Hi
singemonkey and
Donovan. Thanks for the warm welcome.
Yeah
singemonkey I actually wrote you a long-ish reply but a nano second before I hit post, my screen went black and the MacBook Pro was dead...lost the post. Unusual, I never got a low battery warning and it just went all the way to 0% .....bye-bye....LOL!!!
The jist of what I said is that "24" went to SA to shoot. They only took the highest of the high in terms of people, the above the line types, so us department heads mostly stayed home and started prep here for the upcoming season. I was very happy to hear in reports that the SA crews were really good. Naturally the standard here in Hollywood is very high as the book was written here and continues to get regular revisions, but it was nice to hear my homeboys did an absolutely solid job. They raved about the crews there. Michael Click, the producer would always make some comment or other when I was around him about how much he loved it there and wants to go back. The question I get a lot over the years from people who have been there is...
"why would you want to leave a place like that-especially to come here?"
24 was shot like a feature, huge scenes and setups and some of the rigging we did was enormous. There is no room for error in these deals, hurt someone, especially Kiefer and you are toast. The budget was huge....something like $3.5M per
EPISODE!!! ? ? And it frequently went over. At 24 episodes it was around $75M per season. That is pretty big for television. LOL, I was responsible for a chunk of that every day so the responsibility was intense sometimes.
Here, just for giggles this is an aircraft hangar I tented, in Van Nuys. We were filming a night scene in the middle of the day so it had to be pitch black in there.
Donovan.... I am embarrassed to say I am very lacking in mic's.
My paltry mic collection consists of: a Studio Projects C-1, an Audio Technica AT 4033a, an Audio Technica C1000s and an SM-57 and SM-58 from Shure. All of these can take a beating from an amp but honestly....I tend to use sims for the controllability of the signal level. I am located in a decent suburb in LA on a somewhat quiet street but I still do not want to advertise to passersby scoping the joint out, that there is a music studio in my garage....... if you know what I mean. Even more so now with the economy tanking..... I think burglary/robbery is going to go up.
Which is why I cannot decide between improving the studio...OR...the Stagg Arms AR-15 I have my eye on.....SWEET piece......223/5.56mm....LOL ? 8)
In the not too distant future I do need/want to upgrade some stuff.......I want to get a very good interface so I have my eye on an Apogee Ensemble and also an RME Fireface UMX. The two mic's I would like to have are a Neumann TLM 103 and a Royer R-122 ribbon. I also might do a BLA mod to the 002R. I just cannot decide....but more than likely the Apogee.
So just for another giggle, here are several images I shot at a show I went to....I stood about 5' from the stage the whole show. :0) Tal Wilkenfeld on bass and Vinnie Colliuta on drums. Great show. Saw him again more recently with an orchestra backing the band a well, also a good show....Dweezil Zappa opened.
I played with these images a little in Photoshop and Photomatix Pro.... I know the HDR processing really dirty's it up, I just like the Grunge look in HDR.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, I'm not known for keeping it short ?
