Professional Screenwriting Class – January 25th 2011
Professional Screenwriting Workshop
Coming up this Month!
Jared Cruce studio is hosting a screen writing course with “Calvin Marshall” Director and Writer Gary Lundgren.
Spaces are still available but we recommend you make bookings quickly as space is limited. Register and Info here >>>Reserve a Spot for Screenwriting Workshop.
Bald Eagles
Today I got up at 4:30am to shoot some cool Bald Eagle footage for Director Joel Lesko’s upcoming documentary. In the 11 deg. weather we shot some great video in the amazing freezing fog of the Klammath Wildlife Refuge. I snapped off a couple stills as well and thought I’d share. Check out the frozen branches!
Bald Eagle - Klammath Wildlife Refuge
The Janks Music Video – Hands of Time: A Behind the Scene Snippet
UPDATE 2: For those that didn’t get to see the footage, here’s another version cut with an already released song, “Long Way Home”. The more I listen to these guys, the more I love them. Can’t wait for the new album to drop in April.
UPDATE: We accidentally jumped the gun a bit. The band and the real video shoot were so sweet but we just need to give the band time to release the song properly. We will have an altered version of the snippet up soon with a different sound track, until “Hands of Time” can be properly introduced. I guess this makes for good propaganda and viral marketing. Check back soon to view the footage.
A couple weeks ago my friend Gary Lundgren (writer /director – Calvin Marshall starring Steve Zahn) and his long time DP Patrick Neary (dp on Calvin Marshall) shot a video for a ridiculously cool band from LA “The Janks.” The video was a 1930′s sort of speak easy concept and Patrick shot it on his 1940′s hand cranked 35mm camera. I’ve never seen anything like it. Gary invited me down to hang out with the crew as “2nd AC” and I was able to shoot a few stills and some motion clips I thought I’d share with you.
Pat is an amazing DP and I really was impressed with not only his skill as a cinematographer, but how calm he was shooting a world war II era camera, with limited stock on hand and no budget or room for errors or screwups. I’d of been totally gripped. There were about 70 people including crew and cast and everyone had a blast.
The band, a super talented and fun group, is releasing their first album and Gary and Pat are producing a few videos for it. I can’t wait to see the footage. I’ll pass it along when it’s out.
I recommend checking out the movie Calvin Marshall – it’s a great coming of age baseball movie and was shot in Southern Oregon in 2008.
Photography as Emotional Storytelling – Naked
I was blown away by Claudia Hehr’s portfolio Naked www.ClaudiaHehrPhoto.com It’s a flash site so I can’t give you a direct link.
This is what I shot on the assignment
A month or two ago I was sent on assignment for an east coast publication to make a portrait of a Doctor living in the remote town of Crescent City, CA. As always, I got a couple copies of the magazine before hand from the editor and began studying the images and work of some of the photographers who had shot for the publication. For me it’s a great way to evaluate where I am with my work by what company I am keeping. After an hour or two of checking out websites and portfolios of some great photographers (it’s late night at this point) I ran into the site of Claudia Hehr a NYC based shooter. She’s got some great work. At the end of her site there was a portfolio that really intrigued me and probably would anyone searching the internet late at night. The portfolio was named ”naked.” It wasn’t what I expected and completely floored me! Check it out and see for yourself why I was so blown away by this photo essay! It reminded me a little of my roots in PJ and why I love what I do as a visual artist, telling stories and how powerful photography is!
www.ClaudiaHehrphoto.com > Naked
Screen Writing Class w/ Director Gary Lundgren
Upcoming Next Month: January 25th? 2011
Jared Cruce Studio presents:
Screen Writing Class with Calvin Marshall Writer / Director Gary Lundgren
Attention all you film makers~
Update: Last November and December Jared Cruce Studiohosted an amazing class / workshop by Writer/ Director Gary Lundgren on Directing for the camera. Gary has written a ton of awesome screenplays and recently wrote, directed, and edited the feature Calvin Marshall (available on NetFlix) The class was incredible and ended up with the direction of a short scene (I shot on the 5D mkii and a steady cam) As far as classes go, my back pocket calculation is that a good workshop will give me about a year of practical learn on your own lessons. A great workshop will give me about two years of practical hands on knowledge making it well worth the investment. I would rate last months directors class that I personally took as a great workshop. In a lot of cases you get what you pay for but for this upcoming class, you are sure to get more than you pay for. Gary is doing it for dirt cheap! See Below for contact and registration info. I digress.
Gary is doing another workshop that Jared Cruce Studio is hosting next month on Screen Writing. Since the early 2000′s Gary has written about 2 screenplays each year and I would believe him when he says, “This may be the only screen writing class you will ever need to take!”
The class still has openings and will be every Tuesday evening from 6:30pm to 9pm starting January 25th. Date to be confirmed. Contact Gary @
Gary Lundgren
Joma Films LLC
238 E. Main Street Ste. C
Ashland, OR 97520
M: (310) 463-8655 or lunchpail@mac.com for more info and registration
September 5-7 Rogue River workshop
Digital photography workshop and whitewater lodge trip!
If you are even thinking of taking a photo workshop any time soon you should check out the Rogue River Trip we’re doing which will be and incredible blend of rafting, photography and relaxing at the historic river side lodges.
September 5-7, 2010 and there are spots still available. Register Here.
There are some some very cool photography workshops on the books for late fall with spaces still available. Check out our current schedule here and look for our winter schedule to be out in late September and we will be adding courses throughout the year from Intro to Advanced so subscribe to the RSS feed or email us to get on our mailing list for course updates and event news. We offer private instruction as well as private group instruction so if there is something you are itching to learn or your photography club or group would like to request a special course just contact us.
A Fresh New Website
I’m excited to announce the launch of the fresh new Jared Cruce photography website.
We’ve filled the site with our new work, buffed out sections on our new studio. Like a breath of fresh mountain air, we’re invigorated, feeling good and looking forward to keeping it coming! We hope you are too! Take a look and let us know what you think!
Besides showing our new portfolio, we built the site to give our clients and friends a better understanding of what we do and our capabilities. We offer a 1350 sq. ft. studio, location and production services and retouching. We are located in possibly one of the most beautiful regions of America (a.k.a location opportunities abound) and when were not busy with commercial and editorial clients we are teaching some killer workshops in and around Ashland, Oregon!
Did I mention we now have a nice home for Jared Cruce Photo Workshops.
The site was a collaboration with our buddy Thad Allender at Graphpaper Press and we couldn’t be happier. Thad is doing some amazing things with websites and bringing new technology to us artists who can really make use of it. We’re pretty lucky to had him work on this for us! If fact it came out so good that GPP is using it as an example and design theme for entrepreneurial photographers. You can see what they’re doing here. I think that is pretty cool. Thad is not only a sweet developer, he’s a photographer himself and has a great sense of the web from our perspective.
We’ll be keeping you up to date via our blog. We have some new things happening in the near future so stay tuned!
Busy Working on a New Website
Well it’s been a while since we have done a major update to the website. Our partners at NeonSky have really been great to work with and we have had blasts of compliments. I can honestly say that NeonSky is one of the rare companies who has maintained awesome customer service over the life of my time there. I would highly recommend them for Flash based websites.
The time has come though to move forward and into new light. I can’t wait for it to be up and running. We’ve got something really special for you guys coming out soon. Brand new images, totally new site, our fairly new blog will be fired up and fed to all those interested.
We are most importantly looking to get into a wordpress based system where our work can be seen and heard. We have partnered with a totally out of the box, visionary company Graph Paper Press and Thad Allender it’s founder and number one genius has developed this site for us from the ground up. We have taken all the things we loved about our site, improved upon them and then inserted a bunch of killer elements we felt were missing.
We’ll have a better portfolio page, a cool new look at personal work I haven’t had a place to show before, and our workshops schedule and information will get a smoking new place to live. We look forward to presenting it in the next few weeks and here your feedback.
Feature in Explorers Club “Chronicles”
This month pacific northwest chapter of the Explorers Club has featured my expedition / travel work in their online magazine Chronicles. Iwas invited to be a member of the Explorer’s club in 2005 and am honored to be in their second edition of the new magazine. Last month Art Wolfe was featured so it is pretty cool to follow up a legend like Art. Click Here and download the free PDF. The Explorers Club is pretty distinguished group of adventurers, scientists and people pushing the limits of …well, exploring. If you want to see what pushing the extreme is check out what a fellow PNW Explorers Club member Eruc Erden is doing.
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- The Dalai Lama’s historic summer palace, Lhasa Tibet
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- Tibetan monks shot in Tibet on a 5 week expedition.
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- Hanging with the locals in one of the most remote inhabitable areas of this Planet.
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- As we departed our Tibetan friends came down to the river to see us off.
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- Chiang, Tibetan Wild Donkey – Sangdise Mountains, Ngari, Tibet
Speaking Art Wolfe, I got to meet Art last this month at the Creativelive workshop I participated in Seattle. Art dropped by to check out what was going on at the Vincent Laforet HD DSLR workshop…I’ll share more of this intense experience in another post, but it was pretty awesome and if you haven’t seen or heard of Creativelive.com you should definitely check it out. More on that later!
A Real Pro – CR Johnson
Late this February while I was watching the Winter Olympics I heard the sad news of the death of free skiing phenom CR Johnson. CR died while skiing in his backyard, doing what he loved and that is something to be celebrated for sure. I was fortunate enough to hang out with CR in Aspen a couple of years back while shooting the XGames and the Smith team riders. CR stuck out in my mind! He was profoundly humble and seemed mature well beyond his years. I remember during the shoot asking him to do a couple different poses like crossing his arms. I was shooting from a low angle and playing around with that “badass” athlete sort of look – which all of these kids certainly were. Athletically speaking that is! CR said something like “Sure, but that’s not really me.” I told him then to just do what feels natural and he put is hands back in his pocket, in the most unassuming and laid back manner.
CR will be missed as a radical skiing innovator and a consumate professional in his sport. But, I think he’ll be missed even more because he was a supremely genuine and kind person who stood out not because of an ego, but because of his humble nature.
