Browns / Draft Day Movie

so i lied.

i didnt actually get 5 posts done last night like i wanted to.

BUT fear not! i'll do the other two tonight.

ive already done 4 in one night... what could be worse than that?
literally, there are starving kids in africa who are thinking to themselves, at least i dont have to do blog posts...

in our last episode, we were at the intercontinental hotel downtown, doing lighting for a cleveland clinic event. lets jump forward almost another week from that to this past thursday.

JT gave me another opportunity to do some production work, this time at the browns training facility in barea. there was a movie shooting there this past weekend called "draft day" and it stars kevin costner and jennifer garner. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223990/ if youre interested.

anyways we were tasked with setting up several large truss arches and hanging banners from them as well as setting up several truss uprights for the lighting crew to put lights on... yes if youre keeping up, we are a lighting company thats not doing the lighting (at least for this one event). It kind of makes sense though, because its a movie and we specialize in more of a theatrical style.

so we went in and took about 4 hours to load all of the truss in and set up the event. the scene was the draft day party and it looked pretty cool when it was done. i got to meet the production designer, stephen and he was really nice also. it was really interesting to actually work on a movie set and see how many hundreds of people are all there doing different jobs just to make the movie happen...

then saturday morning at 8 am we were back to load the entire thing out. they shot it on friday. load out only took about two hours, which was nice. typically load outs take about half as long as load ins so that made sense.

between the two events i only hurt myself like 5 times! woohoo!

here are some pics of the set up, before, after, and the plans...