Yours truly. Crushed after 10 days.
1. I want you to be able to ask questions that I did not address in my posts. There were hundreds that I didn’t get to. I’m currently scheduling a #AskChase episode of chasejarvisLIVE next week, so if you want your questions about the “Diary of a Shoot” answered. Please ask them in the comments below. I’ll grab a bunch of those questions and respond LIVE next week – anyone can tune in for free. Time/date TBD, follow here, Facebook, or Twitter to find out where/when.
2. Also, I wanted to share a few other snapshots of human and gear carnage. A lot of your comments along the way were about how harsh these gigs could be on humans and gear. You’re right on both accounts. As such, let these photos serenade your questions above… The below self portraits were all grabbed between leaving the mountain immediately after getting our last shot and arriving in Seattle at 10pm. The crew featured in these shots is not nearly nearly complete, just happened to be a bunch of us people all on the same flight. For the rest of the crew that wasn’t on our flight, you’re lucky. I’ll post haggard looking shot of you later.
Enjoy these honest and brutal snapshots and feel free to ask any questions in comments below…
First, the gear….
Yours truly sitting in snowstorm with Nikon D7000 video rig.
Half dozen cameras, large lens package, steadicam, jib, monitors, other misc gear on weather standby between shots. A big pile of money, freezing. But it all pulls through in the end.
Scott de-ices one of our Nikon D7000 cameras with rode mic and zacuto zfinder.
Now for the people….en route back to Seattle on our flight…
Jason.
Erik.
Kyle.
Marni.
Chase.
Bill.
Scott. (I think he cheated and made a goodlooking self portrait)
Matt.
Ask any questions you’d like answered in next weeks LIVE show about this shoot in comments below. If you asked in earlier posts and they did not get answered, please kindly re-ask them here.
Now excuse me while I go tend to my chapped lips.
Chase,
Would you consider putting on a class where you take people through a production like this, minus the logistical hardships. It could be a client shoot or a mock client shoot where you manage perhaps a smaller team but where you have video and still footage, clear client requirements that must be met and then take the class from actual pre-planning through to post-production and final delivery of the end product to the “client”. While participants could have some hands-on participation, their operating roles might be more limited so that your team could be in their normal roles and participants could better see how the operation is executed and comes together.
I expect there would be a number of people that would be willing to pay for the experience of going through this process and being involved from start to finish. This might also allow you to have more still, video and blog moments that could then be shared with the broader community to further share the experience and provide more info to those that couldn’t attend the actual class.
There are a number of younger start-up companies in the Seattle marketplace that I expect would love to be the “client” at a reduced rate (or free if the participant fee was high enough to cover the production price) and perhaps looser deadlines that would work in a teaching environment and an opportunity like this could give them an amazing end product for marketing that they otherwise could not afford.
Something to think about and certainly something that I would sign up for! Thanks again for giving us a peak into this shoot – I looked forward to the blog every day!
I heard you mention in the video with Laforet that you are self-taught. If you don’t mind me asking, how did you go from self-taught to mega-rockstar photog? I am also self-taught (photo / graphics), but the opposite of successful, at 31. Just wondering, and I hope you don’t mind me asking….as I know most people I have ever asked will never share how they got to where they’re at.
Does Nikon sponsor you, all of D7000s
It would have been cool to see more of a before and after self portraits. Dude, Chase, your photo is pretty brutal. 🙂
Questions:
How you keep the crew morale high when things don’t go the right way? How do you motivate the crew?
Thx Chase for this honest and great diary. We learn and get inspired a lot from this!
My Questions:
How do you decide up-front what gear to take with you?
How do you protect them from snow, rain, cold, wind, etc?
How do you know the gear will hold at these extreme circumstances?
Thx again!