My visit with Alex Carr

Being just 4 years out of School of Communication Arts film program, you might say that Alex Carr is on his way to mastering the total art of feature film making. Mr. Carr will review the breakthrough capabilities of the Red Camera that has swept through the feature film production world as the camera system of the future, available here and now.

As a School alum, member of the IATSE Union 600 Guild of Cinematographers and Apple Certified in Final Cut Pro; Alex Carr is a passionate filmmaker willing to share his knowledge of contemporary, digital filmmaking.

Mr. Carr will be demonstrating a real-world look into how the Red Camera functions and what it’s like working with Red footage in the post production lab. He wants students to benefit and be enlightened by his expertise in high-end digital cinema.

After graduating high school in 2002, Carr was invited to stay aboard a replica of a 19th century pirate ship. At the time, the ship was being loaned to Jerry Bruckheimer Productions on the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Jefferey Rush. Carr saw first hand how a film set really worked and how important every crew member is to the set.

A few weeks after graduating from SCA’s digital filmmaking program in 2005, Carr started working at NBC 17 as a promotional editor. Later that year, he started working for Steve Murray, who specializes in Stock Footage and Tourism Commercials. With a strong background in post production, Carr went on to edit his first feature film Wherever You Are in summer 2007 starring Jane Adams and Josh Pais. After completing the film, he took everything he had to Los Angeles, California.

With more of an interest in cinematography, Carr moved on to become a focus puller. He traveled to Tangiers, Morocco to work on a feature film called Blackline: The Beirut Contract with cinematographer Seo Mutarevic (Wild Things 2, American Strays, Monster's Night.) The second part of Blackline took place in Beirut, Lebanon, where the explosions were “real” even off of the set! After returning from Beirut, Carr picked up some more work from NBC as an assistant editor for the NBC network showHeroes.

Summer 2008, he went back to working on the set as a digital imaging technician (DIT) alongside Seo Mutarevic, on the new television series Twenty Six Miles starring John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard), Kimberly Caldwell (American Idol) and Diamond Dallas Page (WWF.) After the production wrapped, Carr joined Local 600, the Guild of Cinematographers as a DIT. Once a Union 600 member, Carr finished out the year working on five more feature films as a DIT and two others as a focus puller.

This year Carr has exclusively worked with the Red One Camera System and has become a post workflow specialist focusing only on feature films.

Today, Carr is co-owner of Split Focus Group in Los Angeles which specializes in cinematography, VFX, and post production online plus finishing. Split Focus owns a full Red One camera package. Seo Mutarevic is a business partner and cinematographer for Split Focus.

You can find out more about Alex Carr's visit here.
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Debra A Hooper
Vice President/Director
School of Communication Arts
@ Digital Circus