Arlington County Fair Day 2

So I just got back from the second day of photography at the Arlington County Fair. Today was a bit smoother than yesterday and I think I made a lot more progress this time around. Today I think we doubled on how many people we got to pose for pictures for the county. The mission of this weekend is to get people to pledge to use any alternative means of transportation besides their car. The slogan of the program is called the car free diet (very catchy if I do say so myself). As people come in and out of the fair we hand out little free maps for transit and bikes and metro lines so that way people can plan to take trips in other ways besides driving. After we give people the information we ask if they would like their picture taken with the alternative transport they either use or are using. Many people will say no just out of feeling uncomfortable but we do get quite a few who will take pictures with it, so it is nice. It has been easy and difficult at the same time but today was busy so time went by a lot faster. Plus we got to see a free little show by two members of the Harlem Wizards, a trick basketball team I think from DC or something. It was cool, fun, and chill. One more day to go.

Random Movie Fact: In the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, Afraid that Anne Hathaway's previous films The Princess Diaries and Ella Enchanted would work against her during auditions, the casting director introduced Anne to director Ang Lee as a New York Broadway actress. Ang Lee hadn't seen any of Anne's nor Michelle Williams's previous works before he auditioned and subsequently cast them in Brokeback.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess

Kane Mayfield - Hello!

Well here it is! My first ever music video! It is a great moment for myself because this is yet another part of film/video industry I was able to take on. I have been wanting to do something like this since I first started making videos and this was my time to do it. Let me know what you think.


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Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess

DC Trip

Today was my big DC trip to shoot the DC end of the Hello video for Kane Mayfield and also meet with an executive producer about an Assistant Director position on his upcoming short film. The video shoot was short and sweet, really only got 4 shots at the location, one of them being Kane rapping the whole song. As far as the meeting it seemed to go really well, I was offered a 2nd Assistant Director position which I would love to do but the travel is what is going to be tricky. The way it was described to me it sounded like we would be staying out shooting until midnight each day and the Megabus doesn't go that late so I have to look into two different options. Option 1: Try to convince the executive producer or another crewmember close by to let me crash there for the shoot the next day or...Option 2: Take the metro back home each night and return the next day by the same mode of transportation. I hope I can do Option 1 since it will save me a lot of money but if Option 2 works I may have to just do that. I will have to ask around and get it all straightened out before early February.

Other than that on Sunday I have the Samurai short film shoot and then on Tuesday I have to shoot the final lighting project for class which will be a late night shoot as well. In addition I almost forgot I have to turn in my first project for my other minimester class on Monday...somehow. Tonight is all about good sleep so that I can just work tomorrow and get a lot done Saturday night before all hell breaks loose.

Thanks for the support,
Daniel Hess