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Maelstrom - Production (part 1)
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by Adam Wilt
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Shooting "jazz style" on a Rob Nilsson feature
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Still life with water bottle: An EX1 sports a DvRig Junior;
at the bottom is Alan Hereford’s homebrew DvRig.
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Day 0 - Finishing up our preproduction for Rob Nilsson’s film, "Maelstrom", Tim and I head up to San Francisco and Emeryville
to pick up gear. Videofax has an EX1 with wide-angle adaptor to back up ours and serve as a B camera, and Chater Camera has two Lectrosonics
wireless systems with Sonotrim mikes to supplement my two existing Sony WRR/WRT-28 wirelesses with ECM-77s.
At Chater, Tim sees a RockNRoller cart that looks useful for hauling heavy stuff, and Jay Farrington offers
up a half-Zeppelin with integrated furry (a.k.a. "dead cat") for my Sennheiser ME80 hypercardioid, when I admit
I only have a wool sock over my own half-Zep. The cart is $10/day, the windscreen they throw in for free.
Nice folks.
Off to DTC for our lights, at at least those of them that have arrived. Frank at DTC wheels out a pallet of boxes, and we open up an
impossibly large box containing a KinoFlo VistaBeam 600. The freakin’ thing is 36 inches on a side (that’s nearly a meter square,
for folks in civilized countries) and has a junior pin on it (not the baby receiver we expected, and had ordered
stands for); this is serious lighting. Tim and I goggle in stupefaction as various DTC employees, renters, and
general hangers-on gather ‘round to inspect this monster; it’s a new instrument and not widely available in rental
houses.
An even bigger box holds the shipping crate for two VistaBeams:
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The road case for the two VistaBeam 600s.
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We’ve a problem here; it’s simply too big to fit in Tim’s Scion xB. Fortunately, a VistaBeam fits by itself,
so we can take the instrument, if not its case:
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One VistaBeam with protective cardboard, flat, in Tim’s Scion.
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We find we have the two VistaBeams, a 1x1 Litepanel, and the kit containing two Litepanel Minis, but the two Diva-Lite 400s,
the Arri HMI kit, and the stands haven’t arrived yet. We rent rolling stands for the VistaBeams and DTC gives us three rental C-stands with gobo
arms (or it may have been the other way ‘round; DTC was chagrined they had neglected to sell us stands for the Vistas, so they threw us some
rental gear for free one way or the other to cover our needs), and we scout ‘round the grip section for toys: C-47s, blackwrap, gaffer tape,
gels, show card, extra grippy bits for securing lights in unlikely places. Finally, we get it all loaded, minus one of the VistaBeams
(we don’t want to stack ‘em, and besides, what are we gonna do with ‘em anyway?).
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Lighting, loaded.
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