I once was called out of nowhere to come over within two hours to shoot a interview. I promptly packed up all my stuff and loaded my car and started driving to the 45 minute away destination halfway there the client called me and canceled saying he shot it himself. No heads up or apology, safe to say I didn’t work with that client ever again.
I was a news photographer for years. This was daily, along with setting up the microwave truck and editing what we shot earlier in the day. Fortunately, I had a kit with 3 250w fresnels, 2 500w pars, and a 400w HMI. Makes it WAY easier now that I have the right toys!
Got a gig editing footage for an extremely well known car company (obvs not gonna namedrop in case it gets back to them). Editors in Syd had 2 weeks to cut the footage and for whatever reason just didn't so I got called in 2 days before delivery to cut together a 5 min expo reel from about 10 hours of footage. Got it in and signed off within 15 mins of EOB. 2 years later, I still get stressed thinking about it
We made a short film for a 36-hour film festival which consisted of 155 shots, half of which were dolly shots. 6+ locations. And a ton of night exteriors with no practicals. Near the end, we had to average 3 minutes per shot. It was such a rush and one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. The film ended up winning the competition along with best cinematography.
When I was originally told I had 1 hour to setup an interview with the chef, once arrived, I was told I had 30 minutes to setup, interview and get out. During my rush, I left the camera running with a hot mic on the chef and caught them firing a cook which was rough, loud and after 5 minutes quickly turned into them apologizing to each other and hugging. So, no firing.
My short-term production was a documentation by Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl at the Beijing auto show in 1994. I had to learn the camera only 2 hours before the start (I was a sound engineer at the time). An LDK 90 with an additional recorder that can be worn around the neck. In addition a battery belt. It was the initial spark for my job as a cameraman today.
They weren't exactly last-minute, but I used to record interviews for a disability advocacy organization. They could never afford to put me up for more than a few nights and I often had to record 2-3 interviews in people's homes each day. I got REALLY good at setting up interviews on the fly. Now, I'm comfortable going into any room with a couple of lights and modifiers and finding a way to make a good frame. I actually have learned to love the challenge. Now I'm spoiled, though, with Westcott Ice Lights and an Aputure MC. I feel like I don't even have to be creative anymore. I can light a windowless basement with that kit and make it look beautiful.
Local Manufacturing company called us up 3 hours before they needed a shoot. They produced a ventilator to assist folks suffering with COVID and wanted to raise funds for their prototype. It was a 24 hour turnaround from first call to first draft. Pretty fun, and I got more work from them afterwards.
Last year we got the chance to shoot after lockdown restrictions and the film was written and shot in the space of three days. I organised the location on the first day, getting a friend to be part of it aswell, then on the second and thrid we shot it. For half of the third day I began editing as i was on such a buzz from the shoot. Our production day was interrupted, however, by a 20 minute thunderstorm. as we were shooting in an open forest, we had to use the tent set to shelter the gear! You guys are putting out fantastic stuff, can't wait for more.
One time I enter a short film one day before it was shoot it, with no shooting list finish yet, since we have a few lights and little equipment we try to focus on the composition. We end the shooting the night before and some of the lights start failing while shooting so we end up with just two of them and bounce tools... even being a rush project there were some interesting shots along the way :D
I’ve only now started film making for the purpose of interviewing people and I went to capture an interview with a coffee shop owner and was asked to do an ad on the spot. In my opinion it came out great 😌🤣. I’ll do a TH-cam video on it soon.
The scene for my film. It was in a restaurant that was still open during Christmas. We only had about an hour or so to shoot a dialogue scene. Which would have been fine if I remembered to ask them to turn off the music while we were there. So I ended up having "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "the happy elf" in the background of all my dialogue...needless to say I had to do some ADR lol
My first feature film shoot as a gaffer and it was a 14 day film shoot to shoot 80+ pages with no budget and for the first few days we didn't have a shot list. as you can imagine me and the DP with overworked, stressed and tired. but we did finish it and I am proud of doing that.
Produced a 96 minute virtual convention with only one month to shoot, edit, and design graphics. Maybe not the tightest deadline I’ve been given but definitely the most busy I have been. Great video y’all!
Once I've done a complete livestreaming setup for 25 minutes in rented studio with my newbee friend )) Two SDI cameras, PC with slides HDMI on projector SDI for me, vmix preset with spitscreen with slides and speaker, wireless sound with headset on speaker, background lights, key lights on the scene, and two plasmas - one for questions from the chat and one for the PGM. I think the proper time for me to setup something similar around 40 minutes, that time it was twice as fast ))
Most rushed project I've ever been on: I was the vfx artist for Lil Skies x Yung Pinch "I know you" video. Did all the vfx by myself in 3 days. 18-20 hour days. On the 3rd day, I worked up until the minute I had to take a 6 hour drive for a shoot. Tired was an understatement. Still my most viewed video with my work in it to date (65M).
I wish I have one of those lights. When I was in Grade 12, I was told to shoot a short teaser for a school event. I don't have my own lighting equipment, thus using the fluorescent light of a classroom helped. And I just opened my classmates lens' aperture to 1.8 and dealt with fast manual focusing throughout the shoot. It was a 3-hour fast shoot, and luckily it end up well. Now, I'm saving up to buy my first ever lighting gear. 😆😎
We booked a headshot in our studio and forgot to put it on our calendar. When they came in, we had the amount of time that they made final clothing options and changing to set EVERYTHING thing up. So about 5-10 minutes! They were none-the-wiser and the photos came out great!
I remember my beginnings, I was asked to realize a video clip with more than 200 people in it (50+ singers and people and kids all around), in a big sequence shot... 2 days before the shoot, and without any informations on the location ! You say rush ? no, that was hell ! xD and of course I did it because I was new in this activity and I didn't want to miss that ! I asked 3 friends to help me on set, and we did it ! (the result isn't good to me haha but hey ! that was one of my first job).
One of my regular clients called me on a Wednesday, to let me know he scored us the Saleen headquarters as a location for a music video that Friday. I had about a day and a half to plan two videos for him and I had no idea what we would be doing exactly until we got there. Ended up bringing no lights just to save time while working solo and on the fly and it turned out great!
I’ve gotten (on more than one occasion) a call from my buddy to come out the next morning and pull focus on a single setup) which ends up being the tiniest pull but one that he’d rather not do himself! Easiest gig ever! Oh, and the shot is a lawyer standing up from behind his desk and walking to the corner of his desk. It’s hilarious how easy and last minute it always is.
My most rushed shoot was when I participated in a 24 hour filmmaking competition with the Connecticut Film Festival back in '09. All the teams competing arrived at a location on Friday night, and at exactly at the same time we all opened our manila envelopes with the same instructions on it - what the main theme had to be ("broke" in any context), 1 specific prop that had to be used (coffee), and restrictions (It must be shot on location within the city limits of Danbury, CT, where the festival was being held). We wrote the script, shot, edited and rushed it down to their office within 24 hours. I was *literally* running down Main Street, Danbury with my DVD (yeah, a physical DVD in those days) to make it. Yes, I did make it in time. =)
I’m an actor that has been under pressure time and time again to shoot next day auditions. I had to learn 5 pages of dialogue, run to Best Buy to buy some pretty bad lights before they closed in 15 mins, because the audition was due at 9am and I was on vacation at my parents house. But in the end it was all worth it and I got the role! Bam! I also returned the lights obviously.
It sounds like "chit testing" is common in your industry. Sorry that is the case. It might be good for you, though, because it weeds out people that can't memorize and perform under pressure the way you do. Given all that pressure, though, I recommend you consider the concept that some diets are designed to be anti-inflammatory (and other pro-inflammatory, sometimes very much so). Search out "Morley Robbins" and "Dr. Barry Sears" on TH-cam. Dr. Sears also has a lot of Zone Diet books, some of which might be cheap at your local thrift store. Abebooks.com will have them for cheap, too. The biggest thing I noticed when I implemented the Zone Diet was that I felt relatively amazing. I had been in an "insulin hangover" most of my life, and it felt really good to move beyond that.
oh man! im constantly doing rushed projects, its always, "hey can you come down here in a few hours and shoot some stuff, make it look pretty" and i as i cry inside i whisper "yes"
3 weeks ago we decided to go out shooting with my A7S3 in a Canadian blizzard in the woods. We had to be quick and organized to be able to shoot right in the peak of the snow storm. It was very pleasant and came up with awesome footage. Love my Aputure products. Just received my two 4' pavotube but do you guys plan to come up with your own Aputure tubes?
Love this stuff so much. I wish you guys would put out one every day. I remember the time i was asked to shoot an interview and then I remembered I had no lights. Fast forward. Now I have a Nova, 300dii , Pavotubes and various smaller lights. This stuff is so fun, forget natural light, anyone can do that. Wish i could try an aputure MC. :)
Rushed Project: Wrote a TH-cam episode on the toilet in the AM, drove to the studio and shot it in 1hr, edited in 45mins, published in 1hr. People seemed to like it!
I was working at a eyebrow design studio and every time that they want a video i use to made it in one day... It was a madness, because i was all in one production man... :O
I got a call to film an event with a fairly large shopping center (they're a chain so multiple exist). Either way, I accept, send over a contract and ask the agency managing it all to provide me with the address and they don't send me the address until the night before the event. I get to the shoot early cause I like to familiarise myself before shooting and I meet one of the directors there who says "Nice to see you... but shouldn't you be over at 'X' location today?" The same director who had sent me the address had sent the wrong address and didn't even bother apologising for it being wrong and told me I was lucky that we crossed paths. Learnt a lot from that one moment. A looooot :P
Have you ever got a job from Facebook? Well I’ll explain in case you haven’t, here’s just one experience: a friend tagged me on a post from a coordinator for a show on its 8th season on food network. When I called the coordinator (8:30am) they explained it was already day two a of three day shoot, but they just realized they needed more crew. I was asked how soon I could be there with no ask into my credentials or competency, so I asked what the job was. I was told it was PA responsibilities. After finding out where, I asked when. I was told the shoot has started, but just get there as soon as you can. Turns out it didn’t matter that I barely knew what was going on because when I showed up they simply asked me to act as security for video village, but I worked as hard as I could to help out any way I could, assist the AC/DIT two in one guy with batteries and card offloading on Shotput. Carried around grip equipment and yes, protected the gear. No time like the present to call in for an extra hand. Lol
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Spacious, not cluttered, nice accessories qt your disposable. Far from being bad conditions ahah.
The most rushed project I had was in a photography shoot. My classmate coincidentaly met me in a Cafe and asked me to photograph his car and all I had was my camera and aputure mc. What I quickly thought of at that time was light painting and I used the mc to do it. SUCH A NIFTY TOOL TO HAVE IN YOUR ARMORY !!
I did an interview for my vlog in a bar in South London. The interviewee told me it was all 'squared', but it ended up being busy as hell and had people knocking the light stands and tripod. Thank god for b-roll.
Was asked to create a hype up video for an event happening in two days. The event was not set up yet so there was nothing to film and only a few clips of previous shows. Ended up using mostly stock footage.
A local theatre group had been planning a monologue that they wanted filming. I had a rough idea what the subject was but not much else, the writer, perfectionist type, was taking ages over the script. I got a call on Saturday night around 6pm from the actor “I have a script now but we go into lockdown from Monday, can you come tomorrow to film it? It’s now or never. Here’s the script”. I spend the next 2 hours marking up the script and trying to remember details of the house we were going to shoot it in, and charging up all the battery stuff. 3 hours later: “oh, and here’s an updated script”. Thanks.
I was once asked to do a green screen photo session, and had just enough time to order cheap lights and a green screen set-up to make it work. it turned out well, but i could have gone badly.. but having my own 300x lights now, is a lot leas stress and quicker for me to respond to random jobs.
I was once called to play a small part in a movie, they call me up and they were so far behind, they couldn't get to my scene, the director asked me to go the following day and they would begin with my scene, off course it didn't happen, then the producer knew I was also a director, looked at me and asked can you do second unit? I said sure, he said fine but you'll have to DP as well. I went in as a bit player and i ended up doing second unit directing and shooting.
I had to shoot a commercial for a beard oil brand. Didn’t have time to rent a camera so had to make do with a Canon m50. Luckily my Aputure 120dii saved me and the client was happy. Not without a few tears of my own though.
Idk if it’s just me but hanging 10 foot blankets to block out windows and using a quasar for rim light is a not a time sensitive setup or “last minute”. I think this setup looks dope and offers helpful tips but interviews rarely get location scouting and no more than an hour for setup in my experiences...and usually the job is budgeted for 1,2 or 3 man crews at best.
It was a small set for a short film and I was working as a grip. I had an hour to setup lights, unfortunately that time was cut even more because the DP had never even been on location and was clueless to any setup and even worsened as he and the director had done no prior planning. TO THIS DAY MY WORST EXPERIENCE ON ANY SET. But you learn from the bad experiences as much as the good ones.
So you guys have an SGC p60 and p120 product available in Asia, not sure if that was the exact aputure-quasar tube used in this shoot, but why hasn’t it been released in America yet?
Funny finding this video today with that question at the end haha...Yesterday around 11am, I got a phone called telling me to come shoot a kitchen class at 6:30 to 9h30. As I was ready to shoot; as another shoot just got cancelled this morning. I said sure I will be there. I told the client I would like to be there 1 hour before to prep and scout the location, so 5h00 and she told me no its impossible as they will be closing the kitchen for a deep clean before the class. She told me to come at 6h00...So i was home waiting to take off, then suddenly at 4h50 pm I got a text telling me: the class started 30minutes ago, where are you?...Am like what? I seriously dnt know how I heard 6h30 like 3 times instead of 16h30...I never drove off to a job so fast, of course I got stuck in traffic as its peak hour, arrived there and shot for the 1hour left :/ and having this walk of shame for the full shooting lol... I had this adrenaline rush that made my hands shake a lot...and I love to shoot handheld.. so yeap...also nearly puked on the way and what a wtf moment. Note to self, always get the time written/emailed even when its a last minute job..
You can consider this very example. They used one big light source for key. You can remove the quasar tube or try to use that same mirror to reflect some bscklight into the subject. The most important thing (the key light) is well explained here. The bigger the softer will be onto your subject. Up and angled to get some wrap around the subject's face but giving a little of shadow for shaping the face. And a lot of practice!
Just finished one: Supernatural/Action/ Thriller. 90 scenes. 22 locations. 60% shot outdoors in a constantly rushed bazaar/shopping markets. 70+ min run time. All in 4 and 1/2 days.
I got a call about 6 o’clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday and was asked if I could do a shoot the next afternoon. The catch was that it was in Michigan and I live in California. I packed and flew out early the next morning and got it down.
- 6:00AM call - hey, can you film today? We have everything set but the operator just got sick. - ye, sure. When and where? - be 1h from now at the opposite side of city. Yeeeeee, sure 😅
My most rushed project was a wedding. They had me scheduled for six hours for $660 for photos and video with just me and my wife. At the last minute, they added two more hours which I told them I guess you can add more time. I was too kind and told them that they could just give me a tip to make up the difference. Got there on time, an eight-hour job now, and they had already started getting ready and I was behind. I felt like she had told everyone that I was late which I wasn't. So stressful. After everything was said and done I did hundreds of photos of the bridal party and all their relatives plus the video. And no tip, ug.
I was once walking down the street with a camera shooting some stuff just for fun, and I got offered an interview shoot by someone passing by who was looking for a camera man. Didn't even have a tripod, ended up stacking books on a table to film it with mostly window light.
I have a funny one, bear with me. I match with a girl on Bumble, she writes first (that's the way Bumble works), but then I see she is a tourist and only visiting for a few days, so I don't respond. If I don't respond after 24hours, the match disappears, no big deal. But a few hours later she sends another message - "Hey, I saw that you work with video, can you help me with a project?" Then I obviously respond... She asked me if I could help her out with a small lights setup for a livestream, and I said I could. She then tells me the livestream was happening at 8pm Dominican republic (where she was originally from), but that meant the livestream would start 1am here in Copenhagen... and the location from where we will be livestreaming is her hotel room... So... I was like.. Ok... I do a little research on her, she seems legit. I meet up at her hotel at 11pm we start chatting and setting up for the livestream, she had also brought drinks. Ended up setting up the lights in 20 minutes and chatting with her for the 2 hours before the livestream :) No dirty stuff, she was super cool, then the next day (during the daytime) we also shot 4 mini interviews in different locations around Copenhagen for her travels. And then the next day she was out of the country. Crazy, the variety of experiences our jobs bring to our lives :)
I'm working on an essay for a film class, which will have hypothetical scenarios as realistic illustrations. My thesis, to keep it simple, is about how what happens in a film can happen in real life, making real life moments as dramatic as movie scenes. I have a couple questions:
1. In some films, when a character goes through a traumatic moment, they move on immediately. EX: in Shrek, Farquaad pulls a sword on Fiona, but _quite soon_ (after Dragon eats Farquaad), Shrek and Fiona kiss, get married, and live happily ever after _that very day._ In real life, _can_ a person to go through (or nearly) something horrible and recover pretty soon when the bad thing doesn't happen? Find their happy moment that day?
2. This paragraph is partly off topic in my essay, but it indirectly and complicatedly connects to my thesis. Can serious films have dark _and_ musical moments? Not musicals, Disney, comedies, or animations; movies that are mostly dramatic, dark, and sentimental, I guess like Hallmark? Can such films have musical performances or background songs? Here are two hypothetical examples to clarify: the hero is building traps for the villain, during which “Everyday Hero” plays to signify he’s gotta save the day. Awesome song, but during a *_life and death_* situation? Or suppose the final fight with the villain results in their *death,* and during the *happy* ending *_soon_* after, they perform a song (say, at a party), to celebrate the film’s resolution. Mood transition too rapid?
Definitely a breaking news segment regarding a covid outbreak at a high school and setting up a socially distanced interview with the Principal to air the next day 😰
"Hey! Can you be here in... 2 hours? _How the place looks like? _I don't know." Do I EVEN need to explain. Taking a bunch of Aputure Tri8 and AL-MC and hoping it will be good.
I had a mutual friend invite as a crew member on a music video. The rapper thought we only needed a camera for his video. I ended up being a DP, Gaffer, and G&E. He also didn't know we needed a focus puller, editor and importantly a director with shot list. I called a friend to help and 3 of us shot a music video and the entire days footage didn't get captured because the rapper guy gave us a samsung "T7" for ssd on a bmpcc4k.
I'm D.O.Ping a short today only got told about on Tuesday night but I find most of my projects I get about 3 days notice on it's quite normal for me and because I need the income sometimes you just have to push your self to get as many projects done as possible even if that means going for 5 days without sleep lol but I'm sure we have all been there at one stage or another this was a great vid btw out of all my lights I own even my big 300d ii I always carry round a mc in my pocket on any set I'm working on once we were up at a top of a hill at 1pm shooting a bollywood short it's about a 45min walk to base and we didn't have a light to light up the fake fire then I grabbed out my mc stuck in the middle on fire mode and it worked so well! would love to see a video on the different ways you can utilise your mc.
Most rushed was definitely realizing the world was shutting down and then having to shoot training videos for teachers on how to access their digital learning programs, setups, best practices in two days.
Me: Hello? Client: Hey Kevin...was wondering if you had some time to come film a commercial we're doing at **** Park. Me: Absolutely. When? Client: We are here right now. Talent is in makeup. Me: Um...
It was about 4:30 and I got a call saying. "Bro I need you here by 5:30. We got a location until 7 and we need to shoot a video" I got on set and nothing was set up it was really gorilla style. Hollywooding an LED panel, and camera on gimble. 🤯🤯🤯
Most rushed we have been was shooting an ad with the head coach of one of our local Universities (he's now coaching the Cardinals in the NFL). We were told we would have 15 minutes with him and , at one point during the lighting setup, my brother, Jacob, had to stand in on a milk crate to match the coach's height. During that stand-in, Patrick Mahomes walked by and laughed at him.
I am beginners on green screen studio plz upload some lighting guidelines, lots of TH-camr wants , it’s helps them a lot , thanks 🙏, I hope you will think abt 🌹❤️love
Lol, I gut a call for my friend, he said Jerry come help me do a short interview with my pastor, I went their he had all the light, I said nice bro you gat some new equipment, he said I have a lot of shit but I can't use now of this shit, I said Is why you opened all the windows he said he still needs more light. Omg all the light were facing up when I asked why he said bro I need a cinematic shoot.
I would love to have a few days notice for a shoot. Most of my clients call me the day before or even the same day they want to film. People are idiots.
I once was called out of nowhere to come over within two hours to shoot a interview. I promptly packed up all my stuff and loaded my car and started driving to the 45 minute away destination halfway there the client called me and canceled saying he shot it himself. No heads up or apology, safe to say I didn’t work with that client ever again.
If someone doesnt take the time to call me at least 2 days early i just say im not available
I was a news photographer for years. This was daily, along with setting up the microwave truck and editing what we shot earlier in the day. Fortunately, I had a kit with 3 250w fresnels, 2 500w pars, and a 400w HMI. Makes it WAY easier now that I have the right toys!
Got a gig editing footage for an extremely well known car company (obvs not gonna namedrop in case it gets back to them). Editors in Syd had 2 weeks to cut the footage and for whatever reason just didn't so I got called in 2 days before delivery to cut together a 5 min expo reel from about 10 hours of footage. Got it in and signed off within 15 mins of EOB. 2 years later, I still get stressed thinking about it
We made a short film for a 36-hour film festival which consisted of 155 shots, half of which were dolly shots. 6+ locations. And a ton of night exteriors with no practicals. Near the end, we had to average 3 minutes per shot. It was such a rush and one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. The film ended up winning the competition along with best cinematography.
When I was originally told I had 1 hour to setup an interview with the chef, once arrived, I was told I had 30 minutes to setup, interview and get out. During my rush, I left the camera running with a hot mic on the chef and caught them firing a cook which was rough, loud and after 5 minutes quickly turned into them apologizing to each other and hugging. So, no firing.
That's a close one
Windows and bounce boards have saved me the most on those tight calls
My short-term production was a documentation by Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl at the Beijing auto show in 1994. I had to learn the camera only 2 hours before the start (I was a sound engineer at the time). An LDK 90 with an additional recorder that can be worn around the neck. In addition a battery belt. It was the initial spark for my job as a cameraman today.
Props to the editor of this video...Good stuff.
They weren't exactly last-minute, but I used to record interviews for a disability advocacy organization. They could never afford to put me up for more than a few nights and I often had to record 2-3 interviews in people's homes each day. I got REALLY good at setting up interviews on the fly.
Now, I'm comfortable going into any room with a couple of lights and modifiers and finding a way to make a good frame. I actually have learned to love the challenge.
Now I'm spoiled, though, with Westcott Ice Lights and an Aputure MC. I feel like I don't even have to be creative anymore. I can light a windowless basement with that kit and make it look beautiful.
Last minute wedding film highlight. That are CRAZY!!
Local Manufacturing company called us up 3 hours before they needed a shoot. They produced a ventilator to assist folks suffering with COVID and wanted to raise funds for their prototype.
It was a 24 hour turnaround from first call to first draft. Pretty fun, and I got more work from them afterwards.
Nice :)
Last year we got the chance to shoot after lockdown restrictions and the film was written and shot in the space of three days. I organised the location on the first day, getting a friend to be part of it aswell, then on the second and thrid we shot it. For half of the third day I began editing as i was on such a buzz from the shoot. Our production day was interrupted, however, by a 20 minute thunderstorm. as we were shooting in an open forest, we had to use the tent set to shelter the gear!
You guys are putting out fantastic stuff, can't wait for more.
One time I enter a short film one day before it was shoot it, with no shooting list finish yet, since we have a few lights and little equipment we try to focus on the composition. We end the shooting the night before and some of the lights start failing while shooting so we end up with just two of them and bounce tools... even being a rush project there were some interesting shots along the way :D
Good to know you stuck through it!
The was super helpful! Thank you. Make more of this. Lighting is always the hardest for me.
That before and after though 😍
I’ve only now started film making for the purpose of interviewing people and I went to capture an interview with a coffee shop owner and was asked to do an ad on the spot. In my opinion it came out great 😌🤣. I’ll do a TH-cam video on it soon.
Send us the link!
The scene for my film. It was in a restaurant that was still open during Christmas. We only had about an hour or so to shoot a dialogue scene. Which would have been fine if I remembered to ask them to turn off the music while we were there. So I ended up having "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "the happy elf" in the background of all my dialogue...needless to say I had to do some ADR lol
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My first feature film shoot as a gaffer and it was a 14 day film shoot to shoot 80+ pages with no budget and for the first few days we didn't have a shot list. as you can imagine me and the DP with overworked, stressed and tired. but we did finish it and I am proud of doing that.
Produced a 96 minute virtual convention with only one month to shoot, edit, and design graphics. Maybe not the tightest deadline I’ve been given but definitely the most busy I have been. Great video y’all!
Once I've done a complete livestreaming setup for 25 minutes in rented studio with my newbee friend )) Two SDI cameras, PC with slides HDMI on projector SDI for me, vmix preset with spitscreen with slides and speaker, wireless sound with headset on speaker, background lights, key lights on the scene, and two plasmas - one for questions from the chat and one for the PGM. I think the proper time for me to setup something similar around 40 minutes, that time it was twice as fast ))
simple is perfection.
Most rushed project I've ever been on: I was the vfx artist for Lil Skies x Yung Pinch "I know you" video. Did all the vfx by myself in 3 days. 18-20 hour days. On the 3rd day, I worked up until the minute I had to take a 6 hour drive for a shoot. Tired was an understatement. Still my most viewed video with my work in it to date (65M).
I wish I have one of those lights. When I was in Grade 12, I was told to shoot a short teaser for a school event. I don't have my own lighting equipment, thus using the fluorescent light of a classroom helped. And I just opened my classmates lens' aperture to 1.8 and dealt with fast manual focusing throughout the shoot. It was a 3-hour fast shoot, and luckily it end up well. Now, I'm saving up to buy my first ever lighting gear. 😆😎
This was super useful!
We booked a headshot in our studio and forgot to put it on our calendar. When they came in, we had the amount of time that they made final clothing options and changing to set EVERYTHING thing up. So about 5-10 minutes! They were none-the-wiser and the photos came out great!
Any time I've done a 48 hour film competition. Those are my most rushed.
I remember my beginnings, I was asked to realize a video clip with more than 200 people in it (50+ singers and people and kids all around), in a big sequence shot... 2 days before the shoot, and without any informations on the location !
You say rush ? no, that was hell ! xD and of course I did it because I was new in this activity and I didn't want to miss that !
I asked 3 friends to help me on set, and we did it ! (the result isn't good to me haha but hey ! that was one of my first job).
Everyone has to start from somewhere
One of my regular clients called me on a Wednesday, to let me know he scored us the Saleen headquarters as a location for a music video that Friday.
I had about a day and a half to plan two videos for him and I had no idea what we would be doing exactly until we got there. Ended up bringing no lights just to save time while working solo and on the fly and it turned out great!
I’ve gotten (on more than one occasion) a call from my buddy to come out the next morning and pull focus on a single setup) which ends up being the tiniest pull but one that he’d rather not do himself! Easiest gig ever! Oh, and the shot is a lawyer standing up from behind his desk and walking to the corner of his desk. It’s hilarious how easy and last minute it always is.
It's great to have connections!
My most rushed shoot was when I participated in a 24 hour filmmaking competition with the Connecticut Film Festival back in '09.
All the teams competing arrived at a location on Friday night, and at exactly at the same time we all opened our manila envelopes with the same instructions on it - what the main theme had to be ("broke" in any context), 1 specific prop that had to be used (coffee), and restrictions (It must be shot on location within the city limits of Danbury, CT, where the festival was being held). We wrote the script, shot, edited and rushed it down to their office within 24 hours.
I was *literally* running down Main Street, Danbury with my DVD (yeah, a physical DVD in those days) to make it.
Yes, I did make it in time. =)
I’m an actor that has been under pressure time and time again to shoot next day auditions. I had to learn 5 pages of dialogue, run to Best Buy to buy some pretty bad lights before they closed in 15 mins, because the audition was due at 9am and I was on vacation at my parents house. But in the end it was all worth it and I got the role! Bam! I also returned the lights obviously.
It sounds like "chit testing" is common in your industry. Sorry that is the case. It might be good for you, though, because it weeds out people that can't memorize and perform under pressure the way you do. Given all that pressure, though, I recommend you consider the concept that some diets are designed to be anti-inflammatory (and other pro-inflammatory, sometimes very much so). Search out "Morley Robbins" and "Dr. Barry Sears" on TH-cam. Dr. Sears also has a lot of Zone Diet books, some of which might be cheap at your local thrift store. Abebooks.com will have them for cheap, too. The biggest thing I noticed when I implemented the Zone Diet was that I felt relatively amazing. I had been in an "insulin hangover" most of my life, and it felt really good to move beyond that.
oh man! im constantly doing rushed projects, its always, "hey can you come down here in a few hours and shoot some stuff, make it look pretty" and i as i cry inside i whisper "yes"
We know that feel!
Most last minute job is every job i do! I film portfolio material for actors so we show up, light and film and get out again all in about 2 - 3 hours!
3 weeks ago we decided to go out shooting with my A7S3 in a Canadian blizzard in the woods. We had to be quick and organized to be able to shoot right in the peak of the snow storm. It was very pleasant and came up with awesome footage. Love my Aputure products. Just received my two 4' pavotube but do you guys plan to come up with your own Aputure tubes?
Love this stuff so much. I wish you guys would put out one every day. I remember the time i was asked to shoot an interview and then I remembered I had no lights. Fast forward. Now I have a Nova, 300dii , Pavotubes and various smaller lights. This stuff is so fun, forget natural light, anyone can do that. Wish i could try an aputure MC. :)
Glad you enjoy it!
Rushed Project: Wrote a TH-cam episode on the toilet in the AM, drove to the studio and shot it in 1hr, edited in 45mins, published in 1hr. People seemed to like it!
Omg you are angels for beginners, I hope it’s work , I just starte with green screen studio.. ❤️❤️
Great job love ❤️
That’s was awesome guys! Great info! Thanks for sharing. :)
T.
I was working at a eyebrow design studio and every time that they want a video i use to made it in one day... It was a madness, because i was all in one production man... :O
I got a call to film an event with a fairly large shopping center (they're a chain so multiple exist). Either way, I accept, send over a contract and ask the agency managing it all to provide me with the address and they don't send me the address until the night before the event. I get to the shoot early cause I like to familiarise myself before shooting and I meet one of the directors there who says "Nice to see you... but shouldn't you be over at 'X' location today?"
The same director who had sent me the address had sent the wrong address and didn't even bother apologising for it being wrong and told me I was lucky that we crossed paths.
Learnt a lot from that one moment. A looooot :P
Great results guys!
Have you ever got a job from Facebook? Well I’ll explain in case you haven’t, here’s just one experience: a friend tagged me on a post from a coordinator for a show on its 8th season on food network. When I called the coordinator (8:30am) they explained it was already day two a of three day shoot, but they just realized they needed more crew. I was asked how soon I could be there with no ask into my credentials or competency, so I asked what the job was. I was told it was PA responsibilities. After finding out where, I asked when. I was told the shoot has started, but just get there as soon as you can. Turns out it didn’t matter that I barely knew what was going on because when I showed up they simply asked me to act as security for video village, but I worked as hard as I could to help out any way I could, assist the AC/DIT two in one guy with batteries and card offloading on Shotput. Carried around grip equipment and yes, protected the gear. No time like the present to call in for an extra hand. Lol
Spacious, not cluttered, nice accessories qt your disposable. Far from being bad conditions ahah.
The most rushed project I had was in a photography shoot. My classmate coincidentaly met me in a Cafe and asked me to photograph his car and all I had was my camera and aputure mc. What I quickly thought of at that time was light painting and I used the mc to do it. SUCH A NIFTY TOOL TO HAVE IN YOUR ARMORY !!
Light painting is so cool!
Really liked the video and explanation.
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Thank you!!
This tutorial is interesting. I found it helpful.
Glad to hear that!
I did an interview for my vlog in a bar in South London. The interviewee told me it was all 'squared', but it ended up being busy as hell and had people knocking the light stands and tripod. Thank god for b-roll.
Was asked to create a hype up video for an event happening in two days. The event was not set up yet so there was nothing to film and only a few clips of previous shows. Ended up using mostly stock footage.
A local theatre group had been planning a monologue that they wanted filming. I had a rough idea what the subject was but not much else, the writer, perfectionist type, was taking ages over the script.
I got a call on Saturday night around 6pm from the actor “I have a script now but we go into lockdown from Monday, can you come tomorrow to film it? It’s now or never. Here’s the script”.
I spend the next 2 hours marking up the script and trying to remember details of the house we were going to shoot it in, and charging up all the battery stuff.
3 hours later: “oh, and here’s an updated script”.
Thanks.
That's the worst!
I was once asked to do a green screen photo session, and had just enough time to order cheap lights and a green screen set-up to make it work. it turned out well, but i could have gone badly.. but having my own 300x lights now, is a lot leas stress and quicker for me to respond to random jobs.
These videos are so good!!
Thank you!
I was once called to play a small part in a movie, they call me up and they were so far behind, they couldn't get to my scene, the director asked me to go the following day and they would begin with my scene, off course it didn't happen, then the producer knew I was also a director, looked at me and asked can you do second unit? I said sure, he said fine but you'll have to DP as well. I went in as a bit player and i ended up doing second unit directing and shooting.
I had to shoot a commercial for a beard oil brand. Didn’t have time to rent a camera so had to make do with a Canon m50. Luckily my Aputure 120dii saved me and the client was happy. Not without a few tears of my own though.
Idk if it’s just me but hanging 10 foot blankets to block out windows and using a quasar for rim light is a not a time sensitive setup or “last minute”. I think this setup looks dope and offers helpful tips but interviews rarely get location scouting and no more than an hour for setup in my experiences...and usually the job is budgeted for 1,2 or 3 man crews at best.
should i set the lights by looking at log monitor or rec709 ?
Had to shoot a short film in 4 hours. It came out great for the little time that I had. Good thing it was already storyboarded with a shot list.
Literally every event my church holds. I've been asked as late as the night before the shoot.
Mercy!!
It was a small set for a short film and I was working as a grip. I had an hour to setup lights, unfortunately that time was cut even more because the DP had never even been on location and was clueless to any setup and even worsened as he and the director had done no prior planning. TO THIS DAY MY WORST EXPERIENCE ON ANY SET. But you learn from the bad experiences as much as the good ones.
So you guys have an SGC p60 and p120 product available in Asia, not sure if that was the exact aputure-quasar tube used in this shoot, but why hasn’t it been released in America yet?
Super teaching
My most rushed was a no budget music video I shot in a day, and the next day finished the edit, not a full 24 hours but it was definitely time crunch.
Wow! That's impressive.
Funny finding this video today with that question at the end haha...Yesterday around 11am, I got a phone called telling me to come shoot a kitchen class at 6:30 to 9h30. As I was ready to shoot; as another shoot just got cancelled this morning. I said sure I will be there. I told the client I would like to be there 1 hour before to prep and scout the location, so 5h00 and she told me no its impossible as they will be closing the kitchen for a deep clean before the class. She told me to come at 6h00...So i was home waiting to take off, then suddenly at 4h50 pm I got a text telling me: the class started 30minutes ago, where are you?...Am like what? I seriously dnt know how I heard 6h30 like 3 times instead of 16h30...I never drove off to a job so fast, of course I got stuck in traffic as its peak hour, arrived there and shot for the 1hour left :/ and having this walk of shame for the full shooting lol... I had this adrenaline rush that made my hands shake a lot...and I love to shoot handheld.. so yeap...also nearly puked on the way and what a wtf moment. Note to self, always get the time written/emailed even when its a last minute job..
Thank you . Can do a tuto how we film just with one light
Good idea!
You can consider this very example. They used one big light source for key. You can remove the quasar tube or try to use that same mirror to reflect some bscklight into the subject.
The most important thing (the key light) is well explained here. The bigger the softer will be onto your subject. Up and angled to get some wrap around the subject's face but giving a little of shadow for shaping the face. And a lot of practice!
@@Andresvideo thank you . I will try it .
Just finished one: Supernatural/Action/ Thriller. 90 scenes. 22 locations. 60% shot outdoors in a constantly rushed bazaar/shopping markets. 70+ min run time. All in 4 and 1/2 days.
😲😲😲
I got a call about 6 o’clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday and was asked if I could do a shoot the next afternoon. The catch was that it was in Michigan and I live in California. I packed and flew out early the next morning and got it down.
What is the app you are showing for shot/lighting design?
- 6:00AM call - hey, can you film today? We have everything set but the operator just got sick.
- ye, sure. When and where?
- be 1h from now at the opposite side of city.
Yeeeeee, sure 😅
So good
My most rushed project was a wedding. They had me scheduled for six hours for $660 for photos and video with just me and my wife. At the last minute, they added two more hours which I told them I guess you can add more time. I was too kind and told them that they could just give me a tip to make up the difference. Got there on time, an eight-hour job now, and they had already started getting ready and I was behind. I felt like she had told everyone that I was late which I wasn't. So stressful. After everything was said and done I did hundreds of photos of the bridal party and all their relatives plus the video. And no tip, ug.
I was once walking down the street with a camera shooting some stuff just for fun, and I got offered an interview shoot by someone passing by who was looking for a camera man. Didn't even have a tripod, ended up stacking books on a table to film it with mostly window light.
How did it turn out?
@@aputurelighting Not too bad. Luckily the table was level, so the shot was too!
I have a funny one, bear with me. I match with a girl on Bumble, she writes first (that's the way Bumble works), but then I see she is a tourist and only visiting for a few days, so I don't respond. If I don't respond after 24hours, the match disappears, no big deal. But a few hours later she sends another message - "Hey, I saw that you work with video, can you help me with a project?"
Then I obviously respond... She asked me if I could help her out with a small lights setup for a livestream, and I said I could. She then tells me the livestream was happening at 8pm Dominican republic (where she was originally from), but that meant the livestream would start 1am here in Copenhagen... and the location from where we will be livestreaming is her hotel room... So... I was like.. Ok...
I do a little research on her, she seems legit. I meet up at her hotel at 11pm we start chatting and setting up for the livestream, she had also brought drinks. Ended up setting up the lights in 20 minutes and chatting with her for the 2 hours before the livestream :) No dirty stuff, she was super cool, then the next day (during the daytime) we also shot 4 mini interviews in different locations around Copenhagen for her travels. And then the next day she was out of the country.
Crazy, the variety of experiences our jobs bring to our lives :)
I'm working on an essay for a film class, which will have hypothetical scenarios as realistic illustrations. My thesis, to keep it simple, is about how what happens in a film can happen in real life, making real life moments as dramatic as movie scenes. I have a couple questions:
1. In some films, when a character goes through a traumatic moment, they move on immediately. EX: in Shrek, Farquaad pulls a sword on Fiona, but _quite soon_ (after Dragon eats Farquaad), Shrek and Fiona kiss, get married, and live happily ever after _that very day._ In real life, _can_ a person to go through (or nearly) something horrible and recover pretty soon when the bad thing doesn't happen? Find their happy moment that day?
2. This paragraph is partly off topic in my essay, but it indirectly and complicatedly connects to my thesis. Can serious films have dark _and_ musical moments? Not musicals, Disney, comedies, or animations; movies that are mostly dramatic, dark, and sentimental, I guess like Hallmark? Can such films have musical performances or background songs? Here are two hypothetical examples to clarify: the hero is building traps for the villain, during which “Everyday Hero” plays to signify he’s gotta save the day. Awesome song, but during a *_life and death_* situation? Or suppose the final fight with the villain results in their *death,* and during the *happy* ending *_soon_* after, they perform a song (say, at a party), to celebrate the film’s resolution. Mood transition too rapid?
Nice
It seems like every successful video I shoot on TH-cam is a last second one.
Definitely a breaking news segment regarding a covid outbreak at a high school and setting up a socially distanced interview with the Principal to air the next day 😰
I do all of my works in a rush because i don't have a lighting setup yet my brother is the one who holds a diy lighting setup made by me.
"Hey! Can you be here in... 2 hours?
_How the place looks like?
_I don't know."
Do I EVEN need to explain. Taking a bunch of Aputure Tri8 and AL-MC and hoping it will be good.
Good luck!
Boudoir!!
I had a mutual friend invite as a crew member on a music video. The rapper thought we only needed a camera for his video. I ended up being a DP, Gaffer, and G&E. He also didn't know we needed a focus puller, editor and importantly a director with shot list. I called a friend to help and 3 of us shot a music video and the entire days footage didn't get captured because the rapper guy gave us a samsung "T7" for ssd on a bmpcc4k.
That's rough!
Last minute promo video!!
I'm D.O.Ping a short today only got told about on Tuesday night but I find most of my projects I get about 3 days notice on it's quite normal for me and because I need the income sometimes you just have to push your self to get as many projects done as possible even if that means going for 5 days without sleep lol but I'm sure we have all been there at one stage or another this was a great vid btw out of all my lights I own even my big 300d ii I always carry round a mc in my pocket on any set I'm working on once we were up at a top of a hill at 1pm shooting a bollywood short it's about a 45min walk to base and we didn't have a light to light up the fake fire then I grabbed out my mc stuck in the middle on fire mode and it worked so well! would love to see a video on the different ways you can utilise your mc.
That's a great idea!
your room-devider is called "paravent"
Wouldn't have ever guessed. Thanks for letting me know haha!
Most rushed was definitely realizing the world was shutting down and then having to shoot training videos for teachers on how to access their digital learning programs, setups, best practices in two days.
Me: Hello?
Client: Hey Kevin...was wondering if you had some time to come film a commercial we're doing at **** Park.
Me: Absolutely. When?
Client: We are here right now. Talent is in makeup.
Me: Um...
That's wild!
It was about 4:30 and I got a call saying. "Bro I need you here by 5:30. We got a location until 7 and we need to shoot a video" I got on set and nothing was set up it was really gorilla style. Hollywooding an LED panel, and camera on gimble. 🤯🤯🤯
Sounds crazy!
Most rushed we have been was shooting an ad with the head coach of one of our local Universities (he's now coaching the Cardinals in the NFL). We were told we would have 15 minutes with him and , at one point during the lighting setup, my brother, Jacob, had to stand in on a milk crate to match the coach's height. During that stand-in, Patrick Mahomes walked by and laughed at him.
Texas Tech huh
@@anartistnamedmatthew1849 yep. We were shooting with Kingsbury. Mahomes is a lot taller than he looks on TV
By "we brought out own dimmer" do you mean you brought your own light "wand" that was able to dim?
On shots for a TH-camr, we had to make 15 videos of 30 minutes each in one day! A real marathon!
It was 8am when I got a call to shoot an interview of the US ambassador at 10.30am
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TH-cam video. Wake up, look for an adventure trail, and go.
I am beginners on green screen studio plz upload some lighting guidelines, lots of TH-camr wants , it’s helps them a lot , thanks 🙏, I hope you will think abt 🌹❤️love
When i shot my first TH-cam video, it took about 8 hours.. it was summer and climate didnt work)
Lol, I gut a call for my friend, he said Jerry come help me do a short interview with my pastor, I went their he had all the light, I said nice bro you gat some new equipment, he said I have a lot of shit but I can't use now of this shit, I said Is why you opened all the windows he said he still needs more light. Omg all the light were facing up when I asked why he said bro I need a cinematic shoot.
I would love to have a few days notice for a shoot. Most of my clients call me the day before or even the same day they want to film. People are idiots.
its a paravan :)
Interview 101.. never shoot into a wall straight on .. always go for a corner if at all possible .. this location would be easy
I was shooting two weddings in one day 😶
Did anyone find out most the black man look better than white man in the camera?
Shot a 10 minute shirt film in 3 days, in 6 different locations, with 4 crew members. Talk about a RUSH