“MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR”
Beautiful spot with a wonderful director!
Director Ron Hamad is fabulous to work with! Ron has such a strong visual and artistic approach to his work that I find myself striving to bring everything up a notch or two.
Here is an example of a subject matter than reflects some of the rustic and classic Americana.
I have always thought that these images somehow have a child-like view of the world, that sort of magical perception of reality. I think Ron was trying to capture that feeling in his compositions in this spot.
Maybe I’m reading too much in it, probably…But the romanced views of a simple country fair have a slight haunting feeling to them.
Shot over a 3 day period, actually at a different county fair because the real state fair was still months out.
35mm with my Arri 35-3, skip-bleach look derived at the telecine.
Lots of use of the 8mm fish-eye and other wider focal length optics, some swing-tilts.
The slide-n-glide is always a big help on these types of location…sure beats dragging a 400lb Fisher through the farm fields and barns.
The ending scene with the young girl blowing the dandelions was done both as a practical effect which was enhanced with some embellished floating dandelions which we shot with macros against a small greenscreen in a nearby barn.
Again, lots of cleaning our cases and sticks at the hotel every night!
Remind me to tell you the story of a farm dog that pissed on everyone of my camera cases while we waited to film a foaling! 10 hours later in the summer heat of the camera truck that smell….WOW!!!