The Marvels (Additional Photography)

Director Nia DeCosta 

Working mainly in Longcross and Pinewood Studios in the UK we finished filming of the film The Marvels. 

My boom 1st Assistant Sound Kyle Pickford had the boom from a deck when we were shooting in the Hoopty ship due to its size and height.

Kyle Pickford 1AS being rigged with harness and gear to boom from height.

Jim Hok 1AS doing radio mics was working hard to make every details work for dialogue and radio mics would be placed on super suits.

This is a picture of the original super suit and a very delicate suit. We put the mic behind the main breast plate.

 Marvel's Secret Invasion we shot partially through the covid years in many locations around England.

Shooting in Halifax and we all got papped for the local news that day. For some reason the only photos of me are next to a bunch of bins

Shooting on location in London town. This is the set up with Aaton Digital's Cantar X3.

The shoot crew at Longcross studios. My guys! 1AS Kyle Pickford, 1AS Jim Hok, 2AS Mo Concas.

This is a film by Aneil Karia director of the Long Goodbye which was the Oscar winner for Best Live Action Short Film. Surge is about a man on the verge of a breakdown played by Ben Wishaw and you have the frenetic energy throughout the whole film as his character goes into a spiral downwards. 

The whole thing was shot handheld and in a frenetic way to encompass what Ben was doing in his performance. Scenes were done in one takes and spanned various locations so it was shot fast and logistically challenging. I had various mixing recorders to grab the dialogue that I moved between during scenes if they spanned large areas. Often I just needed to be fast on my feet and move quickly between sets. Various boom operators were used to be able to cover areas where it was dialogue heavy. It was a challenging yet really rewarding!

Here is the official video-

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10suikzwcjw