{"id":9083,"date":"2010-07-28T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:09:41","slug":"go-to-team-gets-the-checkered-flag-for-the-2010-nascar-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2010\/go-to-team-gets-the-checkered-flag-for-the-2010-nascar-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Go To Team Gets the Checkered Flag for the 2010 NASCAR Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skip Clark shooting on Canon 7D<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As TNT passes the NASCAR torch to ESPN, Go To Team Director of Photography, Skip Clark, reaches his finish line and sees the checkered flag signal the end of his 2010 NASCAR season.\u00a0 To say this season was yet another success is an understatement. This year brought exciting changes and unexpected additions to the usual \u201cNASCAR grind.\u201d<\/p>\n

As usual, every year starts off with the \u201cHanger Shoot\u201d in Daytona.\u00a0 Go To Team and FOX rent out an entire airplane hanger.\u00a0 Six rooms are constructed inside the hanger.\u00a0 Each room is assigned to shoot a specific element that will inevitably be used throughout the FOX NASCAR season.\u00a0 This year Skip\u2019s room consisted of a simple truss design with five spark machines hanging from it.\u00a0 Drivers would stand a few feet in front of the structure and when action was called sparks would fall behind them.\u00a0 The room was shot in slow motion causing the sparks to drop like snowflakes.\u00a0 Very cool stuff.<\/p>\n

2010 saw Atlanta Director of Photography, Tom Wells<\/a>, return this season for a handful of races for FOX.\u00a0 At the hanger shoot Tom DP\u2019d the Punch Cam room.\u00a0 The room was literally a boxing ring.\u00a0 Drivers would throw on a pair of boxing gloves and a robe and take punches a specially designed camera rig. On top of that Tom also ran second camera for Skip, shot some pieces solo, and knocked out some billboards too.<\/p>\n

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Tom Wells on the punch cam for Nascar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, like every year a new apprentice is brought in to the equation to run audio.\u00a0 This year\u2019s apprentice, Roger Woodruff, is actually a big NASCAR fan.\u00a0 This made the season a bit more interesting.\u00a0 Luckily he was able to control himself as he mic’ed up drivers like Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick.<\/p>\n

Another exciting addition was the use of the Cannon 7D.\u00a0 This HDSLR camera has the ability to shoot in 24p and you can over crank it to 60fps as well.\u00a0 The results, with the right glass, are breath taking slow motion shots with a shallow depth of field.\u00a0 Just think NFL films without the hassle of actually shooting on film.\u00a0 FOX was very excited with the addition and it definitely became the hit of the season.<\/p>\n

With Skip using the 7D in Victory Lane, that opened the door for Roger to get some valuable hands on experience with the Varicam.\u00a0 By the end of the FOX season Skip\u2019s apprentice was not only shooting \u201ccrazy cam\u201d in Victory Lane but during the race as well. For Roger it was a dream come true to be shooting NASCAR\u2019s race winners.<\/p>\n

Quicker than you could say \u201cPit Stop,\u201d FOX passed the torch to TNT.\u00a0 TNT\u2019s season is quite shorter than FOX\u2019s but just as action packed.\u00a0 The biggest highlight of the TNT season has to be Tom Wells stepping in for Skip on a few of the races.\u00a0 Tom fit right in and got to work.\u00a0 TNT hardly noticed that Skip wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0 Sorry Skip!<\/p>\n

Both Skip and Tom shot episodes of the Ponytail Express with Kyle Petty.\u00a0 These comical episodes saw Kyle Petty do everything from explore our nation\u2019s capitol to skydiving in Florida.\u00a0 Aside from the Ponytail Express there were also interviews and garage b-roll to be shot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still hard to believe that the NASCAR season is over for Skip and GTT.\u00a0 This season moved very quickly.\u00a0 Fortunately the 2011 season is only six months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As TNT passes the NASCAR torch to ESPN, Go To Team Director of Photography, Skip Clark, reaches his finish line and sees the checkered flag signal the end of his 2010 NASCAR season.\u00a0 To say this season was yet another success is an understatement. This year brought exciting changes and unexpected additions to the usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,287],"tags":[1218,1313,233,141,561,8,111,57,163,238,1335,33,239,1333,1334,976,395,426,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083"}],"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=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}