Mark Stucker 

 

 

Corporate Frame Grabs
 a selective listing...

U. S. Financial Life - "Nobody Does it Better"
DP/Cam

     
     
     
     
 

James Bond mini feature take-off for insurance company national sales  meeting. Shot over an 8 day period, the production combined on location footage with large  scale studio sets. As DP scouted all locations, specified shot  locations, equipment needs and crew. Helped  draw up  shooting schedule as well special effects strategies on rear-screen projections and car & helicopter  scenes.

   


Sarah Lee - Extreme Team
Lighting Gaffer

     
     
     
 

Opening module for National meeting for Sarah Lee. "Extreme Team" theme created a 'tongue in cheek' intro to the executives in charge of this division. Used dark colors and shadow liberally to create a moody feel. Shot on location in their offices.

 

   

Hasbro - Fish Hook Brooks
DP/Camera Operator

       
   

Green screen setup in a small 20 x 25 studio. Recreated sun &  shadows to match background element. Fans on branch & leaf gobos added to realism. For reverse shot set & lighting was rotated 180 degrees and a siding wall brought in. Working the studio was easier with 4 year olds and their short attention spans than going on location. Used by Hasbro to promote a new product intro at the New York Toy Fair.

 

Thompson/RCA - Who Got Lefty
Lighting Gaffer

Video drama for RCA Sales force. Created a Guy Noir location out of a workshop in the back of a studio. Created heavy shadows from an overhead moving fan, smoked it up & even used special effects squibs in an Steady cam bullet POV shot sequence.

 

 

Cincinnati Bell - Centrex
DP/Camera Operator

 

DP for a corporate video explaining to staff a new telephone system contrasting it with those of the past. A ramshackle workshop was created for the spokes person and his silent assistant.

 

 

Papa Johns - Main Event 2003
DP/Camera Operator


Image piece for a video roll-in for their national Sales meeting. Set up a silhouette lighting environment skewed and a bit distorted with a  German Expressionist twist <g>. Used Papa John colors and workers going through all the  steps of making a pizza set to narration about the company's goals.

 

 

Hasbro - Dr. Laura Game Intro
DP/Camera Operator

 
 

Traveled to NYC to catch up with 'Dr. Laura' for a green screen talking head endorsement for a NY Toy Fair sizzle to kick-off her new board game. She advised the make-up artist 40 minutes non-stop. I had to wrestle with her 'image handler' as the lighting was put under the microscope. We finally got rid of the one dark wrinkle above her left eyebrow by makeup. Shot game mock-up in studio back home in Cincinnati.

 

 


Cincinnati Opera Appeal
DP/Camera Operator



 

Cincinnati Bell sponsored fund raising video for the Cincinnati Opera. Shot all department heads and B-roll of departments involved in putting on the Opera season.

 

 

Thomson "Klingon"
DP/Camera Operator

           

Interactive meeting video for large screen project with role play Star Trek characters. This insert was projected on stage while an actor interacted with the character as if it was real time. Created very low budget Klingon ship environment mostly with lighting. Used backlit furnace filters hit with pulsating lights & chrome metal panel for background. Bounced an uplight white reference with a heavily gobo top light and slowly pulsating backlights completed the effect. 



RCA - "CinemaScreen":
Lighting Gaffer

      

16:9 format interactive laser disc video promoting a new upscale product line of 16:9 RCA televisions shot entirely in that format on a refitted Betacam. Involved period lighting in an 1890's saloon, 1920's art deco night spot (above in the Omni Netherland Palm Court), Riverboat town & African jungle setting.


 

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DP blocked action, created lighting, composed shots
DP/Cam blocked action, created lighting & composed/op shots
Lighting Gaffer created and directed all lighting
Gaffer directed lighting from DP's instructions

Contact Mark Stucker at 513-325-4943 or at mark@markstucker.com

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, 
but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery