There must be something in the air. Jay Helfert and Cleary combined together to produce a pool movie about high stakes gambling then last night a production crew showed up at Buffalo Billiards in Metairie and did filming for about 12 hours.
It was only a trailer and while I didn't get involved much with the set, the director asked me to sign a release.
As fate would have it Dustin McCollum was in town and we were hanging out together and the production crew kind of gravitated toward our table and asked us to shoot some shots. They hooked up a camera onto one of their cue sticks and asked me to shoot a bunch of shots with the camera sitting close to the joint on the shaft. It was small but still kind of heavy. I was able to make some of the shots and boy, don't you know, I came so close to asking them to do some camera shots of Stan Shufett's CTE/Pro One.
Dustin was right in the thick of it, giving wanted advice to the production crew about pool shots and participated in some of the shot making as well. Dustin has great experience in both the camera world and pool world and knows what looks good so the production crew was appreciative of his help.
The director found out that I did pool commentary and he told me they were looking for an announcer/commentator so that might work out. They took my info and I met a lot of the crew, although it was kind of hectic and didn't get any last names. Jordan was one of the stars and I had to remark to him when he took a break that I could tell that he had actually played some good pool. He acknowledged that in his youth he had played quite a bit.
He did some simple jump shots, a nice masse and as a bonus, he was telling me about when they were shooting in L.A. that he had a famous pool player who was his double on the set there for some trick shots. Who do you think it was? It was none other than Florian "Venom" Kohler who just happened to be visiting L.A. at the same time they were filming. I told them that Florian was one of, if not the most talented of all of the "trick shot" artists and they agreed that they were lucky to catch Florian in L.A.
Florian if you're out there buddy, you've hit the big time. The filming industry in New Orleans and Louisiana in general is getting bigger all of the time. Hope to see you down the road.
I was playing "Electric Mike" some one pocket and unbeknownst to me, they were filming us. I was beating on Mike and since we weren't playing for anything except a little pride, I won every game and one of the games I got out and raised my cue horizontally over my head and did a mini-mock victory salute to tease Mike. About twenty minutes later, the star came over and said they caught me doing that on film and it was a "good shot" I teased Mike the whole night about that.
Dustin and I parted company in the wee hours of the morning around 3:00 a.m. where I left him giving lessons to one of my toughest competitors.
Oh and just one more tidbite. Dustin had a break jump cue by Steve Lomax and it jumped balls better than any cue I have ever used including my own jump cue by Steve Lomax. I have to put in a call to Steve Lomax because I feel like I have been short changed. :angry::thumbup:
It was only a trailer and while I didn't get involved much with the set, the director asked me to sign a release.
As fate would have it Dustin McCollum was in town and we were hanging out together and the production crew kind of gravitated toward our table and asked us to shoot some shots. They hooked up a camera onto one of their cue sticks and asked me to shoot a bunch of shots with the camera sitting close to the joint on the shaft. It was small but still kind of heavy. I was able to make some of the shots and boy, don't you know, I came so close to asking them to do some camera shots of Stan Shufett's CTE/Pro One.
Dustin was right in the thick of it, giving wanted advice to the production crew about pool shots and participated in some of the shot making as well. Dustin has great experience in both the camera world and pool world and knows what looks good so the production crew was appreciative of his help.
The director found out that I did pool commentary and he told me they were looking for an announcer/commentator so that might work out. They took my info and I met a lot of the crew, although it was kind of hectic and didn't get any last names. Jordan was one of the stars and I had to remark to him when he took a break that I could tell that he had actually played some good pool. He acknowledged that in his youth he had played quite a bit.
He did some simple jump shots, a nice masse and as a bonus, he was telling me about when they were shooting in L.A. that he had a famous pool player who was his double on the set there for some trick shots. Who do you think it was? It was none other than Florian "Venom" Kohler who just happened to be visiting L.A. at the same time they were filming. I told them that Florian was one of, if not the most talented of all of the "trick shot" artists and they agreed that they were lucky to catch Florian in L.A.
Florian if you're out there buddy, you've hit the big time. The filming industry in New Orleans and Louisiana in general is getting bigger all of the time. Hope to see you down the road.
I was playing "Electric Mike" some one pocket and unbeknownst to me, they were filming us. I was beating on Mike and since we weren't playing for anything except a little pride, I won every game and one of the games I got out and raised my cue horizontally over my head and did a mini-mock victory salute to tease Mike. About twenty minutes later, the star came over and said they caught me doing that on film and it was a "good shot"
I teased Mike the whole night about that.Dustin and I parted company in the wee hours of the morning around 3:00 a.m. where I left him giving lessons to one of my toughest competitors.
Oh and just one more tidbite. Dustin had a break jump cue by Steve Lomax and it jumped balls better than any cue I have ever used including my own jump cue by Steve Lomax. I have to put in a call to Steve Lomax because I feel like I have been short changed. :angry:
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