Well if anything, at least during these gnarly times I can finally get back to blogging. What a hard thing to do when you’re busy apparently. Anyone want a job??
If you could use something else to look at besides our current apocalyptic state of affairs then I guess I’ll keep posting what we’ve been getting up to these days in the meantime. So to start things off, this assignment was awesome. We were hired last fall by Kings Landing Historical Museum to shoot a new image library for all of their upcoming ads etc, and as a bonus I was able to bring on my buddy Matt Miller for the ride to grab a bunch of drone footage (Matt does commercial video work and you can check him out here). I haven’t been to Kings Landing since I was a young kid and I totally forgot about how incredibly interesting this place is and the extent of work they actually have going on there. Such a time warp!
I had two full days of shooting on the ground with the staff/actors, and Matt was onboard to capture drone shots and video work from the air. It was soooo much fun working with the crew there, and I kinda felt like Matt and I were just basically walking around like Bill and Ted for two days straight. Luckily the weather held out in our favour just perfectly for the week and we pulled everything off without actually having to revamp the plans too much. Little unknown fact for those of you outside the industry, but trying to time two consecutive full days of shooting ad creative outdoors while depending on what the weather is going to do here is usually hard as frig. This ain’t California, dudes. As a bonus though, I was able to get a wicked farmers tan while we were there, which I suppose is kinda suiting now that I think about it.
For the most part, day 1 was where we had a lot of the set up and staged stuff as they were going to be using them in ads for this year, so it was nice to get a bunch of that all locked down right away. But what I loved most was the behind the scenes images I was able to capture on day 2. Just being able to see what these folks get up to in the run of a day was interesting enough for me, and actually where I usually like to spend my days behind the lens anyway. For that stuff I ended up using a lot of black and whites, which I felt was working really well considering this place is the set of a 19th century historical museum. I completely lost track of Matt by this point but he was on his own adventures and ended up with some killer shots from the air. Overall a couple of solid sun filled work days, and we felt good coming out of there with tons of gold for the folks at Kings Landing, and the Province of New Brunswick. Beauty of a spot!
Check out the gallery below for a bunch of my favourite behind the scenes images from the shoot, and feel free to plan your next visit to Kings Landing at kingslanding.nb.ca
- Chris G.
