This film is currently in post production.
In late 2022, I was invited to work on the 4th installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise. For the first month, I was in the production office prepping for the 8 days of shooting that were scheduled between November 29th and December 7th. This entailed basic office duties such as purchase orders, vendor booking, document distribution, mail log, crafty, and wrap.
With an interest in being on set during production, I was hired by the VFX producer to support their department with camera data wrangling. In this role, I was tasked with taking thorough HDRI photography and LiDAR scans of each set; mounting, slating, and rolling several GoPro cameras on picture vehicles and process trailers; operating Obsidian 360 degree 12K VR camera, and wrangling camera data from 4 teams and often 8 individual cameras. This data included slate, camera #, lens, focal length, ISO, stop, shutter, height/tilt, timecode, and scene / camera movement description. It was lot of running around. For being transferred into short-handed department with no prior VFX experience, I did an excellent job and garnered recommendations from my superiors.
Not to mention, these were consecutive negative-degree, all-night shoots in Detroit, and the LA and Nola natives were suffering. This was a violent, stunt-heavy, car-chase scene that will serve as the opening scene of the film.
Overall, this couldn't have been a better experience. I cultivated great relationships with the production executives and the VFX department and learned so much about filmmaking and the whole business over 2 months on this show.
Key Takeaway: Better to say yes than to say no. I was very close to turning down this job, yet through it I have built so many great friendships and invaluable connections.
↓ See photos from this experience below ↓
