooting in a mine : Not plugging in a damn light anywhere.

High ISO, Low Noise = LED
 

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Thanks drapeama. :)

We used about 6 or 7 lights that were about $35 a piece from Amazon (Neewer) and a large LitePanels LED panel. The Neewers ran on Costco AA batteries for the entire 5 hours in the mine without running out of juice. They were attached to small hand clamps that allowed us to hang them anywhere. The larger light ran off of larger ProX batteries.

Was happy that we never needed to fire up a generator.
 
Here I am in "Rebel Without A Crew But That's Good Because He Needs To Exercise" mode. (Wife took the oh so flattering picture). Dig the tape on the camera too. Now that's street cred!
 

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oh look at you mr. steadicam! i'm def coming to visit you so we can shoot something. make sure that mine shaft doesn't go anywhere.
 
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