- About Przyborski Productions
- Demo Reels
- Misc Videos
- Introduction of 24P (from 2002)
- Americana
- Images from a Summer Carnival
- River Rafting
- Scenes from a County Fair
- America Lost
- Moments@24fps (1997)
- Behind-the-Scenes Prop38 (2000)
- 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins
- Barth Bartholomae (1997)
- Behind-the-Scenes Pagetime (1998)
- Frontier Telephone (2000)
- Time Capsule: GNC 1992-1995
- Glenn
- Jimmy D
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A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to direct and photograph Steelers’ coach, Mike Tomlin in the new TV spots for “The Extra Mile Foundation.” This worthwhile, non-profit organization gives urban kids the chance to attend a school where they learn in an atmosphere that’s free from drugs and violence.
When you’re the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, every hour of your day is blocked out with meetings, interviews and other activities. Mike Tomlin was kind enough to give us 3 hours of his time. Producer and production coordinator, Judy Gurchak and I worked our entire shoot day around Tomlin’s schedule.
Stan Muschwek wrote and produced the new ad campaign. Stan thinks in visual terms, so he wrote scripts that didn’t require our featured talent to rush through his on-camera and voice-over copy. Stan and I have worked together on numerous projects for the past 25 years.
I shot all the 1080P “B-Roll” footage in actual working classrooms. For these scenes, I used Panasonic’s new GH2 camera. It makes great images and it’s small enough that kids don’t feel intimidated having it close to their face. Gaffer, Ted Weigand used small LED soft panels, bounce cards and battery powered LED fill lights to minimize classroom disruptions.
I shot Mike Tomlin’s on-camera segments with Panasonic’s new AF100, HDTV camera. I also photographed the still images for The Extra Mile Foundation’s 2011 print campaign. It feels great to give your time to such a worthwhile cause.
Dagmara Dominczyk is a Hollywood star. In addition to movies such as “Running with Sissors” and the “Count of Monte Cristo”, Dagmara has been featured in dozens of popular TV series. “24”, “Law & Order SVU” and “Third Watch”, just to name a few.
Back in 1995, Dagmara (who was born in Poland) was a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. We cast her as a principal in a TV commercial for Pagetime, a division of the now defunct Adelphia Cable Corp. Glenn Przyborski remembers arranging our shoot day so filming Dagmara’s scenes didn’t interfere with her college class schedule. We believe the commercial was Dagmara Dominczyk’s first appearance on commercial television.
The original 1995 commercial was filmed by Glenn in 35mm for Stan Muschweck and The Birmingham Group Advertising Agency.