Posted by Bill Farnsworth on 01/10/57 11:42

"William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote
>>
>> I just got back from the Videomaker Expo where I introduced the
>> concept
>> and got an AMAZING reaction from the attendees - particularly from
>> the
>> ³education² crowd. It appears they've all been looking for
>> something fun
>> (and copyright cleared!) to use in editing classes forever and we
>> sold
>> more copies to teachers than any other single category last week
>> during
>> the product launch.
>>
>> For RVP regulars, I should also note that the DP was our own Bill
>> Farnsworth. (who iirc implied that if my wife Linda keeps hiring
>> similar
>> actresses he might consider working on Volume 2 on an exclusively
>> ³beer
>> and food² basis!)

For me, it was more than a week in Scottsdale wishing I were 25 years
.......... okay......30 years younger.
It was one of the best "stress free" shoots that I have ever worked
on.
The toughest thing I had to do was find an espresso stand on the way
to Bill's studio!

Everything was logically planned out. The shooting schedule was
reasonable and efficient. The props were all there. The BDGBL-1.0
(Bill Davis Golf Ball Launcher- manual mode only) worked better than
expected. The camera gear was good. Daniel, the second cameraman and
his gear was excellent. And between Bill and myself we had all the
lighting and grip gear that was needed.
The talent was ......... well chosen........ AND they all knew their
lines. Hell, by the middle of the shoot, the girl that was playing
the part of the timecode slate operator was actually pointing out
take and scene number anomalies.

We had a couple of 5:00am crew calls because to make one particular
exterior scene to work with a minimum amount of lighting, Bill knew
that we had to shoot during morning twilight . (the other magic
hour....or in the Southwest........ the other magic eight minutes)
Quite frankly, being a Northwest kinda guy, I was taken a bit off
guard by how short twilight is in the South. Fortunately, being a
Davis shoot, there was elbow room in the schedule and we were able to
do a pick-up a couple of days later.

The Davis production team should do a tutorial on "How to do
Pre-production Planning so the Production will be More Like Going to
Recess than Going to Work"!

Bill F.
www.billfarnsworthvideo.com

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