Recently we did a project for Metrocast Cable. The production team was handed the creative that required a 3D spinning remote but didn’t have the budget for a 3D animation.
With a tight budget and time running out, the production team kicked into gear. Brian Averill and Jason Stern, along with one of our production interns, Paul Kim, came up with the idea of drilling into the remote and using it to spin the remote around.
In order to keep it steady we placed the remote in a Cardellini clamp on a C-Stand and slid the bit through a piece of wood we painted chroma green.
Students from middle school through high school arrived excited to share their talents and creativity shooting in Baltimore’s largest sound stage located at Renegade in Hunt Valley.
Wide Angle’s students flooded Renegade’s stage like true professionals providing talent, camera operators, directors, and grips. Baltimore’s young David Simons, Barry Levinsons and maybe even John Waters were certainly in attendance.
The students from Baltimore Speaks Out! and the Mentoring Video Project shot promotional footage for Wide Angle Youth Media as well as more light-hearted green screen effects including flying, karate, and a flurry of Renegade’s prop cash raining down on a few students.
Renegade’s staff including Maggie Ross, Laura Schwarzmann and Brian Averill worked in conjunction with Wide Angle providing support for the event.
Wide Angle veteran, James Taylor Lance remarked. “Renegade Studios has once again furnished a phenomenal experience for the students of BSO and MVP…. I would like to thank Renegade Studios for welcoming MVP and BSO into their wonderful facility, and I look forward to the next visit.”
For more information regarding the Baltimore non-profit Wide Angle please visit their site. http://www.wideanglemedia.org/
We had the pleasure of working with Under Armour in our studio recently. We were tasked with shooting some sweet footage on the Red One camera for some new sports gear.
We brought in Jeff Atkinson to be our DP and Chris Beutler was directing. We also rented Jeff’s jib.
One of the shots required some heavy hitting by some burly fellows in full lacrosse gear. To make sure the talent didn’t totally break their backs we rented a big puffy crash mat from a gymnastics studio down the street from us.
It was a really fun shoot to work on. I felt bad for Brenden, our PA. He’s the dude on the floor having a person thrown at him.
Well not really. We actually played quite well together.
We were tasked by a client to put together a shoot at Chuck’s ranch in Texas in about 48 hours. Talk about quick draw.
Three Renegades and a Baltimore based freelancer flew out to Texas, hopped in a van, and headed for the ranch. We were met there by some local crew that we were able to source near College Station (home of A&M).
We shot on P2 using the Panasonic HVX 200. It was a grueling day when you factor in all the travel but spirits were high. Who wouldn’t be happy working with the man, the myth, the legend…Chuck Norris.
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