Shooting the Awesome Canadian Woman spot was a barrel of good times as DP Maya Bankovic’s 1st AC. I was especially happy when the actor playing the lumberjack eventually showed up, because I was apparently fingered to replace him. #desperatemeasures on location…
I’m in the process of finding copies of projects I’ve shot since September, hoping to put together a new reel… (hint hint)… But here’s one music video that I operated on in the fall under DP/Director Jesse Blight. Ali Matthews won four 2011 GMA awards including Female Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year. Here’s her single ‘Carry Me Home’
Small Town Radio took its first steps to becoming a reality in late-2011 when it was granted its CRTC license for the Cobourg, Ont. region. Broadcasting will start in fall-2012, but in the meantime the board wanted some headshots of the founding executive members this past December. Typical of small town spirit, my mother’s nearby Port Hope home became the studio after losing our location last minute. A quick re-think, and voila!
Learn more about Small Town Radio here.
While working in 90 degree temperatures in the south this past month, the fall 2011 issue of Watershed Magazine hit stands in Ontario. Pages 38-40 have my piece on the Ganaraska Railway Modellers Club whose lives connect while building their intricate miniature world within Canada’s oldest working train station in Port Hope, Ontario.
The article can be read here. And a short multimedia is forthcoming.
So I arrived back in YYZ about a week ago, and have since sifted through Toronto and other parts of Ontario prepping for what’s next.
My last month or so was spent in and around Seaside, FL, a bubble where wealthy Americans of the southern states vacation and retire among their unified architectural delights, some of which were featured in Peter Weir’s The Truman Show. Then a small circus arrived, of which I was a member as a camera operator on the TV-pilot, Centerfold.
My DP, Jesse Blight and I had kept trying to find time to shoot stills, but just couldn’t make it happen outside of our minimum 16 hour days that ran straight through the main 15 day shooting schedule.
But we were graced with the presence of World Press Award-winners Eli Reed and Peter Geller. Eli was shooting a behind-the-scenes story as a part of a Magnum series, which I’ll link to once it’s published. Both had brilliant stories and insight, some of which was captured in an interview to be posted online by Crucible Pictures.
One of the video elements featured at NAPTE 2012. Official trailer and news for season one production start coming soon…
Vic Ciesielski of Cambridge, Ont. prepares for the Seaforth golf tournament at Whistle Bear Golf Performance Centre on August 12, 2011. This is Ciesielski’s sixth year as a member of the Canadian Golf Tour. (Janek Lowe, Record Staff)
Christy Beckhoff was a hospital social worker helping cancer patients and their families when her beloved dog became critically ill last year. She has since become a clinical counsellor at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, advising and comforting pet-owners whose animals are ill or dying. (Janek Lowe, Record Staff)
Technical Sgt. Ed Cole of the Viper East F16 Demonstration Team, guides Major Ryan Corrigan’s F16 fighter to a parked position just before the pitot probe breaks Cole’s skin at Waterloo International Airport, August 17, 2011. This precision parking is a long standing tradition between pilots and their ground crew to demonstrate trust and discipline. The pitot probe is a flight data collection antenna that must be turned off once touched down, or it will singe the ground crew. Cole, who grew up in Gary IN, was based in South Korea before joining the demonstration team in January 2011. The team is based at Shaw Airforce Base in South Carolina, and will be demonstrating combat maneuvers during the Waterloo Air Show this weekend. (Janek Lowe, Record Staff)
My first multimedia assignment for the Record back in May or June introduced me to Ed Forwell of Forwell Super Variety on Lancaster Street in Kitchener. Fifty years in business is nothing to shrug at, especially when built pennies at a time, as Record reporter Greg Mercer wrote here.
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