Jesse Anthony

In no particular order. Gordon Willis Roger Deakins Gregg Toland Walter Lassally Robert Elswit

Daniel, where the lights were hitting their face there were windows so we had the lights shining through the windows creating the harsh light look from the sun, hope that answers your question.

I just added some footage to my demo reel but was thinking of cutting some stuff out to make it a bit shorter. http://www.jesseanthony.ca/ Feel free to critique or give recommendations as to which clips to cut out.

Yes the lighting on 3 and 4 was intentional, and for the first shot it was 1- fresnel 300w and a flag to cut the light off the guy actor and keep it on just the girl. I'll try to get some videograbs to post soon.

The lighting package that we used for this shoot basically consisted of having 2 diva's, 2-Redheads, and 3-Fresnel 300w. The setups were very simple, the redhead was usually the key light plugged into a dimmer and the diva would be used for a bit of fill and occasionally a 300w for rim or background lighting depending on certain scenes.

I use the Sekonic L-358 model and for me it works great and is simple to use. It also wasn't that expensive, I bought it new on ebay for around $240 and was definitely worth it.

haha, the movie had a blind person in it so that was a prop that the 1st AC had in his hand. as for the camera it was definitely in good shape but from what I could tell it wasn't recently painted.

Thanks John, no the photos weren't shot on film we had a nikon d40 digital slr.

Hello everyone, I read this section a lot and always enjoy reading about how other peoples shoots went and seeing some stills, so I'm excited to post how my last shoot went. Anyway my first 35mm short film shoot wrapped 2 weeks ago. The director and myself bought the film off a production company that planned to shoot a pilot on film, but then switched to HD last minute so they sold the 200T film to us for a really low cost. Then the local film co-op pitched in for processing and transfer to HDCAM. The cast and crew were all volunteers so there were some learning curves but all in all we finished on schedule. There were only 2 locations 1 being a nice summer cottage location where the cast and crew had to stay over night because of an early morning sunrise crew call for 4am. The other location was a psychiatrists office that we used for a family doctors office. With this film we were going for somewhat natural lit with a lot of contrast Here are some photos taken with a Nikon camera. Let me know what you guys think. This scene the director wanted to put emphasis on her burn scar so when she turned to talk she was hit with a bit of light revealing the scar at the start of the film. The camera dept. 1st AC on the left me in the middle and 2nd AC on the right and the sound guy in the background catching up on some sleep.

Those set photos look great! can't wait to see the video.

haha thanks for the video Richard. but I tried googling around and this site was the only one with any sort of feedback that came up so if theres negative or positive stuff you heard about it can you provide links to forums etc.. or did you go through the program yourself? Im not sayin I want to go to it yet but just doing some research before I make a final decision on a yay or nah.

k name is changed. David have your heard anything good about this program?

I spoke with one of there guys on the phone today and he didn't once ask about how I was going to pay and the conversation was really informative about the program. I asked him about payment and he said you don't pay anything untill you and your mentor have both agreed to work together, then you pay them the fees. Im kind of skeptical about the film-connection but if your in a good area of production like LA or NY then I think it might be worth giving it a shot.

ok thanks, anyone know why i cant get the lightmeter working?

I got my k-3 the other day and I practiced loading it with some exposed film and i did it many times till i felt comfortable loading it, then when I went to load it with a new unexposed roll I couldnt get it to stay along the film loop guides will this effect the film or ruin it? Also I put in the light meter battery adapter on the k-3 and when I turn on the light meter and set the film speed and iso speed the only time the needle will move is when i set the iso, it will not move when i set the aperature.