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The Crew
The crew rarely gets mentioned, but I thought I'd give it a go, and I got lucky that some of them took the time to explain about their jobs in some detail.
Thanks guys - you rock!
Crew pages are written by myself with the input - LOTS of input - from the crew members featured and are designed to be informative on their job related duties. The information found in these pages is not provided by Insight Film Studios or Kaleidoscope Entertainment Inc.
There are all kind of mysterious-sounding jobs and expressions on a TV production - gaffer, best boy, looping and so on - check out IMDB's Glossary to learn what they all mean.
Showrunner
Peter Mohan is multitasking, being the executive producer, show runner, head writer and the guy whose vision is holding this thing together - according to Tanya Huff.The jobs above entail concept meetings, script meetings, costume meetings, meetings with directors, location meetings, stunt meetings, phone calls from network, phone calls from other producers, phone calls from cast ... There's some suspicion, not entirely unfounded, that he never sleeps.
On top of that, he adapted the novel Blood Price for the pilot.
Executive Producers
Randy Zalken, Kirk Shaw, Marshall Kesten and Peter MohanProducers
Adam J. Shully and Paul McConveyI find the producer thing pretty confusing - it seems to me that there's a bunch of people doing the same job.
Or maybe they just take turns ....
Writers
Charles Lazar, 1 episodeDennis Heaton, 5 episodes
Denis McGrath, 3 episodes - Denis blogs at Things on Sticks - about Blood Ties, but also about writing and the business of TV and being in Vancouver - Tres Cool!
Mark Leiren-Young, 2 episode
Peter Mohan, 5 episodes
Rick Drew, 1 episode
Sarah Dodd, 1 episode
Shelley Eriksen, 2 episode
Tanya Huff, 1 episode
Travis McDonald, 2 episodes
Victor Nicolle, 1 episode
2 episodes were co-written - they didn't write 24 episodes ;-)
I'm also counting the 2-hour premiere as 2 episodes.
Directors
Anything beyond name and number of episodes is new.Allan Kroeker, 4 episodes
Kroeker also directed the first episode of 'Forever Knight', another vampire series - and more than ONE HUNDRED TV episodes.
Among them the Firefly episode called "Ariel".
Andy Mikita, 3 episodes
He produced 42 episodes of "Stargate: SG-1" and directed 29 of them. Also directed 12 Stargate Atlantis episodes. Among other things.
Official Andy Mikita Website - plus forum on Galaxy of Stars
David Winkler, 1 episode
Has only directed 6 TV episodes that I can find - but he directed Kyle Schmid in the "Odyssey 5" episode "Vanishing Point"!
David Winning, 4 episodes
Has directed more than 90 TV series episodes - including the Blod Ties episodes that was shooting when I visited the set. May be the director with the most photos on IMDB - at least of the Blood Ties directors ;-)
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Enjoys meeting fans at conventions.
Official David Winning website
Holly Dale, 2 episodes.
Has directed at least 58 TV episodes. Directed the episode with Tanya Huff in the background playing a hooker
Has directed one episode of Stargate Atlantis.
Official Holly Dale website
James Dunnison, 4 episodes
Has directed 11 TV episodes - among others 3 "Robson Arms" and 2 "Whistler". The two "Whistler" episodes both featured Blood Ties guest star Steve Bacic, whom he requested to guest star in one of his Blood Ties episodes, 1x13, D.O.A.
The Dunnison Kingdom - official website
James Head, 3 episodes
Has the distinction of being split in THREE on IMDB - James Head I, III and V are all the same person, and combined he/they have directed at least 35 TV episodes - TV.com says 52.
James Head worked with Christina Cox on "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven" and "F/X: The Series".
Peter DeLuise, 1 episode
Has directed at least 92 TV episodes - among them a whopping 56 episodes of "Stargate SG-1". Like David Winning, Peter DeLuise also goes to conventions.
Was born in the US, but is now Canadian - or so I've read.
The only one of the Blood Ties directors to have two fansites and a fanlisting:
The Boringly Named Peter DeLuise Website
PeterDeLuise.net
Multi-Talented
Director of Photography
Danny Nowak has filmed many things - check out his Spitfire Films WebsiteSee great behind-the-scenes photos (none from Blood Ties ... yet) and read an interview.
On Saturday, March 31, 2007 at the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards Danny Nowak, won the award for Best TV Drama Cinematography for Dragon Boys, a two-part mini series that aired January 2007. That was his third award (that I know of) - let's hope he wins one in 2008 for Blood Ties.
Production Designer
Andy Deskin - has also designed for among others, TV series "Young Blades", "The Immortal", "Just Cause", "Cold Squad", plus a number of movies.Read more about Andy Deskin's work
Prop Master
David Perun - works closely with the production designer.Learn more about David Perun's work
Stills Photographer
Ed Araquel is the person behind all the stills that are used to promote the series. He usually works one day on each episode - which days are up to the Art department when they need prop photos and the producer when they want marketing type photos. Normally he shoots about 300 photos but that can easily climb to 800 pictures on an action day.Ed Araquel's website
22 June 2007