Making TV: Shooting The Dark Side
Many critics call Scandal ridiculous but then recommend it, saying that it is also great fun. Part of the fun is the way Cinematographer Oliver Bokelberg, ASC, shoots the fast-talking, fast-paced show about a Washington, D.C., firm of fixers that make scandals – the dark side of life in the nation’s capital – go away.
Read more...Making TV: Making Grimm Faces
Marshall Adams shoots Wesen monsters. But he is not a Grimm. Working with visual effects experts, Grimm Cinematographer Marshall Adams, ASC, lensed eight of 15 episodes shot so far in the second season of NBC’s hit police drama with a monstrous twist. Cinematographer Eliot Rockett alternates with Adams and handled the other seven episodes. Rocket also shot four of the last nine episodes in season one, alternating with Cort Fey.
Read more...Making TV: Shooting ‘MacGyver Medicine’
Royal Pains chronicles the exploits of Dr. Hank Lawson, a concierge doctor for the rich and poor in the Hamptons. Patients don’t visit concierge doctors; concierge doctors visit patients.
Read more...Making TV: Let There Be Light
Body of Proof is a crime drama with a different look and feel. The stories are different because the main characters, medical examiners, are different. The path to solving the crime is different, too: The victim’s body reveals the clues that guide the police.
Making TV: Crazy Fast Shooting
Necessary Roughness, USA Network’s take on sports psychology, rolls out the couch for the New York Hawks, a team full of head-case football players.
Read more...Making TV: Fun With Cars, Bombs And Spies
Have you ever seen a car driven off of the top floor of a parking garage and crash into a store across the street? In one episode of Burn Notice, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), the “burned” or discredited spy of the show’s title, sends a red convertible over the edge to distract some bad guys. The ploy works, but sends the usually easy-going Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a retired Navy SEAL, into a dither because the car belonged not to Westen but to Axe’s girlfriend.
Read more...Making TV: Filming Castle
If you’re a fan of Castle, the popular ABC police drama, you may have noticed that the show’s terrific production values somehow look a little different than other shows with terrific production values.
Read more...Making TV: Putting Flesh on the Bones
Bones is a murder mystery/comedy/drama starring Emily Deschanel as the brilliant and socially awkward Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and David Boreanaz as the emotional Special Agent Seeley Booth of the FBI.
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