Alex Haspel

congratulations. i must admit i havent seen the movie yet, but beiing an avid cinematography.com reader, i caught myself thinking "cool, i actually KNOW the guy that shot that movie!" as i skipped over the credits somewhere... the internet is not so bad after all...

Watch ''living in oblivion''.. ;)

we once did the following on a little low budget show i was gaffing: in order to direction-wise play it as street lights hanging above the middle of the street we had some 1x1meter foamcore wuth silver bubble on it hanging out of the window to a flat we access to and bounced a par64 into each one. (with cp60 globes, i believe) some creative rigging utilizing available stands: this should get you plenty of light considering you got 500asa stock and superspeeds. you might even consider to nd the lights down to 2 or whatever stop your focus puller can handle on the specific shot to not loose to much of tha available light in the background.

one could easily fit two panthers and 5 drunk freiwillige firefighters in there!

.) druming in bands since age 17, and also a bit of guitar. .) beer .) cars wow, this sounds rather redneckish... .) druming in bands since age 17, and also a bit of guitar. .) i also enjoy meeting friends an having a beer or two .) since i already have my 5meter volvo citycar, i am in need of a proper bus and almost bought this one: but it was already sold...

this is a joke, right?

i just wish we had found the panther on location too. hauling that fu**er up a really narrow half finished stairway up to second floor was not exactly fun.

i always wondered how they did that first shot, with the mirror.. one guess would have been that it was motion control and they did a reverse from behind where the mirror would be, with a hole in the wall instead of the mirror and then somehow keyed that in.. what would speak for that theory is that the moves of one guy (the one coming through just after the single chair, not the bench at the begining) jumping through the window in front of the camera seem a little differnt in the mirror behind him. or did they just fiddle away the camera and crane in post? anybody know? here is a link to video for those who havent yet seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4

And for that whole gender/strenght discussion going on here, Anna almost beat me in arm wrestling at the last wrap party of that gig that was cancelled after the test shoots. But seriously, i dont see why women should not not be able to work in the camera department. The amount of lifting that has to be done is considerably less than for example in the grip/electric department and i have experienced women working there too, even having worked up the way to gaffers.... Another up- or downside, i havent yet completely worked out which of the two it is, is that the intellectual level of jokes rises directly proportional to the amount of women within a department.

How incredibly nice of you, i am genuinely flattered. Blushing, actually. Well, except for that missuse part.

from my memory, so 100percent accuracy can not be promised: 2 Dinos (30kw each), on dimmerboard 2 5kw spacelights 2 4kw hmi pars 2 2,5kw hmi pars 2 2,5kw hmi fresnels 2 1,2kw hmi pars\ 2 120cm fourbanks 2 60cm fourbanks 1 divalight eightbank 2 2kw fresnels 2 1kw fresnels 1 dedokit and about half a ton of 63A, 32A, 16A cable and various other anschlussmaterial oh, and a cinejib platfom crane and a panther... and of course the location has not had any kind of elevator yet <_< luckily we managed to get hold of a winch from the construction workers, otherwise it would have been hell hauling al the stuff 4 stories down and then up again greetings from rudolfsheim, alex

As far as i know, we used Zeiss Highspeed glass, as the MasterPrimes the production aimed for were not awailable. There have also been some back focus problems as far as i know, but maybe 1st AC Alex P. who also happens to be a forum member might hop in to clear things up.

Rainer, i KNEW you could not resist for long from posting this! :) Hi, i was gaffing this, btw. Thanks again to my fabulous Grip and Electrics Crew on this way, at least to sleepy Anna who also happens to be registered here.

Just dress like "Wolf" of "Living in Oblivion", great movie btw...

time for a little update.. i went for the volvo, which i got for free, but it turned out to be in worse shape than i expected, and making it road legal would have cost quite a bit more than what would have been an equitable amount of money to put in such an old car. so i bought another volvo. it is a 89 volvo 740 estate in winered, even old enough to have some chrome aplications on it. it had 284000km on the clock when i bought it one and a half weeks ago and now has 287500 or something. but within that distance driven it has not used/burnt one single drop of engine oil, it even drives and feels like a car thats 3 years old, not 18. i do have to admit that the water pump is leaking a little bit, but i already bought a new one which cost about 50euro. and unlike with a new car i even think to be able to change it myself on this one, no fancy but unnecessary plastic engine covers, no on board computer that needs to be reprogrammed or something after changing a part... one other good thing is that it has the same 2,3liter fuel injected petrol engine as the blue one, so i might be able to get one or the other part from that one if something else breaks. here are some pictures of a spontaneus road trip from vienna to berlin and back i did with a friend 2 days after buying the car:

we call them butterfly over here too...

you'll nedd half-transparent helicopters. sorry, couldn't resist.

id just have those instead of normal power outlets, and then let the grip and electric crew imprisoned in my basement vary the lighning depending on my current mood

And for basic set-etiquette, this here is an excellent read: http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/edtech/Pro...ts_Handbook.pdf Useful for every starter, in whatever department.

Probably the most important thing is to simply honestly tell your HoD what you know and what you don't know beforehand! If you do this and if he is at least a half decent human being, he will take a bit of care of you and you will learn as you go along. If you won't follow this advice you might get into tricky a situation earlier or later...

well, theres two cars that are basically mine right now, and i am unsure wether one i should repair and register in order to make it become my very first car. one is this here: it is a 1982 VW golf series 1 with about 140thousand kilometers on the clock. i got it for free from relatives 4 years ago, as they wanted to get rid of it and it was standing around open air, unprotected during all seasons since then. it has a 1500cc carburetor engine producing 70bhp and would cost me about 700euros taxes and insurance per year. it would also need a new windscreen, and the electrics are faulty and need to be changed completely in the worst case. on the other hand there is hardly any electric stuff in that car, which is something i really like about it. no fancy computer sh/t, not even electric windows. except for the heating it offers no luxury that does not serve the purpose of making the car move. this car is build to drive, and for nothing else, it is rather pure motoring. i love that. the other one is this: a volvo 740 from around 1987 or so, i dont exactly know. it has about 230thousand kilometers on the clock and is equipped with a 2,3liter engine with fuel-injection, producing 130bhp, but standing at 1800kg it is also exactly a ton heavier than the golf. the volvo would also cost me twice as much on taxes and insurance, but it is the bigger, safer, stronger car and more suitable for longer distances. it also has rear wheel drive, which should be more fun in winter. i was very much biased towards the volvo until i had to get the golf to another storing location a few days ago. we opened the hood, and it was looking nasty in there. after all, the little golf had been standing in all kinds of rain and heat over the past 4 years, it was even buried under 2 meters of snow at one point last winter, and its little engine was buried under lots of leafes and various other dirt. but my dad and i decided to give it a go, put in a new battery and some petrol, and it started! after some coughing and puffing it STARTED! i considered this really moving, i think i even almost shed a tear. the breaks were not stuck, no, they even worked properly. every frigin thing worked properly. we put on the temporary license plates, i hopped in and drove the 80kilometers to the new storing location without ANY problem. i know this is an entirely emotional thing, but after this heartwarming experience i kinda considered the golf an option again. nevertheless, as planed, i drove the volvo to a mechanic today, with his temporary license plates also. the volvo has also not been moved, if only for one year, and it had enjoyed the luxury of standing in a garage. and it proved to be a bit of a diva, since the hood opening mechanism was stuck somehow, so it took some time until we managed to apply the new battery. anyways, the volvo started also, but as i was arriving at the mechanic, the it was loosing lots of petrol and engine oil... the mechanic said he will be able to tell me what it would cost me to make the volvo street legal again by monday. .. so im really unsure which car to go for, besides the cost thing the volvo seems the rationally better car, but i adore the little golf way too much to just write it off... so, what would you do? ps: yes, i dont like new cars. in my opinion they all look awful, cant think of a single one that would not turn my cheeks red of shame while sitting in it. pps: yes, this topic was motivated by boredom completely.

i think you might consider this an interesting read: http://www.noendpress.com/caleb/edtech/Pro...ts_Handbook.pdf good luck!

this topic's title reminds of the following saying i recently heard: "arguing about music is like dancing to architecture"

i once shot with artificial rain on a low budget short. we had two firemen with two hoses. most of the time they managed to get nice fat drops that rendered nicely, but sometims it was more of a diffused spray which happened to be areal troublemaker, continuity-wise. there are two shots of this in my showreel, within the last third. www.alex.haspel.at

thanks a lot! here are some more using that "technique": i find this last one especialy funky, since the right half of the hihat cymbal is motion blurred due to the fact that it is the shadow of the flash, while the left half is super sharp.