ENTROPY

Okay, so developing and scanning and posting film on a weekly basis proves difficult when you work, commute, freelance, and maintain a full-...

Okay, so developing and scanning and posting film on a weekly basis proves difficult when you work, commute, freelance, and maintain a full-time class schedule. Who knew?

I'm producing for a film called Entropy. It's written and directed by Tyler Borbe. The story focuses on a coming of age story about two siblings in a dark, industrial world. It's been a labor of love from the cast and crew to bring this piece to fruition, and it's paying off. I'm super excited for Tyler and his piece to really come to life in postproduction.

While managing the set I also helped by recording a lot of the audio, and even did some of the hair/makeup.

During the in-between I ran around with film and captured a rather large handful of behind the scenes images.

CAMERA: Polaroid EE100
FILM: Fuji FP3000

Do you want to take behind the scenes photos in a dark industrial space without a flash? FP3000 film is fantastic! It was my first time shooting with my EE100, and I'm a big fan. It might take you a few shots to get used to the focus pull on it.



We had full access to a great warehouse in Pennsauken, NJ. We were able to drive the loading cars and vans into the warehouse and unload the gear. It was a 6000sq ft space, so lighting it was a lot of fun.




Having a hazer really helped add to the mood of the piece for that first weekend of filming.
We filmed a lot of the piece using the Black Magic Cinema Camera with the DJI Ronin.

Sadie Hopkins, and Kelly Weston were on makeup that weekend.
We had an extensive amount and they really made everyone look amazing.

 Two of the extras on set waiting for their set times.
 

CAMERA: Canon 60D
LENS: 14mm f2.8 lens

CAMERA: iPhone 5s + VSCOcam
The majority of second day photos were captured on my iPhone.













ROUND TWO + BIRTHDAY!


CAMERA: iPhone 5s + VSCOcam

We had some hiccups with the following shoot. Murphy's law to the extreme definition I suppose you would call it. The major mishap we encountered was losing our ability to film on the rooftop location in center city, Philadelphia. We spent the better part of the week before the shoot scrambling for a new location. We ended up filming in the basement of River of Life Martial Arts & Wellness Center and Gold Mountain Forge, a place where they make katanas, and fighting swords/knives. It was a beautiful place and we were so thankful to utilize their location.

CAMERA: Canon AE-1
FILM: Lomography ISO 400
Saturday there was a major snowstorm. Nearly all of the cast and crew showed up on location, we prepped the set, but had to cancel the shoot once the weather worsened and major highways began to close. Tyler on the phone with a lead cast member, leaving him a voicemail while Kevin, the DP looks up at the snow.

CAMERA: Mamiya C220 w/ 85mm f2.8 lens
FILM: Kodak Portra 400 & Lomography Lady Grey 400

Sunday, we killed it. We wrapped the shoot location with what was predicted to be two days worth of filming in one day.

AC - Jon Vaders and DP - Kevin Gray posing with the target practice cardboard cutouts that were along the basement wall of the dojo.


I'm in love with the Lady Grey 120 Film. It's great and you should try it out if you're looking for some nice Black/White film for your medium format camera. The elevator shot of Tyler directing Patrick and Daniel is probably my favorite from this shoot weekend.

Shooting script prep.

Art Department outdid themselves for this shoot! We also filmed on the Sony a7s with the Atomos Shogun 4K recorder. 


Final Shoot   - April 24th, 2015!







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