Daniel Thomas

1st Unit Set Lighting Technician

Rigging electric.

Chief lighting technician, head of electric and lighting.

Responsible for electrical and set lighting planning and coordination.

Head of grip and electric departments, DMX light board operator.

Responsible for electrical and set lighting planning and coordination on location for all Los Angeles.

Head of camera and lighting departments.

Electric department, set lighting tech.

Electric department, set lighting tech.

Electric truck driver/op, responsible for electric gear inventory, lamp operation, distro

Lead of camera and lighting departments.

Outdoor daytime lighting using 12x light grid, plasma hive killer bees, Kino 4x's, and an m12. Also included some safety harness rigging, as the main character is hung from a noose in a tree.

Spotty, grungy lighting for a rock-n-roll film, the majority shot in 360-degree steadicam. Lots of overhead rigging, practical play, and cocaine-themed lighting situations.

Lead of grip and electric on a music video involving a decommissioned gold mine, Argo Mines, in Idaho Springs,

Planning and executing a varietal shot list and lighting for a narrative music video set in a ghost town in Utah.

Capturing stills of selected Breck locals for 2017 ski season marketing campaign, "Meet The Locals". Also assisted g+e with lighting for simultaneous video commercial production.

Lighting/filming interviews and broll of cannabis entrepreneurs, refugees, proponents and opponents.

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging.

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging. Lighting for 1600fps using 1K plasmas.

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging.

Lead of camera and lighting departments.

Lead of camera and lighting departments.

Lead of camera and lighting departments

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging.

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging.

Steadicam operator.

Head of grip and electric, responsible for all lighting design and rigging.

B-roll and time lapses of build.

Lighting, all grip work, and safety for a commercial broadcast and print photography production involving dogs, cats and their owners. Mostly rigging 4' Kinos, shooting plasma lights through a softbox or 6' silk, and working with bounce for a natural look for the DP or photographer.

Lead of camera and lighting departments.

Lighting design of a subject sleeping in bed, moonlit through a window shutter pattern, and composition control of a top-down jib shot using the DJI Ronin.

On stage and back stage steadicam operator for the entire show.

Lighting and shot design for a new natural motion workout machine.

Lighting design for about 10 different heroin reenactment scenes for a documentary about the heroin and prescription drug epidemic sweeping through Virginia.

Responsible for all lighting design of a narrative story mixed with a live performance. Also, operated Steadicam on a few gliding shots, as well as building/stabilizing the jib/Ronin.

Filming documentary/sports footage of Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team in 2014 FIL Championship in Denver and 2015 Box FIL Championship near Syracuse, NY. Filmed ENG-style b-roll of fans, players in the locker rooms, and shot 500mm cinematic slow motion during the games. Lighting multiple interviews between and throughout each competition. Also filming lifestyle footage of native players, coaches, fans on their native land.

Camera operation, gear prep for several cameras, dslrs, Star Links, hoppers, etc, as well as time lapse photography, GoPro rigging, and some gripping/lighting.

Responsible for all lighting design as well as planning compositions and camera movement.

Operated the DJI Ronin gimbal attached to a 2-rod Atlas, outfitted with the Sony NEX FS700, Odyssey 7Q+ recorder, and an Ikan wireless follow focus. 3+ hours of gimbal operation during the live event.

Performed all lighting and grip duties for interviews, as well as a few sections of indoor b-roll.

Operated multiple cameras w/ various types of support systems, tripods + shoulder rigs, including the DJI Ronin flying my fs700r + Odyssey 7Q+, Cinefly octocopter rigged with Movi flying Panasonic GH4, motorized time lapse rigs using 5D mk III's, as well as a Canon c100 shooting all the interviews.

Chief lighting technician and key grip. I was in charge of all lighting design, electrical and non-electrical.

Assist with lighting/grip, as well as camera operation on a round table discussion including Freddie Steinmark's former teammates at Wheat Ridge HS.

Director of Photography and DIT for multiple interviews and round table-style discussions over the course of two weeks.

Assisted an underwater camera operator with the Amphibico underwater housing for the Sony FS700, pulling focus, setting exposure, assisting with shot composing.

Operated steadi-cam, and led 3 other camera operators on composing action shots of the talent running and breaking through a fake brick wall at high-speed frame rates in 2K and 4K RAW, as well as composing different shots of multiple subjects on a circular dolly track.

Filming interviews and b-roll of a micro coffee roaster who distributes via bicycle in Boulder, CO. Filmed beauty shots of roasting and making coffee, as well as steadi-cam shots of coffee deliveries.

Lighting tech in various locations for a comedy music video.

Lighting tech and camera op in various locations for a comedy music video.

Assisting DP in lighting interviews, bouncing Arri tungstens off foamcore, camera assisting and gripping.

Shooting cinematic footage and time lapse photography of festival for recap promotion video.

Music festival staff cinematographer - interviews and footage of several major acts, festival b-roll, time lapse footage, and more.

Lighting and composing shots for a short comedy series about a guy who confidently and comically makes terrible decisions.

Photography and cinematography for festival recap/magazine.

A throwback honoring the sex scene from Back to the Future.

News photographer - shoot and edit footage for daily news packages with reporters, set up live ENG vans, lighting, camera and audio for live broadcast, shoot and write sweeps packages, meet daily editing deadlines for 3 nightly broadcasts.