Before leaving Los Angeles, I had the chance to work on a Fox Searchlab production. Fox Searchlab is a Fox Searchlight Pictures program that looks to discover and test new talent, both in front and behind the camera.

The production I worked on was Certainly Not A Fairytale. For a limited time only, you can view the film online at the Searchlab website.

I was asked to work as the Boom Operator by Tom Curley, a friend of mine who I met online a year or so earlier (you'll see his name in the credits below). Unfortunately they appear to have applied distorting effects to the dialog, so it isn't a good showcase, but the experience was great and worth documenting. We had the opportunity to work on the Fox backlot, on the set of NYPD Blue and around the lot.

A few still shots (sorry, I cannot provide the film itself for obviously reasons of copyright):

Photos from the set:

This is on the NYPD Blue set.

Here I am, continuing to look excessively dorky. The director is wearing the black vest.

On the left, I couldn't help but grab a photo of myself in front of one of the several murals on the Fox Studio Backlot, this one obviously being of Star Wars. Why did I take a photo of myself in front of the Everyman Pictures door sign? Because the 16mm short film I was Unit Production Manager and Steadicam Operator on at Full Sail, was called Everyman's Story.