Shane Hurlbut

Thousand Oaks, CA, United States

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Posted

Mar 20 at 03:29 PM

PR-EDIT-OR JOB for the Documentary on the Pike's Peak Race.

  • Editing skills needed

  • Shooting skills needed

  • Producing skills needed

This opportunity is looking for a filmmaker that wants to learn and has interests in action cinematography.  

This would start immediately.  

  • Location for job: Edmonton

  • Housing: One Bedroom in Main house

  • Pay: $200 a day

  • Duration: 3/25-6/30

Please reach out with:

  • Reel

  • CV/Resume

  • Letter of Intent; Why you want this job and what makes you the best candidate for it

shane@hurlbutvisuals.com

This is amazing opportunity for a filmmaker that wants to be immersed in action, camera rigs, great interviews and heart beating power and speed.  

This is what I used to do with Bandito Bros back in the day is document these races like the Baja 500 where I learned how to shoot car action, where to place the cameras and how to tell a story that immerses you.  

Lets do this

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Sep 09 at 11:20 AM

Shadowers Success OVERNIGHT

HI FA MEMBERS,  I wanted to share some intel based on the Shane Shadowers sessions that have been taking place at our FA shooting space.  These three members ROCKED IT OUT!!!  Taylor Johns, Diego Lopez and Chris Anthony on set with me off in the shadows.  Since they shadowed they have been working NON stop together.  This is the power of this resource.  For all of you that are ever questioning the worth of the FA experience you do not have to look far for its inspiring filmmakers to push themselves, work hard and come in with a super positive attitude.  I want to thank you three for being a gleaming example of who makes up the FA, righteous  passionate filmmakers that are ready to work and deliver excellence.  

A shout out to all the other Shadowing applicants that have sent their CV's, letters of intent and reels forwarded to me, we will be having some wonderful opportunities for you in Sept.  
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Jan 16 at 03:13 PM

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Fire Light Effects

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Jan 16 at 03:12 PM

Fire Light Effects

Hello Filmmakers Academy family,

A new feature within the FA facebook page will be mentors breaking down their process. I will get this party started by going down the Rabbit Hole of interactive FIRE LIGHT effects. I have been shooting fire and explosions for over 30 years and it is always a tightrope dance in keeping the color tones of the fire and or explosion along with enough light on your characters faces to expose. This process is a combination of real fire, fire gags and fire ambience.

Let's dive into it. In this video you are going to see 2 of the three working in unison.

Fire gag or effect lighting. This is achieved by using my Trash Can light technology that I developed on the hit TV series "INTO THE BADLANDS." What is fire, a hot center where all the logs are burning along with the hot coals, this I see as a softer wider quality of light one that spreads across the whole width of the fire. The second is the dancing flames that are at the top of the fire. These tend to create the dancing shadows on faces and walls along with being much harder of a light quality. Trash Can light: https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/.../how-to-build-a...

In this video you will see how I use a softer source at the bottom of the fire effect as well as a much harder light quality at the top.

  1. The next is fire ambience. You have probably used a real fire to light faces in the past and what I find is that when it goes dark, it really goes dark, especially if there is wind or your fire build is not consistent but the exposure change can be extreme. This is where I slide in fire AMBIENCE. I fly a 12 x 12, you can make it smaller like a 4 x 8 foamcore that you suspend over the top of the fire on high rollers and some pipe. I used a 55' Pettibone which is a High weight volume telescopic Forklift to do the work. I then aim 750 watt halogen ETC Source 4 Leko's that I put into a Magic Gadget flicker box generator that dance a little slower than my Trash Can fire effect lights and bring a top light ambient quality of light to soften the shadows as your real fire and fire effect lights do there thing.

PRO TIP: Set your Magic Gadget on Fire Effect #2. Also set your frequency to 100% and your level of undulation at a 35 to 45% difference. To explain this if I had my light set at 40% on my low end my high end would be 75 to 85%.

PRO TIP: I always try to use a combination of either Rosco 1/2CTS and Rosco Full CTS to add to the color of the fire effect lights. With you overhead ambience I make it slightly cooler, either straight tungsten that is being warmed up by the Magic Gadget settings or 1/4 CTS.

I hope you enjoy this new Breaking down your PROCESS section to our FA Facebook community as well as let the questions begin so that we can share each others experiences, what has worked for you or what has not worked. Love to start these weekly discussions so that we can continue to GROW as artists.

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Jan 04 at 02:47 PM

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Location Scouting

First thing I do when I start location scouting Is jump out of the van and take a photo of the exterior of the location. I then switch over to the Sunseeker app and take a picture of the Google Maps location and where the sun will be positioned when we will be shooting there. This way, if the schedule changes, you always know where the sun is and can work with the AD to shoot it when it is right for the light.
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