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Category Archives: Behind The Scenes

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Oct 2015

Zombie- Behind The Scenes

Sometimes you gotta go all in.  Months in the making, this Bike Monkey Zombie extravaganza required the Culture Pop crew to go BIG or go home.  Shooting on location in Boggs Mountain State Forest, we brought in the pro makeup team from Pandora FX in San Francisco to transform Adam Menconi and Wade Scarpelli into brain-munching, Capo-wearing, skin-rotting Zombies from hell. The crew worked tirelessly, with Kit Karutz SPRINTING the Red Epic Dragon through the woods in take after take.  Gunther Kirsch must have made three hundred trips back and forth from set to holding as he schlepped tripods, lenses, […]
14
Jan 2015

Salive Tristesse

Yes, this is what happens during our lunch break. Create a slice of life, emotional art film that provides a gateway to self reflection. We give you Salive Tristesse. You can thank us later….
26
Jul 2014

Gunn Collection Shoot- Behind The Scenes

I’ve never met anyone more passionate than Odessa Gunn when it come to things. She doesn’t really dabble in hobbies, in fact I’m not really sure she knows how to have one. What she really does is follow her gut and put one foot in front of the other. With heart. What some people don’t know is she’s a hell of a person to hang out with. If she’s not entertaining us with interpretive dance she’s making sure we’re all fed with organic energy food. Over the past few days we’ve been shooting for her new run of Gunn Collection shirts and in […]

3
Jul 2014

Levi’s GranFondo Behind The Curtain Outtakes

It was a long year filming this project and some things were just bound to happen. Sometimes people just don’t know we’re recording. Although, I think Fisher just likes to be on camera. When we asked the Bike Monkey crew to come into our dark and mysterious studio so we could film them, we might have come off a tad Hannibal Lecter-ish.  Needless to say they couldn’t resist our boyishly handsome faces and agreed.  Although we eventually created the telling and trying story of Levi and his Gran Fondo during the past year, there was a much more emotional and captivating story […]
1
Jul 2014

Rebecca Rusch has a crush on me

I couldn’t sleep the night before my flight to Idaho. What could I say I was as excited as a suburban white kid at a Macklemore concert. Idaho was big on my list of places to visit. It’s got potatoes, mountains, and Rebecca Rush, the Queen of Pain herself. We had to pack light for this trip so that everything we needed could fit in carry on bags for the plane.  Just FYI for any other filmmakers out there: 22ft cranes do NOT fit into the overhead bins.  And you may or may not be held in custody for 72 […]

10
Jun 2014

Studio Pop

So what does one do when you get the new studio digs up and running? Grab anyone who walks by and make them do silly things. Our new space is now up and ready for studio madness!

26
Jul 2013

Team CP and Lasseter Family Winery

To some of you I’m sure the name Lasseter rings a bell. The people behind this amazing winery is non other than John and Nancy Lasseter. We must admit, we were a little taken back when they reached out to us. I mean come on, they want to hire us to film projects for them!? Needless to say we were honored to take on the project. Although the first project we filmed for them has yet to be released (this September) we have filmed two more since then and have eight more slated over the next year. Exciting times indeed!

15
May 2012

Tour Of California- Killing Time

Thats a wrap! We have just completed our portion of filming for The Levi Effect! It was an amazing experience to travel to 14 different cities documenting Levi behind the scenes. We had special access for the entire tour to go wherever we wanted, including in the time trial car! Certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity. Traveling with the Tour of California doesn’t come without its fun moments. Water damaged hotel rooms, long car rides and chasing down a pro cyclist can be taxing at times but we managed to entertain ourselves.

21
Mar 2012

Patrick Dempsey- The Longest Short Trip

It’s been awesome to work with pros Carlos Perez & Citizen Pictures on an upcoming documentary! We took a journey to Patrick Dempsey’s to film his segment. It was the longest short trip we have ever taken! We left at 3am and got back to our home base 23 hours later.  Patrick is an amazing guy to be around. He took us around his property and showed us his organic garden, Dr. Seuss “like” chickens and ridiculously comfortable home. He made us feel at home and treated us like one of his own. When we were done filming, he treated […]