"Where the Air is Cool & Dark"

"Cool and Dark" was the first picture I worked on professionally outside of school, so it will always be memorable to me. Physically, this was a very difficult shoot because we shot it entirely on location in the Olympic National Park, near Forks, Washington. That meant we had to haul in much of the equipment on our backs through thick forest terrain. I was Property Master on this shoot, and I'm particularly proud of the work I did on a critical scene which depicted a logging accident. I had to rig a stretcher to be flown out by a medical helicopter with a fake body onboard that had to, of course, look real. It worked out quite well.

Deep Forest Logging Scene
Helicopter Rescue Scene
  

Our crew was made up of a fantastically committed group of people. We all endured 60mph winds and rain on a helicopter landing, mud up to our knees, not to mention virtually no sleep, in classic independent filmmaking no-frills style. Most people wouldn't have the shear endurance to handle it, but filmmakers are a funny breed. Get them around a camera, and they'll do the impossible.