Just finished final shoot day of film “Scream Bloody Murder” directed by Shawn C. Phillips in Los Angeles.
We shot in Hollywoods Hills 1920s mansion, Burbank, LA, Downey, Pico Rivera, Van Nuys and maybe a few other locations.
Great experience, great group of people in cast and crew to work with.

I shot with my new 16-20mm f/2.0 ultra wide and my newly rebuilt Nikkor 85mm prime with FotoDiox EF adaptor. I love the 85mm lens, the look is just exquisite. I had production rent me a short zoom range Canon EF mount lens as well as we had an extremely compressed shoot schedule on this film.

Used my newly machined shoulder rig which was great.
Rather than fly out my Vinten or O’Conor heavy duty tripods, we had access to a Sachtler 18 – only it had no plate! So I found the specs online and spent about 5 hours machining the perfect quick release plate remotely in NH and then flew it out to L.A. I insisted to see the Sachtler my arrival night in Burbank, and I was pretty thrilled it just popped right into the tripod and locked up perfectly! Huge relief!

I knew I would be ‘leaning’ on the tripod at times for certain looks and I needed a good fluid head on set. The Sachtler delivered even if not my personal favorite tripod. (That’s the O’connor tripods)

My RED was sporting my custom machined ‘Nato’ style blue aluminum upper handgrip, and a custom designed and built monitor offset which relocated the RED touchscreen to the left and lowered it from the top standard bolt in area. Huge help with line of sight shooting and not having to angle my head and neck tilted way up like I had operated my RED on another film a couple years back.

I also designed and made two lights for this shoot, but due to cargo on the flight I left one back home. I took a great LED light with me that I machined a yolk for with a standard 5/8″ attachment for regular light stands. My absolute go to was the LitePanel original daylight flood 5600 light I used as my ‘cheat’ light. Absolutely clutch and best decision as I debated leaving it home due to cargo restrictions. I flew all this stuff out to LA and used my Thermodyne rolling case for my complete RED set up and two lenses (which is technically too large for overhead but I can just stuff it on with my Media friendly go-to airline carrier I always use on a shoot).

packed Gear List below photos written up (mostly from memory for next travel film job).

I only used the Tota light with a 750W bulb for one scene setup: the murdered bodies scene in the mansion with the pool table. Just did a quick and dirty master light bouncing it off the ceiling. The real workhorses were the KinoFlo Diva and LitePanel. My go to’s for fast and furious style shooting. The new custom LED I used a lot as well.

Day one setup at this 1920s Hollywood Hills mansion, bootlegger built speakeasy home bar with private entrance.

A picture of a girl being photographed by my RED, being photographed by the director, photographed myself… (Rick and Morty anyone?? Hello..??)

Yes, the famous actor from “Saving Private Ryan”. He made it to set along with Todd Phillips of Dif’rent Strokes.

Nato handgrip! Ignore the girls…

Johnny and Lasardo. Fun fact, worked on two films with this director – the mug on the left, acting in this film.

Felt like a south American drug lord setup here. Van Nuys?

3 Daze at this gym.

of Rob Zombie Halloween reboot fame. Great pro to work with!

Shooting here with actor James Duval.
I checked two bags (one over 50 lbs.) that carried lights + grip G & E gack:

Backpack:
IDX VL-2plus charger for RED bricks in grey soft case (not my std. black hardcase)
4 RED Brick batteries
my travel laptop.
Sachtler tripod plate I machined

Rolling XL suitcase 1 (56 lbs):
LitePanel with DC batt, AC connector and gels and mount
(1) light duty light stand (Lowel travel ones)
Shoulder rig
NRG Versalite 12VDC / AC switchable with barn doors.
LED light can, custom build with custom machined 5/8” yolk and electric jumper cord & screw in socket adaptor and ring custom drilled for Totabrella
12VDC for RED AC operation from RED charger half and aluminum – custom designed and built.
heavy duty light stand (for Kino) that I custom dissembled by punching out the drift pin and custom installed bolt on system for quick re-assembly
C Stand grip knuckle and boom arm extension tubes that unscrews into halves
USB 3.0 cable and FW800 cable for REDmag mini
(2) switchable light bulb long extension cords (for LED and practicals on set if needed).
TotaBrella
(1) Tota light with spare 750 and 1K bulb and gel frame,
RED DC plate 4 pin – custom design and built for 12VDC 4 pin connection from IDX charger 12VDC out to RED back plate.

Gack bag (pack in case #1): (2) spring clamps, spare wire, 4pin XLR cable (for AC/DC RED power needs) long red and black one, gaff tape, Lowel Tota clamp, C47s, spare D plug, velcro, lens wipes, mini bungie, spare 12VDC wall wart (300mA), practical bulb socket (white) cable, custom built AC-12VDC 1A plug in converter special (I think I built this for my Versalite). mini flathead (for RED rigs assembly), various 1/4 20” bolts and nuts,

Black Hardcase 2 (38 ish lbs.):
KinoFlo Diva 400 daylight light + opal gel
lots of gels (CTO, CTB, Opals, green gels, black wrap)
(3) standard small gauge extension cords (for LED lights).
one light duty stand.
Bounce (flexfill)
spare Kino bulbs 5600K
duvateen (wrapped the spare Kino bulbs and for use on set)

I had production source me 3 heavy gauge 3 prong electrical cords locally for the shoot, and the Sachtler.