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.
What’s THE Best souvenir/moment/feeling/shot you had during these 9 days ?
This was GREAT….every post. Thanks for the journey.
Hi Chase I really want to commend you on an excellent journalistic series on the anatomy of one of your shoots… really informative to get inside the mindset behind something like this. How do you find the time to shoot all day long AND then write something this amazing? One of the questions that I had when reading this series was what was your thought process when creating a bid for a job like this? What do you factor in when estimating your costs/ time necessary to do something like this for a client? How do you account for the unforeseen overtime/ unexpected expenses?
Thanks again for such a truly inspirational series,
Brian
Great posts Chase.
I was wondering on a shoot this big and with such limited time before the area opened to the public, how many different “sets” did you have going at once?
Thanks!
What type or types of steadicams do you use? And I saw you had a D7000, is this a camera you’ll use a lot now because of the 1080p or are you just giving it a hardcore test/review for Nikon?