Category Archives: Video
May 20, 2010 REVIEW: Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans
Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans –
The easiest fiction film of Werner Herzog’s to follow. It’s not even close.
It’s also one of the most fun. Nic Cage (who seems to be in a race with Samuel L. Jackson to overtake Michael Caine as the most distinguished actor with a horrid resume) is positively operatic as the titular Bad Lieutenant. I don’t think that his mania is restrained from other Cage films, but it has a context of crazy – between Iguana-Cam and the Break-Dancing-Soul, it’s not as if he’s placing anything greater than 3rd.
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Tags: Bad Lieutenant – Port of Call New Orleans, Born Lucky Studios, Film Review, Nicolas Cage, Remake, Werner Herzog
April 26, 2010 April 20 – April 26
What we’re watching this week:
Justified (Season 1, Episodes 1&2)
As previously written, I love Timothy Olyphant. Absolutely love him. And this show has done nothing to change my view on him. I think I like him here more than in Deadwood, not the show mind you, but him. (He has more to do here than in Deadwood.)
Justified just hasn’t seemed to hit its stride yet. It’s still drawing its characters, which is fine by me. It reminds me a lot of Sons of Anarchy, it seems to be using the first season to find its way. Or its just waiting for Walton Goggins’ character to get healthy enough to start some shit. Can’t tell which.
Party Down (Season 1, Episodes 1-3)
I think that when I have children, and if they decide to become actors, I will think of this show and pray this isn’t what they do for a day job. The disillusionment that these characters suffer from, while either chasing impossible dreams or giving up on said dreams, is unfathomable.
In Party Down, though, that disillusionment is why these characters are funny. They seem resigned, as if they all know they’re going nowhere (except Ken Marino, wich makes him infinitely more depressing), but that isn’t stopping them from trying. They’re misguided attempts at success are fantastic. They’re infighting is great. The burning American flag is also very fitting. (It makes sense if you see it.)
Thank god this is a comedy, cause this show would be unwatchable otherwise.
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April 5, 2010 Born Lucky’s March Wrap-up
In March, we were kept busy by working on two project for The Century Council. The first was a PSA featuring 12-Time Olympic Medalist Dara Torres and 24 State Attorney Generals.
The spots were shot on the RED over a 10 hour period in the beginning of March. Watch one example below:
Not to be idle, we followed up this shoot with a PSA with the Washington Freedom, DC’s Female Professional Soccer Team. The spot featured Abby Wombach, Sarah Huffman, Jill Gilbeau, and Becky Sauerbrunn.
That spot can be seen:
Tags: Attorney General, Born Lucky Studios, century council, Dara Torres, reggie watts, Washington Freedom
February 17, 2010 Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
We spent the weekend filming the very last performances of ‘Disinformation’, a unique theatre experience, at the ICA in Boston.
We were joined by the incredible Reggie Watts, Tommy Smith, Amy ONeal, and Orianna Herrman.
Look for pieces from our edit of ‘Disinformation’ here, later this year.
Tags: Austin Elston, Born Lucky Studios, boston, editing, Emily Gallagher, film, ICA, philadelphia, reggie watts, theatre, tommy smith, video post production, video production
February 4, 2010 Born Lucky’s January Recap
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As we enter the second month of the new decade, let’s take a quick look over what Born Lucky been up to in its early days.
We begin 2010 in NYC on another shoot for Cause & {Effect}, working on Black History Month spots for Nickelodeon.
See the spots here: http://www.nick.com/videos/playlist/voices-playlist.html (1 -10 are spots we shot on Sony EX-1 and EX-3, 11-13 were shot on our RED camera, by the talented Steven Huber.)
From there we endeavored on our first stop motion film; ‘Frosty goes on Holiday’. Shot in one evening, the film was a test of some of the new features, at least to Emily and I, of the RED.
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December 13, 2009 Nickelodeon Moms
Last week, we spend time working in and around NYC for Cause & {Effect} on a shoot for Nickelodeon. The shoot consisted of Emily & I, Michelle Cuccuini (our wonderful producer) and the rest of the crew, going to three differing households and capturing the days of the families there.
The idea: to show how the mother of the family is the glue. That without her, families would have a hard time functioning. (And since the families we shot included husbands that we’re out of work, worked 14 hour days, and we non-entities, this couldn’t have been truer.)
The filming was conducted on a Panasonic HPX2000, which I had the pleasure of learning on at National Geographic during the time I spent on GeoSessions. We mixed the audio on our Sound Devices 4 Channel Mixer. And since this shoot was a run and gun operation, we fed the audio directly to the camera.
It was a wonderful shoot. All the families, and crew, were a pleasure to be around.
Tags: Austin Elston, Born Lucky Studios, Camera Operator, Cause & Effect, Director of Photography, Emily Gallagher, New York, philadelphia, video production
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