few more updates....
My partner Ned Hallick gaffed while I worked as Key Grip on a Promo for the new Lipstick Jungle TV show.
Two cool things: my new iphone arrived and I got to work with
Mo Rocca (again) doing man in street for Bank of America.
You must check out Mo on one of my favorite podcasts, the PBS
"Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me" radio show.
...my bad
Here is a small collection of Pics to bring us up to date....
From Last summer, interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bob Costas at Kareem's Harlem home; part of a
documentary based on his book "On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance"
(left) DP Mr. Rossi mans the triple threat on last summers ABC Soap Promos. (right) And so it goes... when i was in college I spent many
a late night watching Linda Ellerbee. What a treat to cover my friend, gaffer Kevin Hunt on a Lucky Duck Productions Shoot for Nick News.
Pre light day on CBS Holiday Promos, working as Best Boy for our good friend and Gaffer Phillip Sorensen.
Flying Karamazov Brothers - DVD Shoot
Still taken by DP Mark Raker on a shoot I gaffed for the "Flying Karamazov Brothers" new DVD. Lots of great fire effects and a lighting challenge given the small budget and minimal crew.
It's a bird, It's a plane...
No... It's Lance Thunderbolt doing promos for Sci-fi Networks second season of "Who wants to be a Superhero?" Here on the grounds of the Super Agent Institute, DP Gary Nardilla and Dolly Grip Stian Nilsen capture the art of leaping and bounding. Just out of frame, I'm doing super human gaffing... DOH!
HBO - Cathouse: The Musical
"Build Day 1" and view of completed set.
Two views from the working set...
Neal Brown 2nd Camera w/ DP Tom Hurwitz and Ned Hallick; Gaffer/LD Ned Hallick at the controls.
Still Photographers
Two images of scenes lit w/ HMI, supplemented w/ strobe. Image on the left also uses a 400 Joker HMI Bug-A-Beam thru a ETC Source 4 Leko w/ pattern.
(L) Twilight shot supplemented with soft HMI gelled with CTB & magenta. (R) Night shot w/ HMI back edge and Kinoflo w/ Double Full CTO.
One last image, again using HMI hot lights...
All photos copyright 2007
Stewart Cohen Pictures
Made in Eureka - Lighting a fake infomercial...
This week I was Lighting Director for a series of spoof infomercials for the Sci-Fi Network's show "Made in Eureka". Three promo spots made in conjunction with Citicam Productions, shot at Cinemaworld Stages in Brooklyn, New York. Should one really claim "Lighting Director" credit on an infomercial? EUREKA! [APPLAUSE]
Green Screen - Redux
Sesame Street
Gaffer John Roche and Best Furry Boy Murray; Cobble Street Park, Brooklyn
Multi Camera Interviews - "The Good Shepherd"
We do a fair amount of multi-camera interviews. This
one was 5 cameras with Diane Sawyer interviewing Robert
De Niro, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie for an ABC
segment discussing the movie "The Good Shepherd".
Barbara Walters Special
Green Screen Wrap-A-Rounds for Barbara Walters Special; LD Chuck Lofthouse; Sony Studio Main Stage.
I have done a lot of large and small scale green screen set ups this year. This one I did today was fairly straight forward but you can check out the Nike spots I did earlier this year with DP Brian O'Carroll on our Reel Page. For those we needed a much more dramatic look, with very hard edges and bodies in silhouette. We were saved, in part, due to the much improved post process - they can pull a matte from almost anything these days....
Home on the Range; in Queens
The video was produced and directed by Mustapha Kahn and shot by cinematographer Marc Kroll.
Key Grip Jake Sauerbrey and Gaffer John Roche