In August and September, I worked with the amazingly talented Aude Bronson Howard on a commercial campaign/ promotional film.  All very hush hush, non-disclosure paperwork a go-go.  That said, somehow, the Paparazzi always seem to find you when there are major movie stars involved even for your top secret project.  I'm greatly looking forward to the day when I can see the spots online if not on the telly.

Even though everyone was keeping mum about the job, since the Paparazzi showed up, I thought I'd share what it looks like as the same photographers hop from one side of the street to the other (an out of the way spot in industrial Greenpoint, Brooklyn- not somewhere you'd just find yourself by accident) as they try to get the movie star shots that will earn them a living.  So: Paparazzi in the shade, Paparazzi in the sun...

We held fittings for our background performers at a stage in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan.  Whenever I'd enter, their entryway banks of stage lights were so show biz, I'd mentally hum the opening of the Bugs Bunny cartoons "Overture, cut the lights, this is it, the night of nights..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY

More backstage glamour: One day during the shoot while setting up, suddenly everyone with an iPhone had their emergency alerts go off in unison.  Happily, mine was on vibrate, others were not.  

Seems we were in for a torrential rain/thunderstorms with flash flood alerts.  We had packed so many racks of clothes for the multi day shoot, that we had to offload them to be held in tents behind the wardrobe trailer to have room to work.  We rushed back from set to the tents to try to get the most high dollar merch back up into the truck, floor space be damned.  Some of the stalwart crew pictured, trying to save the day and keep the tents from blowing over!

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And once the shoot was over, a photo from the production office (faces blocked to protect identities, but hey, news of this project was all over the internet so it is no secret who directed this)...