Patrick Blackard


Camera and Lighting Services

(512) 924-6955

Film, Video, Digital

Dallas and Austin, Texas

www.sprocketeer.com

Gallery

Here are still frames captured from the videotape of some of my jobs.


Using 24P HD to "film" the Dance Competition at the 83rd Annual Crow Fair

Rooster Solo

Skydancer TV and HPG Sports produced this program about one of the largest Native American dance
competitions. Randy Martin directed and we used the Panasonic Varicam 24P HD camera. We shot scenics with individual dancers in locations around the Crow Reservation in southeast Montana.

Amber Solo

Panasonic's 24P camera actually does frame rates from 4fps to 60 fps. We were able to get a pleasing
combination of high resolution and the right amount of motion blur. These frame grabs are at one fourth
the resolution of the original video.

Tim Solo

Fancy Dancer

Hundreds of dancers from all over North America competed in an arena close to the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Lighting was designed by Jerry Mundy, a gaffer working out of Bozeman and Los Angeles.

Fancy Dancer with Shawl



Hut Stricklin drives for the Hills Brothers Coffee NASCAR team

Fred Levinson International and Broken Films came to Texas Motor Speedway to shoot promo footage and a commercial for Hills Brothers Coffee. They hired me and my camera to shoot 16x9 footage.

The only way to see a race is behind the scenes with a camera pass!


Jack Morton Productions hired Ken Mandel Films to produce this show for the Web-cast rollout of
JD Edwards "One World XE" software. Ken hired Annie Biggs, producer; John Johns, effects/sound;
and myself as DP to come up with this footage in Rio de Janero and Mexico City. In these scenes,
people around the world look up in anticipation of the benefits of supply chain management software.

The Old Bedford School Historical Video

Jack Mayfield Ed Bilger
In 1915, a small community of Texas farming families valued education enough to tax themselves and build this brick schoolhouse. For over 50 years, their children were educated here, and now the building is restored as a community center, The Old Bedford School.

I was fortunate to be involved, along with Andrew Flood of AF Video, in a video project to document the
history of the school and the community.

The school is beautifully restored, and is now in the center of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, with over 20,000 students, and the video is seen by thousands of schoolkids each year as an intro to their tour of the school.

Edna Sue

Jeff Lorber Randy Martin, a writer and director in Dallas, directed this video of Jeff Lorber playing a Beatles tune, "Dear Prudence." DP--35MM.
Lowery Perry, who lights and operates most of David Frost's interviews, had a conflict and was nice enough to refer me for this job, in which David Frost interviewed Pat Choate, who was Ross Perot's running mate in 1996. I used small Chimeras and long boom poles to put the keylights out in the right places. Gaffer/operator--Betacam David Frost
Resistol A spot for Resistol hats, shot for Mike Hardin at Image One Producions. DP--35mm
Mike Dzmura of Silk Tie Productions directed this video for Valisys, a partner of IBM in building computer aided manufacturing sysems. DP--Betacam IBM/Valysis
YogaRobics Lee Martin Productions hired me to light this exercise video for "Yogarobics," the ultimate in no-impact aerobics. I hung lots of lights and used the dimmer board to create a serene, yet intense, mood. LD--Betacam