Humber College "Foley" Shoot

Just finished shooting a 30 sec spot promoting the Humber Film and TV production program. The spot was directed by my friend Mike McLeod. The entire spot is set up as one shot (minus an ending product type shot). The idea is we start up really close in on a guys eyes and we hear all these sounds. He gets more scared as the sounds escalate. Eventually he gets up, runs out, only to reveal that we're in a foley studio stage.

I keyed him with a 1K Chimera hanging on a goalpost setup with a 2' kino tube as eyelight. The spill from the Chimera also keyed the background foley artists who were also sidelit with a 2K with brushed silk on it. A 1K fresnel with Full Blue on it gave some background color. A 4ft 4bank Kino Flo was used off to the side to key the guy running off camera.

We shot on an HVX200 in 720 24P mode. The dolly is a Chapman Peewee which production kindly secured for me.

Thanks to the camera and lighting team for a good job - especially Harry Ycaza on dolly who really had to yank that thing quickly.

Here's a couple of pictures - took a few more candids with my Lomo on B&W Ilford which I'll post once they're processed.


The setup. You can see the goalpost setup and the 1K Chimera overhead.


Me taking a reading to see the stop difference. With video I'll still sometimes use a meter to check contrast in various areas.
Gaffer Angelica Bailey looking on.


Angie and 1st AC James O'Bryan - two of my favourite people. You can see the Kino tube as eyelight rigged to the camera. I wrapped some ND 3 gel around twice to take it down.