What I did on this production




On this music video I was the Director of Photography. This can mean a lot of different things depending on what kind of a job your talking about; budget, crew, subject. In my role on this particular job I was responsible for making sure all the images looked as good as possible. I chose the stock, took all the readings, made all the technical choices, took care of the camera (it was mine), and supervised the video transfer.

I take no credit for any of the subject matter, no one asked for my opinion on what to shoot and although that is normally also part of the job, in this instance that was decided upon before I got involved. Someone else operated the camera for most of this shoot. They got me the job, but were interested in doing the shooting as a "learning" experience (I think they learned not to remove your eye from the eyepiece).

I also had nothing to do with any of the editing, which is good because we had to run the camera wild. I've got a sync motor for the camera now, but at the time I only had a standard constant speed motor which goes noticeably out of sync after about 20sec of runtime. The editing must have been a nightmare.

I spent the a day in Toronto to supervise the transfer and much to my surprise the entire group showed up to watch along with their "manager". After wasting some time and money we finally got down to business and I thought the transfer went rather well.