Film Courage: I’m going to read the first page of [the script from] A California Christmas and as a cinematographer maybe you can interject and tell me what you think of different parts that I’m reading?
Brad Rushing, Cinematographer: I knew as soon as I read that, that was stock footage. I knew the scope of our film and I knew that our only aerial would be with a drone that couldn’t get that kind of altitude and distance. The funny thing is more than a few people have emailed me and their compliment is Oh, my goodness! I just loved those aerial shots of San Francisco and the Bay Bridge and I’m like Well, thank you. I will pass those compliments along to the stock footage company which they always take in good humor, but funny anecdote.
Film Courage: They wondered how you got those [shots]?
Brad: I don’t think they wondered, they trusted but I had to tell them that well that’s the dream but it’s only a dream.
Film Courage: You would have had to do it with a helicopter?
Brad: A drone won’t rise to that altitude and you couldn’t get that kind of distance. It’s not going to fly over the bay and into the city right?…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Brad Rushing began working with Roger Corman’s Concorde/New Horizons film studio which afforded him some of his first feature film opportunities as Director of Photography where he learned valuable skills. After a number of years concentrating on indie feature films Brad began to shoot high end music videos photographing award-winning, iconic clips for artists like Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Nelly and Eminem. Brad’s ground-breaking work on Moby’s “We Are All Made Of Stars” won an MTV Video Music Award “Moonman” for Best Cinematography in a Video, and many of the other music videos he shot have won awards such as VMAs, MVPAs and Grammys for Best Video. Brad also won a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Video for the Alsou video “Always On My Mind.” Brad’s most recent work is the feature film “A California Christmas” which filmed in Petaluma, CA in July 2020, one of the first film productions to start under stringent COVID-19 safety protocols. The film debuted on a major streaming platform for the 2020 holiday season and was number one on Netflix for a week.
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