{"id":18350,"date":"2013-05-13T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=18350"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:38:26","slug":"dallas-crew-shoots-for-espns-30-for-30-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2013\/dallas-crew-shoots-for-espns-30-for-30-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Crew Shoots for ESPN\u2019s \u201c30 for 30\u201d Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shooting an interview in the office of Dallas Stars president, Jim Lites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of my absolute favorite series out there has to be ESPN\u2019s \u201c30 for 30.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen one that I didn\u2019t enjoy.\u00a0 They\u2019re always shot beautifully and tell a compelling story.\u00a0 Needless to say, when I found out I was shooting for the series I was pretty pumped.<\/p>\n

The \u201c30 for 30\u201d I worked on was about con man, John Spano and his attempt to purchase the Dallas Stars hockey organization.\u00a0 The film\u2019s director, Kevin Connolly, flew out to Dallas to conduct the interview and make sure we got the necessary b-roll.\u00a0 And, yes, this is the same Kevin Connolly of the hit T.V. show, \u201cEntourage.\u201d\u00a0 Seriously, somebody please pinch me.\u00a0 Actually, wait, don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Comerica Bank Headquarters in Dallas, TX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My day started off in downtown Dallas.\u00a0 I shot some b-roll of Comerica\u2019s Headquarters and the surrounding buildings in the banking district.\u00a0 Afterwards I headed over to the airport to pick Kevin up.\u00a0 From there we headed out to the University Parks neighborhood to get some b-roll of Mr. Spano\u2019s old house.\u00a0 We also shot some b-roll of the old office building at which John Spano use to work.<\/p>\n

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The medium shot from the Jim Lites interview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kevin and I then headed up to Frisco to shoot an interview with Jim Lites, president of the Dallas Stars.\u00a0 I was shooting on two Canon 5Ds.\u00a0 We set up for the interview in Mr. Lites office.\u00a0 Kevin liked the hockey memorabilia in his office so we made that the background.\u00a0 I used a 400w Kino Flo as the key and a 200w as a soft fill.\u00a0 For the backlight I used a 150w Arri fixture.\u00a0 For the background, two 300w Arri fixtures were used.<\/p>\n

The first 5D was mounted with a 24-70mm f2.8 lens.\u00a0 This camera captured a medium shot of Mr. Lites.\u00a0 The second 5D was mounted with a 70-200mm f2.8 lens.\u00a0 I used this camera to get a close up shot of the Dallas Stars president.\u00a0 We used a smart slate and separate audio recorded for audio. \u00a0It didn’t take long before we were set up and ready to rock.<\/p>\n

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The close up shot from the Jim Lites interview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The interview went great.\u00a0 I was really happy with how the interview looked.\u00a0 The producer had sent me some examples of other interviews they had done for this project and I believe that I matched the style pretty closely.\u00a0 After the interview we headed back downtown to get a few shots of Dealey Plaza.\u00a0 It turns out that Kevin is a huge history buff and wanted to get some shots of the book depository and the grassy knoll.\u00a0 That pretty much ended our day.\u00a0 There were two more shots Kevin wanted but he really didn\u2019t need to be there for them.\u00a0 I dropped Kevin off at his hotel and I headed out to get the final shots.<\/p>\n

Kevin and the producer needed two evening shots.\u00a0 The first is a shot of John Spano\u2019s former house and the second was a Dallas skyline shot.\u00a0 Once the sun started to set I got the shots.\u00a0 Afterwards I made sure all of the footage and audio from the day was on the hard drive and shipped that out to L.A.<\/p>\n

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A night shot of the Dallas skyline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a blast on this shoot.\u00a0 It was great to meet and work with Kevin Connoly.\u00a0 He was awesome and super down to earth.\u00a0 I also had a great crew too.\u00a0 All in all, the day just went very smoothly.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to catch this \u201c30 for 30\u201d in the fall of 2013 on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my absolute favorite series out there has to be ESPN\u2019s \u201c30 for 30.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen one that I didn\u2019t enjoy.\u00a0 They\u2019re always shot beautifully and tell a compelling story.\u00a0 Needless to say, when I found out I was shooting for the series I was pretty pumped. The \u201c30 for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2169,141,109,2085,111,113,1333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}