Phil Lucero Productions

American actor Dennis Hopper died Saturday at age 74.   Seen in classic movies “Easy Rider”, “Apocolypse Now” and “Blue Velvet”, Hopper brought real life and excitement to the roles he played.  Always the underdog and sometimes accused of being difficult to work with early in his career, Hopper, a Hollywood outsider helped to establish the counterculture movement. In 1998 “Easy Rider” was included in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Here’s a Blackberry photo from our recent shoot at the Omni Interlocken Resort Hotel.  Ryan Policky of Late Night Week Night is recording HD video of Kelly for Roomlinx - an in-room interactive kiosk for hotel guests featuring movies, games, maps and internet access on the television. The production is for a new marketing push Roomlinx is queing up. Ryan is shooting the Canon D2 Mark V DSLR.

Tom took this photo during production at Vestas wind turbine company in Windsor, Colorado.  We’re interviewing Kevin Corey for an investor video with Metro Denver EDC.  This is the factory where Vestas manufactures their windmill blades. The blades are 140 feet long, made of fiberglass and weigh over 6 tons. Each windmill has three. The biggest challenge to shooting inside the factory was dealing with factory noise.  We were lucky, however, because the work of buffing out the blades required only a very quiet vacuum system.  It was consistent the entire time we were there, so we recorded additional room tone and will even out the audio in post.

Tom took these shots of our set-up for “TV Show”, a variety/talk show we’re producing at the studio. This stage is 25′ x 25′ and has suspended pipe for lighting. It is perfect for use with the curved mobile walls and can be set and re-set easily for multiple productions. In case you were wondering, yes I have removed the Christmas lights from the camera crane jib arm.

Below is a shot of me trying to look important as the lights go up.