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ADAM KANE ASC |
Born: 23 January 1968, Burbank, Calif., USA, as Adam M. Kane, son of pianist/composer Artie Kane [born in 1929 as Aaron Cohen].
Education: Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University [NYU] [Undergraduate Film Program; 1986-90]; American Film Institute [AFI].
Career: Started by shooting live sports coverage for the World Cup Ski Races in Aspen, Colorado. Shortly thereafter, he attended Tisch School of the Arts, where he ph nine student films. He was then accepted into the American Film Institute, where he graduated in the top two of his class. There he studied under Harry L. Wolf and Tom Denove. After earning his Master's degree, he continued to work in independent feature films, commercials, infomercials, and low budget television, including the original promo for the MTV series 'Catwalk' [1992-94]. During this time he also worked for the Associated Press Los Angeles-based video news division, covering national news events ranging from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City [1995] to the O.J. Simpson trial to the devastating coastal storms of El Niño.
Ph commercials for Honda, Nissan, Philips, Calvin Klein, a.o.
Member of the ASC since 2007.
Married to actress/dir Leslie Ann Hope.
Was dir Greg Beeman's 'shadow' on an ep [2007] of the tv-series 'Heroes' before dir his own ep, '.07%'.
Awards: As doph: ASC TV Award nom [2006] for 'Heroes' [for pilot 'Genesis'].
As dir: Winnipeg IFF 'Best Narrative Short' [2005], Oxford FF 'Best Short' [2005] & L.A. Shorts Fest 'Best Drama' [2006] for 'The Fix'.
The pilot 'Reunion' [2005]: For DP Adam Kane and director Jon Amiel, establishing a distinct look and feel for each time period depicted in the flashback-heavy pilot for Fox's 'Reunion' was essential. "The audience needed very clearly to be in one era or the other," says Kane. "For the 80s flashbacks, we didn't want a completely romantic look, but we wanted [the viewer] to feel a romantic heightened reality. We kept it a little extra warm, and the light flattering and beautiful, so that the memories of going back to high school were the most favorable ones."
For flashback close-ups, Schneider Classic Soft filters helped Kane smooth out skin. "They diffuse the image in a way that doesn't make it look out of focus, which is the problem with many diffusion filters."
For present-day footage, Kane used a slightly desaturated, cooler feel to convey the changes in the group of high-school graduates the story follows. He lit with HMI's and was able to heighten drama by overexposing the highlights by two or three stops or blowing out the highlights in the transfer. "We tried to keep the blacks really solid when we were transferring - not crushing them, but keeping them level."
Kane used a three-camera package on the 13-day, 35mm pilot shoot: a Panavision Platinum, a Panavision Gold 2, and a Panaflex Lightweight for Steadicam work. He chose Kodak 5218 for interiors and 5274 for interiors with more window light, "particularly if I wanted to balance an interior location with a lot of windows so that you can see the exterior." The 5274 cuts nicely with 5248, which was used for day exteriors. Kane is so partial to shooting with the 5248, citing its grain structure and rendition of colors and skin tones, that he had the stock shipped to the set of the new movie he's shooting in China, 'Shanghai Red'. For daylight exteriors, Kane used an 85B filter, striving to achieve his look in-camera. "It makes life easier to have to not completely redefine the negative in color timing."
Still, he credits colorist Tony Smith of Riot, Santa Monica, with helping him achieve the right contrasts between the two eras. The pair paid special attention to capturing the golden-yellowish hue of the flashbacks. When venturing into the golden-yellow arena, the concern was that the broadcast would appear greenish when beamed to satellite downlinks. "Each downlink is staffed with operators who transmit with different biases in terms of brightness, saturation, and color hue," Kane explains. "We wanted to be sure that we didn't venture too close to that yellow-green hue and risk the characters' faces looking unappealing." [From article by Sharon Kennedy on the www.studiodaily.com website, 2005.]
FILMS |
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199? |
Katrina [?] ?; short/?m; prod NYU |
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1991 |
Sleeping Beauties [Karyn Kusama] ?; short/15m; prod NYU |
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1992 |
The Double O Kid [Duncan McLachlan] c |
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1992 |
Psycho Cop 2/Psycho Cop Returns [Rif Coogan (= Adam Rifkin)] c; as Enak Mada; 2uc: Daniel Massaccesi |
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1993 |
Bitter Harvest [Duane Clark] c |
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1993 |
A Brilliant Disguise [Nick Vallelonga] c |
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1993 |
Hail Caesar [Anthony Michael Hall] c |
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1994 |
Mother/The Haunted Heart [Frank LaLoggia] c; co-2uc; ph: Gerry Lively |
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1994 |
The Skateboard Kid 2 [Andrew Stevens] c |
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1994 |
Last Gasp [Scott McGinnis] c; 2uc: Mark McGinnis |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - Planet of the Dino-Knights [Ernest Farino & (prologue) Frank Arnold] c/V; addph; ph: Viorel Sergovici & Vivi Dragan (as Dragon) Vasile; ep #1 of 6-part film series |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - The Human Pets [Frank Arnold & (prologue) Ernest Farino] c/V; addph; ph: Viorel Sergovici & Vivi Dragan (as Dragon) Vasile; ep #2 of 6-part film series |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - Trapped on Toyworld [Frank Arnold] c/V; addph; ph: Viorel Sergovici; ep #3 of 6-part film series |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - Eggs from 70 Million B.C. [Mark Manos] c/V; addph; ph: Viorel Sergovici; ep #4 of 6-part film series |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - Journey to the Magic Cavern [Ernest Farino] c/V; addph; ph: Viorel Sergovici; ep #5 of 6-part film series |
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1994 |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! - Last Battle for the Universe [Frank Arnold] c/V; addph; ph: Vivi Dragan (as Dragon) Vasile; ep #6 of 6-part film series |
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1995 |
Pyromaniac/Slow Burn [Greg Finton & Catherine Lane] c |
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1995 |
Judgement [David Winkler] c; short/31m |
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1995 |
Within the Rock [Gary J. Tunnicliffe] c |
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1996 |
The Clearing [Kat Smith] c; short/25m |
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1996 |
The Corporate Ladder [Nick Vallelonga] c/V |
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1996 |
Ravager [James D. Deck] c |
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With dir Craig Hamann [left] - "Boogie Boy" |
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1997 |
Boogie Boy [Craig Hamann] c; addph: Jerry Sidell |
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1997 |
The Fanatics/Fumbleheads [Marc Lasky] c |
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1997 |
Renegade Force/CounterForce/Rogue Force/Six Angry Men [Martin Kunert] c |
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1997 |
The Boondock Saints [Troy Duffy] b&w-c |
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1997 |
No Code of Conduct [Bret Michaels] c |
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1998 |
Dino Island II 3D: Escape from Dino Island [Jerzy Kular & (live action) Mix Ryan] 3-D/c; live action ph; 'TurboRide'-film for Iwerks TurboRide 3D! theatres |
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1998 |
BitterSweet [Luca Bercovici] c/V |
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1999 |
Love & Sex [Valerie Breiman] c; addph: Jerry Sidell; 2uc: Irv Goodnoff |
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1999 |
Two Shades of Blue [James D. Deck] c/V; 2uc: Kenneth Stipe |
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2000 |
Proximity [Scott Ziehl] c |
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2000 |
Scenes of the Crime [Dominique Forma] c; addph; ph: James Bagdonas |
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2001 |
House Blend [Tony Mark] c; short/18m |
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2003 |
Overnight [Mark Brian Smith & Tony Montana] 16mm+s8+v-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/115m; co-addph; ph: M.B. Smith |
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2003 |
Legacy [Bo Svenson] c |
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2004 |
The Man [Les Mayfield] c; addph: David M. Dunlap |
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2005 |
Shanghai Red [Oscar Luis Costo] p/c |
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2005 |
Skinwalkers [James Isaac] s35/c; cph: David Armstrong; 2uc (+ c.op): Harold Ortenberger |
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2006 |
What I See When I Close My Eyes [Leslie Hope] HD/c; doc/29m; 2uc (+ add sound): Vannak Chea & Rith Chan; + co-prod |
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2006 |
Resurrecting the Champ [Rod Lurie] s35/c |
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200? |
The Money Honey [Tony Mark] in development; status unknown |
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2007 |
Pig Hunt [James Isaac] c; 2uc: Igor Meglic |
TELEVISION |
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2000 |
Level 9 [pilot 'Mail Call' dir by Robert Harmon & ep dir by various] 13-part (4 unaired) series, 2000-01; 2uc: Christian Sebaldt |
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2001 |
Jane Doe/Runaway Jane [Kevin Elders] tvm |
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2001 |
Sam's Circus [Robert Singer] pilot; for CBS-tv |
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2002 |
Hack [ep #7 'Husbands and Wives' dir by Fred Gerber, #8 'Songs In the Night' dir by Felix Alcala & #10 'All Night Long' dir by Elodie Keene] 40-part series, 2002-04; 1st season (22 ep), 2002-03; other ph: Ken Kelsch (pilot), Michael Grady (1 ep), Sharone Meir (5 ep) & Craig DiBona (12 ep) |
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2002 |
War Stories [Robert Singer] tvm (originally a pilot + add footage); for NBC-tv |
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2003 |
Line of Fire [pilot dir by Rod Lurie (RL), #2 'Take the Money and Run' dir by Peter Horton, #3 'Undercover Angel' dir by RL, #4 'Mockingbird' dir by RL & #11 'Eminence Front, Part 1 & 2' dir by RL] 13-part (2 unaired) series, 2003-04; other ph: Christopher Faloona (+ cph #11) |
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2004 |
Grey's Anatomy/Complications [ep #2 'The First Cut Is the Deepest' dir by Peter Horton, #4 'No Man's Land' dir by Adam Davidson & #6 'If Tomorrow Never Comes' dir by Scott Brazil] series, 2005-present; 1st season, 2005; other ph: Jeff Jur (pilot) & Tim Suhrstedt |
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2005 |
Reunion [pilot '1986' dir by Jon Amiel] 13-part (4 unaired) series; other ph: David Moxness |
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2006 |
Heroes [pilot 'Genesis/(Volume One: Genesis) In His Own Image' dir by David Semel] 78-part series, 2006-10; first season, 2006-07; aph: David Norris |
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2007 |
I'm Paige Wilson [Rod Lurie] pilot; for The CW Network |
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2008 |
A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride [Leslie Hope] tvm |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1989 |
Rain [Michael Keenan] add c.asst; ph: Robert LoScalzo |
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1991 |
Rescue Me/Street Hunter [Arthur Allan Seidelman] co-add c.asst; ph: Hanania Baer |
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1992 |
Deadfall [Christopher Coppola] c.op; ph: Maryse Alberti |
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1993 |
A Million to Juan/A Million to One [Paul Rodriguez] ?; ph: Bruce Douglas Johnson |
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1993 |
Leprechaun 2/One Wedding and Lots of Funerals [Rodman Flender] co-c.op; ph: Jane Castle |
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1995 |
Space: Above and Beyond [ep #6 'Ray Butts' dir by Charles Martin Smith; tv-series] c.op; ph: Anthony Palmieri |
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1996 |
Fakin' Da Funk [Tim Chey] c.op; ph: Zoltán David |
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1998 |
Dogma [Kevin Smith] c.op 2u; 2uc: Brian Sweeney; ph: Robert Yeoman |
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2007 |
Pushing Daisies [ep #7 'Smell of Success' dir by Lawrence Trilling, #8 'Bitter Sweets' dir by Allan Kroeker & #9 'Corpsicle' dir by Brian Dannelly; tv-series] prod; ph: Michael Weaver |
NOW ACTIVE AS DIRECTOR OF FILMS [SINCE 2004] & TELEVISION [SINCE 2007] |