New City Mattress Spots

We had the opportunity to shoot another set of spots for a great client of Ko-Mar's, City Mattress. The idea seems simple, President of City Mattress,(http://www.citymattress.com) Marc Schiller will walk through some of their top brand mattresses against a clean, white background. Here's what it takes to do this shoot.

 Dan Taylor's son help out for a few hours, it was bring your kid to work day, the lights are big. These are 8 Thousand Watt soft lights that fill in the overall look of the set (Cyc). We hung 4 of them!

 Joe Joe Gallagher bringing in the artillery.

 Gaffer Marty Segal and Audio/Grip extraordinaire, Dan Taylor put together the distro box from the generator to power up all the lights.

 A lot of lights are hung from the grid, Dan has hold of a 5K and is diffusing the light with 216 gels.

 Marty pointing the lights where he needs them.

Marketing and Promotions Director of City Mattress, Eric Anderson and DP Paul Piasecki start to lay out the pattern of the mattresses. We use a simple string and measuring tape to grid it all out.

 

 Shown here are the big boys doing their thing, adding a lot of soft light!

 Assistant Cameraman, Ryan Dee Setting up the Sony F3 for shooting. A lot goes into prepping the camera, changing lenses and getting all the settings right on the camera.

 Best Boy, Shaw Burrows is adjusting the light, yes with a pole, no time to get the lift in the set.

 Marc Schiller is in his position, we are using a Jimmy Triangle Jib with a 12ft extension. It is all done with a remote at the base and operator Jib Dave and assistant Jorge handle all that is done with the jib.

 Director Todd Kolich, sizing up a shot with the jib. A lot of coordinating the jib move and Marc walking takes some time, but the results are worth the effort.

 

 Executive Producer Jim Gallagher and Eric discussing the next shot.

 Todd directing the extras in the background. They have to hit their specific camera positions behind Marc who is in the foreground.

At the end of a long couple days, one of the most important jobs on the set is audio. 

Another great shoot! The crew: Jim Gallagher, Todd Kolich, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Jose Flores, Dan Taylor, Douglas Taylor, Marty Segal, Shaw hawk Burrows, Ryan Dee, Dave & Jorge from Michael Taylor Jibs, Bill Welsh (Editor)and Joe Joe!

The Making of a National Show, "Here's To Your Health" with Marilu Henner

Ko-Mar Productions was hired to shoot and edit "Here's To Your Health" with Marilu Henner for TLC Discovery Channel this Saturday morning at 8:30am is the first show air date. But before there is a show there is the set and here is some pre-light day photo's and day of the show photo's. Let's start with the pre-light day.

Peter really getting into the set..

A really big 5K Chimera, and Joe Joe is a big guy..

Jose, hanging a soft light..

Almost finished set "A"

Same with Set "B"

Marilu Henner is on set ready to shoot..

Todd giving some direction..

Paul getting some promo show open footage with the Sony F3

Marilu making a simple tasty dish with Executive Chef , Jim Leiken, a s

asoned veteran of Daniel Boulud's New York restaurants, he is now at Cafe' Boulud's at the Brazilian Court in Palm Beach. http://www.danielnyc.com/cafebouludPB.html

Audra deep in teleprompter thought and Paul running to do a task..

The Ko-Mar Crew after a long shoot day..the show aired November 5th at 8:30am on TLC.

Hole In One at the 2011 PGA Cup Matches

Ko-Mar Productions made it out to the suburbs of San Francisco to film the hour long highlight show for the PGA of America. This was the 25th edition of this Ryder Cup format of play. We shot at the beautiful Cordevalle Resort in San Martin, California.

We had a five camera unit to follow all the action. We had great weather and many golf highlights! Here is a quick link to our Hole In One by Team USA player Danny Balin. Caught by chance by Videographer, Paul Piasecki. It also made Number 10 Highlight on ESPN SportsCenter that week.

http://www.pga.com/pgacup/2011/multimedia/video/?q=/video/events/2011/09/17/PGACUPBalinHoleInOne.pga


Another moment was captured on hole #9 Marty Jertson for an Eagle, it was also on SportsCenter, shot by Videographer Bill Welsh.
ESPN.mp4‎ (7 MB‎)

The Sony F3, "The Next Level"

We are excited to announce that Ko-Mar Productions has purchased the Sony PMW F3 Super 35mm sensor camera! Due to the new sensor technology, digital cinematography is a specialized way to obtain a "National Commercial Look," on an affordable budget. With the use of high quality prime lenses, you can achieve an extrordinary 35mm film look, but with no film processing or transfer.

This camera offers creative shallow depth of field similar to what you see on commercials and motion pictures. The camera is surprisingly more compact than a , "Red One" or "Arri Alexa." It is easier to handhold and put in tight spaces, just great versatility. It also has professional XLR audio outputs and HD SDI output capabilities.

Low light sensitivity is great for shooting at night or indoors with natural light for minimal lighting packages.

Shown is the 85mm lens with Matte Box and Follow Focus.

Here are a couple from our recent City Mattress shoot in our studio..This camera has a big future in the Ko-Mar arsenal of camera equipment.

Cresswind Real Estate Shoot

Ko-Mar productions had a crew up in Gainesville, Georgia just outside of Atlanta for a production shoot for Cresswind at lake Lanier. (www.cresswind.com).

We had a 27' jib on the shoot. Lot's of interviews to get. The property is on Lake Lanier, beautiful area of Georgia.

 We used Atlanta local Chris Conway and his assistant to help with our jib shots right over the lake entrance at Cresswind. We got some nice sweeping shots over the water.

We used our Sony F-800, brought up our 1 ton grip van with all the lighting.

 Sizing up the shot......

Wonderful sunset time-lapse to end the shoot. Crew was, Jim Gallagher, Paul Piasecki, Anthony Angrisani, Edward Sabitini..