"A Short Film"

I start production tomorrow on a short film directed by Chris Pare (www.plywoodcutouts.com). The film is actually called "A Short Film by Chris Pare". It's about a 10-12 minute comedy exploring the pitfalls and cliche's of making short films, in particular student short films. The film has a variety of sequences in various genres and should be interesting to shoot. The production is shooting for 5 days and we wrap on Tuesday.

We're shooting on a Panasonic DVX100A with a couple of sequences possibly on a Bolex. My equipment package is as follows (minus the odd thing here and there):

Camera
- DVX100A
- Petroff 4x5 mattebox
- Follow focus
- 4x4 ND solids complete (3/6/9)
- 4x4 ND SE grads (6/12)
- 4x4 Classic Sunset
- 4x4 Polarizer
- 4x4 1/8, 1/4 Black frosts
- 4x4 Coral 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2
- Tall legs
- Baby legs
- Manfrotto 503 fluid head
- 100mm bowl hi-hat
- Manfrotto Fig Rig
- 9" Director's monitor

Lighting/Grip
- (1) 1200 HMI Fresnel
- (1) 4' 4bank Kino Flo
- (1) 2' 4bank Kino Flo
- (2) 2' 2bank Kino Flo
- (3) 1K Fresnels
- (1) 1K Red-head
- (4) Arri 300's
- (2) Arri 150's
- (1) Lowell Pro light c/w battery belt
- (12) 50' AC
- (12) 25' AC
- (3) 1K hand dimmers
- (1) China ball fixture
- (1) 24x32 small Chimera
- (1) 3K Honda genny

- (8) C-stands
- (5) 750 stands
- (2) Sky-hi's
- (5) Cardellini
- (5) Mafers
- (2) Magic arms
- (2) 750 Base plates
- (4) Each Full/Half/Quarter Apple boxes
- (1) Box pancakes
- (1) Box wedges
- (4) Each 24x32 Flags/Single/Double/Silks
- (4) 18x24 Flags
- (1) 6x6 frame
- (1) 6x6 Silk
- (1) 6x6 Silver bounce
- (1) 3x3 Lite grid

Most of the gear is coming from Sheridan College with the remaining amount of stuff from my own shop. Most of the camera accessories are from Image Gear.

I'll try to take as many behind the scenes photographs to post as possible. The shooting schedule doesn't seem too crazy so I should be able to. On the other hand we're also under crewed a little so it might get tough.