Skywalker Ranch

Posted 09 Mar 2011   Art,Films,Respect,Video Production



Filmed at Skywalker ranch on the Canon 5DmkII conformed to 24p and the Canon 7D shooting native 24p. Timelapse done using stills. New Glidetrack shooter used for dolly moves.

Music is Venus by Gustav Holst | Filmed by: Philip Bloom

Skywalker Ranch is the name of the workplace of film director and producer George Lucas. It is located in a secluded, but open area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County. The ranch is located on Lucas Valley Road, although Lucas is not related to the road’s namesake, who was a turn-of-the-century landowner in the area. The Ranch is not open to the public and keeps a low profile from the road. A gated road leads to the ranch.

Assembled parcel by parcel since September 1978, Skywalker Ranch has cost Lucas up to US$100 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. After neighboring ranchers complained that Skywalker Ranch was polluting the environment, Lucasfilm acquired 3,000 acres (12 km²) of adjoining land for a total of over 4,700 acres . Only 15 acres have been developed.

Skywalker Ranch is intended to be more of a “filmmaker’s retreat” than a headquarters for Lucas’s business operations. The headquarters of Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, and LucasArts are located in Lucas’s Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco.Lucas does not live on the Ranch.-[source]