{"id":652,"date":"2015-10-22T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2015-10-15T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T08:27:20","slug":"commercial-macquaries-bank-hermit-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/commercial-macquaries-bank-hermit-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial: Macquarie&#8217;s Bank (Hermit Crab)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"980\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5G-MOifqOKU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My contribution to this ad is typical of my usual: bits and pieces everywhere, not claiming to a whole lot, and yet stuck on to it like bees in a hive (funny metaphor methinks).<\/p>\n<p>I took HDRs during the shoot and assisted in the vfx supervision. Meanwhile, back in the studio, to the advice of Will Brand, we had laser-scanned reference shells and Terry was busy cleaning them up. Afterwards, I rigged the crab as other work continued on it.<\/p>\n<p>I tracked and set-up most (if not all &#8212; can&#8217;t really remember) the shots, including the base lighting found in the HDRs. I had only one scene on my name, but, inevitably, at the tail-end of the commercial, when the producer started ending the contractors&#8217; terms, Terry and I were left to fix up the needed bits for the Flame op.<\/p>\n<p>That sort of arrangement is often the case with jobs that require a number of people; as the quasi-core group, a lot of the heavy lifting goes to the contractors who are hired especially for that; when the bulk of the work is done, whatever other technical issues that require sorting often comes down to us, because by that time, the producer has decided it&#8217;s costing too much to have contractors hang on (oftentimes I think the reason is that the producer has hired too many guns to begin with). And that&#8217;s why it sometimes feels like we&#8217;re clean-up men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My contribution to this ad is typical of my usual: bits and pieces everywhere, not claiming to a whole lot, and yet stuck on to it like bees in a hive (funny metaphor methinks). I took HDRs during the shoot and assisted in the vfx supervision. 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