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.
I loved this series. I really want to get into it so thanks 🙂
Can you tell us who (job titles) was on the shoot to total a crew of 30 people. That’s mad!
Do you charge a higher rate of equipment wear and tear because of the potential conditions?
Can you show us an example of preproduction with a storyboard, location scouting photo, model practise shot in lodge??? And anything else that went into detailed pre vis on the down day before the manic last day. That would be amazing if you do.
Thanks a lot again
What would have happened if the weather was a washout on the last day?
Would you have stayed on to finish the job and pushed the next one back?
or cut your losses and head back with a hope to reschedule for the missing shots?
CW
This is very interesting. I noticed that you also use Panasonic GF1 to documented the trip (from exif data ) how panasonic GF1 hold up against the weather? I am also interested with d7000, but i guess so many people already ask that.
I would love to have one of those flying camera helocopter things. I am very impressed with you creative live and I will watch the next one. Are you ever coming to Berlin? there is a massive Pool of creatives and photographers here.
Thanks again for the great series of posts. My questions is how many set ups did you do over the course of the shoot? Where you just shooting a few select shots for ads or were you shooting every item REI makes for next years catalog?
Thanks