A few months ago I got to shoot an NFL PSA with Titans QB, Jake Locker. I was pumped to learn I’d be traveling down to New Orleans to shoot another one. This time I’d be working with Saints Wide Receiver, Lance Moore. Armed with a Sony F3 I headed down to the “Big Easy.”
Here is the close up shot of Lance Moore. We went with a flat cinestyle picture profile that is meant to be tweaked in post.
Once I got to the Saints practice facility I had about two hours to set up. The shoot consisted of three shots in one location. The first two shots involved a doorway dolly and a teleprompter. I used one Kobold 400w HMI to give Lance a little bit of punch. We first started with a close up shot of Lance Moore. I used a 75mm Cooke Panchro prime lens. He read some lines from the teleprompter while the dolly move happened. Afterwards I changed lenses, this time using a 50mm prime to get a waist up shot. Once again he read lines from the teleprompter.
For the last shot we locked off the dolly and framed up a traditional interview style wide shot, still using the 50mm prime. Our producer asked Lance some questions. We then got some “room tone” and called it a day. The producer copied the footage off of the Sony SXS card and I dumped the footage onto my laptop as backup. I also had a blast shooting on the Sony F3. It’s such a cool camera. I wish I could have shot on this guy all day.
This is a screen grab from the interview we did with Lance using the Cooke 50mm prime.