on the road with gizmo

October seems like a blur to me - so many projects and so little time to keep up with the blog posts. But November looks much better. I spent a couple days last week on the road with Gizmo Pictures working on a TV project for Kansas Travel & Tourism.

Our first day was spent at the very cool Flying W Ranch in the heart of the Flint Hills. This was our first shoot using the Red One Digital Cinema camera - a very cool new technology that makes amazing footage. However, the Red One didn't like the sub-freezing morning temperatures - so we had an "oh shit" moment right out of the shoot. But, with some quick thinking by our camera guys and a little luck we had a new Red One on set later that morning. We finished the day and headed off to Fort Scott for our second day shoot. We ran into a couple more hiccups on day two - but all-in-all it turned out to be a very good couple days of shooting.

One of the best parts of the shoot was meeting and working with some really great people. They included:
• Gizmo crew – Jeff Carson, Lindsay Howgill, David Kitchner, Ryan Bishop and Austin Snell
• Camera crew – Mark Stock, Shawn Wright and Heather Brown
• Lighting/Grip – Michael Stoecker
• Stylist/Make-up – Patricia Castillo
• Jib – Daryn Cashmark
• JNA Advertising – John Noe, Russ Pederson, Brent Scholz & Angie Williams
• Photography – David Moody + assistant (sorry, I forgot his name)
• KSTT – Richard Smalley & Becky Blake

I put together a quick little slideshow documenting some of the faces and places from the shoot. I put it together in iPhoto. And if you've ever worked with the "Ken Burns" effect - you'll know it has a mind of its own. Oh well, it's still a fun little show. It's a big, fat download - so be patient with download :)

Gizmo Road Slideshow

And finally, a couple of my fave shots from the shoot.