Jared Abrams
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Cinematographer
- Director
He found himself studying forestry at Colorado State University when a
forest ranger came in and said that there was little or no chance of
getting into the forest service. He left College after five years of
study. He had wanted to be a smoke jumper. Ten bucks an hour was good
money, still is. Nothing can match the thrill of jumping at low levels
into thick ponderosa pine and scorched earth!
Oh well, so he left Colorado for home. New York City and started at Lancit Media working on "Reading Rainbow" as a camera pa. He then realized that everything revolved around the camera. It was a good place to learn. He got a job working for Arriflex and learned all about the cameras, after three years as a camera tech. AVID's were coming of age. He had been doing some assistant editing work and wanted to learn more. He left camera and became an AVID editor.
Being stuck in an editing room for twenty two hours a day finally got to him and he left and went back to Camera Service Center. He started to get lots of work as a film loader and was able to work on many great projects such as the "Sopranos", HBO's "Real SEX" and movies like The 1996 Olympic Film "Endurance", Music Videos Fat Boy Slim "Weapon of Choice", "The Yards"," Planet of The Apes", and most recently "The Mothman Prophecies". Working with directors like James Grey, Tim Burton, Spike Lee, Mark Pellington, and Spike Jones really helped him.
It was on a small film that he finally was able to direct. During the production of the film "O" starring Julia Stiles and Rain Phoenix, he wrote and directed a short film on the beaches of South Carolina. They were shooting nights and the girls had agreed to do a short about childbirth. They all met at the beach and shot the film in less than an hour.
Oh well, so he left Colorado for home. New York City and started at Lancit Media working on "Reading Rainbow" as a camera pa. He then realized that everything revolved around the camera. It was a good place to learn. He got a job working for Arriflex and learned all about the cameras, after three years as a camera tech. AVID's were coming of age. He had been doing some assistant editing work and wanted to learn more. He left camera and became an AVID editor.
Being stuck in an editing room for twenty two hours a day finally got to him and he left and went back to Camera Service Center. He started to get lots of work as a film loader and was able to work on many great projects such as the "Sopranos", HBO's "Real SEX" and movies like The 1996 Olympic Film "Endurance", Music Videos Fat Boy Slim "Weapon of Choice", "The Yards"," Planet of The Apes", and most recently "The Mothman Prophecies". Working with directors like James Grey, Tim Burton, Spike Lee, Mark Pellington, and Spike Jones really helped him.
It was on a small film that he finally was able to direct. During the production of the film "O" starring Julia Stiles and Rain Phoenix, he wrote and directed a short film on the beaches of South Carolina. They were shooting nights and the girls had agreed to do a short about childbirth. They all met at the beach and shot the film in less than an hour.
