Ford F150 spot

Shot on 35mm at Ford plant outside Kansas City.

Wonderful visual environment with tons of metal walkways, cables and conduit, pipes and showers of sparks from the robotic wielders.

Very dirty environment as well.

We rigged a time-lapse camera on a chassis and ran it through some of the assembly line, only a small portion managed to make its way to the final edit.

Otherwise lots of shots from Condors and catwalks.

Thank goodness for high speed Eastman stock!!!

In the heat of July, I made the mistake of wearing shorts to the tech scout. Big mistake!

Since this is a working factory with lots of hazards which would love to gouge your skin, I was not allowed into the plant until a PA went out to a local Wal-Mart and bought me a pair of jeans!

As a worker in the film industry, we typically wear whatever we fell like wearing, and in the hot summer and especially inside a non-air conditioned factory, I thought wrong. I didnt even pack a pair of jeans in my suitcase I will from now on.

Can you imagine the early days in our business when they were shooting on ASA 10 filmstock inside non-air-conditioned studios with huge arc and tungsten lamps surrounding the set? And when you look at those early stills you see even the grips in almost formal dress with hat and tie?

Those were the days when men were men!

And we complain today

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Film & Animation

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• filmmaker reel
• Moviecam Compact
• 35mm
• TV commercial