Dir. Guy Baker
My rig worked every take for this Buoy Beer promo created for agency Grady Britton. Stripping down the Alexa to the bare essentials helped keep the work easily manageable. In particular the lightweight Alexa dovetail (designed by Eric Fletcher), which doesn’t raise the camera’s center of gravity, proved itself a great investment that night. I came home with a couple complimentary 22’s of their beer and will verify, it’s delicious.
I recently had the privilege of flying an Arri 235 for a few days for a project directed by Eric Lindstrom, and shot by DP Sam Garr.
I always wonder if the next film job I sign up for will be my last, and hope not. Kodak is still producing beautiful stocks that see the world more like our eyes do, the modern cameras are an ergonomic dream to balance, and everyone comes with their A game.
Another highlight was shooting a laser-clean exterior title sequence with C300 and gyros.
Music video I shot for Goldini Bagwell. The C300 was our workhorse on this one, handling every bit of color shift and intense contrast with grace. Typical setups included poorman’s driving technique, with and without luma keys, frozen weather, and lighting with smoke.
DoP: Sam Naiman
Camera Operator: Sam Garr
Gaffer: Keny Allen
1st AC: Cam Everson
Last summer Whole Foods production team (based in Austin, Texas) Producer Kelly Lecastre, and DP Laura Merians came to Portland and enlisted me as second camera op for a week. The result features some seriously interesting content, personalities, and places. Here’s a link to the Whole Foods page.
This is a promo I made for hip-hop artist e.Major for the release of his first album “Lime Green Day Dream”. The idea started out with him wanting to speak on his influences and thought process through the album’s recording. Once we drew a bead on this through some interview footage, we thought it might be nice to accent with some studio footage. Since LGDD was already recorded, I shot some sessions of e.Major and the artist Flight, working on their collaboration project. It worked out nice that he could have a promo for the album he was about to release, and pique some interest in a subsequent project.
My own production was pretty bare bones here due to budget. Just me, a sony EX1, and a wireless lav for the interview. I threw a 35mm adaptor on and got a little more depth control through Nikon primes for the studio footage. Grading was done in apple color.
This project reminds me that the simplest route can often be very rewarding.
SAM NAIMAN, S.O.C. 