behind the scenes

Hey! Mike the Intern just letting you know what’s up in the FLF work world.

Today started with an 8:00 AM call time to meet at Ryan Baker’s house to prep our camera gear for an intensive morning of casting.

We arrive at The Glenn Group office and proceed to set up.  The people at this ad agency are as nice as can be, willing to help us with anything we need.  What a great work atmosphere!

Anyway, the auditions we’re filming are for a campaign called “Kindness is Your Currency”.  The idea is to reward people for random acts of kindness.

Candidates started showing up at 9:00 AM excited and seemed ready to go.  Each interview was approximately 10-15 minutes with appointments scheduled 15 minutes apart.  

I was in the lounging area greeting and checking people in, downloading the footage onto my computer after each individual interview, and being comical as usual.

Overall, everything went smooth and I had a great time on this little job.

Be back soon with some more updates!

Underwater RED Camera shot

One of the many highlights of the Tahoe Stand Up Paddleboard shoot was the appearance of the Glenn Group’s fire prevention team on set!

As we were shooting, a family of picnicers tried to light their barbecue with a can of gasoline.  This did not work out so well and the can caught on fire.  Then the panicked tourist dropped said can into a pile of pine needles.

Seeing this, the Glenn Group’s creative team, lead by BC, headed over to lend a hand (and foot, as it were).  The tourist had the right idea, trying to smother the fire by kicking dirt onto it, but his execution was less than desired: he was kicking more dry pine needles onto the flaming gas can!   “Adding fuel to the fire”…literally.   From this point, the TGG creative team kicked into high gear — stopped, dropped, and rolled the fire into submission.

Another tragedy averted!  Great day on the lake shooting and — perfectly — the next day was howling winds and grey skies.  Looks like we hit it just right.

For all the RED dudes out there, we used the Hydroflex underwater housing for the RED ONE.  It worked superb except for one instance where it overheated and locked up.  Nothing a reboot didn’t take care of… Unfortunately, it was after 20 minutes of frustration, 20 feet underwater, on the sandy bottom of lake Tahoe.  More pics to come!

J