Jesse Rosten

This spot is part of a larger campaign for Rolling Hills Casino. Each TV spot has accompanying photography for print. I used the same style of lighting for the video and photo portions albeit with different fixtures (hard lights and strobes). This was my first official shoot with the MKII. Here’s a clip of me sneaking some video footage on the MKII during a break. Note the fans we used to help keep the feathers aloft.

If you watch this and assume that commercial shoots are a lot of fun, you’d be right. But they’re not all pillow-fighting-feathers-flying goofiness. They’re also a lot of hard work, stress, creative problem solving, work, waiting, and more work. This set required some serious room “remodeling” including hauling in two twin beds from an adjoining room and pulling stubborn artwork off the walls.

Our lovely grandmas needed no coaching for the pillow fight, well other than, “have fun and try not to hit each other in the face.” Jumping on the bed makes quite a bit of noise and I found out later that the staff at the reception desk downstairs didn’t know exactly what kind of video we were making. They had a good chuckle about all the pounding noises coming from our room.

It took about two hours to vacuum up all the feathers after we wrapped. This shoot was months ago and I’m still finding feathers in the camera bag. Here are a few random snaps from the shoot (Lyn likes feathers).