BPS 394: Lighting Big Budgets and Indie Films with Shane Hurlbut

My guest today has done it all. He’s gone from cinematography on
small-budget indie films to $200 million-plus projects which is
literally goals for many in this line of business. Director
and cinematographer, Shane Hurlbut's thirty-plus experience and
success as a storyteller is categorically innovative to the craft
and inspiring for other filmmakers.Shane's latest film Love Hard is
set for digital release via Netflix this November. This romantic
comedy is about a young woman in Los Angeles who falls
for a man on a dating app and travels to his East
Coast hometown to surprise him for Christmas but discovers that
she's been catfished. Her crush actually does live in the same
town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she
pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays.He’s an esteemed
member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the
American Society of Cinematographers. The ASC recognized Shane’s
work very early on in his carrier from his film The Rat Pack and he
was one of their youngest cinematographer nominees. 

Shane Co-founded the Hurlbut Academy alongside his wife and
business partner, Lydia Hurlbut. Their platform offers professional
online filmmaking education and mentoring materials, curated by
other filmmakers. This interactive library has collaborated with
filmmakers to develop about 50 Courses, 400+ Lessons, and 700+
hours of instruction videos. Some of the top projects he’s worked
on include Drumline, We Are Marshall, Terminator Salvation, Act
Of Valor, and Game Of Thrones.The highly
acclaimed HBO series, Game of Thrones was hailed for its
spectacular cinematography. Outstanding, if you will. In 2012,
Shane served as director of photography for their Game of Thrones:
You Win or You Die - Inside the HBO Series that was an interview
for major cast and crew members. Wherein, characters, families,
kingdoms, and plots were explained with an in-depth look at season
one. And what viewers could expect from season two. Some of
Shane’s work includes NetFlix’s Rim of The World, Holidate, There
Is No Place Like Home, Fathers, and Daughters, the pilot episode
for SyFy's Resident Alien, and Disney+ original film Safety.Safety
was inspired by the true story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, the film
follows a freshman football player for Clemson University who
secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life
became too unsteady.His passion for filmmaking goes back to his
childhood.  Like the cool kid he still is, Shane did morning
announcements at our high school and DJ for a local radio station.
As you can imagine, he started doing dances, proms, and homecoming
across the local upstate New York area. He earned part of his
education at a small community college where he fell in love with
radio, TV production, and so forth. A scholarship to study film at
Emerson College in Boston sealed the deal for Shane.In 2002,
Shane’s box office hit film, Drumline became a major splash. Nick
Cannon stars as a young drummer who enters the fictional Atlanta
A&T University and bumps heads with the leader of his new
school's drum section. A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented
street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university,
expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He
initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it
takes more than talent to reach the top. Lots of knowledge
bombs from Shane in this conversation, You don't want to miss
out. 

Enjoy my chat with Shane Hurlbut.

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