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The Letter Room (2020)

Director: Elvira Lind

WHATABURGER

Sink your teeth into this POV spot and some BTS shots as well as a Previs. Filmed with Departure in Austin for razorfish agency.

JOHN DEERE

Mountain Dew “Thirst Guards”

GA LOTTERY “Overstuffed Scratchers”

Too big of a haul.

DRAFT KINGS

They wanted big cinematic visuals that resembled a fox hunt somewhere deep in the woods in England. So we went to the Big Oaks Ranch in Florida. A few tubes of death (provided by the talented Chris Dugan), and a talented equestrian-savy group of actors and wranglers gave us the look we were after. The trick was finding a path without exposed roots, so that the horses can gallop full steam. We used a service road and covered it in leaves.

Another complicated shot is to do dialog while in full gallop. Can’t mount a camera to a horse, or you’ll get earthquake camera. We can’t stick an arm car camera right in his face, as horses are unpredictable- and we have to keep our actors safe. The budget-flush productions would bring an animatronic horse that is towed by a vehicle- like a process trailer for a horse. We were not that production. So we improvised with strapping our actor and cinematographer into the back of a pickup and had someone waive a black wig in frame. Voila! Instant horse.

OHIO LOTTERY “Millionaires”

Millionaires out getting some exercise.